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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. That would force other CRM and marketing automation vendors to follow suit, although it's hard to imagine them matching the depth of LinkedIn's data.

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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. Pricing starts around $3,000 per year plus $100 per user per month, which is usually less than the cost of marketing automation and sales automation systems that NitroMojo would replace.

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

Customer Experience Matrix

Social media is arguably overhyped as a marketing trend: it gets well under 10% of marketing budgets (different surveys have figures from 3% to 8%) and results are questionable (it was rated the least effective content marketing tactic in a recent MarketingProfs study ). Results are summarized in the table below. .

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Fast Growth Marketing: From 0 to 500,000 Users

markempa

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 was a great acquisition.

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Act-On Software Stresses Ease of Use

Customer Experience Matrix

Summary : Act-On Software’s revised system offers a reasonable mix of features in an easy-to-use interface. At $500 per month with no annual contract, it’s priced to make it easy to get started with marketing automation. While some other system provide this, many marketing automation vendors rely on third-party products instead.

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Quotable Moments from Two ABM Podcasts with Jon Miller (CMO and CPO, Demandbase)

Engagio

(And before that he created and co-founded the popular marketing automation software Marketo. In just five short months, he’s led the integration of the B2B, DSP, intent data, and machine learning technology of Demandbase with the marketing automation-based platform of Engagio. “Mergers are hard.

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Enhancement Round-Up Q1 2021

Lead Liaison

Click to test our most recently released activations, available now: Sliding Puzzle , Jigsaw Puzzle , Swervy Bird , Rearrange Words , and our premium activation: Waypoints. Complete with mobile devices, stands, printers, scanners, credit card terminals, and preloaded software, Captello takes the guesswork out of setting up for events.