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Teradata Buys Aprimo for $525 Million: More Marketing Automation Consolidation To Come

Customer Experience Matrix

Summary: Teradata's acquisition of Aprimo takes the largest remaining independent marketing automation vendor off the market. The market will probably split between enterprise-wide suites and more limited marketing automation systems. Given the previous Unica deal.

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List of Mid-Tier Business-to-Consumer Marketing Automation Systems

Customer Experience Matrix

The world clearly has more B2B marketing automation vendors than it needs – my master list of demand generation products includes two dozen. By contrast, mid-tier consumer marketers often have a hard time finding good options. Many marketing service providers manage Alterian systems for their clients.

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The Rise of the Content Marketer « The Effective Marketer

The Effective Marketer

The Effective Marketer Effectiveness is a discipline and it can be learned Home About the Effective Marketer Books Speaking The Rise of the Content Marketer Content Needs a King I know I don’t have to argue the value of content to readers of this blog. What used to be clear roles (i.e.

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Top 12 B2B Holiday Cards - with 62 more for good marketing measure!

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

Is there any show that B2B marketers connect with more than The Office? DCI Group's holiday card reminds B2B marketers of all the work in takes to make sure our customers know how much we appreciate them- but be careful with this one, it's Top Secret. Did you tweet your New Year marketing resolution and wonder if it went unnoticed?

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

Convince & Convert

Turning your customers into advocates and marketers on behalf of your brand pays off a lot more when you’re selling $10,000 pieces of manufacturing equipment, than it does when you’re selling $3 cans of Pringles. Creating and calibrating a social media strategy for any company should follow the same process.

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The buzz around account-based marketing at MarTech

chiefmartech

The following is a guest post by Bertrand Hazard of TrustRadius , who attended MarTech last month and interviewed a number of vendors exhibiting there about their perspective on “hot” categories within the marketing tech landscape. Account-based marketing (ABM) was one of the biggest topics at the MarTech conference.

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Are CEOs Now on the Side of HR?

Aberdeen

Around the same time, Fortune found that the top markets for job opportunities were concentrated in tech, healthcare, and biotech centers close to top universities including Boston, San Jose, San Francisco, Pittsburgh, Washington DC, Raleigh, Seattle, Hartford, Denver, Baltimore, and New York City. Data Tells Stories.