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3 Ways to Use Lead Scoring Within Your Marketing Automation Programs

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I wrote last week about the difficulty of linking marketing leads to sales results. One reason the topic was on my mind is I’m also thinking a lot these days about lead scoring. But the ultimate goal is to identify the leads most likely to generate revenue. .*

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Strikedeck Adds Automation to Customer Success Management

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This made them a fifth subtype of Customer Data Platforms (CDPs), along with systems based on marketing, lead scoring, sales advisory, and tag management. Strikedeck is aiming squarely at the same market as customer success leaders Gainsight and Totango but includes more automated execution of recommended actions.

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Bizo and DemandBase Lead B2B Marketing Automation to Web Advertising and Beyond

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Marketing automation, Web analytics, and Web content management systems can all access this data via API calls for analytics and as inputs to their own selection and treatment rules. This is a major extension beyond traditional marketing automation, which works mostly through email to known prospects. Given that the total employed U.S.

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Mautic Offers Free, Open Source Marketing Automation

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The only real question about free, open source marketing automation from Mautic is what took so long. The core features of B2B marketing automation have been well understood for nearly ten years and prices have been dropping steadily for about the same time. But pricing will remain well below standard marketing automation products.

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Predictive Marketing Vendors Look Beyond Lead Scores

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The past week brought three more announcements about predictive vendors expanding beyond lead scoring. In particular, its finding new market segments that clients might enter – something different from simply scoring leads that clients present to it or even from finding individual prospects that look like current customers.

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Are 70% of Marketing Automation Users Unhappy? Well, Not Exactly

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A recent piece in TechCrunch quoted me as saying that “almost 70 percent of marketers are either unhappy or only marginally happy with their marketing automation software.” This lead to enough questions about the data that it now seems worth a blog post on the topic. Answers came from 159 marketing automation users.

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SalesPredict Offers Highly Automated, Highly Flexible Predictive Modeling

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In this case, the main technical differentiator is extreme automation: SalesPredict imports customer data, builds models, scores current records, and deploys the results with virtually no human intervention. This is somewhat different from predictive modeling vendors who have focused primarily on helping marketers with lead scoring.