Marketing Automation & Dreamforce 2011 – Day 2

 

Joe Zuccaro (@joezuc), Allinio’s President & CEO, continues to blog from the Dreamforce trenches in San Francisco:

Day two of Dreamforce started off with a bang; mainly in terms of product announcements by Salesforce.  There was a mind-boggling number of new products that Salesforce is launching, and their vision is quite ambitious (as if they have never been ambitious before!), with a lot focusing on the “social enterprise.”  They are extending their Chatter product for general use and with their recent acquisition of Radian 6, they will enable marketers to better understand the “voice of the customer.” [Read more...]

Marketing Automation & Dreamforce 2011 – Day 1

Joe Zuccaro (@joezuc), Allinio’s President & CEO, blogs from the trenches in San Francisco:

I arrived at Salesforce.com‘s popular user conference, Dreamforce, on an early flight, but it seems that most people arrived well before me.  Most if not all the Marketing Automation sessions were full, but I got into most of the ones I wanted. This is the biggest Dreamforce to date, with 45,000 attendees. and the venue is not only the entire Moscone Center, but because of the growth and over 400 sessions, Salesforce has secured conference facilities in neighboring hotels. It all adds up to one of the largest firehoses a marketer has ever had to endure. [Read more...]

MMI Can Give You a Marketing Automation “Edge”

 We visited MMI Solutions, a small but promising Marketing Automation company in outside New York City.  They already have some top-notch customers like Kodak, Canon, and Expedia that have used their tool, MMI Edge.

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SugarCon Shows How Sweet CRM Can Be, Day 2

Gumdrops by terren in Virginia

No surprise, the second day of SugarCon was as satisfying as the first.
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SugarCon Shows How Sweet CRM Can Be, Day 1

"Candy" by livingonimpulse

We had a really great time at SugarCon today learning about their CRM platform and ecosystem. For those of you who could not make it, it was a good crowd with fantastic speakers. Here are some of the highlights of Day 1:

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Let There Be QR

Much has been written about QR (Quick Response) codes, but there still has been relatively little proliferation of this technology for everyday businesses.  For now, it seems as though the most common applicaiton of QR codes is on display advertising.  So what can you do with them?
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