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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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JIGGY drives 69% of revenue with marketing automation

ClickZ

30-second summary: Jiggy Puzzles founder and CEO Kaylin Marcotte started the direct-to-consumer company in November 2019 with the goal of reinventing the classic jigsaw puzzle for a modern audience while supporting creative talent. In the meantime, Kaylin plans on continuing to let the automated emails do their job.

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

Customer Experience Matrix

So marketing automation vendors are understandably eager to support it in their systems. I recently took a quick tour of vendor sites to see what social features they’re offering. I need to stress that I’ve only credited vendors for features they list on their site. Results are summarized in the table below.

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NitroMojo and Marketing Advocate Specialize in Marketing Automation for Channel Partners

Customer Experience Matrix

As I noted in a post last year , there is a universe of specialized marketing automation systems for companies that sell through channel partners. Here are two more vendors with related offerings: NitroMojo focuses primarily on lead distribution and tracking. did they eventually buy?

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Is the CDP category being shrunk by acquisitions?: Monday’s Daily Brief

Martech

Since CDPs emerged as a category (around 2016, according to the CDP Institute) we became accustomed to looking across a landscape of independent vendors, most with slightly different offerings under the CDP umbrella. Then they started getting picked off and integrated into broader marketing suites. I don’t have the answer yet.

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Demand Generation Vendors Offer Few Social Media Applications

Customer Experience Matrix

Summary: marketing vendors offer several types of social media applications. But none truly automates social media management, which is what's ultimately needed. CRM vendor RightNow offers something similar under the label of Cloud Links. - Social media is this month’s Trend of the Year.

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Fast Growth Marketing: From 0 to 500,000 Users

markempa

Owler – a free competitive intelligence platform – went from 0 to over 500,000 users. I first met Fowler when he was co-founder of the cloud-based contact management platform Jigsaw which he sold to Salesforce.com for $175 million (now Data.com). Owler is a competitive intelligence platform. Jim: Sure, Brian.

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