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Salesforce Buys Jigsaw – What it Means for B2B Marketing and Sales

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

Salesforce today announced a definitive agreement to buy Jigsaw, a provider of business information and data services that uniquely leverages crowd-sourcing to build and maintain its database. Note: Jigsaw is also a Marketo customer and partner.). What do you think? How will this acquisition affect your B2B marketing and sales efforts?

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Demand Generation Vendors Offer Few Social Media Applications

Customer Experience Matrix

Treehouse Interactive just introduced a “talk it up” feature that embeds “share this” buttons in Treehouse-generated Web pages and emails. CRM vendor RightNow offers something similar under the label of Cloud Links. - These can be loaded into sales and CRM systems to make them easily accessible. scan for social media mentions.

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What Data.com’s Fate Reveals about the Importance of Data Enrichment

Leadspace

Once upon a time, there was a handy tool called Jigsaw. You can generate reports and other insights that can make marketing and business decisions easier. . The purpose of your CRM is to collect accurate and complete data. So having a tool that continuously updates information for CRM contacts is critical. .

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2010 Will Bring New Features to Demand Generation Systems

Customer Experience Matrix

Summary: the demand generation market will continue to grow in 2010, and it may attract some new, big competitors from outside the industry. But the real excitement will be features that expand the scope of demand generation products to support inbound marketing, better measurement, and more efficient content creation.

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Social CRM: The Latest Evolution for Managing Customer Relationships

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

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. One very vital element of social CRM is social selling, which leverages Web 2.0

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Exciting new tools for B2B prospecting

Biznology

Early examples of this exciting new trend in prospecting were Jigsaw, a business-card swapping tool that allowed sales people to trade contacts, and ZoomInfo, which scrapes corporate websites for information about business people and merges the information into a vast pool of data for analysis and lead generation campaigns.

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Social Media Features in Marketing Automation Systems: Who Does What?

Customer Experience Matrix

Importing social data: loading social data into the marketing automation database so it can be used for segmentation, analysis, and sharing with salespeople via CRM integration. Plenty of third party applications can do this, so providing it within the marketing automation system is mostly a matter of convenience.