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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. This could be a real game-changer in the small business marketing automation landscape. It’s selling to small and mid-size companies and business-to-business marketers, who are just dipping their toes into marketing automation.

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Should Demand Generation and Sales Automation Be Separate Systems?

Customer Experience Matrix

This isn’t a new idea: indeed, “marketing, sales and service” have long been the three components of Customer Relationship Management products. But this distinction is less important given the power of modern databases, particularly at the relatively low volumes of most business-to-business marketers.

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B2B Prospecting Data Just Keeps Getting Better

ViewPoint

Technology usage “intensity” score, by product (HG Data). Out-of-business indicator, plus credit rating and parent/subsidiary linkages (Salesforce.com). PRISM-like business clusters offered by Salesforce.com (appended from D&B), which provide a simple profile for gaining customer insights and finding look-alikes.

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Election Day: SLMA's 50 Most Influential People in Sales Lead Management

Smashmouth Marketing

Bill Goldsmith - BP Productions Pete Gracey - AG Salesworks Bernice Grossman - DMRS Group Inc. Karen Sheehey - interlinkONE Gary Skidmore - Harte Hanks Jeff Solomon - Leads360 Paul Staelin - Birst Jim Steele - salesforce.com Drew Stevens – Drew Stevens Ruth P.

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Alsa Marketing Adds Multi-Language Capabilities to Low-Cost Marketing Automation

Customer Experience Matrix

It’s harder every day for a new company to enter the business-to-business marketing automation industry. Of the three classic competitive strategies – low price, great service and innovative products – there are plenty of low price options and leading vendors work aggressively to help their clients succeed.

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2010 Will Bring New Features to Demand Generation Systems

Customer Experience Matrix

But the real excitement will be features that expand the scope of demand generation products to support inbound marketing, better measurement, and more efficient content creation. business-to-business marketing automation. me-too products. 2009 was a year of tremendous growth for demand generation systems (a.k.a.

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Why Three Top Marketers Saw The Light About Account-Based Marketing

LeanData

There’s a reason why it’s called Business to Business and not Business to Leads,” said Miller, the CEO and founder of Engagio. LeanData matches leads to accounts in the Salesforce.com platform, which enables businesses to act on their ABM strategy. ABM has become the next big thing for a simple reason: It works.”.