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

During his sit down talk with Salesforce.com’s CEO Marc Benioff at Dreamforce 2011 , Schmidt praised Facebook’s founder and chief. “He will be seen in the context as one of the great leaders in our industry. by Jesse Noyes | Tweet this Who will be the next Mark Zuckerberg? 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

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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

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

by Joe Chernov | Tweet this You may have noticed that over the past month or so, several influential social media professionals changed their profile pictures to funky avatars of themselves. 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

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. 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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’ With Spring ’14, salesforce.com has yet again dazzled us with a fantastic new release of salesforce1 mobile, platform, connected and social communities. The post Review: An Admin’s Take on Salesforce.com Spring ’14 appeared first on Fathom. Sales & Marketing Alignment Sales Operations CRM Salesforce.com The word on the street is ‘salesforce1!’ MORE

I was skeptical about the news but the profile is owned by a Salesforce.com sales rep. Filed under: Conferences Tagged: B2B , CRM , crm 2.0 , Dreamforce , Sales 2.0 , Sales Data , salesforce.com , Social CRM , social selling , twitter. MORE

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. MORE

Here are some stats from the 2016 State of Marketing Report from Salesforce.com. Industrial email marketing is alive and well in 2017 despite what you may heard or read to the contrary. To quote Mark Twain with a slight modification, “The reports of my its death have been greatly exaggerated.” MORE

Tomorrow People has selected British Cloud CRM provider Workbooks.com to replace its Salesforce.com CRM system after two years of using the Salesforce Professional Edition. 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

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. MORE

Tomorrow People has selected British Cloud CRM provider Workbooks.com to replace its Salesforce.com CRM system after two years of using the Salesforce Professional Edition. MORE

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. MORE

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. MORE

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

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”. MORE

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. MORE

Expected to draw a whopping 135,000 attendees, the Salesforce.com annual annual event is focused on cloud, mobile, social, and connectivity. by Lauren Harper | Tweet this This week Dreamforce 2013 is bringing buzz and excitement to the city of San Francisco. MORE

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by Jesse Noyes | Tweet this This is the moment most of the people that flock to Dreamforce each year can’t wait for: salesforce.com’s CEO and Chairman Marc Benioff ‘s keynote addresses. Salesforce.com announced that Heroku for the Enterprise packages were now available. MORE

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 MORE

Your Turn Will inbound marketing erode list buying, or will companies like Data.com (formerly JigSaw, now part of SalesForce.com) integrate data purchases into B2B sales and marketing operations and make them a key part of day-to-day activity? Buying email marketing lists. MORE

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

Indeed, as Gartner analyst Larry Cannell explained to ComputerWorld , Microsoft has fallen behind enterprise competitors like SAP, Oracle and Salesforce.com when it comes to cranking out truly social tools. Social Media b2b marketing Chatter Eloqua marketing automation Microsoft Salesforce salesforce.com social business social enterprise Yammerby Heidi Melin | Tweet this If you were wondering when Microsoft was going to join the social party, they’ve shown up in a big way. 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

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I spent the early part of this week at Salesforce.com ’s annual Dreamforce conference. app exchange customer data management dreamforce exacttarget marketing automation marketing software trends pardot predictive modeling salesforce.com Here are my observations. The big news was for geeks. The main theme of the conference was Salesforce1, a new set of technologies that make it vastly easier to deliver and integrate mobile versions of Salesforce-based applications. MORE

Our own CEO likes to refer to Salesforce.com’s Chatter as “my Twitter.”. This is the reason we partnered with Salesforce.com to integrate Chatter, a social networking platform for the enterprise , into our marketing automation platform. Social Media b2b marketing Chatter marketing automation sales and marketing sales and marketing alignment salesforce.com social businessby Jesse Noyes | Tweet this Steve Jobs was an insistent man. 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

by Jesse Noyes | Tweet this Walking into Salesforce.com’s massive Dreamforce conference recently, a long banner greeted you. Welcome to the Social Enterprise,” it declared. MORE

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We are thrilled that 100% of the data – the lifeblood of all great infographics – behind A History of Dreamforce was supplied by Salesforce.com, then painstakingly visualized by our friends at JESS3. by Joe Chernov | Tweet this There are few skills I value more than speed. 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