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Microsoft Buys LinkedIn for $26.2 Billion: Get Ready for Software Vendors as Data Owners

Customer Experience Matrix

billion acquisition of LinkedIn. This is fascinating since Microsoft intersects with LinkedIn in several areas: Dynamics CRM software, Office productivity software, and Bing online advertising. LinkedIn is primarily a social network with revenue from subscriptions, recruiting services, and advertising.

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

Customer Experience Matrix

Social media is arguably overhyped as a marketing trend: it gets well under 10% of marketing budgets (different surveys have figures from 3% to 8%) and results are questionable (it was rated the least effective content marketing tactic in a recent MarketingProfs study ). Results are summarized in the table below.

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Demand Generation Vendors Offer Few Social Media Applications

Customer Experience Matrix

This lets people easily send a Tweet, post to a Facebook wall or create a LinkedIn article that points to the original content. CRM vendor RightNow offers something similar under the label of Cloud Links. - add social media data to prospect profiles. These can be loaded into sales and CRM systems to make them easily accessible.

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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. But I expect the sales automation vendors to take the business for themselves. a list of “interesting moments” for each prospect, showing activities that the company has deemed significant. . -

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How B2B Marketers Can Get More Leads into the Funnel via Inbound Marketing

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

It was easy for the VP of Sales to see my results via a dashboard in the CRM system. At Marketo, I dedicate a large part of my budget to SEO optimization (via Toprank Online Marketing) to make sure we are number one for most of the top terms in our industry. the King and Queen of Content Marketing). Makes sense, right?