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The Pond Just Got More Crowded: Google, Salesforce.com and Sequoia Invest in HubSpot

Customer Experience Matrix

Summary: HubSpot announced a $32 million investment yesterday by Sequoia Partners, Google and Salesforce.com. Salesforce.com and Google announced their long-anticipated entry into the marketing automation industry, in the baby-step form of investments in HubSpot. intended to extend Google’s own business).

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HubSpot Spreads Its Wings

Customer Experience Matrix

The folks at HubSpot have been busy this summer, announcing their acquisition of Performable in June and their HubSpot App Marketplace last week. App markets are quite the fashion right now, and HubSpot’s joins the Eloqua AppCloud announced in June. Both events mark a continued expansion of their product.

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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. Hubspot has accepted this challenge. But Hubspot also applies automation to improve results without making the user work harder. Free versions of these and other graders are available from Hubspot at Grader.com.

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8 Great LinkedIn Groups for B2B Marketers

KoMarketing Associates

Why it’s great: The Inbound Marketers group is run by a team of HubSpot members providing guidance on tactics, tips, and best practices around all facets of inbound marketing. Salesforce.com. From the group introduction: Salesforce.com. B2B Technology Marketing Community. Salesforce app ecosystem. Future trends.

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

Customer Experience Matrix

billion $420 - $520 Infusionsoft small business integrated sales and marketing software 35,000 $100 million $2,857 HubSpot integrated marketing and CRM software 18,100 $181 million $10,000 Infusionsoft managers recognize that expanding the customer base requires making marketing easier. million $1.6

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

Customer Experience Matrix

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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Can you do top-of-funnel marketing automation without CRM?

Biznology

You can remarket ads more intelligently based on specific interests or positions in the sales funnel. – Allow agents to tag and segment prospects based on interest or funnel position. According to Salesforce.com , 92% of customer interactions happen on the phone. Your emails are more relevant. The Disconnect.