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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. Yet something really bothered me about yesterday’s announcement.

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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

Customer Experience Matrix

The current version also hosts landing pages and Web sites, manages a lead database with profiles and Web activity history, generates lead scores, sends alerts to sales people, and synchronizes data with Salesforce.com. The one major missing inbound marketing feature is paid search management, such as Google AdWords integration.

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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

Customer Experience Matrix

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. Also can capture results of Google Adwords campaigns and has a URL-shortener to track traffic from social media.

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SalesFusion Combines Online and Offline Marketing with CRM

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But the system does offer a comprehensive solution for smaller firms and, at least on the CRM side, can integrate with more powerful solutions including Salesforce.com , Microsoft Dynamics CRM and Siebel CRM On Demand. Tags: multi-channel marketing demand generation marketing automation crm software.