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3rd Pick in the 2013 Marketing Cloud Acquisition Draft Is …

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By Vince Pickett

Tick-tock. Tick-tock. Gosh, it is almost getting boring around here waiting to see where the next selection will go.

Salesforce grabbing up ExactTarget with the first selection was the first big surprise. Not so much the ExactTarget side, because there had been rumors for some time that ET was on the market. The surprise was more about Salesforce jumping into the fray. Oh, they definitely needed this acquisition or one like it. For all the great tools that Salesforce has for gathering, organizing, prioritizing and listening to your contacts and gathering data, what they have never had is a robust and efficient way to segment and actually reach those valuable contacts.

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Vince Pickett

Vince Pickett has 30 years of direct marketing data management expertise across multiple channels and industry verticals, utilizing a wide variety of management and analytic tools for both B-to-B and B-to-C success. Pickett has seen award-winning excellence and the good, the bad and the ugliest of practices used by clients where he and his teams have built or come to the rescue of client organizations. In his career with several service provider companies or as an independent consultant, Pickett advocates for clients to maintain the highest standards of complete and accurate information for every customer, prospect or lead being maintained within the marketing database. Above all else, clean data provides every marketer with the foundation needed to segment accurately for the most efficient programs that provide the greatest ROI.

This blog will look at recent findings, review the latest breakthroughs, ask questions about topics of debate and talk with industry leaders about what is on their minds. It will also, as the title suggests, keep things not quite so serious all the time.

Contact Pickett by email at vpickett@gmail.com or follow on him on Twitter at @vbpickett.

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