Busy April Brings Opportunities
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 [...]
Marketo buys Crowd Factory? You read it here first …
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 [...]
Salesforce & the Social Marketing Cloud: Round 1 Goes to…
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 [...]
CRM Idol Finals: Now for the Fun
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 [...]
Let’s Make a Deal: Social Offers
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…
