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Acquisitions Reshape the Marketing Automation Industry: Growth at the Bottom, Room in the Middle, Fog at the Top

Customer Experience Matrix

Raab Associates officially released the new edition of our B2B Marketing Automation Vendor Selection Tool (VEST) yesterday. This is our flagship report on the industry, with nearly 200 data points on 23 vendors and separate ratings for micro-business, small to mid-size companies, and enterprise marketing departments.

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Marketo Conference: Small Changes, Big Picture

Customer Experience Matrix

The product changes were quite modest: new search engine optimization features for entry level users; a global marketing calendar; and relabeling of InsightEra, which Marketo purchased in December, as Marketo Real Time Personalization. This borders on integration of Web display with marketing automation, an extremely important trend.

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7 MailChimp Alternatives (Our Feedback After Trying Them Out)

SendX

SendX is an Email Marketing Software we’ve built to try to solve a core (and often the hardest) problem for small businesses. To understand our market and its needs better, we’ve actually spent a substantial amount of time digging and analysing each and every feature of the MailChimp competitors. Why do people go with MailChimp?

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Questions to Ask Trade Show Organizers When Using An Independent Lead Capture Solution

Lead Liaison

We’re breaking down that barrier with this phone script that exhibitors can use when coordinating with the show organizer. Some event organizers won’t lock this down until a few weeks before the event. . And it’s important to remember that 35-50% of sales go to the vendor that responds to an event lead first ( source ). .

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Top 10 Mailchimp Alternatives in 2020 (In-Depth Analysis)

SendX

Mailchimp has been wooing marketers with their easy to use interface, beautiful templates for a long while. And not so long ago, it became more than just an email marketing software. It became a CRM platform. Integrations are a must for you: Mailchimp has over 258 integrations with multiple softwares. 7) Automizy.

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Customer Data Platforms Revisited: The Future of Marketing Data

Customer Experience Matrix

It’s nearly two years since I introduced the concept of a Customer Data Platform , defined as a marketer-controlled system that builds a multi-source customer database and exposes it to external execution systems. Vendor Categories So far so good, but it’s really just theory. But things aren’t quite so simple.

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B2B Marketing Mix: Will Online, Social Tactics Lead?

Online Marketing Institute

B2B Marketing POSTs by Laura Ramos About the Author About this blog High tech marketers face incredible challenges building awareness, developing demand, enabling sales, and demonstrating marketings impact on the business in an increasingly digital world. Email and e-newsletters use now equals tradeshows in popular use.