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

Customer Experience Matrix

It gives Microsoft access to a rich trove of personal and company information, something it didn’t have before (although Microsoft probably collected more personal and company data than most of us realize). LinkedIn is primarily a social network with revenue from subscriptions, recruiting services, and advertising.

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ActiveConversion Review - SMB Lead Management

LeadSloth

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. After that, the (previously anonymous) website sessions are linked to a specific person. Salesforce.com integration. An anonymous prospect record.

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Demand Generation Vendors Offer Few Social Media Applications

Customer Experience Matrix

It lets marketers or sales people specify companies and individuals to monitor, and then scans media including social networks (LinkedIn, Facebook), public forums (blogs, wikis, Diggs, Twitter), paid sources (D&B, Zoom, Jigsaw,) and Web pages for information about those entities.

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Most Exciting Marketing Technologies to Adopt in 2017

Leadspace

DMP becomes mainstream, and not just for ad buying. Why did Oracle, Adobe, Salesforce.com, Neustar, Neilsen all pay top dollar the last few years to acquire leading DMP technology companies? Prior to Oracle, he held senior leadership positions at several companies, including Data.com, Salesforce.com, RR Donnelley, and Jigsaw. .

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Marketo Sales Insight Expands Salesforce Access to Marketing Data

Customer Experience Matrix

Marketo today officially launched “Sales Insight”, an application that makes prospect activity history directly available to sales people from within Salesforce.com. I had a personal demonstration last week (are you impressed?), This can be integrated with Demandbase and Jigsaw to download the names of contacts at those firms.

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Lessons for Sales and Marketing from Cloudforce San Jose

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

Yesterday, over 1,000 people came together in San Jose (plus 10K more on a live video feed) for the launch of Chatter at a Salesforce.com Cloudforce event. Marc Benioff, Chairman & CEO of Salesforce.com, set the stage with a video explaining how the world now majorly communicates using social media. The Internet took 4 years.