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How to Create the Best Content For Your Marketing Automation System

KoMarketing Associates

How content strategy fits into marketing automation (and content marketing in general). Ever heard of “random acts of content”? In other words, most content marketers are still practicing random acts of content. You see, because if you want marketing automation to work… you have to be automating something that’s, um… working.

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How marketing ops can learn to speak C-suite

Martech

This disconnect isn’t just a minor inconvenience; it’s a significant barrier to strategic alignment and shared success. Consider a scenario where a company might invest in a new marketing automation tool like HubSpot, but the C-Suite is unaware of its potential impact on customer experience and revenue. Why the disconnect?

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Is it Fraudulent to Spend Money on Lead Gen Without an ROI?

ViewPoint

We know what is most effective, and we act on basic law. In the past it wasn’t because people couldn’t prove the ROI, it was because it was inconvenient, and sometimes difficult; but neither are good excuses, and both are no longer barriers. Nothing else made sense to me then or now.

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How to Build Your Sales Operations Team from Scratch

InsightSquared

Instead of behind-the-scenes sales support, sales ops now acts as a strategic partner for sales VPs and leadership. They’ll ensure guidelines are properly adhered to and contracts are being executed, all while simultaneously working to eliminate barriers that slow down the contracting process. Where to Start: CRM.

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Acquisitions Reshape the Marketing Automation Industry: Growth at the Bottom, Room in the Middle, Fog at the Top

Customer Experience Matrix

Raab Associates officially released the new edition of our B2B Marketing Automation Vendor Selection Tool (VEST) yesterday. They''re certainly not close to the 67% to 90% rates reported by LeadFormix , Act-On , and eTrigue. They are already the first vendor since Pardot to break the 150-employee barrier (blue shading).

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NurtureHQ Offers "Dead Easy Marketing Automation". Is That Enough?

Customer Experience Matrix

New-ish marketing automation vendor NurtureHQ showed me its product recently. Clean interface, easy to use, all the standard marketing automation features. NurtureHQ hopes to differentiate itself as “dead easy marketing automation”, which it arguably is. I don’t know whether to laugh or cry. It’s really nice. I think not.

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Social media personalization: The opportunity and risks to consider

Sprout Social

What you need to build and execute a social media personalization strategy To personalize customer experiences on social, you need deep customer insights, comprehensive data and assistance from automated workflows. Beyond simply collecting and mining customer data, you need to build on it with AI and automation, analytics and segmentation.