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Are you telling stories with a point or creating a verbal jigsaw puzzle with your talk?

Leading Results Rambings

What ensued from each was a 45 minute verbal jigsaw puzzle. I get the opportunity to watch and listen to fabulous speakers. Some I watch live, some recorded (I “waste” my downtime watching TED videos), and when I watch these speakers – Seth Godin, Malcolm Gladwell, Tom Peters, Scott Brinker, just as examples – I see people who are outstanding storytellers and whose stories all lead to and support the point of their talks.

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Salesforce Buys Jigsaw – What it Means for B2B Marketing and Sales

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

Salesforce today announced a definitive agreement to buy Jigsaw, a provider of business information and data services that uniquely leverages crowd-sourcing to build and maintain its database. Note: Jigsaw is also a Marketo customer and partner.). Like Marketo, Jigsaw is a founding member of the Marketing Cloud , an alliance of cloud-based marketing services that make internal marketing functions more efficient and external marketing programs more effective.

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Don’t They Know Who You Are? Why Reputation Management is Crucial

Webbiquity

Create and maintain profile pages on social networking and directory sites like LinkedIn , Facebook , Naymz , Jigsaw , Plaxo , ZoomInfo , CrunchBase (for technology executives), and VisualCV. In the old days—like, six or seven years ago—if someone had a bad experience with a company, he or she generally vented about it to a few friends and that was the end of it. The emergence of social media changed all that of course, so now that person can vent online to, essentially, the entire world.

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ActiveConversion Review - SMB Lead Management

LeadSloth

It integrates with Jigsaw to show company details like revenue, and available contacts for a specific company: contacts can be bought for $1 each directly at Jigsaw. Tags: Demand Generation Email Marketing activeconversion Add new tag Google Analytics infusionsoft jigsaw leadlander review salesforce.com VerticalResponse From Web Analytics to Demand Generation.

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Why Demand Generation Requires a Strategic Mindset

Marketing Insider Group

7,000-piece jigsaw puzzle complex. Demand generation is complex. This dynamism is the root of demand gen’s power, as well as the seeds of its downfall. When marketers don’t get the whole puzzle to fit together, the result is a jumbled mess of marketing tactics rather than the masterpiece you get when every piece works in […]. The post Why Demand Generation Requires a Strategic Mindset appeared first on Marketing Insider Group. Demand Generation

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5 things you need to know from Dreamforce 2010

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

Jigsaw is salesforce’s attempt to help us with these issues. Many who arrived thought Jigsaw was just a stand along list builder that would allow you to compile a list of prospects based on demographics like company size and title to import into the CRM. Salesforce.com Chatter 2 database.com Dreamforce 10 heroku Jigsaw Remedyforce

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Fast Growth Marketing: From 0 to 500,000 Users

B2B Lead Generation

I first met Fowler when he was co-founder of the cloud-based contact management platform Jigsaw which he sold to Salesforce.com for $175 million (now Data.com). Jim: One of my marketers came up to me as we were naming the company, and we were looking at a bunch of different names like Jigsaw. After you sold Jigsaw to Salesforce.com why didn’t you decide to ride off into the sunset? . Jigsaw was a great acquisition. Jigsaw never grew this fast.

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Consultants Collective Profile: Sue Serna

Biznology

Baking, gardening, jigsaw puzzles (I do 30-40 puzzles a year.). We’re pleased to present our latest featured profile, designed to introduce you to our member consultants, advisors, executive coaches, clients, partners and other extraordinary people.

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ActiveConversion Product Review: Demand Gen Intelligence

Smashmouth Marketing

They are partners with Google, Jigsaw, VerticalResponse, and Salesforce.com. Contacts of the prospect company can be instantly researched in Jigsaw. ActiveConversion is a web based solution that allows organizations to identify visitors to their website, to automatically qualify and nurture leads, to get notified when leads become "hot," and to track ROI of marketing campaigns. Upon opening up the solution, you can view your ActiveConversion dashboard.

