Martech

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Are you searching for the right marketing automation platform to help scale your marketing efforts? That’s why we’ve just published our fully updated guide to the top marketing automation platforms on the market.

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Act-On

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Marketing automation reports can be a great source of info when looking for the right vendor. Consider these 3 types of vendor reports when researching.

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TrustRadius Marketing

OCTOBER 27, 2022

One of the biggest professional commitments is the marriage between a vendor and a buyer. The software your team needs comes with a vendor relationship you’re going to foster, and like in real marriage you need to choose the right one. What is the Vendor Selection Process? Our Tips For Vendor Selection Criteria.

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Martech

JANUARY 26, 2023

After you’ve determined if your company needs one , it’s time to select a vendor and schedule demos. Does the vendor seem to understand our business and our marketing needs? Does the vendor seem to understand our business and our marketing needs? Are they showing us our “must-have” features? If so, which ones?

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Martech

JANUARY 19, 2024

Understanding the role of email automation in marketing Broadly speaking, automation helps us do more with less. Rather than helping marketers send more email, the role of email automation is to send the right email to the right person. So what do you look for when evaluating email automation platforms? Drip campaigns.

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Martech

APRIL 21, 2023

Marketing automation is quite literally that — the automation of specific marketing tasks so that they are accomplished more speedily and efficiently, creating the opportunity to deliver personalized and relevant messages at scale. Table of contents What is marketing automation and why is it important?

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Martech

JULY 16, 2021

Real Story on MarTech: Big vendor stability? . Real Story Group’s founder, Tony Byrne, tends to think the vast majority of the reported 8,000 martech vendors will survive, but fears will persist about individual vendors’ viability. Software vendors are no different, and who wants to get stuck with an unsupported product?

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Martech

APRIL 25, 2023

Marketing automation platforms form the backbone of marketing operations, increasingly serving as sophisticated marketing orchestration platforms. This 44-page report includes profiles of 10 leading B2B marketing automation vendors, capabilities comparisons and recommended steps for evaluating and purchasing.

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Webbiquity

MARCH 17, 2020

Ever since factory automation became commonplace, other business functions have embraced it as well. Automation removes laborious tasks from your workload and frees up your time to work on higher-level issues. Widespread Internet adoption introduced the concept of digital automation. This is where chatbot automation can help.

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Martech

JULY 6, 2022

We also owe a debt of gratitude to many martech vendors, who not only build the platforms on which we work, but who also produce a plethora of marketing education including classes, workshops, and certifications. A lot of vendors excel at one thing, but are lacking elsewhere. Answer: Very unlikely. .

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B2BMarketing.net

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Making the right martech choice to enable account-based marketing just got an awful lot easier with the launch of B2B Marketing’s first Martech Vendor Spotlight Report , which focused on the ABM category. This report lists all those vendors who can help marketers to run an ABM strategy. The post New!

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Bionic

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Vendor Bills – Automate the process of receiving, organizing, and managing vendor bills related to the delivery of advertising media. Reconciliations – Automate the process of reconciling vendor bills against IOs, delivery, and performance. Automate Insertion Orders. Organize Your Vendor Payables.

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Zoominfo

MAY 31, 2023

But too many marketing leaders still report that they haven’t built a complete ABM tech stack to deliver the automation they need. Everyone wants to be the first vendor in the door when accounts start showing interest in solving problems that you can help address. Wondering how to incorporate AI and automation into your ABM strategy?

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Martech

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Marketing automation programs (MAPs) help marketers speed up processes and increase efficiency. Here are some tips for how to do this even as your marketing automation program continues to grow. Map out the marketing automation program First, map out all the parts of the MAP visually. “I

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Customer Experience Matrix

MAY 24, 2014

On May 6, AOL and Google announced their respective acquisitions of attribution vendors Convertro and Adometry. The particular not-ness that I have in mind is not being a marketing automation system. I’m not ready to say that the great marketing automation boom is over or that marketing automation is approaching commodity status.

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Martech

JANUARY 9, 2023

What factors are driving marketing automation platform use, and what capabilities do MAPs provide for B2B marketers? Our new report, “ B2B Marketing Automation Platforms: A Marketer’s Guide ” is now available for free download. How vendors differentiate on capabilities. The top 5 solutions replaced.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JUNE 12, 2014

I recently did a study of the strategies of B2B marketing automation vendors. What I found most intriguing was the sheer diversity of the approaches, showing that vendors continue to explore new paths to success. The table below shows results for each strategy for each set of vendors, grouped by the major strategy categories.

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Martech

JANUARY 21, 2022

For starters, once you have determined that ABM software makes sense for your business, spend time researching individual vendors and their capabilities by doing the following: Make a list of all the ABM capabilities you currently have, those that you would like to have and those that you can’t live without.

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Martech

JULY 29, 2022

Once you’ve gone through the checklist to determine if you need — and are ready for — an ABM solution, the next step is to identify and contact vendors. Your vendor shortlist. For example, if enriching your ICPs with deeper technographic data is important, be sure to ask about it during vendor interviews and demos.

