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Dreamforce 2011: Salesforce.com Will Leave Marketing Automation Alone. But Revenue Performance Management Might Be Another Story.

Customer Experience Matrix

I spent most of this week at Salesforce.com ’s Dreamforce conference. But I did notice about two years ago that pretty much everyone in the B2B marketing automation space was more or less assuming I’d attend. All of which brings us back to B2B marketing automation. Peer pressure worked, and there I was.

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What I Wish I Knew about Outreach from the Start (An Ode to Skee-Lo)

Outreach

Sales has always been a contact sport and Outreach has enabled us to contact so many more people than we could before. I wish I was a little bit taller – prophecy fulfilled. If you’ve got a great process, you’re going to ball out and capture more prospects and market share. I wish I was a baller. This one is a layup.

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LeanData Announces Series A Funding Led By Shasta Ventures and Felicis Ventures

LeanData

LeanData simplifies the B2B sales process, enables sales and marketing to close deals faster. Before I started LeanData, I was building a sales and marketing team and was appalled by the poor quality of the data in our CRM and marketing automation system. Sunnyvale, CA, March 25, 2014 : LeanData, Inc. About LeanData Inc.

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LeanData Announces Series A Funding Led By Shasta Ventures and Felicis Ventures

LeanData

LeanData simplifies the B2B sales process, enables sales and marketing to close deals faster. Before I started LeanData, I was building a sales and marketing team and was appalled by the poor quality of the data in our CRM and marketing automation system. Sunnyvale, CA, March 25, 2014 : LeanData, Inc. About LeanData Inc.

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'What is?' - 5 Need To Knows For Marketing Superstars

Hubspot

Inbound Marketing is a new concept for many, which is why there are so many terms and acronyms that need defining. questions and arm you with business reasons for making these tools part of your 2011 marketing strategy. SAP , Oracle and Salesforce.com are some the most commonly known CRM systems. Marketing Takeaway.

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Bislr: A "Marketing Operating System" That Includes Marketing Automation As An App

Customer Experience Matrix

There was a really interesting discussion this week over on Scott Brinker’s ChiefMartec blog about the evolution of marketing automation systems into “platforms” that each support a swarm of satellite applications connected through open APIs. date from the mid-2000s and were originally built to feed leads to Salesforce.com.

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OfficeAutoPilot: Simple, Powerful, Low Cost Demand Generation for Small Business

Customer Experience Matrix

The division makes sense in most organizations, since marketing and sales are separate. Sales and marketing are often handled by the same department, if not the same person, and owners want as few systems as possible to keep costs to a minimum. Some marketers may even find it easier. for whether this will change.)