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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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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. Actually, it’s much easier for Marketing and lead cultivation people to get instant value out of Salesforce.com (SFDC) than it is for reps.

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Demand Generation Vendors Offer Few Social Media Applications

Customer Experience Matrix

InsideView is already integrated with major CRM vendors and with the Marketbright demand generation system. It can also search other Web sites for email addresses containing the targeted domain. Ones I know about include Pardot , LoopFuse , TrueInfluence , Salesforce.com and ACT! But it does save a few keystrokes.

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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. ROI reporting.

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My List of Demand Generation Vendors, and Who They Sell To

Customer Experience Matrix

One of the audience members at the B2B Marketing University in Boston asked about demand generation systems for small businesses, and how to distinguish among the vendors in general. My brief answer was that the biggest difference was less functionality than the target markets the different vendors pursue.

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True Influence Opens a Window into Future Demand Generation

Customer Experience Matrix

Demand generation systems are in that second stage. CEO and co-founder Brian Giese had extensive experience in business sales and marketing and with existing demand generation systems when he began developing True Influence two years ago. These are not yet standard features on most demand generation products.

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A Marketing Automation Evangelist and Change Management

ANNUITAS

Today we launched our latest eBook, Change Management – Staying Relevant, Predictive and Sane in the Changing Landscape of Demand Generation , a joint venture by Mathew Sweezey , author and Marketing Automation Evangelist for Salesforce.com and Carlos Hidalgo , CEO and Principal, ANNUITAS. What is your strategic focus?