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Marketo Conference: Small Changes, Big Picture

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Marketo wrapped up its three day Marketing Nation conference yesterday, having once more displayed its own marketing prowess by attracting national media attention (see here and here ) with an appearance by Hillary Clinton. But it''s Acxiom, not Marketo, doing the hard part of matching advertising audiences with identified individuals.

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Social Media Features in Marketing Automation Systems: Who Does What?

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Social media is arguably overhyped as a marketing trend: it gets well under 10% of marketing budgets (different surveys have figures from 3% to 8%) and results are questionable (it was rated the least effective content marketing tactic in a recent MarketingProfs study ). But social is clearly growing fast and has great potential.

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Alterian Pushes Into Social Media Management with Techrigy Acquisition

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Summary: Alterian's purchase of Techrigy marks the first integration of serious social media management with marketing automation. Marketing automation vendor Alterian yesterday announced its acquisition of social media monitoring company Techrigy. What really impresses me is that Techrigy is a serious social media monitoring solution.

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Salesforce.com and Oracle Buy Social Marketing Systems: Not the End of Marketing As We Know It

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Salesforce.com yesterday announced agreement to buy social media publishing vendor Buddy Media for $689 million, thereby adding another big fluffy piece to its “marketing cloud”. Oracle followed suit this morning with an acquisition of social media monitoring and semantic analysis vendor Collective Intellect. In a word, no.

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ExactTarget and Eloqua Stake Their Claim To Centralized Customer Management

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You probably saw ExactTarget ’s June 13 announcement of its strategic partnership with Marketo and Eloqua ’s June 21 announcement of its new AppCloud marketplace for connectors with other systems. In fact, the real head scratcher was why ExactTarget would deal with Marketo if it had ambitions to occupy the same central turf.

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New Raab VEST Report: B2B Marketing Automation Will Reach $1.2 Billion in 2014

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Yes, there’s continued growth in various aspects of social media marketing and in mobile-friendly content creation. This may be because the previous mid-market leaders, Marketo and Pardot in particular, have been focusing more on enterprise sales. Based on this data, I’m projecting a 60% increase in industry revenue for 2014, to $1.2

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Bombora Feeds B2B Data to Everyone

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One of the little patterns that caught my attention at last week’s Marketo conference was that several vendors mentioned using data from the same source: Madison Logic Data, which recently renamed itself Bombora *. We went through a bit of the back story: Madison Logic was founded as a B2B media company six years ago.

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