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Intuit / Salesforce.com Alliance Is No April Fool's Joke

Customer Experience Matrix

Am I the only one who missed the April 1 announcement of a strategic alliance between Salesforce.com and Intuit ? Given our industry's endless nattering about whether Salesforce.com will move into marketing automation, this should have attracted more attention (or, at least, enough attention that I would hear about it sooner than I did).

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

Customer Experience Matrix

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”. Just for symmetry, it’s worth pointing out that Salesforce.com acquired its own social monitoring system, Radian6 , in March 2011.

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Email marketing 101: The five basics

Martech

It both enhances the human touch and positively influences email deliverability algorithms. adam.smith@google.com john.doe@salesforce.com no-reply@google.com hello@salesforce.com Ensure a professional signature Your signature is your digital business card, so make sure it reflects your brand and personality positively.

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The Pond Just Got More Crowded: Google, Salesforce.com and Sequoia Invest in HubSpot

Customer Experience Matrix

Summary: HubSpot announced a $32 million investment yesterday by Sequoia Partners, Google and Salesforce.com. Salesforce.com and Google announced their long-anticipated entry into the marketing automation industry, in the baby-step form of investments in HubSpot. Yet something really bothered me about yesterday’s announcement.

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Sales Operations Analyst Job Description

InsightSquared

When it comes to updating workflows in Salesforce.com (or another CRM system) or debugging things gone awry, they don’t need their hands held. Salesforce.com is the go-to CRM for most companies, so that’s where sales ops analysts end up spending most of their time. What are Sales Operations Analysts Responsible for?

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8 Great LinkedIn Groups for B2B Marketers

KoMarketing Associates

Salesforce.com. From the group introduction: Salesforce.com. Admin Stephen Cummins runs the Salesforce.com group like a high quality magazine , carefully vetting submissions so engagement, dialogue, and value for members can be better realized. Salesforce app ecosystem. Future trends. Data Science. Highly Selective.

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Director of Sales Operations Job Description

InsightSquared

The director of sales operations position is one of the most critical hires a company can make. As owners of the sales tech stack , sales operations directors are always evaluating new sales technology vendors and managing the CRM (typically Salesforce.com ) infrastructure. Their work has an enormous influence on business decisions.