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

Customer Experience Matrix

This is fascinating since Microsoft intersects with LinkedIn in several areas: Dynamics CRM software, Office productivity software, and Bing online advertising. LinkedIn is primarily a social network with revenue from subscriptions, recruiting services, and advertising. billion acquisition of LinkedIn.

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Social Media Features in Marketing Automation Systems: Who Does What?

Customer Experience Matrix

Social media is arguably overhyped as a marketing trend: it gets well under 10% of marketing budgets (different surveys have figures from 3% to 8%) and results are questionable (it was rated the least effective content marketing tactic in a recent MarketingProfs study ). Results are summarized in the table below.

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Marketing Automation System Trends: What We Found in the Raab Guide

Customer Experience Matrix

Summary: Social media and access for sales people were the two big trends among demand generation vendors last year. Could marketers finally be ready to spend on measurement? Even though this is limited to the vendors in the Guide, it's a pretty representative sample of the industry as a whole. Social media.

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Is the CDP category being shrunk by acquisitions?: Monday’s Daily Brief

Martech

Good morning, Marketers, and how many more independent CDPs will be gobbled up? I think it’s fair to say there’s a trend here. Last year, cloud comms platform Twilo picked up Segment. Last week, Zylotech became part of ABM platform Terminus. This helped the company streamline some of their automation. “We

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Fast Growth Marketing: From 0 to 500,000 Users

markempa

Owler – a free competitive intelligence platform – went from 0 to over 500,000 users. 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). Owler is a competitive intelligence platform. I love that name.

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Demand Generation Vendors Offer Few Social Media Applications

Customer Experience Matrix

Summary: marketing vendors offer several types of social media applications. But none truly automates social media management, which is what's ultimately needed. Social media is this month’s Trend of the Year. CRM vendor RightNow offers something similar under the label of Cloud Links. -

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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.