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And Our Forecast of B2B Marketing Automation Revenue for 2013 is.

Customer Experience Matrix

I’ve just finished the latest update of our B2B Marketing Automation Vendor Selection Tool (VEST), available on the raabguide.com Web site. The VEST is our evaluation of industry vendors, aimed primarily at companies choosing a marketing automation system. I’ll get to the 2013 estimate in a bit. Anyway, back to the estimates.

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Are 70% of Marketing Automation Users Unhappy? Well, Not Exactly

Customer Experience Matrix

A recent piece in TechCrunch quoted me as saying that “almost 70 percent of marketers are either unhappy or only marginally happy with their marketing automation software.” Answers came from 159 marketing automation users. See my posts for October 13, 2013 and October 22, 2013 for a several other surveys.

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Why Are Businesses Using Email Marketing Automation?

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That’s where email marketing automation comes in as a powerful tool to build strong customer relationships and drive organic revenue growth. By utilizing email marketing automation, businesses can create personalized email campaigns triggered at various touchpoints along the customer journey. (The

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Marketing Automation 2014 Industry Overview: What the Surveys Tell Us

Customer Experience Matrix

The Interwebs have delivered an unusually rich trove of data about the marketing automation industry in the past few weeks. Taken together, these provide a clearer picture than usual of the state of marketing automation. The reason is selection bias: most surveys are answered by people who are actively engaged in marketing automation.

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New Marketing Report: B2B Lead Generation Trends 2013

Everything Technology Marketing

Finally, the new 2013 B2B Lead Generation Report is available! Download it here: [link] ) The B2B Technology Marketing Community on LinkedIn conducted the 2013 lead generation survey to better understand how B2B marketers are adjusting to new challenges, and to identify new trends and best practices. The results are in.

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Email Marketing: 3 lead nurture paths you should automate

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Tweet Marketing automation can help you manage lead nurturing efforts in a complex marketplace. So where do you even begin in terms of an automation strategy? The next thing we want to be able to tell our team is: Did they activate the software, or are they using it?” You can’t automate trust. Keith asked.

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Marketing Automation's Unhappy Users: Trouble in Paradise?

Customer Experience Matrix

As I mentioned in last week''s post , I’m writing a paper on stages of marketing automation deployment. The premise of the paper and Webinar is marketing automation has a problem: clients who don’t move beyond basic email functions are unhappy. The paper itself will be available to Webinar attendees.