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A Structured Approach to Demand Generation Analytics

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Demand generation leaders know it’s not true, though. So what is the key to better demand generation analytics? How can we better tie buying and content/channel interactions to opportunities and closed revenue in a closed-loop fashion — to fuel our demand process optimization ? closed revenue).

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Salesforce.com and Oracle Buy Social Marketing Systems: Not the End of Marketing As We Know It

Customer Experience Matrix

Salesforce.com yesterday announced agreement to buy social media publishing vendor Buddy Media for $689 million, thereby adding another big fluffy piece to its “marketing cloud”. Just for symmetry, it’s worth pointing out that Salesforce.com acquired its own social monitoring system, Radian6 , in March 2011.

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Should Demand Generation and Sales Automation Be Separate Systems?

Customer Experience Matrix

Today, this is accomplished by synchronizing data between demand generation and sales automation systems. In fact, the division between demand generation and sales automation today is probably more a reflection of organizational divisions than technical imperatives. But that is inherently complex.

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Getting the Most from Salesforce.com: A Conversation with David Taber

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Salesforce.com is a dominant player in the CRM category and an integral part of many companies’ lead management, database marketing, and demand generation programs. Actually, it’s much easier for Marketing and lead cultivation people to get instant value out of Salesforce.com (SFDC) than it is for reps.

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Why this LinkedIn Ad Works: 2 Key Tips for Success

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For many B2B Marketers, advertising on LinkedIn is becoming a demand generation staple. The result is fewer unqualified leads from people who would never buy your product. The ad below from CRM giant Salesforce.com is an exception. Here are the two key reasons why I think that is: 1.

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Manticore Technology Sees Expertise as Key to Success as a Demand Generation Vendor

Customer Experience Matrix

Summary: Manticore Technology released some modest enhancements to its demand generation platform today. Changes include a drag-and-drop design tool (similar to Microsoft Powerpoint); integration of opportunities and custom objects from Salesforce.com; better reporting on Web site visitors; and, real time sales alerts on Web activity.

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Treehouse Interactive MarketingView Combines Demand Generation with Campaign ROI Tracking

Customer Experience Matrix

I originally spoke with Treehouse Interactive in late January, but didn’t write about them because weren’t quite ready to talk about their Salesforce.com integration. Since that’s critical to many demand generation users, I didn’t want to give a false impression by leaving it out. So now the story can be told. ROI reporting.