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Why Most Consumer Marketing Automation Systems Are Not Software-as-a-Service, And When That Will Change

Customer Experience Matrix

Business marketers generally limit their focus to lead generation and nurturing, which at most requires light synchronization with sales. This means the new systems will start in the less-demanding lower and middle segments of the market and eventually work up to the largest marketing automation deployments.

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Marketo Releases Marketo Lead Management 3.0

WebMarketCentral

Promising deeper support for a "conversational model of marketing," the new release provides 75 user interface enhancements as well as new features including: More fine-grained control over segmentation, targeting, and triggering; "Progressive profiling" on forms (i.e. tags: marketing automation software, Marketo Lead Management 3.0,

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Demandbase: A New Twist In The Lead Management Automation Market

Online Marketing Institute

B2B marketers looking for ways to turn their Web sites into demand generation tools have some new solutions to consider. As part of a broader lead generation, on-demand platform, Demandbase offers a free, downloadable Web application built on Adobe AIR (one of 3 investors in an $8M round they also announced.) Among other stuff.