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JIGGY drives 69% of revenue with marketing automation

ClickZ

30-second summary: Jiggy Puzzles founder and CEO Kaylin Marcotte started the direct-to-consumer company in November 2019 with the goal of reinventing the classic jigsaw puzzle for a modern audience while supporting creative talent.

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Eloqua Experience 2010

LeadSloth

The new Eloqua Cloud Connector product integrates 3rd party applications like JigSaw and Webex in the Program Builder. For example, if you want to validate a contacts’s details with the Jigsaw database, you can simply drag the “check data&# action into your program and double-click to configure it. This week I attended the Eloqua Experience, Eloqua’s user conference in San Francisco. The big news of this event is the launch of Eloqua 10.

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B2B Sales Leads from Data Services - Smashmouth Review

Smashmouth Marketing

Although, see Jigsaw, below. Jigsaw - is a leading provider of business information and data services that uniquely leverages user-generated content contributed by its global business-to-business community of 900,000 members. Jigsaw gives individuals and companies access to contact information for 15 million business people and profiles of 2.6

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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. Microsoft surprised pretty much everyone today by announcing a $26.2 billion acquisition of LinkedIn. This is fascinating since Microsoft intersects with LinkedIn in several areas: Dynamics CRM software, Office productivity software, and Bing online advertising.

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B2B Sales Leads from Data Services - Smashmouth Review

Smashmouth Marketing

Although, see Jigsaw, below. Jigsaw - is a leading provider of business information and data services that uniquely leverages user-generated content contributed by its global business-to-business community of 900,000 members. Jigsaw gives individuals and companies access to contact information for 15 million business people and profiles of 2.6

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The Biggest Marketing Lessons of 2021 (And How to Use ‘Em in 2022)

Unbounce

Through unique landing pages —like this interactive one by Jigsaw. Source: Jigsaw. After a turbulent 2020, we all probably hoped that 2021 would be a clean slate. Please, just no more Tiger King.)

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Collaboration with a Remote Team

Seismic

Businesswoman hand connecting jigsaw puzzle, Business solutions, success and strategy concept. At every company, success comes down to the people — each company has internal product experts, a customer point-person, or market specialist.

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A Token of Love for Your Work Bestie

Marketing 261

Houseplant Jungle 1000 Piece Jigsaw Puzzle. The concept of a work bestie is something we can relate to. We all have that one person we look forward to seeing every day we go to work. These relationships are an important part of our social life.

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Smashmouth Review - LeadLander - Who's Really Visiting Your Site?

Smashmouth Marketing

We checked the companies out with the LeadLander Jigsaw link, and were able to identify 2-3 marketing contacts per company. The Jigsaw link is very nice, especially if you have an unlimited Jigsaw license, like Green Leads. We thought it might be interesting to augment our thought leader interviews with some demand gen product reviews. We are keeping the reviews independant--actually using the products/services, and then critiquing them.

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Inbound Marketing, The Uber List for Outbound Marketers

Smashmouth Marketing

Companies like Jigsaw , Onesource , and Netprospex provide the candy; the more contacts we have and the better targeted, the greater our success. Even though I preach my own brand of outbound marketing Kool-Aid, for the past six months or so I've been drinking some of the inbound marketing variety (the orange kind from Hubspot ). Before discovering this particular flavor, we had invested a year or so working on SEO, blogging, social media, and link building.

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Exciting new tools for B2B prospecting

Biznology

Early examples of this exciting new trend in prospecting were Jigsaw, a business-card swapping tool that allowed sales people to trade contacts, and ZoomInfo, which scrapes corporate websites for information about business people and merges the information into a vast pool of data for analysis and lead generation campaigns. Finding new customers is a lot easier these days, what with innovative, digitally based ways to capture and collect data.

