Salesforce.com is the cloud computing darling of customer relationship management (CRM) software. So, where does Salesforce.com stand as a marketing automation solution? Up front, Salesforce.com will garner appeal because the marketing app is bundled with the Sales Cloud 2 product. MORE
Salesforce.com yesterday announced agreement to buy social media publishing vendor Buddy Media for $689 million, thereby adding another big fluffy piece to its “marketing cloud”. Just for symmetry, it’s worth pointing out that Salesforce.com acquired its own social monitoring system, Radian6 , in March 2011. Salesforce.com is another story. But Salesforce.com could close those gaps by gradually extending its existing products. MORE
From its beginnings, Salesforce.com has emphasized its online delivery model with its "No Software" positioning, even snagging 1-800-NO SOFTWARE as its toll-free line. While the application service provider (ASP) or software-as-a-service (SaaS) model in general has never lived up to its initial hype, among consumers or business users, Salesforce.com has enjoyed impressive success with it. MORE
Author: Phil Fernandez Today, Salesforce.com announced plans to buy ExactTarget. As recently as this year, salesforce.com’s own customers have rated Marketo as the best marketing solution , continuing a five-year streak of similar affirmation from the salesforce.com customer base. MORE
I spent most of this week at Salesforce.com ’s Dreamforce conference. So I wouldn’t be surprised to see Salesforce encourage third party developers to build marketing automation systems using Salesforce's Force.com and Heroku platforms and Database.com database, or to see them encourage existing vendors to migrate to the Salesforce.com infrastructure. salesforce.com dreamforce revenue performance management enterprise software b2b marketing automation MORE
Once again Salesforce.com has delivered a great set of new features for Marketers in the Winter 10 release. This is more relevant than ever since marketers may wish to use Salesforce.com to track events like seminars that may have a registration fee. MORE
Fresh on the heels of yesterday''s blockbuster ExactTarget / Salesforce.com deal , SAP today announced acquisition of e-commerce vendor hybris software. During their call, the SAP and hybris managers unfairly implied that ExactTarget does nothing but email (without mentioning Salesforce.com or ExactTarget by name). But as Salesforce.com made clear in its own call yesterday, they were most attracted by ExactTarget''s multi-channel marketing capabilities. MORE
I had accepted this as part of the job of being a marketer, until I started using the Salesforce.com AppExchange. The Salesforce.com AppExchange is a collection of cloud computing applications, all of which are pre-integrated with Salesforce.com. MORE
We recently streamlined the stage definitions of our Salesforce.com Opportunity funnel to eliminate any ambiguity across our client services, sales development, business development and inbound marketing teams. We use many sales and marketing tools to increase the productivity of our team. MORE
This morning we saw a demo of Salesforce.com Chatter , a collaboration tools integrated with Salesforce.com. Think Facebook built into Salesforce.com: it looks just like the Facebook timeline, but it is built around your sales processes. Salesforce.com Chatter Screenshot. MORE
I’m writing this on my way home from Dreamforce, the Salesforce.com user conference that has become the primary industry gathering for marketing automation vendors. If you’re not familiar with Salesforce.com terminology: contacts are linked to an account, while leads are not. MORE
Salesforce.com is a dominant player in the CRM category and an integral part of many companies’ lead management, database marketing, and demand generation programs. MORE
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This week is Dreamforce14 , the Salesforce.com mega-event that takes over half of San Francisco. I revisited a recent ANNUITAS eBook, Change Management – Staying Relevant, Productive and Sane in the Changing Landscape of Demand Generation, co-produced with Mathew Sweezey from Salesforce.com and pulled out two big barriers to change: Lack of Leadership: Change needs to come from the top, and be demonstrated by example. There’s no better time to be a B2B marketer – we know that. MORE
