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Pardot Offers Refined Demand Generation at a Small Business Price

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Actually I don’t know why I find the contrast between Pardot and Marketbright intriguing, except for the implication that marketers can be divided into two simple categories, SMB and Enterprise, and no further distinctions are necessary. What’s odd about the SMB vs. Enterprise dichotomy is that both sets of systems are quite similar.

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

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If GTCR allows Vocus to spend more freely on marketing and to continue improving its product, there is a good chance that Vocus can elbow its way to a top position in the hyper-crowded SMB marketing automation universe. marketing automation industry marketing software marketing suites vocus'

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Hosted Software Enters the Down Side of the Hype Cycle

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SMB SaaS sales robust, but holdouts remain ” reads the headline on a piece from SearchSMB.com Website. For the acronym impaired, SMB is “small and medium sized business” and SaaS is “software as a service”, a.k.a. hosted systems.) The article quotes two recent surveys, one by Saugatuck Technology and the other by Gartner.

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Open Letter to Scott Brinker: Suggestions for Next MarTech Conference

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If things get really big, you could also split B2B vs B2C or enterprise vs. SMB. You might also have separate technology and organization tracks and maybe even have an ad tech track (a very underrepresented topic this year).

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CSO Insights Study Favors On-Demand CRM

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This raises the question of whether the many on-premise software vendors who hope to expand into the small to mid-size business (SMB) market will be able to succeed without radically reengineering and simplifying their products. Personally, I doubt it.

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Predictions for B2B Marketing in 2011

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SMB systems will lead the way. But enterprise marketers have additional needs related to scalability, content sharing and user rights management, which SMB systems are not designed to address. Selling to enterprises is also very different from selling to SMBs. Social marketing inches forward.