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Marketo Spark Targets Small Business Marketing Automation

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Marketo today announced the launch of Spark , a new brand aimed at small and mid-size business. Functionally, Spark is pretty much identical to the standard Marketo system. Most of these aren’t of interest to small business, and several involve additional charges even for Marketo’s regular packages.

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

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By contrast, the fourth trend seems to be driven by recognition that small business presents a huge opportunity. Both the agencies and their clients have been mostly small businesses – in the survey for our soon-to-be-published VEST report , Optify reports that 60% of its clients have under $5 million revenue.

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Intuit Buys Small Business Local Marketing Vendor Demandforce: There's a New Gorilla in Town

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Intuit last week announced an agreement to acquire local business marketing vendor Demandforce for $423.5 Still, the move makes perfect strategic sense, giving Intuit a stronger foothold in the marketing side of its small business customer base. Demandforce focuses on local service businesses like dentists and auto body shops.

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More on Marketo Financials: Despite Past Losses, Prospects Are Bright

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Summary: Public data gives some insights into Marketo's financial history and prospects. Here’s a bit more on this week's $25 million investment in Marketo : a piece in VentureWire quotes revenue for Markteo as $4.5 But Marketo itself says the reported figures are indeed active clients and I've no basis to doubt them.

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Raab Report: Act-On, Eloqua, Pardot, and Marketo Vie to Lead in Mid-Size B2B Marketing Automation Segment

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I’ve saved the best for last, in the sense that the small to mid-size sector is the heart of the industry and its most complicated arena. We define small to mid-size business as companies with $5 million to $500 million revenue. This covers a broad range of marketing users with widely varied needs.

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First Look at New Marketo Release

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I’m going to diverge just slightly from my current obsession with usability to talk about a conversation I had today with Marketo President and CEO Phil Fernandez, who previewed the 3.0 Although I actually think that quite a few demand generation vendors share the Marketo philosophy, it’s still helpful to hear the distinction made clearly.

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Marketo Buys Crowd Factory, Silverpop Buys CoreMotives, and Other News from Pardot, Neolane, Act-On and OfficeAutoPilot

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With its usual fanfare, Marketo today announced the acquisition of social marketing campaign company Crowd Factory. Crowd Factory is a certified cool product, which is probably reason enough for Marketo to buy them. But what I find intriguing is how little the two businesses overlap. Pardot added features for search marketing.

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