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Conversational marketing, data hygiene, and marketing to B2B marketers: Q&A with Pardot VP of Marketing Nate Skinner

ClickZ

The last ten years, since 2009, I’ve been in marketing roles. NS: I got asked that same question when I interviewed here with our CMO back in 2009. After we talked about what we could do to help her, one of the first things she said was, “we probably need to take a look at our data first, because I’m sure we have a data hygiene issue.”

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Marketing Automation Trends for 2010

LeadSloth

2009 was the year in which Marketing Automation really took off. See also her recent blog post Five B2B Marketing Surprises From 2009. With marketing automation being on the rise, the adoption of this technology is a must for most organizations, but it will also require that organizations determine the ramifications of such a purchase.