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Future of Marketing Automation: Grow or Die

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But this time I was able to answer right away because I’ve just finished a white paper on the future of B2B marketing automation, sponsored by Leadformix and available here for free download. The question answered by the paper is “What will marketing automation vendors do next?” This is what’s covered in the white paper.

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Microsoft Buys Marketing Automation Vendor MarketingPilot: Start of Something Big?

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Microsoft today announced the acquisition of marketing management system vendor MarketingPilot , which will become part of its Dynamics CRM group. MarketingPilot is best described as integrated marketing management for mid-tier companies. Financial terms were not disclosed. I profiled them in a February 2011 post.)

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Marketing Automation User Satisfaction: Clearly, There's Room for Improvement (and maybe a little vodka)

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Last week’s post on marketing automation and its discontents prompted several questions about whether the level of dissatisfaction is any higher with marketing automation than other systems. According to the G2 figures, marketing automation users are in fact more enthusiastic about their choices than almost anyone else.

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Demand Generation Implementation Survey: Half of Users Deploy Basic Features in One Week

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lead transfer to CRM 18 5 8 0 2 2 35 0.94 CRM integration / synchronization 23 4 2 1 3 3 36 0.92 lead scoring 12 7 3 0 10 4 36.89 multi-step lead nurturing campaign 8 10 7 2 5 4 36 0.89 Web site analytics 14 7 6 2 2 4 35 0.89 lead transfer to CRM 18 5 8 0 2 2 35 0.94 lead scoring 0.38

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Hubspot Offers Small Business Marketers a Big Bundle of Features

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Yesterday’s post described one strategy to sell marketing automation to small businesses: provide a specific, turnkey service that requires virtually no skill or effort from the user. If the vendors fail, the business will go to consultants, ad agencies, and other service firms that do the clients’ marketing for them.

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More Blathering About Demand Generation Software

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The study suggests—at least to me; Aberdeen doesn’t quite put it this way—that companies tend to start by deploying a basic lead management platform, followed by lead nurturing programs, and then adding lead prioritization and scoring. General ease of use and customization could be another.

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Beyond Marketing Automation: Building a Complete Marketing Infrastructure

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This started as a post about Empathy Logic , a company that merges data from marketing automation, CRM, Web tracking, order processing, social monitoring, and other systems; lets marketers segment and select from this more complete set of data; and sends the resulting lists back to message delivery systems such as email and Web sites.