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Martech

MAY 27, 2022

This week, content experience platform (CXP) Contentstack debuted their Automation Hub, a no-code composable architecture tool. The Automation Hub simplifies, on the front end, the deployment of composable architectures used for content creation in building digital experiences for customers. What it does. Marketplace.

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Customer Experience Matrix

NOVEMBER 19, 2011

It’s time to wrap up this series of posts on marketing automation vendor selection, which were based on my November 10 Webinar with Neolane (replay available here ). I gave my own ideas about what the future might hold in Marketing Vendor Selection: Trends You'll Need to Support. I’ve summarized them in three commandments.

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Zoominfo

MARCH 8, 2021

What is Automated Lead Qualification? Some things need to be as automated as possible for sales teams to make the best decisions when acting on MQLs and leads. Automated lead qualification needs solid qualification metrics from both sales and marketing teams , as well as the right tech stack. Increasing Lead Response Rates.

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Martech

JULY 15, 2021

Big martech vendors — even successful ones — routinely jettison or replace longstanding tools. Early in my career as an industry analyst, I noticed that some of the best web content and experience management (WCM) solutions came from lesser-known vendors. The myth of large-vendor stability. Yet, IBM was not alone.

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The Point

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

Now, Steve happens to work in product marketing for Oracle Marketing Cloud , home of Eloqua, typically regarded as the most feature-rich (some would say: complex) marketing automation solution on the market. But even then, the trend speaks to a failure of the big marketing automation players to cement their place in the tech stack.

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Content Standard

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Title Options A Quick Start to Research-Informed Content for Healthcare Vendors Healthcare Vendors and Research-Informed Content: 4 Tactics You Can Implement Today Healthcare Vendors and Research-Informed Content-Part 1: The Low-Hanging Fruit “Half of them are working off instinct and hunches.”

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Martech

MARCH 9, 2022

Does the vendor seem to understand our business and our marketing needs? Marketing automation and agent training. Does the platform enable other marketing automation capabilities, such as automatically generating online display or email nurturing campaigns? Are they showing us our “must-have” features? If so, which ones?

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Martech

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Many CRM vendors have partnered with database firms to allow users to automatically populate contact and company records with updated information with just a click of a button. Otherwise, this automation won’t work very well. Lean into your software vendors. Many in marketing share this frustration. In your inbox.

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The Point

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Almost 5 years ago, our agency conducted a survey to determine whether B2B companies were getting maximum value from their investment in marketing automation. You’d assume, therefore, that marketing automation maturity – the level of sophistication at which companies employ the technology – has improved.

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Martech

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Does the vendor seem to understand our business and marketing needs? Explore platform capabilities from vendors like Sitecore, Optimizely, Pantheon, WordPressVIP and more in the full MarTech Intelligence Report on digital experience platforms. CDPs , marketing automation platforms , CRMs , DSPs, DAMs )? Click here to download!

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Customer Experience Matrix

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

Marketers can do a better job of picking their marketing automation vendors if they roll up their sleeves and work at it. But you also need a vendor who will support your long-term success. Here are some ways to identify a “future-safe” vendor. These are still surprisingly rare in B2B marketing automation systems.

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Salesforce Marketing Cloud

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Business process automation (BPA) allows you to automate those manual responsibilities, so that you can focus on work that promotes innovation. The spotlight’s now on why it’s high time to embrace automation, and how you can wield its power with precision. The global BPA market is projected to reach $19.6

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Customer Experience Matrix

AUGUST 25, 2016

Our tour of sub-functions from the Raab Guide to ABM Vendors has now reached Execution. Many can also push messages to other channels via marketing automation or CRM integration. That definition could apply to almost any system that delivers marketing messages, but the ABM Guide includes only ABM specialists.

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Customer Experience Matrix

AUGUST 25, 2016

and we wrap up our review of sub-functions from the Raab Guide to ABM Vendors with a look at Result Analysis. Not surprisingly, most of vendors who do ABM Result Analysis also do some sort of Execution (12 out of 16, to be exact). Another two (Everstring and ZenIQ) didn't fall into the Execution group but came close.

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Martech

JUNE 22, 2023

Editor’s note: This is Part 2 of a four-part series on how AI will be infused into marketing automation platforms. Part 1, AI marketing automation: How it works and why marketers should care, is here. Even with automation, we rely heavily on human interaction and system interfaces to drive much of the input. Get MarTech!

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SalesIntel

APRIL 17, 2024

In the B2B industry, email automation has become a transformative tool enabling you to streamline communication, offer personalized content, and cultivate leads efficiently. To enhance your email campaigns, it’s crucial to understand and implement effective strategies for B2B email marketing automation.

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Martech

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Automating it will doubtless increase efficiency and accuracy. Further, when vendors add AI features to their products, they need to detail the underlying tasks each AI feature handles. Further, when we automate learning experiences, new challenges will also present themselves. We ignore that fact to our own peril. Get MarTech!

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Customer Experience Matrix

OCTOBER 17, 2012

Microsoft today announced the acquisition of marketing management system vendor MarketingPilot , which will become part of its Dynamics CRM group. It has a pretty low profile in the B2B marketing automation world, partly because it serves a mix of B2C and B2B clients but mostly because it started as a marketing operations management system.

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