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Vendor Selection: Writing a Good Requirements Document

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Remember all that yammering about how today’s buyers do their own research, don’t talk to sales until late in the process, and get their information from social media rather than experts? These should be packaged into a formal requirements document so you have them all in one place, easily organized and available to share with vendors.

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Social Media Features in Marketing Automation Systems: Who Does What?

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Social media is arguably overhyped as a marketing trend: it gets well under 10% of marketing budgets (different surveys have figures from 3% to 8%) and results are questionable (it was rated the least effective content marketing tactic in a recent MarketingProfs study ). But social is clearly growing fast and has great potential.

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SAS, Unica and smartFocus Add Social Media Features

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Summary: major consumer-oriented marketing automation vendors have all added some type of social media capabilities. On Monday, marketing automation vendors SAS and Unica both announced new social media capabilities. Techrigy lets marketers and service departments monitor, analyze and respond to comments in social media. .

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The Privacy Multiverse: A Fantasy in Three Acts

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In the same way, we still have search engines and social networks and ecommerce, but they don’t personalize their services. And, ironically, social media is still filled with bullying and misinformation – it turns out those have nothing to do with privacy and everything to do with human nature.” It’s annoying but you get used to it.

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VEST Report: Latest Trends in Marketing Automation, and Where's My Hoverboard?

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The new version includes a big technical change: instead of the interactive Flash document that was very cool but people often had trouble running, it’s now a combination of PDF for the core document and Excel spreadsheet for the detailed vendor scores. social data. VEST Report.

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MindMatrix Adds Sales Support to Marketing Automation

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Concretely, this refers to centrally-created marketing materials that are automatically personalized for individual sales people; desktop and smartphone alerts for Web activity by sales targets; and creation of personal Web sites, landing pages, and social media accounts. Integrations with ACT! And Saleslogix are under development.

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Dueling Strategies: Adobe and Oracle Take Opposite Paths to Customer Experience Management

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The announcement also included beta versions of tools for social engagement, online enrollment, and agent workspaces. Good stuff but nothing earth-shaking. Perhaps that justifies calling it more than plain old Web content management.