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The Pond Just Got More Crowded: Google, Salesforce.com and Sequoia Invest in HubSpot

Customer Experience Matrix

Summary: HubSpot announced a $32 million investment yesterday by Sequoia Partners, Google and Salesforce.com. This could be a real game-changer in the small business marketing automation landscape. It’s selling to small and mid-size companies and business-to-business marketers, who are just dipping their toes into marketing automation.

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The 14 Best Marketing Automation Tools

Webbiquity

Marketing automation software tools can be very helpful in making lead nurturing and sales acceleration efforts more effective—even if the category is badly misnamed. Marketing can’t be automated.) Here are 14 of the best marketing automation tools based on their popularity with reviewers. 1) Marketo.

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SetLogik Offers B2B Marketers a Real Marketing Database

Customer Experience Matrix

I’ve now done more detailed research into the SetLogik B2B data management system I mentioned in my Dreamforce post. I originally saw SetLogik as a tool to associate marketing leads with sales opportunities, even when they are not connected directly within Salesforce.com. If anything, I’m even more impressed.

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What does ‘Real-Time Marketing’ really mean? by Salesforce

Martech

If you’re like most marketers, you’ve been hearing the term “real-time” a lot lately. And you’ve probably been wondering, what is real-time marketing? It can sound like marketers need to live in the world of the Oscar contender Everything Everywhere All at Once. What do marketers mean when they say “real-time”?

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Marketing Automation Vendor Consolidation: Lessons from History

Customer Experience Matrix

Summary: consolidation isn't new among marketing software vendors. When campaign management systems consolidated in the late 1990's and early 2000's, most were bought by enterprise software companies. Will weaker marketing automation vendors merge with each other to establish a larger market presence?

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Raab Report: Neolane, Aprimo, and Eloqua Rate Highest for Large Company B2B Marketing Automation

Customer Experience Matrix

These companies have large marketing departments that may manage hundreds of campaigns for different products in different locations. Our scoring reflects their need for special features for automated content selection, project management, complex lead scores, and tight control over the rights granted to individual users.

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Salesforce Reports Strong Growth in Commerce Cloud Sales

Valasys

On the 25th of August 2020, the leading provider of cloud-based e-commerce, CRM, and other popular business software solutions, Salesforce revealed that their revenue from Marketing and Commerce Cloud software increased by 21% for the second quarter of the fiscal that ended on July 31.