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

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Summary: Alsa Marketing is a late entry to small business marketing automation. They support multiple languages, which should gain them some business. It’s harder every day for a new company to enter the business-to-business marketing automation industry. Alsa has some other unusual features.

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Active Conversion Offers Strong Lead Management and Leaves Out the Rest

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But while this cycle is simple, the actual boundaries of business marketing are not so clearly marked. It’s designed to address a specific business need: helping small to mid-size businesses use leads generated by their inbound marketing programs. I’ve already mentioned IP-based visitor identification and JigSaw integration.

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DemandBase Adds Real-Time Access to Web Visitor Identities

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DemandBase built its database by monitoring which IP addresses most often visit its 2,000-plus clients, parsing multiple external IP directories for the owners and geo-locations of the servers at those addresses, and adding attributes from business directories including D&B, Hoovers and JigSaw. Clever folks.

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Act-On Software Stresses Ease of Use

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I started last week to write a review of Act-On Software’s latest release but got distracted by the larger and sexier question of Act-On’s business strategy. At $500 per month with no annual contract, it’s priced to make it easy to get started with marketing automation. So let me try again.

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Marketing Automation System Trends: What We Found in the Raab Guide

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You already knew that vendors were adding features for social media and sales access, but did you realize that nearly everyone (five of my seven vendors: Eloqua, Market2Lead, Marketo, Manticore Technology and Marketbright) also made substantial improvements in their business intelligence and reporting capabilities? New user interfaces.

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Genius.com Adds Short URLs to Capture Social Media Replies

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It’s a small but important step towards making social media a standard business tool. That said, there’s a business strategy question of whether this product will give Genius.com a significant competitive advantage. I saw a quick demonstration today of a new social media feature that Genius.com will release at the end of September.