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There are many things that work well in the Webinar invitation below from Salesforce.com, but one of my favorite elements is the smallest: the link at the top left corner that reads: “View on a PDA.” Click and you’re linked to a hosted, plain text, narrow-column version of the same message. In a [.]. MORE
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Am I the only one who missed the April 1 announcement of a strategic alliance between Salesforce.com and Intuit ? Given our industry's endless nattering about whether Salesforce.com will move into marketing automation, this should have attracted more attention (or, at least, enough attention that I would hear about it sooner than I did). Intuit has more than 4 million customers, compared with 90,000 for Salesforce.com. billion for Salesforce.com vs. $16.5 MORE
Today we launched our latest eBook, Change Management – Staying Relevant, Predictive and Sane in the Changing Landscape of Demand Generation , a joint venture by Mathew Sweezey , author and Marketing Automation Evangelist for Salesforce.com and Carlos Hidalgo , CEO and Principal, ANNUITAS. MORE
Recently I had the opportunity to sit down with Daniel Chalef, CEO of KnowledgeTree , developers of an intriguing new solution, built for both Salesforce.com and mobile (iOS), that enables sales teams to instantly find, surface, and present the ideal content in any selling situation. MORE
Groove Digital Marketing: If you are an executive at a larger organization, you may be very familiar with the disconnect between sales and marketing. Marketing talks about leads and lead generation , sales tends to talk about target accounts and outreach to close those target accounts. MORE
If you look at Marketing Automation systems, the best supported CRM system is Salesforce.com. By the way: tomorrow I’m presenting a webinar with SalesFUSION, a Marketing Automation vendor that focuses heavily on Microsoft Dynamics CRM (but also supports Salesforce.com, of course). MORE
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Salesforce.com is the cloud computing darling of customer relationship management (CRM) software. So, where does Salesforce.com stand as a marketing automation solution? Up front, Salesforce.com will garner appeal because the marketing app is bundled with the Sales Cloud 2 product.
LeadSloth
SEPTEMBER 8, 2010
If you look at Marketing Automation systems, the best supported CRM system is Salesforce.com. By the way: tomorrow I’m presenting a webinar with SalesFUSION, a Marketing Automation vendor that focuses heavily on Microsoft Dynamics CRM (but also supports Salesforce.com, of course).
The Point
JULY 15, 2010
Salesforce.com is a dominant player in the CRM category and an integral part of many companies’ lead management, database marketing, and demand generation programs.
Customer Experience Matrix
MAY 4, 2011
Am I the only one who missed the April 1 announcement of a strategic alliance between Salesforce.com and Intuit ? Given our industry's endless nattering about whether Salesforce.com will move into marketing automation, this should have attracted more attention (or, at least, enough attention that I would hear about it sooner than I did). Intuit has more than 4 million customers, compared with 90,000 for Salesforce.com. billion for Salesforce.com vs. $16.5
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The “marketing cloud”, which salesforce.com has hinted at for a while, was announced today at Dreamforce ’12. Marketers who use both Eloqua and salesforce.com will be able to enjoy an enhanced version of the social marketing cloud. Breaking: Salesforce.com Announces the Marketing Cloud. Digital Marketing b2b marketing Buddy Media CMO Eloqua Marc Benioff marketing automation Marketing Cloud Radian6 salesforce.com social marketing cloud social media marketing
Customer Experience Matrix
MARCH 16, 2012
Salesforce.com yesterday announced the launch of Site.com , an enterprise-class Web site management system. The news didn’t seem to get much attention, perhaps because Salesforce.com itself pretty much buried it. But Salesforce.com VP of Product Management Anshu Sharma did post a detailed explanation of the rationale on a Salesforce.com blog. That’s the first Salesforce.com reference I can find to a “digital marketing platform”.
The Point
MAY 14, 2009
There are many things that work well in the Webinar invitation below from Salesforce.com, but one of my favorite elements is the smallest: the link at the top left corner that reads: “View on a PDA.” Click and you’re linked to a hosted, plain text, narrow-column version of the same message. In a [.].
