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Getting the Most from Salesforce.com: A Conversation with David Taber

The Point

Salesforce.com is a dominant player in the CRM category and an integral part of many companies’ lead management, database marketing, and demand generation programs. DT: Well, the biggest misconception about Salesforce is that it’s something Sales reps like and Marketing folks don’t. HS: Thanks David!

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Marketo Conference: Small Changes, Big Picture

Customer Experience Matrix

The product changes were quite modest: new search engine optimization features for entry level users; a global marketing calendar; and relabeling of InsightEra, which Marketo purchased in December, as Marketo Real Time Personalization. the brain”), database (“marketing system of record”) and analytics.

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Aprimo Marketing Studio Supports Sophisticated Business Marketers

Customer Experience Matrix

Neolane may be the most similar, since it also straddles the business and consumer marketing worlds. Small digression: most business marketing systems are designed around data from a sales automation system such as Salesforce.com. But consumer marketers also need inputs from transaction systems.

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Demandbase: A New Twist In The Lead Management Automation Market

Online Marketing Institute

I would also put another group — one more focused on helping marketing align with, support, and enable sales: firms like BrightMarket, einsof, Longwood Software, and Salesforce.com with their Saleforce Content offering, to name a few. You don’t wait for a cold call to talk to an annoying sales person.

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Customer Data Platforms Revisited: The Future of Marketing Data

Customer Experience Matrix

The major observation is that current investment is heavily concentrated on the Decision layer, with interest in predictive modeling and message selection (which could also be labeled as personalization). Indeed, the big marketing clouds from Oracle, Salesforce.com, IBM, Adobe, and others all include extensive Delivery layer functions.

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B2B Lead Management Market Heats Up

Online Marketing Institute

Home Forrester Research « Getting Up Close and Personal | Main | Social Technographics Data Now Available » March 20, 2008 B2B Lead Management Market Heats Up [Posted by Laura Ramos ] Since the start of this year, I’ve been receiving a boatload of briefing requests from companies wanting to show me their lead generation and management solutions.

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Capture Website Visitors To Know Who Has Been Visiting - They Might Be Qualified Leads

Online Marketing Institute

Over and over we ask Clients and prospective Clients “Would you like to know about a Company who's looked at 10 – 20 -30 pages on your website, but left?