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Survey: Marketing Automation Users Score a “C” in Maturity

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The survey asked marketing operations managers and other B2B marketing executives to rank their current deployment of marketing automation software in 33 separate categories relating to either key software functionality or generally accepted best practice. The report is available as a free download from the Spear Website.

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More Evidence That Waiting Even 5 Seconds to Contact a New Sales Lead Can Be Disastrous

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In my experience, most of the mental energy and strategic thinking around the practice of lead nurturing and lead management is usually applied to the goal of accelerating prospects through the sales process – from MQL to SQL, from SQL to Opportunity, and so on. And that lack of focus can be a big mistake. Probably not.

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Why is Inside Sales So Scared of Lead Nurturing?

The Point

One of the reasons for this under-utilization, and the inability of some marketers to deploy, for example, automated lead nurturing at every stage of the selling process, is resistance from the sales organization, and in particular, Inside Sales. Marketo creates task in CRM to remind BDR to call lead 1 week later. Wait 2 weeks.

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Top 10 marketing automation tools every marketer must have

ClickZ

Perfect for: Driving lead management. Marketo is a multi-functional cloud-based marketing automation software that enables businesses to drive revenue with lead management and mobile marketing. Provides lead generation. Collects aggregate profile and behavior data to manage and score leads without involving IT.

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8 Ways to Generate More Sales-Ready Leads: Part Two

SnapApp

Editor’s Note: This is the second article in a two-part series that explores best practices for nurturing prospects, generating qualified leads, and improving conversion rate. In part one of this blog series, we looked at the ways marketers can lay the foundation for an effective lead generation strategy. Let’s get started.

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Why LeadSquared is the Right Marketing Automation Platform for a Small Business?

LeadSquared

Drive actions in third party applications on events like lead capture, lead update and landing page submissions with Webhooks. Automatically capture phone leads with Super Receptionist integration. Capture leads from website and blog comments using WordPress Plugins. What are these connectors? Not at all.

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Hubspot Alternatives

TrustRadius Marketing

Hubspot’s marketing automation software has received 1479 reviews and ratings on TrustRadius (overall score of 8.4), which gives us key insights on what users really think about the tool. Oracle Eloqua seeks to unite marketing and sales pursuits with highly integrated lead management.