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ActiveConversion Review - SMB Lead Management

LeadSloth

Therefore I initially called them a ‘niche vendor’ However, the product has evolved into a fairly complete marketing automation suite for SMB companies. Salesforce.com integration. ActiveConversion also integrates with Salesforce.com , although using Salesforce is not a requirement.

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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. At that time, the marketing product was missing key marketing automation features including lead scoring, multi-step workflows, and integration with Salesforce.com.

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The 14 Best Marketing Automation Tools

Webbiquity

Pricing: contact vendor. Now owned by and tightly integrated with Salesforce.com, Pardot should at least be on the consideration list of marketing automation tools for any SMB already using Salesforce. Integrates with popular platforms like Microsoft Dynamics and Salesforce.com. Showcase reviews: SnapApp. 2) HubSpot.

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Can you do top-of-funnel marketing automation without CRM?

Biznology

Fortunately for SMB marketers, CRM is becoming main stream. There seem to be three different platforms vying for the role of ‘non-CRM marketing hub’ for SMBs. According to Salesforce.com , 92% of customer interactions happen on the phone. Call tracking vendors expect users to use a CRM. Call tracking hub.

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Pardot Offers Refined Demand Generation at a Small Business Price

Customer Experience Matrix

My little tour of demand generation vendors landed at Pardot just before Thanksgiving. As you’ll recall from my post on Web activity statistics , Pardot is one of the higher-ranked vendors not already in the Raab Guide to Demand Generation Systems. Pardot and other SMB systems don’t just offer a few simple features.

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CSO Insights Study Favors On-Demand CRM

Customer Experience Matrix

Amid the contradictory and self-interested vendor claims of success for their products, CSC Insights’ surveys of over 2,500 companies found a clear winner: on-demand systems (a.k.a, nature of his reports on sales methods and technologies. The most recent, “On-Demand Versus On-Premise CRM: Are There Performance Differences?”

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7 Ways To Become A Leading-Edge Marketer

Hubspot

This article is a guest post by Laurie McCabe, a Partner and Analyst at the SMB Group , specializing on research in the highly fragment small to medium business market. to get the value across to the broad SMB market. Register to win an iPad: SMB Routes to Market Survey. Are you an SMB IT or Marketing buyer?