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Marketo Adds Custom Objects. It's a Big Deal. Trust Me.

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My first question when Marketo announced its new mobile app connector this week wasn’t, “What cool new things can marketers do?” But one of Marketo’s biggest technical weaknesses has always been an inflexible data model. I suspect that underestimates the technical savvy of Marketo users, but no matter. Well, maybe a little.)

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Marketo Buys Crowd Factory, Silverpop Buys CoreMotives, and Other News from Pardot, Neolane, Act-On and OfficeAutoPilot

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With its usual fanfare, Marketo today announced the acquisition of social marketing campaign company Crowd Factory. Crowd Factory is a certified cool product, which is probably reason enough for Marketo to buy them. Marketo is primarily focused on business marketing, and in particular lead generation, nurturing and analytics.

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

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Summary: HubSpot announced a $32 million investment yesterday by Sequoia Partners, Google and Salesforce.com. Salesforce.com and Google announced their long-anticipated entry into the marketing automation industry, in the baby-step form of investments in HubSpot. intended to extend Google’s own business).

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Openprise Gives Marketers Easy(ish) Tool to Manage Their Data

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Most are marketing and sales operations staff supporting Salesforce.com and Marketo who use Openprise to supplement the limited data management capabilities native to those systems. Openprise also integrates today with Google Apps and the Amazon Redshift database. There also a free trial.

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Claritix Assembles Marketing Data for Analysis: Maybe That's Enough

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The system has prebuilt connectors to import data from popular vendors including Salesforce.com , Marketo , Hubspot , SAP , SugarCRM , and Facebook. It also uses matches created elsewhere such as lead IDs used to synchronize CRM and marketing automation data or cookie IDs imported from Google Analytics.

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Ranking the Demand Generation Vendors by Popularity (Yes, Life Really Is Just Like High School)

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So far the original list of Eloqua , Vtrenz , Marketo , Manticore Technology and Market2Lead has proven a good set of choices. It offers quite a few ways to measure interest in a vendor: Web searches, blog mentions, Google hits, and site traffic among them. Google and YouTube.) Yet there are so many more vendors I could add.

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LoopFuse Offers Free Marketing Automation System: Another Step Towards Industry Consolidation

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Marketo now calls itself a “the revenue cycle management company”, giving equal public weight to lead management, sales insight and analytics. But Marketo will also find itself competing with established marketing automation vendors like Aprimo , Neolane and Unica. who are entering this market from a different direction.

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