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LinkedIn Buys Bizo and Oracle Adds Database Services: Everything Is Going According To Plan

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The past week brought two industry announcements: acquisition of Bizo by LinkedIn and new “Data as a Service” offerings from Oracle. The Bizo purchase, priced at $175 million , makes perfect sense. But LinkedIn doesn''t need that data: it already has vastly better information in its own files.

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LinkedIn Buys Fliptop: Why Account Based Marketing and Predictive Analytics Are a Natural Fit

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Predictive analytics vendor Fliptop today announced its acquisition by B2B social network LinkedIn. The original inspiration for the planned post was a set of three back-to-back conversations I had last Friday with one ABM vendor and two predictive analytics companies (none of which were Fliptop or LinkedIn).

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Next-Generation Marketing Automation Systems Target Small Business

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The new entrants are clustered towards the small business end of the market, where they see an opportunity for simpler systems at lower prices than existing market leaders. On the other hand, it adds a powerful survey tool, easy conversion of emails to Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn messages, and easily created “instant offers”.

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Influitive Helps Marketers Build an Army of Advocates

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managing awards, and API-level integration to pull profile data ( LinkedIn ), record completed challenges ( Quora , Twitter , Facebook , LinkedIn) and announce completed challenges ( Salesforce.com Chatter). Pricing is free up to 20 active advocates, and then starts at $500 per month, growing at roughly $20 per advocate per month.

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Rating the Crowd-Sourced Marketing Software Review Sites

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Reviewer information on all sites except Software Advice starts with verifying that the user is a real person through requiring a LinkedIn log-in. When it comes to depth, TrustRadius and DiscoverCloud stand out, although I was also impressed by the feature details and actual pricing information in G2Crowd.

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Terminus Offers Targeted Display Ads for B2B

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For B2B marketers, this has happened mostly through Demandbase and what was formerly Bizo (now part of LinkedIn). This means that integration has largely meant sharing audiences defined in a marketing automation system with demand side platforms (DSPs), so the DSPs can bid on audience members when they appear on ad networks.

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Mautic Offers Free, Open Source Marketing Automation

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The core features of B2B marketing automation have been well understood for nearly ten years and prices have been dropping steadily for about the same time. But pricing will remain well below standard marketing automation products. The only real question about free, open source marketing automation from Mautic is what took so long.