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Marketing Automation Vendor Consolidation: Lessons from History

Customer Experience Matrix

As I wrote in my June 30 post on consolidation among marketing automation vendors , I expect the number of competitors to shrink fairly quickly as new buyers concentrate their purchases among a handful of leading vendors. Will weaker marketing automation vendors merge with each other to establish a larger market presence?

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Make Sure Data Isn’t Your Downfall

Contently

A few years later, in 2007, I decided to record every poker hand I played in a notepad. I didn’t cash at the World Series, but the 2007 main event winner took home $8.25 But when marketers pile their stacks with more software, they wind up drowning in data. Of course, Walmart couldn’t coast on that one stat.

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Unica Strategy Stays the Course

Customer Experience Matrix

I recently caught up with Unica Vice President Andrew Hally as part of my review of developments at the major marketing automation vendors. On the product front, they continue their long-time strategy of offering all the software a marketing department would need.

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Continually Improving the Customer Experience: The Evolution of Automated Marketing Tools

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

Automated marketing first emerged with the development of customer relationship management (CRM) platforms in the late ‘80s. Of course, these platforms were expensive and therefore limited to large, multinational corporations. And marketers are finally starting to realize the potential opportunities it offers.

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Think Your Inside Sales Team Has it Covered? Think Again.

The Point

I’ve made the case previously in this space how one of the easiest way to gain a quick return from any investment in marketing automation is to apply the technology towards more efficient and systematic follow-up to inbound leads. It’s a win-win for both sales AND marketing. Big mistake.

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Interview with Mari Smith

Onalytica B2B

My entrepreneurial career began in 1999 when I emigrated from Scotland to California, where I set up my own online marketing consultancy. I specialized in e-commerce, information products, email marketing and business development coaching. WHAT AREAS OF SOCIAL MEDIA MARKETING ARE YOU MOST PASSIONATE ABOUT?

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LeadSpace Offers A No-Memory Approach to B2B Lead Scoring

Customer Experience Matrix

Of course, every vendor argues it does this better than anyone else. Again, I’m not sure I agree, but should point out that LeadSpace mentioned combining their own scores with behavior data captured in marketing automation: so LeadSpace itself is at least implicitly acknowledging that behaviors are important.