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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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Vocus Purchased by Private Equity Firm GTCR: This Could Be Interesting

Customer Experience Matrix

x revenue, compared with the 6 to 7 x multiples paid for ExactTarget and Responsys by Salesforce.com and Oracle and the 14 x that Marketo commands in the stock market. At that time, the marketing product was missing key marketing automation features including lead scoring, multi-step workflows, and integration with Salesforce.com.

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Email marketing 101: The five basics

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adam.smith@google.com john.doe@salesforce.com no-reply@google.com hello@salesforce.com Ensure a professional signature Your signature is your digital business card, so make sure it reflects your brand and personality positively. Tailor your content to the individual recipient based on their needs and interests.

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MarTech Conference: Some Random Impressions and Interesting New Vendors

Customer Experience Matrix

A panel with Oracle , Salesforce.com and Marketo , where incisive questions from Chief Martech Himself Scott Brinker highlighted the different philosophies underlying each vendor’s marketing cloud and how few companies really deploy any cloud in full. - But that leaves a lot of questions unanswered. at different intervals or sequences.

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New B2B Persona Research From Salesforce & LinkedIn Study with Mathew Sweezey, Salesforce.com

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My background’s interesting. From there, we grew that, sold that to Exact Target, which Salesforce.com then acquired. I write for lots of different publications, and now I head up the forward-looking marketing ideas and theories as Principal of Marketing Insight at Salesforce.com.

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Old School Sales vs New: The Rise of the Modern Sales Model

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One early adopter of inside sales was Marc Benioff, CEO and founder at Salesforce.com. By Benioff ‘s own admission, Salesforce.com “grew their company for the first five or six years with a telesales [or inside sales] model.” The Rise of Global Commerce.

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Salesforce.com Certification: it’s for Marketers, too!

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

As a Salesforce.com user group leader, I often talk to marketers who are looking to get more and/or better data out of their Salesforce.com system. Because of this, many marketers have picked up Salesforce.com admin skills that are highly valued at their companies. . Salesforce.com Certification: it’s for Marketers, too!