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Why Are Marketing Automation Managers So Hard to Find?

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According to Forrester, only 2-5% of B2B firms have invested in full-featured Marketing Automation. Note: if you’re looking for a Marketing Automation job, check out the positions below… Inspiration: Web Analytics 5 Years Ago. The situation with Marketing Automation reminds me most of Web Analytics.

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Hubspot Review

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But – just like any other SEO & Social Media tool – HubSpot will only deliver results if you put a fair amount of time into creating and promoting content: compelling content is what makes the HubSpot engine hum. And finally, reporting and analytics show the business results of your activities. Small Businesses.

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Measure Your ROI on Social Media Leads

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After that, Google Analytics provided similar tracking features by appending variables to the existing URL (see the Google URL Builder tool ). So in my opinion this is a very interesting new tool that is makes it easier to track campaign ROI for Social Media and beyond. How would you use this lead source tracking tool?

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Abandon Your Marketing Automation System!?

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The plan is to go back to using only Salesforce.com with some cheap add-on tools for email, form submission and data quality. the split between Leads and Contacts), but many 3rd party tools are addressing these weaknesses. You can create reports and dashboards in Salesforce.com to provide analytics. Smart or foolish? Background.

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Inbound Marketing Automation

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Should Marketing Automation systems add Inbound Marketing tools as standard features? Or is it better to keep those tools separate? I brought up this question in my previous blog post , and Maria Pergolino had some very good comments on which tools to use and how to integrate them for ROI reporting.

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Marketing Automation Trends for 2010

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The need for new analytical skills. Spammers Beware: As email clients and service providers adopt features similar to those in Other Inbox , making it nearly impossible to email people you don’t have explicit opt in preferences from. These are the trends that are mentioned most often: Improved ROI & Reporting.