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How to take a contacts-only approach to CRM

Capstone Insights

By that, I mean that the “leads” object in your CRM is by definition the only way in which new individuals can be passed into your CRM by way of integration. No idea of the company : Keep them in the leads object until the company can be identified either via progressive profiling, inside sales qualification, or use of inferred IP.

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My online influencer research and engagement process

Biznology

The next day, I go in and collect big nets of blogs that I can later slice and dice using a much more efficient tool: Excel or Google Apps Sheets. Unlike GroupHigh that makes one painfully click on little stars in order to select blogs for campaign lists, Inkybee allows me to pop in keyword terms and then go to sleep.

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Social media is only one part of your B2B inbound marketing engine. Is it time for a tune-up?

MLT Creative

You can find the previous entries there ( Part 1 , Part 2 and Part 3 ), and I highly suggest subscribing to their blog. I consider the top three social media platforms for B2B marketing to be Linkedin, Twitter and Facebook. It’s not about hard-selling or blasting out promotional “spam” as updates.

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Inside Story: Behind HubSpot’s $32 Million Investment From Salesforce, Google and Sequoia

Hubspot

Here is an insider’s take on the round of financing we just closed with Salesforce.com, Google, and Sequoia. That is a large amount of capital, and you can easily build a sustainable company with it. A few examples include Amazon, VMWare, Zappos, Salesforce.com, Google, and even Groupon. Why Raise More Money?

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Mega-List of Features in Marketing Automation (That You Won’t Find in CRM)

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

salesforce.com, Microsoft Dynamics CRM), so why do I need marketing automation ”? Salesforce recently rebranded their social marketing application as the Marketing Cloud, and their website says you can use their solutions to “optimize campaigns from lead to close, on every channel”. On the face of it, this is not a surprising question.

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How to Make Customer Experience the Heart of Your Internet Marketing Strategy

Hubspot

How Marketers Can "Be" Their Customers. 1) Be Relevant: Creating relevant marketing requires an understanding of your customers so that you can present them with the right content, at the right time, so they convert and take the next step with your company. Social graph: Behavior on social networks like Facebook and LinkedIn.

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Top tools to keep your contacts in order. in theory

Biznology

Like Plaxo before it, Brewster is being accused of being all about the spam — but that’s their business plan! Recommend as long as you don’t mind spamming all your business contacts. LinkedIn is an island. LinkedIn’s being a dick. It looks like there an app for connecting LinkedIn and Salesforce.

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