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We’ve scoured many reviews about the other week’s great Dreamforce event put on by Salesforce. Gary Honig (@GaryHonig) brought to our attention a great blogpost from an unlikely (from a private sector perspective) source: GovLoop, a social network for the government community to connect and share information. In this blogpost, “The Top 5 Things I Learned from the Biggest Tech Conference in the U.S.,” Mike Bernard (@Bernster) gives his take on the importance of Dreamforce.
A typical hotel room snack display with automatic billing. Ours was bigger and had even more junk food on it.
As an advocate of Marketing and Sales Automation, Allinio is usually very positive about advances made in this space. However, a recent stay in the Marriott Marquis San Francisco during Dreamforce proved that automation can go too far. We don’t think we’ve been under a rock when it comes to blogging about automated ways to market and sell, but this was the first time we ran into something like this.
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...]
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...]
Like last year’s blogpost, this one will focus on Super Bowl LXV‘s B2B, not B2C advertisements, but it will be awfully short with emphasis on awful.
It’s a given that the commercial breaks would be dominated by the “usual suspects” of B2C Marketing; but where there was hope of a in increase in participation by B2B organizations. However, the only commercials that were definitely meant for business users didn’t come across as very business-like.
And we don’t mean the GoDaddy.com commercials, which despite the phrase “business saavy” in the copy of one of the commercials, were once again very B2C oriented. [Read more...]
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With a tight economy, many Marketers are forgoing important national trade shows to keep focused on their main job: to manage the processes which allow for the gathering, storing, analyzing, sharing, and acting up on data that drives revenue for their firms. However, in this brave new world of Network Centric Marketing, it pays to make the investment in knowing your peers in other industries and learning about the newest tools that will make your job easier. So to keep up with the many facets of advertising, behavioral marketing, business intelligence, search, social networking, web analytics, email marketing and demand generation, there are many choices to make. [Read more...]
