Home Forrester Research « I was recently briefed by | Main | Going Corporate » August 26, 2008 Demandbase: A New Twist In The Lead Management Automation Market [Posted by Laura Ramos ] In a recent survey of over 2100 IT professionals who buy or recommend telecom and networking solutions, we found buyers turn to peers and colleagues first, followed by vendor, industry trade, or professional Web sites, to inform their purchase decisions. Yesterday, Demandbase announced a new software suite to help marketers harvest passive traffic visiting Web sites. I’m sure I forgot a few. MORE >>

Neil Davey – A journalist, Neil reports on the CRM industry. Jen Pockell-Wilson – A VP at DemandBase, Jen is a demand generation guru. by Jesse Noyes | Tweet this Social media is a meritocracy, right? Well, not always. The plethora of voices social media unleashed on the world means getting attention can be tough. Often people with great things to say go unnoticed. Nowhere is this more true than on Twitter. So to help remedy the situation, we present our pick for top 40 Twitter handles you may have missed. Read through it or you can follow the whole Twitter list here. Share email. MORE >>

The need to better understand online behaviors to convert leads jump-started the evolution of customer relationship management (CRM). With CRM, organizations benefit from increased operational effectiveness, easier access to data and improved collaboration. Now, as the CRM evolution continues, the notion of social CRM has empowered organizations – especially sales adn support departments within these organizations – to connect with customers and prospects on an even greater level. One very vital element of social CRM is social selling, which leverages Web 2.0 MORE >>

it) integrates Website Tracking, Business Intelligence and Sales CRM into a powerful on-demand application for capturing detailed information on your website's Business Visitors." Demandbase -referring to its service as a "lead quality platform.that unlock(s) the potential of online advertising, search, CRM, and social networks," Demandbase provides both a desktop wideget similar to a stock ticker that displays website vistitor information in real-time, as well as daily summary emails and 90 days worth of visitor data for reporting. Was that you? Based in the U.K., MORE >>

Brainshark   Cloud2U   Couch & Associates   Salesforce Data.com   DemandBase. Astadia   Bluewolf   Bulldog Solutions   Catapult   CRM Technologies   Extraprise. by Jesse Noyes | Tweet this The sponsorships are spoken for, registration is closed and Eloqua Experience is less than a week away. But some of you out there might be asking, “Who goes to Eloqua Experience?”. So we decided to answer that question by breaking down some of the data. First off, we should note that this is poised to be the biggest Eloqua Experience yet. breakdown of companies represented by industry. MORE >>