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

Customer Experience Matrix

billion acquisition of LinkedIn. This is fascinating since Microsoft intersects with LinkedIn in several areas: Dynamics CRM software, Office productivity software, and Bing online advertising. LinkedIn is primarily a social network with revenue from subscriptions, recruiting services, and advertising.

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Fast Growth Marketing: From 0 to 500,000 Users

markempa

I first met Fowler when he was co-founder of the cloud-based contact management platform Jigsaw which he sold to Salesforce.com for $175 million (now Data.com). Jim: One of my marketers came up to me as we were naming the company, and we were looking at a bunch of different names like Jigsaw. Jigsaw was a great acquisition.

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Direct-to physician marketing, FLoC: Wednesday’s daily brief

Martech

My old buddy Scott Brinker went controversial on LinkedIn this week, and for me the timing could hardly have been better. Until recently, the best way for pharma companies to reach physicians was through “detailing,” a process that involves face-to-face sales and promotional activities. He did go on to explain: “Brand makes marketing.

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5 Outbound Calling Best Practices

Smashmouth Marketing

I'll be presenting these 5 Outbound Calling Best Practices later today (4:00-6:30) at Papa Razzi in Burlington at the AA-ISP meeting ( American Association of Inside Sales Professionals ). He'll say he just swished the phone 20 times, found 4 shiny objects and none were gold. Then an hour later he'll yell "Eureka!" Use them to work smarter.

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Demand Generation Vendors Offer Few Social Media Applications

Customer Experience Matrix

But no one knows how best to use it, which has led to a wide range of offerings under the social media label. This lets people easily send a Tweet, post to a Facebook wall or create a LinkedIn article that points to the original content. Summary: marketing vendors offer several types of social media applications.

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A Primer on Website Visitor ID and Smart Form Technology for Lead Generation

NuSpark Consulting

The tools make it easier to ID companies and prospects who work at those companies, by combining those IP lookups and visiting companies with data from various online contact databases and LinkedIn, therefore making it easier to contact the “who” rather than the “what.”. I like the search engine and search phrase features. Here’s ReachForce.

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Don’t They Know Who You Are? Why Reputation Management is Crucial

Webbiquity

One executive I know, the president of a software company, shares the first page of Google with a biomedical researcher, a diplomat, a (not exactly best-selling) author, and the Facebook page of a college student from North Dakota. A few examples. Yet he owns the first five pages of Google for his identity. How To Be Seen.