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Getting Started Guide for Marketing Automation

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With all the (deserved) hype surrounding marketing automation, is no wonder that many companies, startups especially, are adding the technology as a key component to their marketing activities. But let’s say you got approval and have purchased the marketing automation software of your dreams. Getting Started with Marketing Automation.

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Demand Generation and Lead Management Explained

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Last week Carlos Hidalgo , CEO of the Annuitas Group , shared on the Software Advice blog a nice video explaining two basic concepts that are often used interchangeably by vendors and even analysts in the Marketing Automation space but should in fact be treated as separate concepts: Demand Generation and Lead Management.

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Marketing Automation Monday is Here!

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The Effective Marketer Effectiveness is a discipline and it can be learned Home About the Effective Marketer Books Speaking Marketing Automation Monday is Here! Most companies start off with one track for their automation and nurturing programs and expand with time. As always, you have to take all of this with a grain of salt.

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The State of Demand Generation

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There are over 20 presentations available, ranging from Social CRM and Lead Generation, to Case Studies and Sales Enablement. The State of Demand Generation 2012. Why is demand generation so important? According to Tony Jaros, marketers will typically spend 60% of their budget on demand generation programs.

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When Inbound Marketing Goes Wrong

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The combination of the right programs based on their effectiveness for your particular situation is what will generate the best results. can help you further spread the word about the content and multiply the number of new views you generate (and thus the number of shares, likes, etc.). Automates repetitive tasks.

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How Everybody Wins with HubSpot's Funding « The Effective Marketer

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This means that is time to update my previous charts on marketing automation funding (see below) and the funding timeline, because HubSpot just surpassed Marketo as the highest funded marketing software vendor to date. Industry Impact Should established marketing automation players be worried about HubSpot’s sudden infusion of capital?

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Why Sales and Marketing Don't Get Along « The Effective Marketer

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It is interesting that back in 2009, MarketingSherpa had published a chart showing the key challenges marketers faced and “generating high quality leads&# was the top one. In their “ CMO Perspectives on B2B Marketing Automation &# this challenge for high quality leads is shown as having increased from 69% in 2009 to 76% in 2010.

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