where content, technology and people meet. (SM) Publishing and content technology executives use Shore to measure and understand their markets and competitors, define marketing strategies and implement successful content products and services using Shore's highly actionable insights into vendors, institutions, individuals and virtual communities.
ContentBlogger is the 2007 SIIA CODiE Award Winner for Best Media Blog
COMMENTARY:

Insights and headlines from Shore analysts on trends in enterprise and media content markets.
  Subscribe to our feed (?) or add to: MyYahoo  iGoogle/Google Reader  Bloglines  NewsGator  Rojo
Wednesday, March 29, 2006
InfoUSA's OneSource Information Services has announced the addition of its Account Intelligence service to Salesforce.com's AppExchange add-on software and content service store. The service pumps cleansed contact data and relevant news, research and data on companies right into a user's SF.com service, with administrative controls similar to OneSource's earlier offerings via this service. In playing with the AppExchange kit it's interesting to see how self-service sales for business content services have been extended to provide a sophisticated sales presence online. In addition to product information sheets and user reviews OneSource provides a slide show with built-in audio narrative based on Macromedia's Breeze application narrated by a sales executive. It's a reminder that people buy business content at the "point of pain" and that both services and marketing need to follow the users into the contexts that they value most to have those pain points addressed. Being able to get content into user workflows on an as-needed basis took a huge step forward when Salesforce.com introduced AppExchange: now it's time for more business content providers to examine how both services and marketing can move to where users have the need and to sell them in context on the value of their services.

By John Blossom - posted at 10:00 AM
permanent link to this entry        bookmark this entry:  AddThis Social Bookmark Tool
  0 comments (click to view or to add your own) 
Comments:  Post a Comment
 

To top of page To Top of Page

COMMENTARY: INDEX
CONTENTBLOGGER
INDUSTRY EVENTS
CONTENT NATION

Read ShoreLines, our free weekly email newsletter.

Sample issue
Follow us on Twitter
Get headline-only feed
Buzz news comments
RECENT ENTRIES
READ CONTENT NATION

Learn how to thrive and to survive as social media changes our work, our lives and our future.
Buy the book
Read it online
Read our social media blog
WEBLOGS: ARCHIVES
 
 

shorename.gif (1190 bytes)
[HOME] [US] [SERVICES] [COMMENTARY] [RESEARCH] [EVENTS] [PRESS] [CONTACT]
Copyright © 1997-2009 Shore Communications Inc.  All Rights Reserved - Click Here to Read Terms of Use
Corporate Privacy Policy

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 This page is powered by Blogger. Isn't yours?