Yesterday Marketo announced a new service offering for the SMB market called Spark. Spark will allow SMB users to create and launch email campaigns, hold webinars, and even monitor and participate in social media conversations. Additionally, it gives a real time window into campaigns and allows measurement of each segment of an SMB’s marketing mix efforts within each campaign. Marketo’s announcement of a SMB app is a […]
Joe Zuccaro (@joezuc), Allinio’s President & CEO, continues to blog from the Dreamforce trenches in San Francisco: OK, only some of this was blogged in the trenches. By Day 3 of Dreamforce, I was starting to experience “information overload,” so I had to come back East, get over the jet lag, do my laundry, and finally collect my thoughts about the last day of this terrific event. But […]
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 […]
Tech startups are generally innovators. But whether bootstrapped or venture funded, they are burning cash and have significant milestones to meet in order to get to the next level – namely, increasing sales. The irony of many startups, even ones that are selling disruptive technologies, is that many rely on the same old ways of marketing and sales that existed before the Internet came along, […]
Just a week after a great time at Eloqua‘s “Brave New World,” The Marketing Consigliere had the pleasure of attending another very crowded B2B event in the Washington, DC area. Silverpop held a session of its “B2B University” and he was surprised to see it was a standing-room only event for the B2B crowd; DC is not known for its B2B community; there’s not even a Business Marketing Association chapter […]
An interesting development for Network Centric Marketers has developed from Charm City – Blue Sky Factory of Baltimore, Maryland has developed a “Share With Your Network’ (SWYN) feature for their email customers which allows email recipients to easily post email content onto their social networks. SWYN capability is integrated into Publicaster, Blue Sky Factory’s email offering to marketers. By adding a simple code snippet, marketers can now give subscribers an option […]