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

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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. DT: Well, the biggest misconception about Salesforce is that it’s something Sales reps like and Marketing folks don’t.

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Marketing Automation Vendor Consolidation: Lessons from History

Customer Experience Matrix

Decision Software has remained a small company while Aprimo is most successful in B2B marketing resource management. Alterian and SmartFocus are also still independent, but are sold as services via marketing agencies (Alterian) or directly (SmartFocus). These used proprietary, non-SQL database engines.

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Segmentation, Social Media Drive Lead Nurturing Success for iDirect

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To reach end users, the company relies primarily on a network of channel partners, including satellite operators, telecom companies, and internet service providers. All this presents real challenges for both demand generation and lead management. All-hands discovery session yields important insights, priorities.

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Demandbase: A New Twist In The Lead Management Automation Market

Online Marketing Institute

B2B marketers looking for ways to turn their Web sites into demand generation tools have some new solutions to consider. Yesterday, Demandbase announced a new software suite to help marketers harvest passive traffic visiting Web sites. But getting back to our category, we are often compared against Eloqua and Manticore.

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B2B Lead Management Market Heats Up

Online Marketing Institute

Many of the marketing automation companies have added some fairly sophisticated analytics to monitor prospect’s online behavior and help marketers qualify and score them based on Web site visits, registrations, and downloads. Folks, at less than 20 employees, many of you look more like boutique agencies than true technology providers.

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Capture Website Visitors To Know Who Has Been Visiting - They Might Be Qualified Leads

Online Marketing Institute

ReadyContacts is a provider of role-based contact lists for targeted demand generation campaigns. Garbage In Garbage Out: Why Focus Is Critical In Marketing Campaigns 2000+ Virtual Iron Customers Are Waiting For Help. I'm very glad this service. See how it works with our Free Trial program.