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Busy April Brings Opportunities

Busy April Brings Opportunities

By Denis Pombriant on May 2, 2012

I read Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales in college (yes, in Middle English and no, it wasn’t that long ago) and now every April brings me back to the opening verses about spring time and renewal.  This April was especially memorable in our industry and as the month has just passed I wanted to take a moment […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged Assistly, CRM, CRM Idol, crowd factory, Get Satisfaction, Marketo, oracle, Stone Cobra, sugarcrm | 1 Response

Marketo buys Crowd Factory? You read it here first ...

Marketo buys Crowd Factory? You read it here first …

By Phil Wainewright on April 18, 2012

As predicted here last November, Marketo today announced it has acquired social campaign management platform Crowd Factory. After interviewing Marketo CEO Phil Fernandez about the company’s funding round last year, I headlined my post Marketo looks to buy into social, and here are the opening and closing sentences: “Marketing automation vendor Marketo has earmarked some […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged crowd factory, Marketo, Taleo, Zuora

Salesforce & the Social Marketing Cloud: Round 1 Goes to...

Salesforce & the Social Marketing Cloud: Round 1 Goes to…

By Paul Greenberg on December 3, 2011

Don’t get me wrong. I love Radian6. I truly do. Now that it it is an extended platform with its incorporation of the superbly conceived and executed “Insights” addition (kudos to Ryan Strynatka), it is easily the social media platform to beat (not the community platform). There is no better and, to my mind, this […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged crowd factory, Enterprise Irregulars, Facebook, OpenAmplify, Radian6, salesforce.com, social marketing, social marketing cloud | 1 Response

CRM Idol Finals: Now for the Fun

CRM Idol Finals: Now for the Fun

By Paul Greenberg on October 19, 2011

This Friday at 6pm Eastern time, the seven CRM Idol finalists – 4 from the Americas and 3 from EMEA – will be submitting their videos that will pretty much determine who is going to be chosen the first ever CRM Idol finalist from the Americas and from EMEA. There is a lot at stake […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged Assistly, CRM Idol, CRMIDOL, crowd factory, EMEA, Get Satisfaction

Let's Make a Deal: Social Offers

Let’s Make a Deal: Social Offers

By Michael Fauscette on May 3, 2011

Groupon’s IPO is potentially valued up to $25 billion and it’s subscriber base is doubling once a quarter, LivingSocial raised $400M in venture funding, Scoutmob nails $1.5M in it’s first funding round, FourSquare hits 3M daily check ins and Facebook…

Posted in Business | Tagged crowd factory, deals, Facebook, Foursquare, google, Groupon, living social, location based, marketing | 2 Responses

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