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HubSpot Announces LinkedIn, Facebook Partnerships and Free Marketing Automation Edition at INBOUND Conference

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The big news was a free version of HubSpot’s core marketing platform, joining free versions already available of its CRM and Sales systems. (In In Hubspeak, CRM is the underlying database that tracks and manages customer interactions, while Sales is tools for salesperson productivity in email and elsewhere.)

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

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billion acquisition of LinkedIn. This is fascinating since Microsoft intersects with LinkedIn in several areas: Dynamics CRM software, Office productivity software, and Bing online advertising. LinkedIn is primarily a social network with revenue from subscriptions, recruiting services, and advertising.

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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. It gives LinkedIn more tools to expand its marketing offerings and lets Bizo use LinkedIn data to improve targeting within its own products.

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Marketo Sales Insight Expands Salesforce Access to Marketing Data

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Summary: Marketo's new Sales Insight ranks prospects for sales people, based on recent Web and email activities. It lets Marketo sell seats to sales departments, which could be more lucrative than selling its core demand generation system. But I expect the sales automation vendors to take the business for themselves.

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Everstring Takes Another $65 Million and (More Important) Launches Predictive Ad Targeting Solution

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But the new Everstring product isn’t the usual sharing of a prospect list with an ad platform, as in display retargeting, Facebook Custom Audiences , or LinkedIn Lead Accelerator. Rather, it finds prospects who are not yet on the marketer’s own list by scanning ad exchanges for promising individuals.

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News from Krux, Demandbase, Radius: Customer Data Takes Center Stage

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It can then use the information to predict future purchases and guide marketing and sales messages. billion for LinkedIn. It lets Demandbase more easily build detailed profiles of people and companies, including history, interests, and relationships. I’m probably too data-centric to be an objective judge, but a case could be made.

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Demand Generation Vendors Offer Few Social Media Applications

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This lets people easily send a Tweet, post to a Facebook wall or create a LinkedIn article that points to the original content. These can be loaded into sales and CRM systems to make them easily accessible. Results can be imported to sales automation and CRM files to update and enhance their profiles.