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Should Demand Generation and Sales Automation Be Separate Systems?

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Today, this is accomplished by synchronizing data between demand generation and sales automation systems. In fact, the division between demand generation and sales automation today is probably more a reflection of organizational divisions than technical imperatives. But that is inherently complex.

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Company-Level Data in Demand Generation Systems

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I had an interesting email conversation last month with a Raab Guide buyer about the nuances of company-level data management in demand generation systems. He started from the perfectly reasonable premise that the demand generation system should give an overview of activity for all leads associated with a given company.

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Demand Generation Vendor Traffic Rankings

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Summary: Based on Web traffic rankings, new demand generation vendors with low prices are gaining market presence. Last November, after much consideration of alternatives , I settled on Alexa three-month Web traffic rankings as a reasonable way to measure the relative market presence of demand generation vendors.

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Net-Results Simplifies Demand Generation for Small Business

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Summary: Net-Results is simpler to use than comparable demand generation systems because it applies the same features to many tasks. But on reflection I realized that Net-Results offers a full set of demand generation functions. Let’s run through the standard demand generation process to see how this works in practice.

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Demand Generation Vendors Offer Few Social Media Applications

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InsideView is already integrated with major CRM vendors and with the Marketbright demand generation system. It can also search other Web sites for email addresses containing the targeted domain. Ones I know about include Pardot , LoopFuse , TrueInfluence , Salesforce.com and ACT! But it does save a few keystrokes.

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Treehouse Interactive MarketingView Combines Demand Generation with Campaign ROI Tracking

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I originally spoke with Treehouse Interactive in late January, but didn’t write about them because weren’t quite ready to talk about their Salesforce.com integration. Since that’s critical to many demand generation users, I didn’t want to give a false impression by leaving it out. So now the story can be told. ROI reporting.

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Salesforce.com and Oracle Buy Social Marketing Systems: Not the End of Marketing As We Know It

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Salesforce.com yesterday announced agreement to buy social media publishing vendor Buddy Media for $689 million, thereby adding another big fluffy piece to its “marketing cloud”. Just for symmetry, it’s worth pointing out that Salesforce.com acquired its own social monitoring system, Radian6 , in March 2011.