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Should Demand Generation and Sales Automation Be Separate Systems?

Customer Experience Matrix

Rather, salespeople must focus on what only they can do – provide nuanced, personal service – and delegate other tasks to resources that can handle them more cheaply and often more quickly. Today, this is accomplished by synchronizing data between demand generation and sales automation systems. But that is inherently complex.

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Company-Level Data in Demand Generation Systems

Customer Experience Matrix

I had an interesting email conversation last month with a Raab Guide buyer about the nuances of company-level data management in demand generation systems. He started from the perfectly reasonable premise that the demand generation system should give an overview of activity for all leads associated with a given company.

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Getting the Most from Salesforce.com: A Conversation with David Taber

The Point

Salesforce.com is a dominant player in the CRM category and an integral part of many companies’ lead management, database marketing, and demand generation programs. In too many cases, SFDC is just a glorified contact manager. DT: Salesforce, like any CRM system, is only as good as the data in it.

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Treehouse Interactive MarketingView Combines Demand Generation with Campaign ROI Tracking

Customer Experience Matrix

I originally spoke with Treehouse Interactive in late January, but didn’t write about them because weren’t quite ready to talk about their Salesforce.com integration. Since that’s critical to many demand generation users, I didn’t want to give a false impression by leaving it out. So now the story can be told.

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Two Minutes with Tim: How to Get Started with Account-Based Marketing

The Mx Group

I’m learning all about it as we deploy ABM efforts for our clients and ourselves as we market our agency. I snagged a few minutes of time from our very busy, very knowledgeable Director of Client Services, Tim Cook, to get his perspective. That makes me wonder: Are CRM platforms, like the Salesforce.com, set up to handle ABM?

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Right On Interactive's 5Buckets Simplifies Multi-Channel Messaging

Customer Experience Matrix

Last Wednesday’s revised ranking of demand generation vendors by Web traffic reminded me that I never published notes from a conversation I had several months ago with Right On Interactive , developer of the 5Buckets marketing automation software. Now is a good time to remedy that. Now is a good time to remedy that.

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Hubspot Offers Small Business Marketers a Big Bundle of Features

Customer Experience Matrix

Summary: Hubspot offers a bundle of Web traffic generation and lead management features in one low-cost package. Yesterday’s post described one strategy to sell marketing automation to small businesses: provide a specific, turnkey service that requires virtually no skill or effort from the user.