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

Customer Experience Matrix

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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Can you do top-of-funnel marketing automation without CRM?

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Just not for companies with a closed, proprietary CRM. – No conversion signal to Google Analytics or AdWords. What we’ve learned (and still are learning) could be useful to other companies with similar challenges. According to Salesforce.com , 92% of customer interactions happen on the phone. The Disconnect.

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Manticore VII Marketing Automation and Lead Generation Released

Webbiquity

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

Customer Experience Matrix

I can’t recall a vendor with the same business model as LeadPAC from marketing automation vendor True Influence. 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.

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

Customer Experience Matrix

It’s harder every day for a new company to enter the business-to-business marketing automation industry. Of the three classic competitive strategies – low price, great service and innovative products – there are plenty of low price options and leading vendors work aggressively to help their clients succeed.

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Hubspot Offers Small Business Marketers a Big Bundle of Features

Customer Experience Matrix

But I don’t think that can scale: companies require many different services and will not want to buy and run each one separately. Marketing automation vendors entering this market are essentially betting that they can make their systems powerful enough to be useful and easy enough for a small business to run.

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SalesFusion Combines Online and Offline Marketing with CRM

Customer Experience Matrix

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.