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PowerViews with Christopher Hosford – CRM/Marketing Automation/Social Convergence

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Click to start video at this point — In response to a question about the accelerating integration of database technology, sales force automation, marketing automation and social media, Christopher notes what has been a mantra for years now appears to be reaching a critical mass. And you can show demos.

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PowerViews with Chris Hosford – CRM/Marketing Automation/Social Convergence

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Click to start video at this point — In response to a question about the accelerating integration of database technology, sales force automation, marketing automation and social media, Chris notes what has been a mantra for years now appears to be reaching a critical mass. And you can show demos.

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Revenue Performance Management: Doing For Revenue What ERP Does For Ops?

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In a recent article on Revenue Performance Management in Marketing Automation Software Guide, Lauren Carlson does a nice job of providing a context for the RPM discussion by differentiating it from marketing automation, reviewing the factors motivating its advancement, and raising good questions.

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Beyond Financials: VC & IPO Due Diligence on Sales & Marketing Metrics

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In a sense, three cloud application companies at a combined average of five years after going public are all spending nearly half of their revenue on sales and marketing. Could the reasons why point to similar expense paths for the marketing automation vendors looking at going public?

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PowerViews with Craig Rosenberg: Growth Hacks & Consumerized B2B Software

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And that’s the mix that I prescribe today, but, boy, if you’re going to start your business by just doing content and inbound marketing, you’re going to fail.”. I live in the marketing side, so I talk to these marketers. And they say, ‘Oh, I’m doing a great job, I’ve got Eloqua.’ They’re marketing-centric organizations.

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Marketing Automation is Not Marketing Strategy

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We are republishing this blog by Ruth Stevens (originally run January 29, 2014) because she hits the nail on the head about marketing automation. In the opening paragraph she states: “Marketers sometimes see automation as a silver bullet. Marketing automation doesn’t identify your best target audiences.