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Next-Generation Marketing Automation Systems Target Small Business

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Not quite standard but increasingly common features include social media sharing and tracking, Webinar integration, visitor identification via reverse IP lookup, and capturing campaign information from Google AdWords. There is no form builder but the vendor provides a tool to map existing forms to the Dynamics database.

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VEST Report: Latest Trends in Marketing Automation, and Where's My Hoverboard?

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I just finished the latest release of the B2B Marketing Automation Vendor Selection Tool , a.k.a. Google Adwords integration and advertising through Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn audiences are more widely available but I don’t include them here. VEST Report.

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Marketbright's Campaign Flows Work Well for Serena Software

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Todd also noted that Serena itself sells software development tools, so its staff is already very comfortable with flow charts. In particular, Todd said the visual diagrams helped to explain the flows to marketing and sales managers who would otherwise find them hard to grasp.

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Hubspot Offers Small Business Marketers a Big Bundle of Features

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The one major missing inbound marketing feature is paid search management, such as Google AdWords integration. Hubspot Marketing VP Mike Volpe said that paid search can be tracked as a source, and that clients have not requested deeper integration – apparently because they’re already happy with the AdWords interface.

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

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And the current frogs are all small enough that a powerful newcomer could displace them, especially if it had a natural entry point such as, oh, Google AdWords or Salesforce.com’s CRM system. It’s not yet clear which vendors will dominate the industry or what form the successful systems will take.

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SalesFusion Combines Online and Offline Marketing with CRM

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This breadth isn’t accompanied by tremendous depth: SalesFusion’s campaign management and built-in CRM tools are a bit limited. This brings us, somewhat abruptly, to SalesFusion360 , a B2B marketing automation system that does merge online, offline and sales channels. online chat and - telemarketing support through the CRM component.

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Why Social Media Really Matters

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Some of this may be due to the fact that it’s much easier to buy search advertising (think Google AdWords ) than other types of online ads. Content is still important, of course, but its nature shifts from information that visitors consume to tools like widgets that empower them to share their enthusiasm with others.