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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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New B2B Persona Research From Salesforce & LinkedIn Study with Mathew Sweezey, Salesforce.com

Markempa

From there, we grew that, sold that to Exact Target, which Salesforce.com then acquired. I write for lots of different publications, and now I head up the forward-looking marketing ideas and theories as Principal of Marketing Insight at Salesforce.com. That would be a metric that we may give to somebody to validate our efforts.

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Marketing Features in Salesforce.com Winter 10

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

Once again Salesforce.com has delivered a great set of new features for Marketers in the Winter 10 release. In addition, you can now run campaign member workflows, triggers, and validation rules upon import of a campaign using the campaign member import and update wizards. Join Marketo at Dreamforce with a free keynote and expo pass.

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New B2B Persona Research From Salesforce and LinkedIn Study

markempa

From there, we grew that, sold that to Exact Target which was then acquired by Salesforce.com. I write for lots of different publications, and now I head up the forward-looking marketing ideas and theories as Principal of Marketing Insight at Salesforce.com. That would be a metric that we may give to somebody to validate our efforts.

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B2B Lead Generation Blog: Sales Leads Via RSS via Salesforce.com

markempa

« Give Lead Generation Some Respect | Main | Podcast: How Trigger Events improve Lead Generation » Sales Leads Via RSS via Salesforce.com Otter Group CEO, Kathleen Gilroy , pointed me Charlie Woods, Moonwatcher Blog , and his intriguing post on the subject of distributing sales leads via RSS. " Here is his original concept.

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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. Validation of business issues/opportunities. All because the CEO did not insist on a common definition of a lead. Define what a lead is. Answer the questions: What do we sell? Who are we selling it to? Firmographics (revenue, # of employees, # of locations).

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The B2B Marketer’s Quick Start Guide: Sales Intelligence

Heinz Marketing

Enrich and validate contacts 24/7 in your CRM. What I like best about the product is how it is integrated into Salesforce.com. Everything can be done within Salesforce.com. Features/functionality: Unearth ideal prospects. Harness deeper intelligence to close more sales. Mobile phone numbers and high email deliverability.