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Adobe Buys B2C Marketing Automation Leader Neolane: One Gap Filled, But Where's CRM?

Customer Experience Matrix

Adobe today announced plans to acquire Neolane , the largest remaining independent B2C marketing automation vendor (excluding email-focused providers like Responsys and Silverpop ). I’d say that reflects a lack of enterprise systems available for Adobe to purchase, more than any particular desire to target the mid-market.

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Salesforce.com Announces Site.com Web Site Management: Will Marketing Automation Features Follow?

Customer Experience Matrix

My original reaction was “I told you so”, since I’ve been talking about the convergence of CRM and Web site management for years. Here’s a piece from 2009.) And, as the two giants converge, the marketing automation industry stands between them like a mushroom, waiting to be crushed or gobbled up (if giants eat mushrooms).

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Marketing Automation Monday is Here!

The Effective Marketer

The Effective Marketer Effectiveness is a discipline and it can be learned Home About the Effective Marketer Books Speaking Marketing Automation Monday is Here! It was really fun and if you are interested in learning how other marketers are tackling their marketing, CRM, and even sales challenges this is the place to go.

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Hard Data to Justify Your Marketing Automation Investment

Customer Experience Matrix

Summary: So you want some hard numbers to prove the value of marketing automation? A client asked yesterday if I had some benchmark information to justify the cost of her marketing automation project. Aberdeen Group has published many studies related to marketing automation. Here's a bunch.

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Marketing Automation System Trends: What We Found in the Raab Guide

Customer Experience Matrix

The same three vendors also added new tools to give salespeople better access to information the marketing automation system has captured about their leads. Even though the modules clearly trespasses on the CRM vendors turf – inviting a potentially devastating counter-invasion – the opportunity seems irresistible. Sales access.

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SalesFusion Combines Online and Offline Marketing with CRM

Customer Experience Matrix

Summary: SalesFusion combines all channels within marketing, and merges marketing automation with CRM as well. Look, I know online marketing is important. This brings us, somewhat abruptly, to SalesFusion360 , a B2B marketing automation system that does merge online, offline and sales channels.

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Genoo and Act-On Software Add Social Marketing Features

Customer Experience Matrix

Summary: Two low-cost demand generation systems, Genoo and Act-On Software, have added unusually advanced social marketing features. A few weeks back, I wrote about social marketing features from consumer marketing automation vendors. I got details from two of them last week.

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