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

Customer Experience Matrix

This is fascinating since Microsoft intersects with LinkedIn in several areas: Dynamics CRM software, Office productivity software, and Bing online advertising. LinkedIn is primarily a social network with revenue from subscriptions, recruiting services, and advertising. billion acquisition of LinkedIn.

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Social Media Features in Marketing Automation Systems: Who Does What?

Customer Experience Matrix

Social media is arguably overhyped as a marketing trend: it gets well under 10% of marketing budgets (different surveys have figures from 3% to 8%) and results are questionable (it was rated the least effective content marketing tactic in a recent MarketingProfs study ). Results are summarized in the table below.

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2010 Will Bring New Features to Demand Generation Systems

Customer Experience Matrix

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. business-to-business marketing automation. I do expect vendors to converge on more standard social media features. inbound marketing.

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Solving the SaaS Problem: The Ultimate Tech Stack for B2B Marketers

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Marketing technology is evolving at an incredible pace. The advent of cloud platforms in particular has made cutting-edge technology more accessible. In addition to allowing rapidly growing SaaS companies to take-on incumbent industry giants, cloud technology has provided the latest generation of marketers with incredible new tools.

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Top 32 B2B Marketing Posts and Hot Topics of Social Media Forecast

B2B Marketing Zone Posts

Five Big Shifts in Social Media Marketing - Webbiquity , April 19, 2010 Social media reflects a larger trend toward buyer empowerment that has changed not only the practice but the underlying philosophies of marketing over the past several years. Is there a place for yet ANOTHER social web monitoring tool in a crowded market?