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Marketing Automation
Definition: A campaign management system that drives prospect interactions with the brand, measures prospect response to marketing programs, and delivers prospect information to sales representatives through the company’s CRM or salesforce automation (SFA) systems. When used effectively, marketing…
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Marketing automation made easy
Marketing automation, the experts say, is complex. It involves getting segmentation correct, maintaining a clean database and building complex nurture campaigns. Plus, a vast amount of content is needed to make it work. Given that only 25 percent of Fortune 500 B2B companies have adopted marketing…
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What is marketing automation?
Marketing automation is the subject of a fair amount of hype and embellishment. It’s a simple idea with wide variation in execution. It can be simple. It can be extremely complex. It’s done by huge companies. It’s done by one-person businesses. The goal is always the same, though: to automate…
LEGO logic rocks marketing automation
I love watching my son master a LEGO set. Logic is the key ingredient in putting a set together, especially the super complex models that require many hours to assemble. The LEGO company is smart. For the complex sets, the company breaks the whole into units, which are packaged to be built…
Marketer’s Guide: B2B Marketing Automation Platforms
Marketing organizations of all sizes are being inundated by data from multiple digital marketing channels and an increasing number of consumer devices. Faced with challenging market dynamics and increasing ROI pressure, more B2B marketers are using marketing automation platforms to manage complex,…
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Confessions of a marketing automation addict
Let me get this out of the way: I’m a technology geek and a marketing aficionado. I adore working with marketing automation to drive business. The bright thrill of success bubbles over when various marketing technologies are stacked together to improve the user experience and boost engagement that…
Leadpages buys SMB marketing automation platform Drip
Landing page templates, from Leadpages’ website Leadpages is expanding its portfolio beyond tools for creating landing pages and optimizing them for conversion, with its announcement today that it has purchased marketing automation platform Drip. Deal terms for Leadpages’ first acquisition were not…
Marketing automation struggles to reach its full potential
Marketing automation is on the rise. The reason? Marketing automation vendors are promising accelerated revenue and improved ROI (return on investment). How will it do this? With lead nurture campaigns that provide specific content aligned to the buyer’s needs and lead scoring models that deliver…
Report: 14 marketing automation vendors profiled — updated for 2017
The latest edition of MarTech Today’s “B2B Marketing Automation Platforms: A Marketer’s Guide” examines the market for B2B marketing automation software platforms and the considerations involved in implementing this software into your business. This 44-page report is your source for the latest…
Marketing automation is like icing on the cake
Most of us have baked a cake at one time or another. We’ve put all the ingredients in a large bowl, mixed it up, dumped it in a pan, and then put it in the oven. When the cake was baked, we let it cool and added icing to the top. Why do we add the icing? Because icing makes a delicious cake even…
