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Demand Generation Vendors Offer Few Social Media Applications

Customer Experience Matrix

Social media is this month’s Trend of the Year. 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. All told, I'm rather disappointed at what I see in this list.

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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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What The Top 4% of Account-Based Marketers Have in Common

ANNUITAS

As Carlos Hidalgo wrote in these pages a few months back, “…it seems that each and every year there is a new trend (not that ABM is all that new) or ‘shiny object’ that overtakes B2B marketing … It is no wonder that many marketing departments still struggle with demonstrating their value year after year. The moral of the story?

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Marketing Automation System Trends: What We Found in the Raab Guide

Customer Experience Matrix

Summary: Social media and access for sales people were the two big trends among demand generation vendors last year. All aimed at showing the activities of selected leads, typically by showing overviews and trends, and then letting users drill into details. But enhanced reporting was the most common improvement of all.

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What The Top 4% of Account-Based Marketers Have in Common

ANNUITAS

As Carlos Hidalgo wrote in these pages a few months back, “…it seems that each and every year there is a new trend (not that ABM is all that new) or ‘shiny object’ that overtakes B2B marketing … It is no wonder that many marketing departments still struggle with demonstrating their value year after year. The moral of the story?

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Research Report: Lead Gen Not as Easy as Marketers Think

The Point

I just returned from a few days at Dreamforce in San Francisco, the annual circus-slash-conference hosted by CRM leader Salesforce.com, and was struck by the wave of technologies on display that centered on analytics. Just when did demand generation get this complicated?

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

Customer Experience Matrix

By contrast, the fourth trend seems to be driven by recognition that small business presents a huge opportunity. 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.