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Venntive Adds Communities to Small Business Marketing Automation and CRM

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More puzzling was Venntive’s decision to include a full accounting system and a community management features such as private discussion forums, Wikis, events, and custom fields for groups within its database. And community management – well, that just doesn’t have much to do with how most small businesses operate.

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Influitive Helps Marketers Build an Army of Advocates

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Most social marketing applications sidestep the issue by focusing on creating communities ( Jive , Lithium ), monitoring conversations (Radian6 , Trackur ) and running promotions ( CrowdFactory , Nextbee ). Marketers recognize the potential reach of social media, but are rightly frightened that they can’t control the message.

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Real Examples of Social Media ROI

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The company expected this to yield at least one sale which would cover the entire annual cost of the program. Socialtext corporate blog cites an estimate by TransUnion CTO John Parkinson that his $50,000 investment in Socialtext has avoided $2.5 million in tech spending by helping users share ideas on how to solve their problems more cheaply.

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Mautic Offers Free, Open Source Marketing Automation

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Hurley's hope is that the user community will largely support itself through public forums and that service professionals such as consultants, agencies, and Web developers will fill the rest of the gap. It apparently could have imported more social data if I had connected with my own Facebook, Twitter, or LinkedIn accounts.

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Red Herring CMO Conference: What Do Marketers Really Want?

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LinkedIn) and for business-oriented communities. The assembled experts did offer concrete suggestions for taking advantage of social networks, including viral campaigns, “free” market research, building brand visibility, creating inventory for online advertising, and creating specialized communities.

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Marketing Automation 2014 Industry Overview: What the Surveys Tell Us

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Pepper Global is based on a survey of the B2B Technology Marketing Community on LinkedIn. Remember that these come from different sources: Venture Beat uses Datanyze to read the actual systems that are embedded in marketers’ web sites. VEST data is self-reported by the vendors.

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Which B2B Marketing Automation Features Actually Get Used? Here's Some Data.

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More than 800 responses from the B2B Technology Marketing Community on LinkedIn. Here are details and links for the surveys I’ve summarized above: Holger Schulze, B2B Lead Generation Marketing Trends, 2013 Survey Results. Note that not everyone is a marketing automation user.