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Microsoft Buys Marketing Automation Vendor MarketingPilot: Start of Something Big?

Customer Experience Matrix

MarketingPilot is best described as integrated marketing management for mid-tier companies. It has a pretty low profile in the B2B marketing automation world, partly because it serves a mix of B2C and B2B clients but mostly because it started as a marketing operations management system.

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Optify Lets Agencies Provide Small Business with Marketing Automation, Distributed Marketing, and Sales Enablement

Customer Experience Matrix

sales enablement: systems to share marketing information with sales ( Genius , SalesFusion , LeadFormix , RightOn Interactive , Optify) distributed marketing: systems shared between central marketing organizations and local branches, dealers, distributors, sales agents, etc. That''s theme number three.

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Can CRM Add-Ons Replace Marketing Automation?

Customer Experience Matrix

I’ve long believed that B2B marketing automation is just a passing phase: that, ultimately, B2B marketing automation systems will be absorbed into CRM systems instead of operating independently. Of course, the jackpot here is Salesforce.com. That question has no simple answer. I actually accept those arguments.

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Terminus Offers Targeted Display Ads for B2B

Customer Experience Matrix

For many smaller companies, a suite like Adobe, Oracle , IBM , Salesforce.com , SAS , or Teradata isn’t an option and would be overkill if it were. For B2B marketers, this has happened mostly through Demandbase and what was formerly Bizo (now part of LinkedIn). And Lenovo uses just only two of Adobe’s eight solutions. ad inventory.

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Full Circle Insights Introduces Microsoft Advertising (Bing) and Google Ad Support for Digital Source Tracker

Full Circle Insights

Full Circle Insights delivers marketing and sales performance measurement solutions to optimize a company’s marketing mix and drive more revenue. Built 100% on the Salesforce Platform, Full Circle Insights products complement leading marketing automation solutions.

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Marketing Automation Vendor Consolidation: Lessons from History

Customer Experience Matrix

As I wrote in my June 30 post on consolidation among marketing automation vendors , I expect the number of competitors to shrink fairly quickly as new buyers concentrate their purchases among a handful of leading vendors. Will weaker marketing automation vendors merge with each other to establish a larger market presence?

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Full Circle Insights Announces Report Extender for its Response Management Application on Salesforce AppExchange

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About Full Circle Insights Full Circle Insights delivers marketing and sales performance measurement solutions to optimize a company’s marketing mix and drive more revenue. Built 100% on the Salesforce Platform, Full Circle Insights products complement leading marketing automation solutions.