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B2B Marketing University: For Now, Marketing Automation and CRM Are Still Separate

Customer Experience Matrix

The immediate take-away here is that the industry still needs to educate prospective buyers on why marketers need a separate system. Technology may impede Software-as-a-Service sales automation vendors from adding marketing automation. Vendors take note. Will Marketing automation and CRM remain separate?

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Demandbase: A New Twist In The Lead Management Automation Market

Online Marketing Institute

B2B marketers looking for ways to turn their Web sites into demand generation tools have some new solutions to consider. As part of a broader lead generation, on-demand platform, Demandbase offers a free, downloadable Web application built on Adobe AIR (one of 3 investors in an $8M round they also announced.)

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B2B Lead Management Market Heats Up

Online Marketing Institute

2) Database services – powerhouses like Dun&Bradstreet, Harte-Hanks, Acxiom, Equifax, infoUSA, and Merkle dominate this category , but B2B marketers tend to think of them more as list generators than providers of a broad spectrum of strategic data management to direct mail execution.