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Highlights from the 2010 Dreamforce Keynote: The Cloud Computing Event of the Year

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

Marc Benioff, in all his grandeur, hit the stage loud and proud sharing the success over the past year ranging from improvements to the service cloud to the mass adoption of Chatter to the acquisition of Jigsaw. Jigsaw- Data Cloud. 500 people have signed up for Jigsaw since the acquisition. Highlighted that a million people update 23 million contacts in Jigsaw. It just ended minutes ago, and it was #awesome.

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A Primer on Website Visitor ID and Smart Form Technology for Lead Generation

NuSpark Consulting

You can capture contact info from Jigsaw and LinkedIn, and then easily contact those visitors or potential prospects. Additional intelligence is available via integrations with Hoovers and Jigsaw. There’s a technology available that identifies company and prospect visitors to your websites, landing pages, and forms.

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NetProspex Product Review: Powerhouse for Lead Lists

Smashmouth Marketing

As a result, we've got licenses with Jigsaw , OneSource and NetProspex , and we use LinkedIn and other contact discovery services. As many of you would expect, Green Leads consumes prospect lists at a rate that far exceeds most outbound marketing efforts. With over 30 clients running their appointment setting programs through us, having volumes of accurate contact names is essential to our business.

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Fast Growth B2B Marketing: From 0 to 500,000 Users with Jim Fowler, CEO Owler

Markempa

I first met Fowler when he was the co-founder of the cloud-based contact management platform Jigsaw, which he sold to Salesforce.com for $175 million (now Data.com). Jim: One of my marketers came up to me as we were naming the company, and we were looking at a bunch of different names like Jigsaw. After you sold Jigsaw to Salesforce.com, why didn’t you decide to ride off into the sunset? Jigsaw was a great acquisition.

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Lead Gen Strategies: How to Use Content to Fuel a Sales Pipeline

Tomorrow People

Content still needs to be factual and informative, providing the last pieces of the purchasing jigsaw. How to use content to build a lead generation strategy that'll keep your sales team happy. Successful inbound marketing relies on supplying leads with the right information at the right time.

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Smashmouth Review - LeadLander - Who's Really Visiting Your Site?

Smashmouth Marketing

We checked the companies out with the LeadLander Jigsaw link, and were able to identify 2-3 marketing contacts per company. The Jigsaw link is very nice, especially if you have an unlimited Jigsaw license, like Green Leads. We thought it might be interesting to augment our thought leader interviews with some demand gen product reviews. We are keeping the reviews independent--actually using the products/services, and then critiquing them.

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What I learned at Dreamforce 2011

ViewPoint

Data Dump Data.com is a single source for complete and actionable business data from Dun & Bradstreet (D&B) and Jigsaw. Jason Kort is one of the forces behind Marketing Automation Times , a blog dedicated to providing the latest news and information on the world of marketing automation. He is an experienced online marketing professional with a history of developing personalized, relevant, and timely communications to help businesses close more sales.

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3 Simple Tips to Optimize Your Marketing Tech Stack

Kapost

For the modern marketer, building a marketing stack often feels like a jigsaw puzzle. It’s almost like product development, where your version one will look different from your version eight. That’s a good thing: it’s important to invest in marketing tools that become better for your organization over time. The challenge that most marketing teams face is that we aren’t fortune tellers.

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Minification and SEO: The Complete Guide

Brightedge

Minification: An Essential Piece of the SEO Jigsaw Puzzle. Minification of web code is essential when optimizing for search engine rankings. However, it can seem like an opaque topic to those without coding knowledge. Despite appearances, minification is a relatively straightforward process.

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LeadForce1 Adds Mind Reading to Marketing Automation

Customer Experience Matrix

Related capabilities include reverse IP lookup of the company of anonymous visitors, connections to Jigsaw to provide contact names of those companies, and the aforementioned telephone lead qualification. Summary: LeadForce1 infers Web visitors' intent and sales stage from the contents they read. It combines this with standard B2B marketing automation features to provide better-qualified leads to sales people.

