Remove b2c
article thumbnail

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

Customer Experience Matrix

Summary: HubSpot announced a $32 million investment yesterday by Sequoia Partners, Google and Salesforce.com. Salesforce.com and Google announced their long-anticipated entry into the marketing automation industry, in the baby-step form of investments in HubSpot. Yet something really bothered me about yesterday’s announcement.

article thumbnail

B2B and B2C Marketing Automation: Understanding the Differences

Customer Experience Matrix

As you might have guessed from my recent list of B2C marketing automation systems , I’ve recently been spending some time helping consumer marketers to select vendors. Some B2C systems offer similar features and pricing with the same Software-as-a-Service business model. But many B2C products leave them out.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Adobe Buys B2C Marketing Automation Leader Neolane: One Gap Filled, But Where's CRM?

Customer Experience Matrix

Adobe today announced plans to acquire Neolane , the largest remaining independent B2C marketing automation vendor (excluding email-focused providers like Responsys and Silverpop ). It reinforces suspicions that Adobe was the mystery bidder for ExactTarget mentioned last month by Salesforce.com.

article thumbnail

Where B2B and B2C Marketers Agree and Disagree

B2B Marketing Directions

Salesforce.com recently published the results of its 2015 State of Marketing survey. The Salesforce.com survey included a nice balance of B2B and B2C participants. Fifty-six percent of the respondents were from B2C companies, and 44% were affiliated with B2B enterprises.

article thumbnail

Teradata Plans to Sell Its $200 Million Marketing Application Business. Any Takers?

Customer Experience Matrix

They also briefed me at that time on a slew of updates to their other marketing products, demonstrating continued forward movement. Teradata told me separately that their marketing cloud business grew 22% year-on-year this quarter, suggesting that the decline came in the older, on-premise products and/or related services.

article thumbnail

Microsoft Buys Marketing Automation Vendor MarketingPilot: Start of Something Big?

Customer Experience Matrix

It has a pretty low profile in the B2B marketing automation world, partly because it serves a mix of B2C and B2B clients but mostly because it started as a marketing operations management system. I still doubt Salesforce.com will get the message any time soon, but maybe they'll start to reconsider. Even a good B2B platform might not.

article thumbnail

Salesforce Reports Strong Growth in Commerce Cloud Sales

Valasys

Gavin Patterson the Chief Revenue Officer of Salesforce.com Inc. ” The executive stated that sales of Commerce Cloud are benefitting from the “broad digitization” of commerce along both B2B and B2C channels. One is we do both B2C Commerce and B2B Commerce. billion in the first half of the fiscal. billion.