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Vocus Purchased by Private Equity Firm GTCR: This Could Be Interesting

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million in cash, a premium of 48% over their stock market price. x revenue, compared with the 6 to 7 x multiples paid for ExactTarget and Responsys by Salesforce.com and Oracle and the 14 x that Marketo commands in the stock market. Salesforce.com synch is bi-directional and works with lead and contact records.

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Fliptop: A Customer Data Platform for Predictive Lead Scoring, Pure and Simple

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When it gets a new client, it loads that company’s own customer list and sales from its CRM system, finds those companies and individuals in the Fliptop database, enhances their records with Fliptop data, and uses the combined information to build a predictive model that identifies the likelihood of someone making a purchase.

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SetLogik Offers B2B Marketers a Real Marketing Database

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I originally saw SetLogik as a tool to associate marketing leads with sales opportunities, even when they are not connected directly within Salesforce.com. This has been sadly lacking in most B2B marketing automation systems, which supplement the Salesforce.com database with barely-extensible lead profiles and contact histories.

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IBM May Buy Silverpop: B2B Marketing Automation and B2C Email Would Be Great Fit

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The other enterprise-level B2C email vendors ( ExactTarget , Responsys ) have already been bought at wondrously high prices, and every B2B marketing automation vendor I talk to tells me that potential investors are approaching them constantly. The only surprise in this deal is the price, rumored to be about $270 million or 3x revenue.

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Terminus Offers Targeted Display Ads for B2B

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For many smaller companies, a suite like Adobe, Oracle , IBM , Salesforce.com , SAS , or Teradata isn’t an option and would be overkill if it were. Integration is currently available for Salesforce.com CRM, Marketo , and HubSpot , with plans to add Salesforce.com Pardot and Oracle Eloqua shortly. - ad inventory. sales stages.

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LinkedIn Buys Bizo and Oracle Adds Database Services: Everything Is Going According To Plan

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The Bizo purchase, priced at $175 million , makes perfect sense. Arguably Oracle’s announcement was little more than relabeling of the BlueKai data management platform it purchased in February. Among other things, the Oracle product will set a benchmark for pricing of similar services by other vendors.

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Marketo Conference: Small Changes, Big Picture

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The product changes were quite modest: new search engine optimization features for entry level users; a global marketing calendar; and relabeling of InsightEra, which Marketo purchased in December, as Marketo Real Time Personalization. The SEO and calendar features are still in beta and will be rolled out this spring and summer.

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