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Will Marketing Automation Be Free?

LeadSloth

Today Genius.com announced a free version of their Marketing Automation system. Only about a month ago, Loopfuse also started offering a free version of their Marketing Automation system. What does this mean for companies interested in adopting Marketing Automation? How Much Is Free? Genius.com. unlimited.

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Are We Making Marketing Automation Harder Than Necessary?

Customer Experience Matrix

Summary: Is stressing the need for process change making marketing automation too complicated, or a recognition of what it really takes for success? I’m not sure that whoever speaks for “conventional wisdom” would agree that marketing automation solutions must be expensive and complex. I know I do. Act-On begs to differ.

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Marketing Automation Skills are Scarce: Strategies to Close the Gap

Customer Experience Matrix

The marketing automation industry continues to grow quickly, with many vendors announcing their client bases have more than doubled in 2011. But there’s also a growing realization that many marketing automation systems are used for only simple tasks – often no more than email, landing pages, and CRM integration. automation.

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Social Media Features in Marketing Automation Systems: Who Does What?

Customer Experience Matrix

So marketing automation vendors are understandably eager to support it in their systems. Plenty of third party applications can do this, so providing it within the marketing automation system is mostly a matter of convenience. But social is clearly growing fast and has great potential. Results are summarized in the table below. .

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Ranking B2B Marketing Automation Vendors: How I Built My Scores (part 1)

Customer Experience Matrix

Summary: The first of three posts describing my new scoring system for B2B marketing automation vendors. Recognizing that buyers will use the chart to select products no matter what I tell them, I settled on dimensions that are directly related to the purchase process: - product fit , which assesses how well a product matches buyer needs.

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Assessing The Value of Your Lead Database

LeadSloth

This Wednesday I’m presenting a webinar called “Search and Rescue&# for your lead database , hosted by Loopfuse. It presents a 7-step process to generate revenue from existing leads, who were previously assumed “lost&#. Part of this process is assessing the value of your existing leads.

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Genius.com Offers Free Edition: How Much Does It Lower True Cost of Entry?

Customer Experience Matrix

But I think its strategy of offering an intermediate product between email marketing and full marketing automation may actually be more useful in attracting new customers. LoopFuse also provides automated Salesforce.com integration, but doesn’t have Genius’s Web tracking technology.