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Why this LinkedIn Ad Works: 2 Key Tips for Success

The Point

For many B2B Marketers, advertising on LinkedIn is becoming a demand generation staple. The ad below from CRM giant Salesforce.com is an exception. I don’t know the results (if someone from Salesforce reads this, please comment) but my educated guess is that it performs well.

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2010 Will Bring New Features to Demand Generation Systems

Customer Experience Matrix

Summary: the demand generation market will continue to grow in 2010, and it may attract some new, big competitors from outside the industry. But the real excitement will be features that expand the scope of demand generation products to support inbound marketing, better measurement, and more efficient content creation.

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True Influence Opens a Window into Future Demand Generation

Customer Experience Matrix

Demand generation systems are in that second stage. CEO and co-founder Brian Giese had extensive experience in business sales and marketing and with existing demand generation systems when he began developing True Influence two years ago. These are not yet standard features on most demand generation products.

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Genius.com Offers Free Edition: How Much Does It Lower True Cost of Entry?

Customer Experience Matrix

On Monday, Genius.com announced “the first free, instant-on demand generation solution”, a description carefully crafted to distinguish their offering from the free version announced by LoopFuse in June. LoopFuse also provides automated Salesforce.com integration, but doesn’t have Genius’s Web tracking technology.

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Content Selling: How Sales Can Better Leverage Marketing Content

The Point

Recently I had the opportunity to sit down with Daniel Chalef, CEO of KnowledgeTree , developers of an intriguing new solution, built for both Salesforce.com and mobile (iOS), that enables sales teams to instantly find, surface, and present the ideal content in any selling situation. HS) What problem does KnowledgeTree solve? (DC)

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B2B Marketing University: For Now, Marketing Automation and CRM Are Still Separate

Customer Experience Matrix

Joe Moloney gave a more detailed answer about limits in Salesforce.com in particular, including lack of CAN-SPAM compliance and limits on mass emails. The immediate take-away here is that the industry still needs to educate prospective buyers on why marketers need a separate system. Vendors take note.

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B2B Marketing University: What Do You Want to Learn About?

LeadSloth

In addition to this general trend, a whole array of software tools is now available to help the savvy marketer. 5 years ago Salesforce.com was tiny compared to Siebel. Continuing Education for B2B Marketers. Considering these trends, now is a great time to to invest in some continuing education. Enter Silverpop.