The folks at HubSpot have been busy this summer, announcing their acquisition of Performable in June and their HubSpot App Marketplace last week. App markets are quite the fashion right now, and HubSpot’s joins the Eloqua AppCloud announced in June. couldn’t find a public list of the available HubSpot apps, but their press release cites a connector for Microsoft Dynamics CRM and my notes from May mention custom analytics and shopping cart integration. HubSpot didn’t make that claim for its Performable deal, which shows an admirable sense of reality. MORE >>

I spent three days last week at the Inbound Marketing Summit and Hubspot User Group in Boston. These featured a flock of first-rate speakers who presented more useful information than I can jam into a single blog post. hubspot lead generation inbound marketing innovation social media marketingThat said, here are highlights from my notes. Sorry Youngme, but I still detest IKEA. Let's face it: the reason most people buy there is price.) and 4 to 6 p.m.; these yield 20-40% more connections than calling at 10 a.m. MORE >>

Back on September 20, I posted various tips from the Inbound Marketing Summit and HubSpot User Group. Naturally, the conference also included public and private discussions of HubSpot itself, but I thought those were best shared in a separate post. The conference yielded a clear picture of HubSpot’s business strategy for the coming year. HubSpot originally focused on “top of funnel” or “inbound” marketing, which boils down to helping marketers to attract Web traffic. HubSpot also plans to automate functions that are simply too hard for most marketers to do manually. MORE >>

Editor’s Note (Jeff Ogden of Find New Customers was the featured guest on Hubspot TV some time ago. The B2B demand generation and global marketing firm Find New Customers wishes to congratulate Hubspot on this important new capability. Ifbyphone’s LeadResponder for HubSpot addresses the gap between web inquiries and sales follow-up, giving marketers the ability to instantly deliver inbound web leads to sales representatives as a phone call. Users simply register and view reports within their existing HubSpot platform. About HubSpot. HubSpot, Inc. MORE >>

recently took a quick tour of vendor sites to see what social features they’re offering. need to stress that I’ve only credited vendors for features they list on their site. strongly suspect that the data is incomplete , especially for basic features that are so common the vendors simply don’t bother to mention them. The features fell into four broad categories: • Basic posting and sharing: the most common features and the simplest level of social media marketing. standard set of features will emerge as the industry figures out what’s really important. MORE >>