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IBM May Buy Silverpop: B2B Marketing Automation and B2C Email Would Be Great Fit

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The InterWebs were buzzing this morning with an Atlanta Business Chronicle article reporting that IBM is negotiating to buy Silverpop. The only surprise in this deal is the price, rumored to be about $270 million or 3x revenue. The company’s mix of B2B and B2C clients may also confuse potential buyers and drive down the price a bit.

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LinkedIn Buys Bizo and Oracle Adds Database Services: Everything Is Going According To Plan

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The Bizo purchase, priced at $175 million , makes perfect sense. The more interesting question is who, if anyone, will buy the business from Bizo. Among other things, the Oracle product will set a benchmark for pricing of similar services by other vendors.

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Infusionsoft: Impressive Marketing Power for a Very Low Price

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But most of us still assume there is a reasonable relationship between price and value. This is why it’s hard to imagine that low-priced software can deliver similar performance to mainstream products. If advanced lead scoring or Salesforce.com integration are show stoppers for you, then read no further.

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ReachForce Buys SetLogik: One-Stop-Shopping for B2B Marketing Data Plus Database

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Reachforce’s core business is assembling data on marketing prospects, which it then sells for as many uses as possible: appending to Web leads, enhancing existing databases, and buying as lists. Pricing is based on data volume, whether the client wants a one-time append or continuous cleaning, and on the data sources included.

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CallidusCloud Buys LeadFormix Marketing Automation for $9 Million Cash

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The price is surprisingly low for an established marketing automation vendor. This would translate to around $7 million revenue, for a price of just over 1x revenue, compared with 4 to 5x revenue in other recent acquisitions. This is why Callidus is a good buyer.

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Adobe Buys B2C Marketing Automation Leader Neolane: One Gap Filled, But Where's CRM?

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Price was $600 million, which is roughly in line with the 8x revenue paid for ExactTarget and Eloqua recently. It reinforces suspicions that Adobe was the mystery bidder for ExactTarget mentioned last month by Salesforce.com. Indeed, my take on the ExactTarget deal explicitly mentioned an Adobe/Neolane possibility.

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SalesPredict Offers Highly Automated, Highly Flexible Predictive Modeling

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This is possible primarily because the painstaking work of preparing data for analysis – which is where model builders spend most of their time – is avoided by connecting to a few standard sources, currently Salesforce.com and Marketo with HubSpot soon to follow. Is SalesPredict right for you?