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Salesforce.com Announces Site.com Web Site Management: Will Marketing Automation Features Follow?

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Salesforce.com yesterday announced the launch of Site.com , an enterprise-class Web site management system. The news didn’t seem to get much attention, perhaps because Salesforce.com itself pretty much buried it. So far so good, especially since multi-channel content is another trend I’ve been toying with for some time.

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Genoo and Act-On Software Add Social Marketing Features

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Summary: Two low-cost demand generation systems, Genoo and Act-On Software, have added unusually advanced social marketing features. A few weeks back, I wrote about social marketing features from consumer marketing automation vendors. Naturally our friends in the business marketing space have been adding such features as well.

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Marketing Automation System Trends: What We Found in the Raab Guide

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Summary: Social media and access for sales people were the two big trends among demand generation vendors last year. At least three vendors (Eloqua, Marketo and Silverpop) introduced new features aimed at improving marketers’ ability to use social media. These features also tie into both social media and sales access modules.

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2010 Will Bring New Features to Demand Generation Systems

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But the real excitement will be features that expand the scope of demand generation products to support inbound marketing, better measurement, and more efficient content creation. I do expect vendors to converge on more standard social media features. Certainly those features will continue to grow. me-too products.

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Microsoft Buys LinkedIn for $26.2 Billion: Get Ready for Software Vendors as Data Owners

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This is a trend that’s been clear for some time; it’s a big part of the intent data and predictive data excitement of the past year or two. It still feels odd to think of a software company owning a data business, although Salesforce.com bought Jigsaw (now Data.com) in 2010 and Oracle purchased the BlueKai and Datalogix in 2014.

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SetLogik Offers B2B Marketers a Real Marketing Database

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I originally saw SetLogik as a tool to associate marketing leads with sales opportunities, even when they are not connected directly within Salesforce.com. This has been sadly lacking in most B2B marketing automation systems, which supplement the Salesforce.com database with barely-extensible lead profiles and contact histories.

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Optify Lets Agencies Provide Small Business with Marketing Automation, Distributed Marketing, and Sales Enablement

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By contrast, the fourth trend seems to be driven by recognition that small business presents a huge opportunity. Landing pages can be attached to an auto-responder email, while standard fields on forms are automatically mapped to Salesforce.com. CRM integration is currently limited to sending data to Salesforce.com.