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

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Active Conversion Offers Strong Lead Management and Leaves Out the Rest

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Summary: Active Conversion helps marketing and sales departments make the best use of leads they’ve generated outside the system. Leads can enter from channels other than email. Information can come from sources beyond the lead itself. Registration is no longer required.) The nurturing campaigns themselves are also quite simple.

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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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Next-Generation Marketing Automation Systems Target Small Business

Customer Experience Matrix

Briefly, a standard B2B marketing automation system can send bulk emails to segmented lists, capture email responses on landing pages and forms, track email and Web site behaviors, score leads based on behaviors and profile attributes, execute multi-step workflows (i.e., Here are highlights of several vendors I’ve looked at recently.

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

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It’s a major improvement over traditional lead generation. I’ve seen marketing agencies and direct response media that work on a cost-per-lead basis. 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.

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Review of FormAssembly Form Builder

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On this blog I primarily write about integrated Lead Management systems , rather than small tools. 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. Salesforce.com integration complexity. AdWords Landing Pages.

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

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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. Also can capture results of Google Adwords campaigns and has a URL-shortener to track traffic from social media.