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

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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. LinkedIn is primarily a social network with revenue from subscriptions, recruiting services, and advertising.

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HubSpot Announces LinkedIn, Facebook Partnerships and Free Marketing Automation Edition at INBOUND Conference

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One good example of this attitude was a new on-site chat feature, which seems basic enough but has some serious hidden cleverness in automatically routing chat requests to the right sales person, pulling up the right CRM record for the agent, and adding the chat conversation to the customer history.

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LinkedIn Buys Fliptop: Why Account Based Marketing and Predictive Analytics Are a Natural Fit

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Predictive analytics vendor Fliptop today announced its acquisition by B2B social network LinkedIn. It's an interesting piece of news but I'm personally disappointed at the timing because I have been planning all week to write a post about the relationship between predictive analytics and account-based marketing (ABM).

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Here's a Game about Building Your Martech Stack

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I personally found the game to be playable using a computer to do the calculations but others also found it impenetrable. You can reach me through LinkedIn here. I then showed this to a professional game designer, whose response was “you may have found the least fun form factor imaginable: the giant data-filled spreadsheet.

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Everstring Takes Another $65 Million and (More Important) Launches Predictive Ad Targeting Solution

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But the new Everstring product isn’t the usual sharing of a prospect list with an ad platform, as in display retargeting, Facebook Custom Audiences , or LinkedIn Lead Accelerator. Rather, it finds prospects who are not yet on the marketer’s own list by scanning ad exchanges for promising individuals.

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Rating the Crowd-Sourced Marketing Software Review Sites

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Reviewer information on all sites except Software Advice starts with verifying that the user is a real person through requiring a LinkedIn log-in. This lets the review site check the reviewer’s name, title, company, and industry, although these are not always fully displayed. Yes, I really just wrote "articulate the essence".)

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Bizo and DemandBase Lead B2B Marketing Automation to Web Advertising and Beyond

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Equally helpful to me personally, it reinforced my intention to write about Bizo and DemandBase, both of which have recently briefed me on their latest product extensions. It later extended to returning visitor attributes in real time so companies could pre-fill forms and personalize Web pages to match visitor interests.