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The 14 Best Marketing Automation Tools

Webbiquity

Smaller firms often start off using email service providers , then implement marketing automation platforms as their prospect database grows, their segmentation becomes more complex, and they develop more granular marketing and sales content. Integrates with popular platforms like Microsoft Dynamics and Salesforce.com. 1) Marketo.

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Vocus Purchased by Private Equity Firm GTCR: This Could Be Interesting

Customer Experience Matrix

x revenue, compared with the 6 to 7 x multiples paid for ExactTarget and Responsys by Salesforce.com and Oracle and the 14 x that Marketo commands in the stock market. At that time, the marketing product was missing key marketing automation features including lead scoring, multi-step workflows, and integration with Salesforce.com.

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Pardot Offers Refined Demand Generation at a Small Business Price

Customer Experience Matrix

Actually I don’t know why I find the contrast between Pardot and Marketbright intriguing, except for the implication that marketers can be divided into two simple categories, SMB and Enterprise, and no further distinctions are necessary. What’s odd about the SMB vs. Enterprise dichotomy is that both sets of systems are quite similar.

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8 Lessons From HubSpot’s $32 Million Round with Salesforce, Google, and Sequoia

Hubspot

All of this free content acts like a magnet for new customers and has propelled us from nothing to something special four years later. There has been a pile of cash made in the enterprise software business over the last 20 years, but I think the next 20 years will more likely provide those outsized returns to folks who delight SMB’s.

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10 New Year’s Resolutions to Improve Customer Experience

Kapost

If you sell to SMB the match rate is expected to be lower (<40%). A sales leader at Salesforce.com once told me: “We have a policy here called, stay in your lane.” ICPs not only help lead routing and scoring — but they give you clues as to where to create content. The highest match rates I’ve found are from Clearbit.

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42 B2B Marketing Acronyms and Abbreviations

Digital B2B Marketing

SMB : Small and Medium Businesses. Marketing Technology Infrastructure CMS : Content Management System. A system for managing and publishing content, often on the web. Salesforce.com. , this list will be updated with your additions. The Basics B2B : Business to business. You definitely already knew that one.

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The Top #Nifty50 Women in Technology on Twitter for 2012

Webbiquity

SMB and Distribution. A marketer who’s an engineer by training (I can relate to that), April has a broad range of marketing experience that encompasses messaging, media relations, lead generation, email marketing, content marketing, social media, analyst relations and sales enablement. Cindy Bates. Cindy_Bates. Susan Beebe.