Modern B2B Marketing
JUNE 4, 2013
Author: Phil Fernandez Today, Salesforce.com announced plans to buy ExactTarget. As recently as this year, salesforce.com’s own customers have rated Marketo as the best marketing solution , continuing a five-year streak of similar affirmation from the salesforce.com customer base.
Customer Experience Matrix
SEPTEMBER 2, 2011
I spent most of this week at Salesforce.com ’s Dreamforce conference. So I wouldn’t be surprised to see Salesforce encourage third party developers to build marketing automation systems using Salesforce's Force.com and Heroku platforms and Database.com database, or to see them encourage existing vendors to migrate to the Salesforce.com infrastructure. salesforce.com dreamforce revenue performance management enterprise software b2b marketing automation
Customer Experience Matrix
MARCH 8, 2011
Summary: HubSpot announced a $32 million investment yesterday by Sequoia Partners, Google and Salesforce.com. Salesforce.com and Google announced their long-anticipated entry into the marketing automation industry, in the baby-step form of investments in HubSpot.
Customer Experience Matrix
JUNE 5, 2012
Salesforce.com yesterday announced agreement to buy social media publishing vendor Buddy Media for $689 million, thereby adding another big fluffy piece to its “marketing cloud”. Just for symmetry, it’s worth pointing out that Salesforce.com acquired its own social monitoring system, Radian6 , in March 2011. Salesforce.com is another story. But Salesforce.com could close those gaps by gradually extending its existing products.
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Modern B2B Marketing
JULY 25, 2010
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Fathom
NOVEMBER 4, 2013
We recently streamlined the stage definitions of our Salesforce.com Opportunity funnel to eliminate any ambiguity across our client services, sales development, business development and inbound marketing teams. We use many sales and marketing tools to increase the productivity of our team.
Modern B2B Marketing
NOVEMBER 3, 2009
Once again Salesforce.com has delivered a great set of new features for Marketers in the Winter 10 release. This is more relevant than ever since marketers may wish to use Salesforce.com to track events like seminars that may have a registration fee.
Modern B2B Marketing
JULY 30, 2009
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Modern B2B Marketing
AUGUST 12, 2010
I had accepted this as part of the job of being a marketer, until I started using the Salesforce.com AppExchange. The Salesforce.com AppExchange is a collection of cloud computing applications, all of which are pre-integrated with Salesforce.com.
Modern B2B Marketing
NOVEMBER 26, 2009
In the demo, a salesforce.com rep tweeted out about a product issue. They were then able to tweet back with a link to the solution, solving a support issue without ever leaving Salesforce.com.
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He writes, "I dont have to spend my day with my head buried in Salesforce.com. The idea seems to be catching on and now there are multiple sites publishing details of how to get your leads of Salesforce.com.
LeanData
AUGUST 5, 2014
Groove Digital Marketing: If you are an executive at a larger organization, you may be very familiar with the disconnect between sales and marketing. Marketing talks about leads and lead generation , sales tends to talk about target accounts and outreach to close those target accounts.
LeanData
AUGUST 5, 2014
Groove Digital Marketing: If you are an executive at a larger organization, you may be very familiar with the disconnect between sales and marketing. Marketing talks about leads and lead generation , sales tends to talk about target accounts and outreach to close those target accounts.
The Point
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WebMarketCentral
JUNE 4, 2006
From its beginnings, Salesforce.com has emphasized its online delivery model with its "No Software" positioning, even snagging 1-800-NO SOFTWARE as its toll-free line. While the application service provider (ASP) or software-as-a-service (SaaS) model in general has never lived up to its initial hype, among consumers or business users, Salesforce.com has enjoyed impressive success with it.
ANNUITAS
AUGUST 20, 2014
Today we launched our latest eBook, Change Management – Staying Relevant, Predictive and Sane in the Changing Landscape of Demand Generation , a joint venture by Mathew Sweezey , author and Marketing Automation Evangelist for Salesforce.com and Carlos Hidalgo , CEO and Principal, ANNUITAS.
