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ICON16: How Infusionsoft Plans To Dominate Small Business Marketing (and Make Life Better For Small Businesses Everywhere)

Customer Experience Matrix

The company made a few announcements, most notably a vastly improved email builder and tighter integration with online accounting software from Quickbooks Online and Xero. Infusionsoft’s goal is to bake as much as possible of the methodology into the software, its partner ecosystem, and prebuilt assets such as campaign plans.

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Marketo Conference: Small Changes, Big Picture

Customer Experience Matrix

Real Time Personalization already exists, obviously, and will remain a separate product that can work with any marketing automation system. This requires a large customer base, easy access by app developers, enough power to be useful, and a barrier that keeps the monopoly intact. Let me be clear.

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NurtureHQ Offers "Dead Easy Marketing Automation". Is That Enough?

Customer Experience Matrix

New-ish marketing automation vendor NurtureHQ showed me its product recently. Other vendors have asked the same questions and reached the same conclusions. What they found “too hard” wasn’t the software, but the planning and content creation needed for serious marketing automation. That’s not a software problem.

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Marketing Automation News from Dreamforce: B2B More Integrated, B2C Stays Separate

Customer Experience Matrix

I spent the early part of this week at Salesforce.com ’s annual Dreamforce conference. In terms of infrastructure, Pardot will eventually work directly from the CRM data objects, rather than maintaining its own synchronized database. Here are my observations. The big news was for geeks. But some revolutions are bigger than others.

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eTrigue Puts a New Interface on Mature Marketing Automation Features

Customer Experience Matrix

If that sounds familiar, it’s because I recently mentioned similar claims from Net-Results , Act-On Software , and t Marketbright. Even if these vendors are right that complexity is the key barrier to adoption, there’s no business opportunity unless their systems are simpler. Bear in mind that’s a two-part proposition.

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Is the In-House B2B Marketing Department Going Away?

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Many applications and services are not residing in-house on some server in the datacenter but are instead delivered in the cloud, provided as Software as a Service. Is the future for the majority of marketing professionals a freelance model of working for dozens of clients at the same time?