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How RightWave Solves the Marketing Automation Skill Shortage

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One of the main reasons that marketing automation has not been adopted more quickly is that too few marketers know how to fully use it. Instead, RightWave offers what it calls “marketing automation as a service,” gives each client access to staff members who will set up and execute campaigns for them.

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CallidusCloud Buys LeadFormix Marketing Automation for $9 Million Cash

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The list of independent marketing automation systems shrank by one yesterday when Leadformix was purchased by sales enablement vendor CallidusCloud for $9 million. The price is surprisingly low for an established marketing automation vendor. But even if they back away completely from “marketing automation”, the deal makes sense.

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Reborn AutoPilot Aims to Simplify Multi-Channel Marketing

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These include Salesforce.com for CRM, InsideView and FullContact for data enhancement, Twilio for text messaging, Lob for postcards, Segment for event tracking, and GoodData for reporting. It sees itself as filling the gap between simple email systems and enterprise marketing automation products. The difference is in the details.

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Marketo Files for IPO: Will High Growth Outweigh High Losses?

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By comparison, Eloqua lost just 7% of revenue in the year before its IPO, and even Salesforce.com, the benchmark for all Software as a Service (Saas) start-ups, lost just 20% of revenue in its final year as a private company. Revenue for 2012 is reported at $58.4 million in 2012, or 59% of revenue. A loss that big is pretty scary.

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New B2B Persona Research From Salesforce and LinkedIn Study

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I think what’s relevant to this conversation is I was one of the really early employees at a small startup back in the day called Pardot, which is a marketing automation platform. From there, we grew that, sold that to Exact Target which was then acquired by Salesforce.com. What motivated you or inspired you to do this research?

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Genius.com Offers Free Edition: How Much Does It Lower True Cost of Entry?

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But I think its strategy of offering an intermediate product between email marketing and full marketing automation may actually be more useful in attracting new customers. LoopFuse also provides automated Salesforce.com integration, but doesn’t have Genius’s Web tracking technology.

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Top 2 Marketing Analytics Priorities for B2B Marketing Teams

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It is based on the timelines of the first marketing engagement in comparison with the sales engagements within an account. Once the data is available, the logic described below can be easily implemented with the help of a SQL script and automated.