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

Customer Experience Matrix

Salesforce.com yesterday announced the launch of Site.com , an enterprise-class Web site management system. The news didn’t seem to get much attention, perhaps because Salesforce.com itself pretty much buried it. That’s the first Salesforce.com reference I can find to a “digital marketing platform”.

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The 14 Best Marketing Automation Tools

Webbiquity

Marketing automation software tools can be very helpful in making lead nurturing and sales acceleration efforts more effective—even if the category is badly misnamed. Marketing can’t be automated.) Recent research shows that 63% of B2B companies that are growing faster than their competitors use marketing automation.

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Oracle Fusion Marketing reduces the role of traditional CRMs

Martech

The offering seeks to automate the B2B lead generation and qualification process and push the outcomes directly into the systems used by sales representatives. ” Where’s the automation? “Salesforce as a category was intended to automate the work for sellers; it’s become administration.

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Old School Sales vs New: The Rise of the Modern Sales Model

Zoominfo

One early adopter of inside sales was Marc Benioff, CEO and founder at Salesforce.com. By Benioff ‘s own admission, Salesforce.com “grew their company for the first five or six years with a telesales [or inside sales] model.”

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Next-Generation Marketing Automation Systems Target Small Business

Customer Experience Matrix

I’ve been gearing up for the next edition of our VEST report on B2B marketing automation systems, which involves catching up with established vendors and chasing down some new ones. nurture campaigns), and share leads with a CRM system like Salesforce.com. Synchronization with Salesforce.com and SugarCRM are due by mid-2014.

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14 Marketing Over Coffee Podcasts You Need To Hear

Marketing Insider Group

The podcast covers a wide range of topics, from AI and the Writer’s Strike to the future of event planning, and the Martech landscape. Steve Woods As a founder at Eloqua, Steve is one of the pioneers of the first great wave of Marketing Automation. This marketing podcast is hosted by John J. Wall and Christopher S.

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B2B Events in 2015 – Where to Go and How to Learn

ANNUITAS

I have been to a lot of marketing events, on both sides of the booth. It can be difficult to apply the things you learn at these events to your own situations, but here are some tips to help get more out of the events when you get to go as an attendee, not a sponsor. 1) If you go, be present. 3) Empathize and Imagine.