SmarkLabs

APRIL 3, 2023

In today’s competitive business landscape, integrating your Customer Relationship Management (CRM) and Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems is essential to ensure seamless communication and data sharing between various departments. Additionally, this streamlines data management and improves overall business efficiency.

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ClickZ

OCTOBER 22, 2020

30-second summary: We provide five examples of enterprise-level providers of marketing automation solutions including industry case studies. Each of these companies are leaders in marketing automation, with enterprise businesses (and, in some cases, SMBs) benefiting from their platforms, solutions, and technology.

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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. For example, ChatSpot (HubSpot’s AI interface) leverages the GPT model in its user interface. What’s next?

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Martech

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Timed to coincide with the opening of this year’s virtual Inbound conference today, HubSpot has announced CRM enhancements designed to make their offering more customer-centric. It also announced the launch of open beta for a new HubSpot Payments solution. “At HubSpot, we started with the idea of a unified platform.

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Martech

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Marketing automation platforms are a critical part of the martech ecosystem for many businesses, offering many benefits by streamlining manual B2B marketing tasks, including lead management, email campaign development and landing page creation. What marketing automation capabilities are most critical to our business?

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SmartBug Media

JULY 6, 2023

In today's fast-paced business environment , streamlining workflows and improving efficiency are crucial for success. In this blog post, we'll explore the benefits of using API integrations in HubSpot, common use cases, considerations for integrating APIs with HubSpot, and best practices for successful integration.

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Biznology

JUNE 6, 2018

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. Fortunately for SMB marketers, CRM is becoming main stream.

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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. MarketingPilot is best described as integrated marketing management for mid-tier companies. Financial terms were not disclosed. But the real significance may be greater.

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Customer Experience Matrix

AUGUST 2, 2012

I’ve been so busy analyzing the new VEST data that I missed the announcement that Eloqua’s would make its initial stock offering today. In a young industry like B2B marketing automation, the primary focus is growth, and I published some figures on that yesterday (repeated below). And the stock did rise 12% on the first day.

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SmartBug Media

JANUARY 13, 2020

You’re on the hunt for a marketing automation tool? Not only have you made a fantastic decision for your business, but you’ve come to the right place for guidance through the process. You’ll want to know how else these marketing automation platforms can integrate with other areas of your business.

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Martech

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

This is Part 3 of a four-part series on how AI will be infused into marketing automation platforms. CRM and marketing automation platform (MAP) vendors are embedding genAI capabilities into their existing applications, and so are Microsoft and Google in their general-purpose productivity suites, Office and Workspace.

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SmarkLabs

JANUARY 12, 2023

CRM has become an essential tool for businesses of all sizes. CRM can help your business keep track of interactions, data, and notes about customers or potential customers. It doesn’t make magic happen, but with the right processes and management oversight, a CRM can be extremely powerful for the growth of a business.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 10, 2013

sales enablement: systems to share marketing information with sales ( Genius , SalesFusion , LeadFormix , RightOn Interactive , Optify) distributed marketing: systems shared between central marketing organizations and local branches, dealers, distributors, sales agents, etc. That''s theme number three.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 31, 2015

Yesterday I released the mid-year edition of the VEST Report on B2B marketing automation vendors, thereby meeting my self-imposed deadline of July 31. Here are some observations: - market positions are pretty stable. This puts them among the top 3 leaders in the small business sector.

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Customer Experience Matrix

DECEMBER 27, 2010

Summary: The first of three posts describing my new scoring system for B2B marketing automation vendors. I’ve finally had time to work up the vendor scores based on the 150+ RFP questions I distributed back in September. vendor strength , which assesses a vendor’s current and future business position.

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Webbiquity

JULY 12, 2016

Marketing automation software tools can be very helpful in making lead nurturing and sales acceleration efforts more effective—even if the category is badly misnamed. Marketing can’t be automated.) Here are 14 of the best marketing automation tools based on their popularity with reviewers. 2) HubSpot.

