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Getting the Most from Salesforce.com: A Conversation with David Taber

The Point

Salesforce.com is a dominant player in the CRM category and an integral part of many companies’ lead management, database marketing, and demand generation programs. Actually, it’s much easier for Marketing and lead cultivation people to get instant value out of Salesforce.com (SFDC) than it is for reps.

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Should Demand Generation and Sales Automation Be Separate Systems?

Customer Experience Matrix

If so, the obvious but unspoken threat looming over the industry (“the elephant in the room of Damocles”) was always Salesforce.com , which is the main data source for most demand generation products. Tags: crm salesforce.com lead management sales automation demand generation.

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9 Things Marketers Need from Marketing Automation Vendors and Consultants – Part 1

ANNUITAS

They’re asking questions such as, “I read this article, is this right?” The best vendor event I ever attended was a Salesforce.com road show. The main attraction was five customers on stage who in their words were there to share “the good, the bad and the ugly of working with Salesforce.com”. They are leading buyers astray.

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9 Things Marketers Need from Marketing Automation Vendors and Consultants – Part 1

ANNUITAS

They’re asking questions such as, “I read this article, is this right?” The best vendor event I ever attended was a Salesforce.com road show. The main attraction was five customers on stage who in their words were there to share “the good, the bad and the ugly of working with Salesforce.com”. They are leading buyers astray.

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Hubspot Offers Small Business Marketers a Big Bundle of Features

Customer Experience Matrix

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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Beyond Financials: VC & IPO Due Diligence on Sales & Marketing Metrics

ViewPoint

Curious about how long each has been a public company, I checked on the years in which their stocks were offered: Salesforce.com – 2004; SuccessFactors – 2007; and NetSuite – 2007. One answer includes applying, tracking and measuring best-practice sales lead management processes.

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Why Microsoft Dynamics CRM and Marketing Automation Integration Matters

Lead Liaison

In this article we’ll discuss why Microsoft Dynamics CRM and marketing automation integration matter to businesses with a sales and marketing team. As a user myself, I first started using Salesforce.com. For example, Lead Liaison’s LMA has a concept of Lifecycle Stages.