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6 Tips For a Successful Marketing Automation Implementation

Circle Studio

In many ways, marketing automation software is a lot like CRM software in that it’s a fantastic technology tool with tremendous power, but it’s only as good as the implementation, process and commitment behind it. So, what should you look for and how do you evaluate potential vendors? billion annually by 2023—up from $11.4

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Microsoft buys LinkedIn: the largest martech acquisition in history?

chiefmartech

Last week, Microsoft announced that it was acquiring LinkedIn for a whopping $26.2 This is the largest acqusition in Microsoft’s history — over three times the size of its acqusition of Skype for $8.5 But it’s not entirely dissimilar either, in spirit or tactic. It represents 19.4% of LinkedIn’s total revenue. Actually, yes.

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More New Systems Challenge the Marketing Automation Status Quo

Customer Experience Matrix

MindFire Studio grew out of MindFire’s original Look Who’s Clicking software, which is used by more than 1,100 printers and other graphics arts vendors to add personalized URLs to print promotions. Last week’s post looked at newer marketing automation systems that focused on small businesses.

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Prediction: Statistical Methods Will Replace Conventional Rules for Marketing Decisions

Customer Experience Matrix

Vendors who replace conventional decision rules with automated statistical methods may gain a key competitive advantage because the automated methods produce substantially and measurably better results. The same applies to CRM systems – it was Siebel’s partnerships with big system integrators that ultimately let it pull away from the pack.

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Top 10 B2B Inbound Marketing Predictions for 2015

KEO Marketing

Mobile/Local Growth Continues to Dominate. Mobile’s rapid explosion will continue this year, and this will in turn fuel significant focus on local. Mobile and local go hand in hand, as people who conduct research on their mobile devices want to then take action right away by interacting with a business in their area. Now, it is just the opposite.