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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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Fast Growth B2B Marketing: From 0 to 500,000 Users with Jim Fowler, CEO Owler

Markempa

I first met Fowler when he was the co-founder of the cloud-based contact management platform Jigsaw, which he sold to Salesforce.com for $175 million (now Data.com). All business professionals use it, but our biggest participants are sales and marketing folks that really need to keep their finger on the pulse of their competitive grasps.

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

Webbiquity

That makes it crucial for business leaders even at smaller companies who may not in the past have considered themselves “public figures&# to manage not only their firms’ online reputations, but also their own. And search engines love social media, which helps expose that rant to anyone searching for the company’s name.

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Exciting new tools for B2B prospecting

Biznology

Early examples of this exciting new trend in prospecting were Jigsaw, a business-card swapping tool that allowed sales people to trade contacts, and ZoomInfo, which scrapes corporate websites for information about business people and merges the information into a vast pool of data for analysis and lead generation campaigns.

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NetProspex Product Review: Powerhouse for Lead Lists

Smashmouth Marketing

With over 30 clients running their appointment setting programs through us, having volumes of accurate contact names is essential to our business. As a result, we've got licenses with Jigsaw , OneSource and NetProspex , and we use LinkedIn and other contact discovery services. We love them all and use them all in parallel.

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How to Successfully Mine Your Social Media Data

Sprout Social

It’s sort of crazy to think some businesses still don’t trust social media as an ROI source. Key performance indicators (KPIs) are the various business metrics used to measure and analyze certain aspects of your business. For those who own a Facebook business page , you can analyze some KPIs within the social network.