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Marketo Files for IPO: Will High Growth Outweigh High Losses?

Customer Experience Matrix

Marketo made good today on its promise to file for an initial public offering (IPO). The S-1 registration statement gives considerable new information about Marketo’s business. Another way to look at it is this: Marketo would earn just 6% profit even if its sales and marketing costs were zero.

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First Look at New Marketo Release

Customer Experience Matrix

I’m going to diverge just slightly from my current obsession with usability to talk about a conversation I had today with Marketo President and CEO Phil Fernandez, who previewed the 3.0 Major themes were greater access to detailed information, more precise targeting, and tighter integration with Salesforce.com.

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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. The Chatter group that Salesforce set up for Dreamforce itself struck me as a perfect example: it was filled with largely irrelevant noise that made it nearly impossible to see the useful information. I discussed RPM with both Eloqua and Marketo during Dreamforce.

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Oracle Buys Eloqua: Winners and Losers for B2B Marketing Automation

Customer Experience Matrix

So that’s all fine, but what industry observers really want to know is how Salesforce.com will react. Of course, a platform that serves all customer life stages also by definition contains all information about each customer. Okay, now we can talk about Salesforce.com. Wouldn’t that be nice? We’ll see how they handle it.

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Fliptop: A Customer Data Platform for Predictive Lead Scoring, Pure and Simple

Customer Experience Matrix

Like all the others except ReachForce, the company builds a master database of information about businesses and individuals by scanning the social networks, company Web pages, job sites, paid search spend, search engine page rank, and other sources. This model can score new leads and classify existing opportunities in the sales pipeline.

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Dreamforce 2009: Engaging Effectively with Social Networks using Salesforce.com

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

At this Dreamforce 2009 session led by Fernando Obregon Almazan, salesforce.com; Lorena Vales, salesforce.com; and Jonathan Hersh, salesforce.com, marketers learned about how and why companies should participate in social networking to generate brand awareness and create a viral effect when clients or prospects recommend their products.

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SalesPredict Offers Highly Automated, Highly Flexible Predictive Modeling

Customer Experience Matrix

This is possible primarily because the painstaking work of preparing data for analysis – which is where model builders spend most of their time – is avoided by connecting to a few standard sources, currently Salesforce.com and Marketo with HubSpot soon to follow.