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The Pond Just Got More Crowded: Google, Salesforce.com and Sequoia Invest in HubSpot

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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.

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Pardot Offers Refined Demand Generation at a Small Business Price

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My little tour of demand generation vendors landed at Pardot just before Thanksgiving. As you’ll recall from my post on Web activity statistics , Pardot is one of the higher-ranked vendors not already in the Raab Guide to Demand Generation Systems. This pricing is low even among SMB demand generation systems.

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Manticore VII Marketing Automation and Lead Generation Released

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Marketing automation / demand generation software provider Manticore today announced the release of Manticore Technology VII, which includes a fully customizable user interface, email and landing page folders, an email delivery wizard, and drag-and-drop list building functionality.

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Hubspot Offers Small Business Marketers a Big Bundle of Features

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But I don’t think that can scale: companies require many different services and will not want to buy and run each one separately. All that’s missing to be full-blown demand generation system is outbound email and lead nurturing campaigns—which the company has announced it will add. But I consider that optional.)

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Active Conversion Offers Strong Lead Management and Leaves Out the Rest

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Summary: Active Conversion helps marketing and sales departments make the best use of leads they’ve generated outside the system. That's fewer functions than traditional demand generation, but if those are the functions you need, who cares? Registration is no longer required.) For example, take Active Conversion.

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Alsa Marketing Adds Multi-Language Capabilities to Low-Cost Marketing Automation

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It’s harder every day for a new company to enter the business-to-business marketing automation industry. Users can import lists, compose and send emails, build landing pages, execute multi-step event-triggered campaigns, monitor Web behaviors, score leads, exchange data with SugarCRM or (soon) Salesforce.com , and run reports.

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SalesFusion Combines Online and Offline Marketing with CRM

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This one-stop-shopping will be most attractive to small and mid-size companies, although I expect that larger firms will eventually want it too. But let’s not forget that offline channels still account for nearly 90% of total advertising expenditures. Look, I know online marketing is important.