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Should Demand Generation and Sales Automation Be Separate Systems?

Customer Experience Matrix

Today, this is accomplished by synchronizing data between demand generation and sales automation systems. There was a sound technical reason for this: sales and service are operational systems with a transactional data architecture, while marketing databases are structured for analysis. But that is inherently complex.

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Is Salesforce.com a Player in Marketing Automation Software?

Webbiquity

Salesforce.com is the cloud computing darling of customer relationship management (CRM) software. So, where does Salesforce.com stand as a marketing automation solution? Up front, Salesforce.com will garner appeal because the marketing app is bundled with the Sales Cloud 2 product. Guest post by Lauren Carlson.

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Net-Results Simplifies Demand Generation for Small Business

Customer Experience Matrix

Summary: Net-Results is simpler to use than comparable demand generation systems because it applies the same features to many tasks. But on reflection I realized that Net-Results offers a full set of demand generation functions. Let’s run through the standard demand generation process to see how this works in practice.

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Salesforce.com and Oracle Buy Social Marketing Systems: Not the End of Marketing As We Know It

Customer Experience Matrix

Salesforce.com yesterday announced agreement to buy social media publishing vendor Buddy Media for $689 million, thereby adding another big fluffy piece to its “marketing cloud”. Oracle followed suit this morning with an acquisition of social media monitoring and semantic analysis vendor Collective Intellect.

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What The Top 4% of Account-Based Marketers Have in Common

ANNUITAS

I just received the latest issue of ABM in Action (October 2016), a monthly eMagazine dedicated to Account-Based Marketing from the publishers of Demand Gen Report, and I had to comment on the lead article. Don’t short-circuit the fundamentals of demand generation strategy when you embrace ABM. The moral of the story?

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A Marketing Automation Evangelist and Change Management

ANNUITAS

Today we launched our latest eBook, Change Management – Staying Relevant, Predictive and Sane in the Changing Landscape of Demand Generation , a joint venture by Mathew Sweezey , author and Marketing Automation Evangelist for Salesforce.com and Carlos Hidalgo , CEO and Principal, ANNUITAS. What is your strategic focus?

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What The Top 4% of Account-Based Marketers Have in Common

ANNUITAS

I just received the latest issue of ABM in Action (October 2016), a monthly eMagazine dedicated to Account-Based Marketing from the publishers of Demand Gen Report, and I had to comment on the lead article. Don’t short-circuit the fundamentals of demand generation strategy when you embrace ABM. The moral of the story?