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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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5 Demand Generation Tips for Start-Ups

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In a recent article on LinkedIn that I highly recommend for any tech entrepreneur, Jason Seeba and Ashu Garg spell out the key priorities, milestones, and pitfalls for early-stage companies seeking to acquire customers. But a “brand” for a much smaller company is immaterial, I would argue. Branding Doesn’t Matter.

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Youcalc: On-Demand Analytics Without Stored Data

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That is, youcalc provides analytical applications that read from an existing system, typically a Software-as-a-Service vendor like Salesforce.com or Google AdWords. CEO Rasmus Madsen told me the company plans eventually to charge higher fees for applications linked to higher priced source systems. date range) and metrics (e.g.

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Manticore VII Marketing Automation and Lead Generation Released

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The company made the announcement at Salesforce.com’s Dreamforce conference in San Francisco. Although the improved UI is the big change, the new version also adds integration with SalesForce.com for AdWords campaigns and improved lead generation capabilities. The company’s original focus was on web analytics.

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More New Systems Challenge the Marketing Automation Status Quo

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It also provides the rest of the standard marketing automation functions, including landing pages and microsites, Web behavior tracking, lead scoring, and integration with Salesforce.com. Simple contact management is built into the system, or users can integrate with Salesforce.com, vTiger, SecondCRM, Wordpress, and Zoho.

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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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Dell To Resell Pardot Marketing Automation

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Other products in the suite include Salesforce.com for sales automation and customer service, Adobe EchoSign for e-signatures, AppExtremes Conga Composer for proposal creation, Dell’s own Boomi for application integration, and a Dell-built analytics platform. That is some pretty good company to keep.