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Demandbase Expands Its Leadership Base

Valasys

Besides, she has also held diverse Customer Success leadership roles at companies such as Jigsaw (now Data.com, acquired by Salesforce) and Equilar. On 14th September 2020, Demandbase announced the expansion of its leadership team, with a new CRO to reshape the B2B marketing landscape.

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5 Outbound Calling Best Practices

Smashmouth Marketing

Functional Tools - Fill the toolbox with tools, and know how to use them: Jigsaw, NetProspex, InsideView, LinkedIn, Google Alerts and Google Search, LeadLander, others. Dialing the phone all day is a task. I have one guy who calls it panning for gold. He'll say he just swished the phone 20 times, found 4 shiny objects and none were gold. Then an hour later he'll yell "Eureka!" when he does successfully set an appointment.

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HTTP vs. HTTPS: An SEO Guide for 2022

Brightedge

Search engine optimization can seem like a jigsaw puzzle, with lots of different pieces including technical, on/off page, content and more. HTTPS is one piece of that jigsaw puzzle. At its international developer conference, Google I/O , in 2014, Google called for “HTTPS everywhere.”

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How many WordPress plugins should you install?

Rock Content

WordPress plugins are like a jigsaw puzzle piece that you fit into the software to make it more powerful and functional. How many WordPress plugins should you install? Once WordPress is a robust software, no matter what you want for your site, you can do that with code extensions.

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Account-Based Customer Success: The Refrain Remains the Same

DiscoverOrg

You know that feeling when you dump a 5,000-piece jigsaw puzzle out on the table for the first time, and you think “need those corners”? I come to the Account Based Everything movement as a long-time proponent.

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Power Selling Tools: Things Every Startup Sales Team Needs Selling At a Startup

delicious b2bmarketing

Getting to The Right Person: Jigsaw Knowing what companies have been to your site is great, but then trying to get to the right person becomes the challenge. This is where JigSaw comes in. What really sets JigSaw apart is the type of contacts that are in the Database (which happens to be MySQL ). In fact right from the LeadLander interface you are able to click on a JigSaw link and the search will be run in JigSaw for contacts at the company you are looking at.

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Quotable Moments from Two ABM Podcasts with Jon Miller (CMO and CPO, Demandbase)

Engagio

How well those jigsaw puzzles fit is basically why we were able to do it so quickly.” Marketing trailblazer, thought leader, entrepreneur, and physics enthusiast. Now also the Chief Marketing and Product Officer at Demandbase. Have you met Jon Miller yet?

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Where in the world is the 2016 marketing tech landscape?

chiefmartech

I actually enjoy working on it — like a gigantic jigsaw puzzle, but one where you have to go hunting for the pieces out on the Internet. In the meantime, as a brief diversion from the real work of categorizing the space, I’ll share with you a couple of amusing categories of marketing tech companies, such as the Marketing Blues : And Buzz Marketing : Okay, okay, I’m going back to work on that gigantic jigsaw puzzle now.

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B2B Appointment Setting Teams and How to Get the Most From Them

Smashmouth Marketing

Add click-to-dial software for your CRM, Jigsaw and NetProspex subscriptions, or social media tools for prospecting purposes, and you’re all set. Appointment Setting is a part of demand generation that is done through vendors that specialize in the task, or by inside sales teams that add it to their roster of tasks.

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Social Enterprise is now a reality – Welcome to Dreamforce 2012

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

Really big news to the Marketing and Sales set includes Jigsaw becoming data.com ! Now, this isn’t just a renamed Jigsaw. by Maria Pergolino It’s a social revolution. The enterprise is in the cloud. What if you could become a social enterprise- now? Welcome to Dreamforce 2011. And this is just how the morning started. Enter Mark Benioff, chairman and CEO of Salesforce. Now starts the fun. Has social media caused a divide?

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