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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”.

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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. Infusionsoft’s challenge is to convince a large fraction* small business owners that their product is also essential.

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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. The prospect of seamlessly integrating third party data with a company’s own sales and marketing products is intriguing, although neither Salesforce nor Oracle has done much with it.

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Marketo Conference: Small Changes, Big Picture

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Still, the real focus was on Marketo’s own announcements, which included several product changes and a new positioning. (I Real Time Personalization already exists, obviously, and will remain a separate product that can work with any marketing automation system. I wasn’t at the conference but Marketo briefed me on their plans.)

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Hushly Helps Marketers Connect With Anonymous Web Site Visitors

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Since then, he’s been gnawing at the bone of anonymous business leads, suspecting that there’s some way to gain value from people who are interested in a product but haven’t identified themselves to vendors. The concept takes a bit of explaining to potential members, which could be a barrier to success.

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B2B Content Marketing: Will Video Kill eBooks?

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We went from zero to 20% to 30% of our opportunities in Salesforce.com resulting from video in the first six months.”. As the tools for creating professional video have reduced production costs, innovative marketers like Act-On are shifting resources to video and seeing great returns. Linda and her team are taking a different path.

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Whatsnexx Manages Customer States, Not Campaigns

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Previous products include Verbind (later purchased by SAS ), Elity (eventually owned by Unica ), and Harte-Hanks Allink Agent (still around in some form). This isn’t an inherent feature of state-based systems: other products do work with a database of their own. Whether it’s radically simpler is another question.