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Marketo Conference: Small Changes, Big Picture

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Marketo wrapped up its three day Marketing Nation conference yesterday, having once more displayed its own marketing prowess by attracting national media attention (see here and here ) with an appearance by Hillary Clinton. This borders on integration of Web display with marketing automation, an extremely important trend.

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Marketing Automation Vendor Consolidation: Lessons from History

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Salesforce.com is the big question and no one would be surprised to see them make an acquisition. Microsoft is another possibility, although its Dynamics CRM is sold mostly to smaller businesses than the typical marketing automation system. These used proprietary, non-SQL database engines. The obvious candidates are CRM vendors.