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Salesforce.com Announces Site.com Web Site Management: Will Marketing Automation Features Follow?

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Salesforce.com yesterday announced the launch of Site.com , an enterprise-class Web site management system. The news didn’t seem to get much attention, perhaps because Salesforce.com itself pretty much buried it. That’s the first Salesforce.com reference I can find to a “digital marketing platform”. Here’s a piece from 2009.)

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Microsoft Buys LinkedIn for $26.2 Billion: Get Ready for Software Vendors as Data Owners

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This is fascinating since Microsoft intersects with LinkedIn in several areas: Dynamics CRM software, Office productivity software, and Bing online advertising. Done correctly, integration of LinkedIn with Dynamics CRM could provide a major boost to that product’s utility while creating a new barrier to competition.

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ICON16: How Infusionsoft Plans To Dominate Small Business Marketing (and Make Life Better For Small Businesses Everywhere)

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This is based on Infusionsoft’s learning over the past ten years that the main barriers to success with its software are small businesses not knowing what to do with it and not seeing immediate value from the efforts. In other words, Infusionsoft is growing much more slowly than Salesforce.com. million $1.6

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Hushly Helps Marketers Connect With Anonymous Web Site Visitors

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On the vendor side, Hushly creates anonymous lead records in the client’s Salesforce.com instance, so companies can track their interactions with anonymous prospects and keep the history once the prospect identifies herself. The system can integrate with other CRM vendors through batch file transfers.

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Marketo Conference: Small Changes, Big Picture

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More important, the value of platforms has been widely recognized through the tech industry for decades: classic examples include Salesforce.com ’s own AppExchange, Apple ’s iPhone AppStore, Microsoft ’s operating system software, and, going way back, the original IBM System 360. Let me be clear. I’d say this approach is debatable.

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LoopFuse Offers Free Marketing Automation System: Another Step Towards Industry Consolidation

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For evidence that a free entry-level product does not automatically drive out higher priced systems, consider the hosted CRM market. Salesforce.com easily dominates despite the presence of surprisingly capable free products like ZohoCRM and FreeCRM. Of course, the really big question is whether Salesforce.com will make a similar move.

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NurtureHQ Offers "Dead Easy Marketing Automation". Is That Enough?

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If the real barriers to success are creating content and identifying appropriate programs, then technology must address those directly. Another factoid that makes the point even more clearly: three of the four fastest growing received major new funding in the past year. What’s needed is more radical innovation than a better interface.