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

Customer Experience Matrix

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. That’s the first Salesforce.com reference I can find to a “digital marketing platform”.

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Salesforce.com and Oracle Buy Social Marketing Systems: Not the End of Marketing As We Know It

Customer Experience Matrix

Salesforce.com yesterday announced agreement to buy social media publishing vendor Buddy Media for $689 million, thereby adding another big fluffy piece to its “marketing cloud”. Just for symmetry, it’s worth pointing out that Salesforce.com acquired its own social monitoring system, Radian6 , in March 2011.

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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. Salesforce.com and Google announced their long-anticipated entry into the marketing automation industry, in the baby-step form of investments in HubSpot.

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4 Ways New Data Cloud Features Help You Personalize Ads by Salesforce

Martech

Target a network of over 1 billion active professionals on LinkedIn based on job title, function, industry and more. You can use first-party data, combined with AI-powered product interest scoring from Marketing Cloud , Sales Cloud and Service Cloud , and product usage data from your own apps to reach more customers.

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Elevating B2B Customer Retention: Innovative Strategies for Lasting Relationships

Engagio

High customer retention rates indicate satisfied customers who trust the business and will likely continue purchasing products or services. Companies can allocate their resources towards improving products or services and enhancing customer experiences rather than constantly investing in acquisition strategies. Efficiency FTW.

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My Take: Salesforce Acquires ExactTarget, Continues Marketing Automation Industry Consolidation

Customer Experience Matrix

I''ve been in meetings all day and just emerged to hear that Salesforce.com purchased ExactTarget. So this fills a gap in their core product offerings. The smart ones (and that''s most of them) already have a strategy in place to differentiate themselves from the big industry leaders.

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Dreamforce 2011: Salesforce.com Will Leave Marketing Automation Alone. But Revenue Performance Management Might Be Another Story.

Customer Experience Matrix

I spent most of this week at Salesforce.com ’s Dreamforce conference. With 45,000 registrants, the company says that Dreamforce is now the largest technology industry gathering. But even if people get better at filtering noise, that filtering still takes energy from other, more directly productive purposes.