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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. But if Salesforce.com likes what it sees, who knows where that will lead?

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Dreamforce 2009: Engaging Effectively with Social Networks using Salesforce.com

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

At this Dreamforce 2009 session led by Fernando Obregon Almazan, salesforce.com; Lorena Vales, salesforce.com; and Jonathan Hersh, salesforce.com, marketers learned about how and why companies should participate in social networking to generate brand awareness and create a viral effect when clients or prospects recommend their products.

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2010 Will Bring New Features to Demand Generation Systems

Customer Experience Matrix

Summary: the demand generation market will continue to grow in 2010, and it may attract some new, big competitors from outside the industry. 2009 was a year of tremendous growth for demand generation systems (a.k.a. What will 2010 bring? business-to-business marketing automation. So much for the rear view mirror.

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Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media.

Convince & Convert

For example, an organization that would have spent $5M over ten years on a traditional ERP or CRM application (bought from an on-premise vendor) may spend $1M on a SaaS alternative such as Workday or salesforce.com. How does one easily put a value on better data management via MDM ? The ROI of many Enterprise 2.0

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Turning Web Site Visitors into Paying Customers

Online Marketing Institute

Applications such as Salesforce.com already let sales staff keep track of existing customers or potential customers, but Demandbase Stream falls into a newer category of tools designed to help them find new customers in the first place. “How do you leverage otherwise anonymous traffic? 6) ERP (17) Internet Cust.

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Top 60 B2B Marketing Posts and Hottest Topics November 2010

B2B Marketing Zone Posts

Ten reasons to blog – even if nobody reads it - grow - Practical Marketing Solutions , November 7, 2010 Building an engaged community through a business blog can be extremely difficult — sometimes impossible. Twitter for B2B Marketing - MI6 Marketing Agency , November 18, 2010 Author: Chris Herbert. There better be. Why not use it?

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Marketing Automation Catching On Fire

The Effective Marketer

With time, a shake out is likely (in fact, the recent acquisition of Unica and Aprimo may point to consolidation ) and the evolution of solutions will ensure marketing automation has a place in most marketing organizations, much like CRM is now standard for sales departments. One data point concerns me. This overstates market penetration. ?