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Fast Growth Marketing: From 0 to 500,000 Users

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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). Jim: One of my marketers came up to me as we were naming the company, and we were looking at a bunch of different names like Jigsaw. Jigsaw never grew this fast.

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Alsa Marketing Adds Multi-Language Capabilities to Low-Cost Marketing Automation

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Summary: Alsa Marketing is a late entry to small business marketing automation. It’s harder every day for a new company to enter the business-to-business marketing automation industry. Multi-language might open a larger market, at least until competitors match it. Alsa has some other unusual features.

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

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It still feels odd to think of a software company owning a data business, although Salesforce.com bought Jigsaw (now Data.com) in 2010 and Oracle purchased the BlueKai and Datalogix in 2014. If nothing else, this confirms the foundational role of data and data management in marketing and sales technologies.

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Marketing Automation System Trends: What We Found in the Raab Guide

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The same three vendors also added new tools to give salespeople better access to information the marketing automation system has captured about their leads. This contrasts with traditional demand generation pricing on database size and/or activity volume, but is the way sales automation systems like Salesforce.com are usually sold.

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Eloqua Experience 2010

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In Monday’s blog post I emphasized that process and best practices are they key to unlocking the full potential of Marketing Automation. Eloqua is also taking a lesson from Salesforce.com’s playbook by making it easier to extend Eloqua with 3rd party applications. Eloqua University. Cloud Connectors.

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ActiveConversion Review - SMB Lead Management

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Therefore I initially called them a ‘niche vendor’ However, the product has evolved into a fairly complete marketing automation suite for SMB companies. It integrates with Jigsaw to show company details like revenue, and available contacts for a specific company: contacts can be bought for $1 each directly at Jigsaw.

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Active Conversion Offers Strong Lead Management and Leaves Out the Rest

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Yet some other features are fairly advanced: Active Conversion can identify anonymous Web site visitors through reverse IP lookup, find contact names for those companies in JigSaw , and either send the data to Salesforce.com or let sales people access it withing Active Conversion itself.