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

Biznology

If you’re a small or medium size business selling to consumers, you probably want to both automate and personalize your marketing campaigns. The solution, of course, is marketing automation linked to your customer relationship management (CRM) software. Marketing automation combined with CRM is a real benefit to sales organizations.

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Act-On Software Stresses Ease of Use

Customer Experience Matrix

At $500 per month with no annual contract, it’s priced to make it easy to get started with marketing automation. The actual functions provided by Act-On are generally competitive with low-to-mid tier marketing automation products. Such emails would otherwise be invisible to the marketing automation system. So let me try again.

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Net-Results Simplifies Demand Generation for Small Business

Customer Experience Matrix

When Net-Results ’ showed me their marketing automation system, the demonstration ended so quickly that I wondered what was missing. Prospects enter Net-Results from external Web forms (more about that later), file imports, manual data entry, or Salesforce.com synchronization. Reports include graphs as well as tabular data.

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Cohort Demand Waterfall Conversions – The Framework

B2B Marketing Analytics

Every company is unique in terms of what it offers, how it operates, how the go-to-market strategy is. To identify “How many of these leads have converted to MQLs”, MQL date stamps and flags are critical for this analysis so the CRM and Marketing Automation systems should have the workflows to stamp these fields.

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Demand Waterfall Conversion Rates – The Framework

B2B Marketing Analytics

Every company is unique in terms of what it offers, how it operates, how the go-to-market strategy is. To identify “How many of these leads have converted to MQLs”, MQL date stamps and flags are critical for this analysis so the CRM and Marketing Automation systems should have the workflows to stamp these fields.

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Demand Waterfall Conversion Rates – The Framework

B2B Marketing Analytics

Every company is unique in terms of what it offers, how it operates, how the go-to-market strategy is. To identify “How many of these leads have converted to MQLs”, MQL date stamps and flags are critical for this analysis so the CRM and Marketing Automation systems should have the workflows to stamp these fields.

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More New Systems Challenge the Marketing Automation Status Quo

Customer Experience Matrix

Last week’s post looked at newer marketing automation systems that focused on small businesses. The general notion is that small businesses are finding existing marketing automation products too hard to use and would be happy with something simpler, especially if it costs less.