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Intuit / Salesforce.com Alliance Is No April Fool's Joke

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Am I the only one who missed the April 1 announcement of a strategic alliance between Salesforce.com and Intuit ? Given our industry's endless nattering about whether Salesforce.com will move into marketing automation, this should have attracted more attention (or, at least, enough attention that I would hear about it sooner than I did).

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Reborn AutoPilot Aims to Simplify Multi-Channel Marketing

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The latest incarnation describes itself as “software for multi-channel marketing” but still provides core functions and connects with third party apps. These include Salesforce.com for CRM, InsideView and FullContact for data enhancement, Twilio for text messaging, Lob for postcards, Segment for event tracking, and GoodData for reporting.

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My Take: Salesforce Acquires ExactTarget, Continues Marketing Automation Industry Consolidation

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I''ve been in meetings all day and just emerged to hear that Salesforce.com purchased ExactTarget. Frankly, of the two, entry into B2C marketing seems more important because it''s such a large business and Salesforce.com needs to know where its next several billion dollars in revenue will come from. - Adobe , where art thou? (I

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Marketing Automation 2014 Industry Overview: What the Surveys Tell Us

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Other than Raab Associates’ own VEST report , we’ve seen surveys of active buyers from Software Advice , usage figures based on direct observation from Mintigo and Venture Beat (using Datanyze) , and another broad-based survey from Pepper Global and Holger Shulze. This is a pretty common question so the answers were not very surprising.

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NurtureHQ Offers "Dead Easy Marketing Automation". Is That Enough?

Customer Experience Matrix

New-ish marketing automation vendor NurtureHQ showed me its product recently. NurtureHQ hopes to differentiate itself as “dead easy marketing automation”, which it arguably is. Other vendors have asked the same questions and reached the same conclusions. That’s not a software problem. I don’t know whether to laugh or cry.

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LoopFuse Offers Free Marketing Automation System: Another Step Towards Industry Consolidation

Customer Experience Matrix

It's one example of how vendors are now competing to attract new users. This will put substantial pricing pressure on vendors who, in many cases, are already struggling to reach sustainable margins. Other vendors – notably Pardot – have followed a similar cost-removal strategy. Here’s where the free system comes back into play.

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3 Things to Learn From Microsoft’s MarTech Stack

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This shows how Marketing Performance Management software is part of their core technology stack, along with CRM, Marketing Automation, and other “must have” systems. Differentiation: Applications that enable unique company processes and are reconfigured frequently to accommodate changing business practices or customer requirements.