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Marketing Automation Monday is Here!

The Effective Marketer

The Effective Marketer Effectiveness is a discipline and it can be learned Home About the Effective Marketer Books Speaking Marketing Automation Monday is Here! Most companies start off with one track for their automation and nurturing programs and expand with time. As always, you have to take all of this with a grain of salt.

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Adobe Buys B2C Marketing Automation Leader Neolane: One Gap Filled, But Where's CRM?

Customer Experience Matrix

Adobe today announced plans to acquire Neolane , the largest remaining independent B2C marketing automation vendor (excluding email-focused providers like Responsys and Silverpop ). Everything will eventually converge Web-plus-CRM, with marketing automation baked in so deep you can''t see it.

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Best Marketing Strategy Insights of 2009

Webbiquity

Jodi Harris summarizes highlights from Mandalay Entertainment Founder and CEO Peter Guber’s keynote speech at the 2009 Entertainment Marketing Summit advising marketers to overcome resistance to change, create memorable stories and great content in order to motivate prospects. 101 Tips from 50 Small Business Bloggers by Open Forum.

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Hard Data to Justify Your Marketing Automation Investment

Customer Experience Matrix

Summary: So you want some hard numbers to prove the value of marketing automation? A client asked yesterday if I had some benchmark information to justify the cost of her marketing automation project. Aberdeen Group has published many studies related to marketing automation. Here's a bunch. Statistics include: • 16.5%

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ClickInsights: What was your "Aha" moment in 2009? - Part 2

Ambal's Amusings

I have invited our Panel of B2B Marketing Experts to reflect on 2009 and answer the following question: What was your aha moment in 2009 ? B2B Lead Generation Benchmark Study 2009. But that issue was resolved just a few years later when the first marketing automation software suites came to market. MarketingSherpa.

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Salesforce.com Announces Site.com Web Site Management: Will Marketing Automation Features Follow?

Customer Experience Matrix

Here’s a piece from 2009.) And, as the two giants converge, the marketing automation industry stands between them like a mushroom, waiting to be crushed or gobbled up (if giants eat mushrooms). It certainly implies something that includes marketing automation functionality. Some of that gobbling has already begun.

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Marketing Automation System Trends: What We Found in the Raab Guide

Customer Experience Matrix

The same three vendors also added new tools to give salespeople better access to information the marketing automation system has captured about their leads. This contrasts with traditional demand generation pricing on database size and/or activity volume, but is the way sales automation systems like Salesforce.com are usually sold.