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Why Is Marketing Automation Maturity Still Woeful?

The Point

Almost 5 years ago, our agency conducted a survey to determine whether B2B companies were getting maximum value from their investment in marketing automation. You’d assume, therefore, that marketing automation maturity – the level of sophistication at which companies employ the technology – has improved.

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Marketing Automation Remains Critical to Marketers’ Top Goals

KoMarketing Associates

Automating some marketing processes can streamline day-to-day business, but how is technology benefiting marketers who have invested in the automation process? Recently, Econsultancy conducted the “2017 State of B2B Marketing Automation” report with Act-On Software to dive deeper into the concept.

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Survey: 3 out of 10 Marketers Lagging in Implementing Email Marketing Automation

KoMarketing Associates

GetResponse and SmartInsights recently conducted the “Email Marketing and Automation Excellence 2018” report, and statistics showed that 28 percent of respondents consider themselves to be “basic” when it comes to email marketing automation. This is to say that they do not use many of the features of marketing automation.

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From 2016 to 2017, 5X more marketing automation vendors were added than removed

chiefmartech

tl;dr — From 2016 to 2017, the marketing automation category of the marketing technology landscape grew yet again, by 36% , from 156 vendors to 212. Marketing automation remains a bellwether of martech. To me, it’s quintessential marketing software. 2015 Marketing Technology Landscape.

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Reflections on Marketing Automation in 2016

Lead Liaison

Marketing has come a long way in a small amount of time. To be able to entirely appreciate the current state of marketing automation, it’s best to briefly acknowledge where it has been. Marketing automation first came into existence in 1992, focusing on email alone. What’s to Come in Marketing Automation.

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More Than Automating Emails For Marketing Automation

ANNUITAS

If there was a Marketing Automation soiree, I’d be the host. As a marketing automation consultant and a marketing technologist at heart, I work with technology all day, every day. The platforms today can enable just about any marketing task, including automation.

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2016 Update from Apparao Karri

Cintell

Are You Ready to Make 2016 the Year of Customer-Centric Marketing? Good news everyone, Punxsutawney Phil did not see his shadow, meaning 2016 will be a year of shortened winter and (cross your fingers) warm weather for those of us in Boston and other chilly parts of the world. What’s coming in 2016? What do you think?

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