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

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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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Microsoft Buys LinkedIn for $26.2 Billion: Get Ready for Software Vendors as Data Owners

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It still feels odd to think of a software company owning a data business, although Salesforce.com bought Jigsaw (now Data.com) in 2010 and Oracle purchased the BlueKai and Datalogix in 2014. Other vendors like Nimble and HubSpot have done a better job of simplifying access to third party data about an individual or company.

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ICON16: How Infusionsoft Plans To Dominate Small Business Marketing (and Make Life Better For Small Businesses Everywhere)

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This is based on Infusionsoft’s learning over the past ten years that the main barriers to success with its software are small businesses not knowing what to do with it and not seeing immediate value from the efforts. As usual at these conferences, I spent a good chunk of my time cruising the exhibition floor for interesting new vendors.

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Hushly Helps Marketers Connect With Anonymous Web Site Visitors

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When this blog last left Geoff Rego in 2010 , he had just sold the assets of pioneering B2B marketing automation vendor Market2Lead to Oracle. Once a Hushly member has downloaded vendor content, vendors can send emails to the member via Hushly. Members can block messages from a vendor if they wish.

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Marketo Conference: Small Changes, Big Picture

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More important, the value of platforms has been widely recognized through the tech industry for decades: classic examples include Salesforce.com ’s own AppExchange, Apple ’s iPhone AppStore, Microsoft ’s operating system software, and, going way back, the original IBM System 360. Let me be clear.

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LoopFuse Offers Free Marketing Automation System: Another Step Towards Industry Consolidation

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It's one example of how vendors are now competing to attract new users. This will put substantial pricing pressure on vendors who, in many cases, are already struggling to reach sustainable margins. Other vendors – notably Pardot – have followed a similar cost-removal strategy. Here’s where the free system comes back into play.

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Manticore VII Marketing Automation and Lead Generation Released

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The company made the announcement at Salesforce.com’s Dreamforce conference in San Francisco. Although the improved UI is the big change, the new version also adds integration with SalesForce.com for AdWords campaigns and improved lead generation capabilities.

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