Customer Experience Matrix
DECEMBER 20, 2012
So that’s all fine, but what industry observers really want to know is how Salesforce.com will react. Okay, now we can talk about Salesforce.com. Yes, Salesforce.com gets to leverage those partners’ efforts, saving its own funds for other, more strategic investments.
The Point
MAY 3, 2016
Salesforce has released their “ 2016 State of Marketing Report ”, a massive 70-page tome and the result of surveying nearly 4,000 marketing executives worldwide.
LeadSloth
MARCH 8, 2010
This morning we saw a demo of Salesforce.com Chatter , a collaboration tools integrated with Salesforce.com. Think Facebook built into Salesforce.com: it looks just like the Facebook timeline, but it is built around your sales processes. Salesforce.com Chatter Screenshot.
The Point
JUNE 18, 2013
Recently I had the opportunity to sit down with Daniel Chalef, CEO of KnowledgeTree , developers of an intriguing new solution, built for both Salesforce.com and mobile (iOS), that enables sales teams to instantly find, surface, and present the ideal content in any selling situation.
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JULY 28, 2015
Gerris Corp , the latest iteration of my career, is a hybrid of personal billable hours and a collaboration with partners, professionals, and a global, decentralized staff. At least, right now, it’s a one man band.
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SEPTEMBER 8, 2015
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OCTOBER 14, 2014
This week is Dreamforce14 , the Salesforce.com mega-event that takes over half of San Francisco. I revisited a recent ANNUITAS eBook, Change Management – Staying Relevant, Productive and Sane in the Changing Landscape of Demand Generation, co-produced with Mathew Sweezey from Salesforce.com and pulled out two big barriers to change: Lack of Leadership: Change needs to come from the top, and be demonstrated by example. There’s no better time to be a B2B marketer – we know that.
Customer Experience Matrix
SEPTEMBER 21, 2012
I’m writing this on my way home from Dreamforce, the Salesforce.com user conference that has become the primary industry gathering for marketing automation vendors. If you’re not familiar with Salesforce.com terminology: contacts are linked to an account, while leads are not.
The Point
FEBRUARY 11, 2013
In 2011, she became President and CEO of Full Circle CRM , a company dedicated to helping VPs of Marketing use Salesforce.com to get accurate and useful performance data about marketing campaigns.
Customer Experience Matrix
OCTOBER 17, 2014
photo by Dion Hinchcliffe Salesforce.com ’s Dreamforce conference this year was the usual mix of spectacle, congestion, and heart-felt philanthropy. The core technology was acquired when Salesforce.com bought EdgeSpring last June.
Reachforce
APRIL 3, 2013
Designed to integrate with leading marketing and sales automation platforms, like Marketo, Eloqua and salesforce.com, it supports marketing professionals to more effectively collect, qualify, target, and convert leads throughout the buyer’s lifecycle.
Customer Experience Matrix
JUNE 5, 2013
Fresh on the heels of yesterday''s blockbuster ExactTarget / Salesforce.com deal , SAP today announced acquisition of e-commerce vendor hybris software. During their call, the SAP and hybris managers unfairly implied that ExactTarget does nothing but email (without mentioning Salesforce.com or ExactTarget by name). But as Salesforce.com made clear in its own call yesterday, they were most attracted by ExactTarget''s multi-channel marketing capabilities.
Biznology
MAY 23, 2011
With Salesforce.com, they've launched a social network for Toyota owners and drivers that keeps them connected to Toyota, to its dealers, and to other drivers. Image by conhunter via Flickr. by Chris Abraham. Is the car the ultimate mobile device? Toyota thinks so.
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Modern B2B Marketing
OCTOBER 26, 2011
More than 40K attend this software technology conference, and many expect to hear each year from Marc Benioff, CEO and chairman of salesforce.com. But the PR team exponentially multiplied the incident’s value to salesforce.com. Social media is how salesforce.com made everything happen.
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