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Can you do top-of-funnel marketing automation without CRM?

Biznology

According to Salesforce.com , 92% of customer interactions happen on the phone. Call tracking vendors expect users to use a CRM. Some vendors (CallRail) offer a rudimentary, quasi-CRM app (LeadCenter), that lacks the robust tools needed for true marketing automation. One vendor already building a chat-based hub is Podium.

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Optify Lets Agencies Provide Small Business with Marketing Automation, Distributed Marketing, and Sales Enablement

Customer Experience Matrix

I only mention this because I’ve recently been looking at a lot of new (to me) vendors and haven’t been able to write about many of them. This makes it a system for both small business and service vendors: two of my four themes. CRM integration is currently limited to sending data to Salesforce.com.

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9 Email Marketing Best Practices to Generate More Leads

Hubspot

I’m here at the Dreamforce event in San Francisco to learn about some of the new tools and techniques Salesforce.com and other vendors are promoting to businesses like yours. Use Auto-Responders for Opt-Ins: Be prepared for your readers to forget they opted in.

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Do Small Businesses Need Marketing Automation?

Customer Experience Matrix

Summary: Vendors who target small businesses include provide functions beyond traditional marketing automation. The replies are rolling in from the survey of vendor features that I mentioned last week. The replies are rolling in from the survey of vendor features that I mentioned last week.