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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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Social CRM, Inbound Marketing and Marketing Automation

LeadSloth

Today I’m a panelist at the Silverpop Client Summit and we’re talking about Social CRM, Inbound Marketing and Marketing Automation, moderated by Adam Needles. Social CRM. CRM is very broad, it’s not just about sales, but about pretty much anything that involves communicating with your customers.

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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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Marketo Sales Insight Expands Salesforce Access to Marketing Data

Customer Experience Matrix

Summary: Marketo's new Sales Insight ranks prospects for sales people, based on recent Web and email activities. Features include: - a ranked prospect list, based on measures of interaction intensity (represented by one, two or three flames) and prospect value (up to three stars). There are some subtle differences.

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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. This is harder than monitoring since it requires linking social identities to marketing leads and connecting to the social system’s API.

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Genius.com Adds Short URLs to Capture Social Media Replies

Customer Experience Matrix

Summary: Genius.com is adding a URL shortener that will tie social media responses into the regular flow of demand generation and lead management. But once that happens, the new Genius feature will let them manage all further interactions with the same tools and processes as leads from any other source.

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DemandBase Adds Real-Time Access to Web Visitor Identities

Customer Experience Matrix

DemandBase built its database by monitoring which IP addresses most often visit its 2,000-plus clients, parsing multiple external IP directories for the owners and geo-locations of the servers at those addresses, and adding attributes from business directories including D&B, Hoovers and JigSaw. ABR is still a bit rough around the edges.