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

Customer Experience Matrix

LinkedIn is primarily a social network with revenue from subscriptions, recruiting services, and advertising. 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.

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

Engagio

How well those jigsaw puzzles fit is basically why we were able to do it so quickly.” “We have a pretty specific publisher network of high-quality sites … The largest social networks, the largest software companies use us for their B2B advertising because they care about that brand safety.”

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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. Social media is this month’s Trend of the Year. But no one knows how best to use it, which has led to a wide range of offerings under the social media label.

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Exciting new tools for B2B prospecting

Biznology

Early examples of this exciting new trend in prospecting were Jigsaw, a business-card swapping tool that allowed sales people to trade contacts, and ZoomInfo, which scrapes corporate websites for information about business people and merges the information into a vast pool of data for analysis and lead generation campaigns.

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How to Successfully Mine Your Social Media Data

Sprout Social

That same sentiment still rings true for social media marketers and advertisers. Now we’re counted on to show our work when we prove social media has a strong return on investment (ROI). It’s sort of crazy to think some businesses still don’t trust social media as an ROI source. What Is Social Media Data?

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Don’t They Know Who You Are? Why Reputation Management is Crucial

Webbiquity

The emergence of social media changed all that of course, so now that person can vent online to, essentially, the entire world. And search engines love social media, which helps expose that rant to anyone searching for the company’s name. Create accounts on social bookmarking sites like Wikio , Mixx , Digg and/or StumbleUpon.

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Social CRM, Inbound Marketing and Marketing Automation

LeadSloth

Today I’m a panelist at the Silverpop Client Summit and we’re talking about Social CRM, Inbound Marketing and Marketing Automation, moderated by Adam Needles. Social CRM. Social Marketing Automation. Better social collaboration options can improve this situation. Social + CRM + Marketing Automation.