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Vocus Purchased by Private Equity Firm GTCR: This Could Be Interesting

Customer Experience Matrix

x revenue, compared with the 6 to 7 x multiples paid for ExactTarget and Responsys by Salesforce.com and Oracle and the 14 x that Marketo commands in the stock market. Vocus has been working hard to change its profile. Salesforce.com synch is bi-directional and works with lead and contact records.

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4 Ways New Data Cloud Features Help You Personalize Ads by Salesforce

Martech

You can improve the way you interact with your customers and your marketing systems, to do things like: Personalize at scale: With these new Data Cloud integrations, you can personalize advertising using a complete customer profile that unifies first-party data from customers across marketing, commerce, sales, service, or any touchpoint.

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What does ‘Real-Time Marketing’ really mean? by Salesforce

Martech

If a customer’s digital profile isn’t accurate at the moment, it can trigger unfortunate events. Real-time systems should update customers’ profiles right away. For example, a customer might make a purchase on an e-commerce website that puts them into a high-value segment. That could be seconds or even hours later.

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SetLogik Offers B2B Marketers a Real Marketing Database

Customer Experience Matrix

I originally saw SetLogik as a tool to associate marketing leads with sales opportunities, even when they are not connected directly within Salesforce.com. This has been sadly lacking in most B2B marketing automation systems, which supplement the Salesforce.com database with barely-extensible lead profiles and contact histories.

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6Sense Finds B2B Prospects Using Web Site Activities

Customer Experience Matrix

Since then, I’ve had a more detailed briefing, which clarified that their scope extends well beyond prospect lists to predictive models applied across all stages of the purchase cycle. We also clarified that users can extract company-level profiles including attributes (industry, revenue, etc.)

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B2B Prospecting Data Just Keeps Getting Better

ViewPoint

The most reliable and scalable approach to finding new B2B customers is outbound communications, whether by mail, phone or email, to potential prospects, using rented or purchased lists. Out-of-business indicator, plus credit rating and parent/subsidiary linkages (Salesforce.com). Company SWOT analysis (OneSource).

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What Do You Sell, Who Do You Sell It To and Why Everyone Has to Have The Same Answer

ViewPoint

A couple of years ago I wrote a blog for Salesforce.com about lead definition. A ULD clarifies what a lead is to everyone in your organization, and these leads also: Fit the profile of your ideal customer. An inquiry becomes a lead when it: Fits the target customer profile (industry, revenue, number of employees, etc.).