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The Pond Just Got More Crowded: Google, Salesforce.com and Sequoia Invest in HubSpot

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Summary: HubSpot announced a $32 million investment yesterday by Sequoia Partners, Google and Salesforce.com. Salesforce.com and Google announced their long-anticipated entry into the marketing automation industry, in the baby-step form of investments in HubSpot.

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True Influence's LeadPAC Offers Pay-Per-Click Email. Think About It.

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LeadPAC lets marketers order prospect lists based on segmentation criteria such as title, industry and company size. Of course, the classic pay-per-click medium is paid search, and above all Google AdWords. It's no accident that LeadPAC resembles AdWords in both function and appearance. That's worth some excitement.

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Hubspot Offers Small Business Marketers a Big Bundle of Features

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But I don’t think that can scale: companies require many different services and will not want to buy and run each one separately. All that’s missing to be full-blown demand generation system is outbound email and lead nurturing campaigns—which the company has announced it will add. But I consider that optional.)

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Active Conversion Offers Strong Lead Management and Leaves Out the Rest

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As an outgrowth of search engine marketing specialist FoundPages , the system naturally incorporates strong features for tracking Google AdWords campaigns, calculating return on investment, and measuring visitors’ Web activities. For example, take Active Conversion. This particular constellation of features is far from random.

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Alsa Marketing Adds Multi-Language Capabilities to Low-Cost Marketing Automation

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It’s harder every day for a new company to enter the business-to-business marketing automation industry. Users can import lists, compose and send emails, build landing pages, execute multi-step event-triggered campaigns, monitor Web behaviors, score leads, exchange data with SugarCRM or (soon) Salesforce.com , and run reports.

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SalesFusion Combines Online and Offline Marketing with CRM

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This one-stop-shopping will be most attractive to small and mid-size companies, although I expect that larger firms will eventually want it too. Multiple scores are particularly important at large companies where contacts need to be treated differently for different products, regions and other variables.

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Pardot Offers Refined Demand Generation at a Small Business Price

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Pardot’s lowest-price system, $500 per month, may be too constrained for most companies (no CRM integration, maximum of five landing pages, etc.), One other factor clearly distinguishes SMB from Enterprise systems, and that’s pricing.