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Can’t Afford Artificial Intelligence for Your Small Business? Think Again.

Biznology

Look at these plug-and-play (aka out-of-the-box) AI solutions created with smaller budgets in mind: Google launched AI Hub, now in Beta testing and they say its ‘customer-friendly’ pricing will make it a perfect fit for small businesses. Salesforce.com the world’s #1 CRM platform has plans starting at just $25 per month.

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Adobe Buys B2C Marketing Automation Leader Neolane: One Gap Filled, But Where's CRM?

Customer Experience Matrix

Price was $600 million, which is roughly in line with the 8x revenue paid for ExactTarget and Eloqua recently. It reinforces suspicions that Adobe was the mystery bidder for ExactTarget mentioned last month by Salesforce.com. Indeed, my take on the ExactTarget deal explicitly mentioned an Adobe/Neolane possibility.

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7 Review Sites & Communities to Help You Choose the Best CRM

Hubspot

This is even more true when choosing an important tech system like a CRM for your business. Taking time to research CRMs is worth the effort. If you choose a CRM that isn’t a good fit for your business, it can get unnecessarily costly and complex. Review Sites for CRMs.

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How Are CRM and Marketing Automation Different?

LeadSloth

In addition to Marketing Automation, there were two big topics: Social Media and CRM. I will write about Social Media some other time, and focus on CRM in this post. Many attendees were confused by CRM vendors claiming to offer full marketing functionality. Strong Features of CRM. Strong Features of CRM.

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Director of Sales Operations Job Description

InsightSquared

As owners of the sales tech stack , sales operations directors are always evaluating new sales technology vendors and managing the CRM (typically Salesforce.com ) infrastructure. Deep expertise on sales automation and CRM systems is mandatory for sales ops directors. What Skills Should Directors of Sales Operations Possess?

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SalesPredict Offers Highly Automated, Highly Flexible Predictive Modeling

Customer Experience Matrix

This is possible primarily because the painstaking work of preparing data for analysis – which is where model builders spend most of their time – is avoided by connecting to a few standard sources, currently Salesforce.com and Marketo with HubSpot soon to follow. User interface is a second differentiator. Is SalesPredict right for you?

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Why Microsoft Dynamics CRM and Marketing Automation Integration Matters

Lead Liaison

Why Does Microsoft Dynamics CRM and Marketing Automation Integration Matter? In this article we’ll discuss why Microsoft Dynamics CRM and marketing automation integration matter to businesses with a sales and marketing team. I’ve always been a proponent of CRM systems. A large data repository. Sales Insight.