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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 ”? I’ll also point out that I work for (and am the co-founder of) a marketing automation vendor ( Marketo ), so I am sure that despite my efforts to remain neutral, there are sure to be some biases in this list. No (except salesforce.com Radian6).

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How to Calculate Social Marketing ROI

Paul Gillin

Return is payoff as measured in revenue generated or costs avoided. Let’s say the new rep carries a fully loaded cost of $100,000 and delivers $2 million in incremental annual sales revenue at a 10% net profit. ROI ((net profit – cost )/ cost ). We can apply the same type of analysis to cost avoidance. Net profit.

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Summary of Sold-out "Science of Inbound Marketing" Session at Dreamforce 2011

Hubspot

Way back in September (seems so long ago), I had the opportunity to speak at Salesforce.com's Dreamforce conference (which is now the largest software conference in the world, with over 45,000 registrants). My co-founder and CEO at HubSpot when he first encountered Twitter, he was like, this is a frigging waste of time.