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VEST Report: Latest Trends in Marketing Automation, and Where's My Hoverboard?

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But anyone planning to enter this business had better realize they will be fighting for new customers.* - agency relationships. It seems that just about every vendor in the VEST now touts special features to support marketing agencies that resell the system to their clients or operate the system on the clients’ behalf. social data.

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Mautic Offers Free, Open Source Marketing Automation

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David Hurley, the open source industry veteran behind Mautic, argues that marketing automation has just now become widely enough understood for many marketers to purchase it without a lengthy sales cycle. It apparently could have imported more social data if I had connected with my own Facebook, Twitter, or LinkedIn accounts.

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New Marketing Automation Options for Small Business in the VEST Report

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CRM includes opportunity tracking, unlimited user defined fields, and automatic search of Facebook and LinkedIn when new contacts are added; algorithms can automatically estimate the right number of points for different events to build a predictive lead score. Such agencies account for about one quarter of the Hatchbuck business.