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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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Top 2 Marketing Analytics Priorities for B2B Marketing Teams

B2B Marketing Analytics

As though the ever-increasing expectations of the c-suite from marketing teams to demonstrate the quantifiable impact were not enough and now we are in these unprecedented times, which have further highlighted the need for marketing to be more data-driven and efficient with their investments. This is where.

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PowerViews with Christopher Hosford – CRM/Marketing Automation/Social Convergence

ViewPoint

He is former editor-in-chief of Sales & Marketing Management magazine, and has written for Architectural Record, Inc. Click to start video at this point — Christopher notes the importance of the maturing of social media marketing in the last year by saying, “It’s no longer a hobby.

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PowerViews with Chris Hosford – CRM/Marketing Automation/Social Convergence

ViewPoint

He is former editor-in-chief of Sales & Marketing Management magazine, and has written for Architectural Record, Inc. Social Media’s Maturing: In-House Resources & Social Advertising. Companies are hiring social media people through their existing marketing budgets or recruiting social mavens in-house.”

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Mega-List of Features in Marketing Automation (That You Won’t Find in CRM)

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

by Jon Miller A common question I hear from marketers is “I already have a CRM system (e.g. salesforce.com, Microsoft Dynamics CRM), so why do I need marketing automation ”? Many CRM systems have a module for marketing. Architecture of Marketing Automation versus CRM. Marketing Automation.

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Demandbase: A New Twist In The Lead Management Automation Market

Online Marketing Institute

B2B marketers looking for ways to turn their Web sites into demand generation tools have some new solutions to consider. Yesterday, Demandbase announced a new software suite to help marketers harvest passive traffic visiting Web sites. The technology appears useful at both ends of this spectrum.

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Listen Up Marketers: We Need Our Own Operating System

Kapost

Marketing is not the same function it was ten years ago—when B2B marketers were considered “sales support.” The digital revolution catalyzed the transformation of B2B marketing from cost-center to profit-center. Changes in the buyer’s journey have driven marketing teams to step up and take ownership of the entire funnel.