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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. But if Salesforce.com likes what it sees, who knows where that will lead?

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Hubspot Offers Small Business Marketers a Big Bundle of Features

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Summary: Hubspot offers a bundle of Web traffic generation and lead management features in one low-cost package. The current version also hosts landing pages and Web sites, manages a lead database with profiles and Web activity history, generates lead scores, sends alerts to sales people, and synchronizes data with Salesforce.com.

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Review of FormAssembly Form Builder

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However, in a previous post I wrote about a project in which I’m replacing a full-blown Marketing Automation system with tools that add on to Salesforce.com. I was impressed with FormAssembly: they have a cool-looking form builder that has lots of advanced features in a user-friendly package. Advanced Features. Conclusion.

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Next-Generation Marketing Automation Systems Target Small Business

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Before jumping into the new systems, it helps to define a set of standard features to measure them against. nurture campaigns), and share leads with a CRM system like Salesforce.com. nurture campaigns), and share leads with a CRM system like Salesforce.com. Synchronization with Salesforce.com and SugarCRM are due by mid-2014.

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

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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. True Influence CEO Brian Giese said the goal with LeadPAC is to give marketers a way to create real leads quickly, using AdWords as a model.

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Active Conversion Offers Strong Lead Management and Leaves Out the Rest

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These functions, plus supporting features for database management, content management, sales system synchronization, and reporting, form a basic template for measuring demand generation software. But it only recently added even simple landing pages and Web forms, and still has limited lead scoring, email and nurturing features.

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

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This leaves unique features as the only viable strategy for a new firm.* Alsa has some other unusual features. 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.