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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. In other words, Infusionsoft is growing much more slowly than Salesforce.com.

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

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It still feels odd to think of a software company owning a data business, although Salesforce.com bought Jigsaw (now Data.com) in 2010 and Oracle purchased the BlueKai and Datalogix in 2014. This is a trend that’s been clear for some time; it’s a big part of the intent data and predictive data excitement of the past year or two.

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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.

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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 concept takes a bit of explaining to potential members, which could be a barrier to success.

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New B2B Persona Research From Salesforce and LinkedIn Study

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From there, we grew that, sold that to Exact Target which was then acquired by Salesforce.com. I write for lots of different publications, and now I head up the forward-looking marketing ideas and theories as Principal of Marketing Insight at Salesforce.com. Along with that way, I wrote a book called Marketing Automation for Dummies.

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Whatsnexx Manages Customer States, Not Campaigns

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The company has existing Infogates for Salesforce.com, Constant Contact, Deliva and CakeMail. Still, even deferring that need could remove a barrier to immediate adoption. These alerts (technically, XML messages via a SOAP protocol) include whatever contextual information is needed for Whatsnexx decisions.