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Salesforce.com Announces Site.com Web Site Management: Will Marketing Automation Features Follow?

Customer Experience Matrix

Salesforce.com yesterday announced the launch of Site.com , an enterprise-class Web site management system. The news didn’t seem to get much attention, perhaps because Salesforce.com itself pretty much buried it. The move closer as Web sites capture more individual-level information and present more personalized treatments.

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Best CRM for Marketing Automation: Salesforce.com, Microsoft or Oracle?

LeadSloth

If you look at Marketing Automation systems, the best supported CRM system is Salesforce.com. Should you look at Marketing Automation options first? What if you prefer Microsoft CRM, but you also want to have a choice of Marketing Automation systems? CRM system market share.

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Marketing Automation's Unhappy Users: Trouble in Paradise?

Customer Experience Matrix

As I mentioned in last week''s post , I’m writing a paper on stages of marketing automation deployment. Key findings will be presented in a Webinar next Thursday, sponsored by TreeHouse Interactive ; you can register here. So let’s look at some more data that illustrates the trouble in marketing automation paradise.

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How RightWave Solves the Marketing Automation Skill Shortage

Customer Experience Matrix

One of the main reasons that marketing automation has not been adopted more quickly is that too few marketers know how to fully use it. Instead, RightWave offers what it calls “marketing automation as a service,” gives each client access to staff members who will set up and execute campaigns for them.

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Vocus Marketing Suite: Still Mostly Social But Marketing Automation is On the Way

Customer Experience Matrix

But since late 2011 the company has also offered a suite aimed at marketers, which now has more than 4,000 paid clients. Even in the small business sector, that count would make Vocus one of the largest marketing automation systems. But Vocus doesn’t quite match the profile of standard marketing automation products.

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MindMatrix Adds Sales Support to Marketing Automation

Customer Experience Matrix

One easily predictable trend in B2B marketing automation is that vendors will tailor their systems to specific industries. The reason may be that B2B marketing automation products have a narrower scope than B2C systems, meaning there’s less advantage in creating vertical editions. Integrations with ACT!

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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.