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

Customer Experience Matrix

This is fascinating since Microsoft intersects with LinkedIn in several areas: Dynamics CRM software, Office productivity software, and Bing online advertising. Done correctly, integration of LinkedIn with Dynamics CRM could provide a major boost to that product’s utility while creating a new barrier to competition.

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Is the CDP category being shrunk by acquisitions?: Monday’s Daily Brief

Martech

Using psychology and data to get customers closer to purchase . With limited resources, marketers need every edge they can get, including psychology, to get customers closer to purchase. Brearton shared that CabinetM did replace their CRM during this time period. I don’t have the answer yet. Editorial Director. Read more here.

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Social CRM: The Latest Evolution for Managing Customer Relationships

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

The days are long gone when sales representatives could rely on their ability to “read” prospects to make the sale, thanks to buyers researching their purchases online. The need to better understand online behaviors to convert leads jump-started the evolution of customer relationship management (CRM).

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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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Most Exciting Marketing Technologies to Adopt in 2017

Leadspace

The sophistication level is still barely past nascent, while the business impact of harnessing data and using it in real-time to fuel customer experience, conversion, purchase, etc., Prior to Oracle, he held senior leadership positions at several companies, including Data.com, Salesforce.com, RR Donnelley, and Jigsaw. .

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Marketing Automation System Trends: What We Found in the Raab Guide

Customer Experience Matrix

These modules open up a major new revenue stream for the demand generation systems while simultaneously giving sales departments a greater reason to support marketing's purchase of the systems. Upgraded reporting. I won’t name those three because the other vendors may have similar capabilities.

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Power Selling Tools: Things Every Startup Sales Team Needs Selling At a Startup

Online Marketing Institute

Getting to The Right Person: Jigsaw Knowing what companies have been to your site is great, but then trying to get to the right person becomes the challenge. This is where JigSaw comes in. They also provide the fast track method of allowing you to buy a number of points that you can use to “purchase&# a contact.