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The Pond Just Got More Crowded: Google, Salesforce.com and Sequoia Invest in HubSpot

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Summary: HubSpot announced a $32 million investment yesterday by Sequoia Partners, Google and Salesforce.com. Salesforce.com and Google announced their long-anticipated entry into the marketing automation industry, in the baby-step form of investments in HubSpot. intended to extend Google’s own business).

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Hubspot Offers Small Business Marketers a Big Bundle of Features

Customer Experience Matrix

Summary: Hubspot offers a bundle of Web traffic generation and lead management features in one low-cost package. Hubspot has accepted this challenge. All that’s missing to be full-blown demand generation system is outbound email and lead nurturing campaigns—which the company has announced it will add.

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2010 Will Bring New Features to Demand Generation Systems

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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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HubSpot Expands Its Services But Stays Focused on Small Business

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Summary: HubSpot has continued to grow its customer base and expand its product. HubSpot has always aimed to provide small businesses with one easy-to-use system for all their marketing needs. HubSpot has always aimed to provide small businesses with one easy-to-use system for all their marketing needs.

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Optify Lets Agencies Provide Small Business with Marketing Automation, Distributed Marketing, and Sales Enablement

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This will remind marketing automation aficionados of HubSpot, which has made a similar journey. Landing pages can be attached to an auto-responder email, while standard fields on forms are automatically mapped to Salesforce.com. Users can send the contact a system email or add it to a list. Reporting is a particular strength.

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MakesBridge Offers Powerful Features to Small Business Marketers

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HubSpot also has many micro-business clients but is not focused on them exclusively and – probably as a result – has a slightly different feature set: more Web traffic generation and no built-in contact management or shopping cart. See my List of Demand Generation Vendors for other options. per month email product.