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Customer Experience Matrix

MAY 2, 2012

Intuit last week announced an agreement to acquire local business marketing vendor Demandforce for $423.5 Still, the move makes perfect strategic sense, giving Intuit a stronger foothold in the marketing side of its small business customer base. That’s a hefty sum for a company with a reported revenue of $37.5

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SmartBug Media

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Congratulations—if you are reading this article, you are looking to implement an e-commerce solution for your business. You may be considering using the e-commerce platform Shopify , integrated with the marketing automation platform HubSpot , to help sell your products and services. Why integrate Shopify with HubSpot?

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TrustRadius Marketing

JANUARY 8, 2020

Hubspot’s ‘human’ voice, vast collection of educational materials and networking events have solidified its place as the authority on inbound marketing — and also as one of the most popular marketing automation platforms in the field. . But Hubspot might not be the right fit for everyone. . Let’s jump in.

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Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 13, 2014

The Interwebs have delivered an unusually rich trove of data about the marketing automation industry in the past few weeks. Taken together, these provide a clearer picture than usual of the state of marketing automation. Here’s how I see things. They are vastly more likely than average to have a system in place.

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Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

I’ve just published the latest edition of our B2B Marketing Automation Vendor Selection Tool (VEST), with updated entries on all your favorites and several new entries to boot. This is always a fun project because it gives me an overview of what all the vendors have been up to for the past six months. But that’s old news.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JUNE 19, 2015

The only real question about free, open source marketing automation from Mautic is what took so long. The core features of B2B marketing automation have been well understood for nearly ten years and prices have been dropping steadily for about the same time. So the opportunity seems obvious.

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Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 5, 2015

I just finished the latest release of the B2B Marketing Automation Vendor Selection Tool , a.k.a. That’s a technical step backwards but will actually make it easier for buyers to access the detailed vendor information, and in particular to screen for vendors with particular capabilities. VEST Report.

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SmartBug Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

But did you know that 65 percent of B2B marketers have not established any lead nurturing? In this blog post, we’ll talk about four steps to take to set scalable lead nurture workflows in HubSpot, so that all of your contacts are being touched with relevant content that moves them closer toward a purchase. Know Your Personas.

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KoMarketing Associates

JANUARY 19, 2022

Qualified (a Salesforce–tied conversational marketing platform) has become a huge asset for us at Alation. We’ve had quick internal buy-in from our SDR team, have generated SAL numbers that we hadn’t seen with a previous vendor, and are beginning to tie it into different facets of demand gen (like ABM, paid, email marketing, etc).

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Customer Experience Matrix

JUNE 13, 2016

It still feels odd to think of a software company owning a data business, although Salesforce.com bought Jigsaw (now Data.com) in 2010 and Oracle purchased the BlueKai and Datalogix in 2014. Other vendors like Nimble and HubSpot have done a better job of simplifying access to third party data about an individual or company.

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Customer Experience Matrix

OCTOBER 11, 2011

Marketo today announced the launch of Spark , a new brand aimed at small and mid-size business. Most of these aren’t of interest to small business, and several involve additional charges even for Marketo’s regular packages. HubSpot and Act-On have similar pricing to Spark, while Pardot runs a bit higher.

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Customer Experience Matrix

DECEMBER 2, 2010

Summary: HubSpot has continued to grow its customer base and expand its product. It's looking more like a conventional small-business marketing automation system every day. HubSpot has always aimed to provide small businesses with one easy-to-use system for all their marketing needs.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 22, 2011

The folks at HubSpot have been busy this summer, announcing their acquisition of Performable in June and their HubSpot App Marketplace last week. App markets are quite the fashion right now, and HubSpot’s joins the Eloqua AppCloud announced in June. Both events mark a continued expansion of their product.

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The Point

DECEMBER 16, 2015

Research company TrustRadius just published their new edition of the “Buyer’s Guide to Marketing Automation Software,” and it’s a doozy. Let’s face it, most martech “guides” are written by, well, marketers, and are either sponsored by or authored by the technology vendors themselves, so the content needs to be read with a critical eye.

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Webbiquity

AUGUST 4, 2020

But with seemingly everyone producing webinars now, how can you make yours stand out and attract busy buyers? BigMarker makes it easy to stream video feeds, slides, videos, and screen shares to Facebook and YouTube Live, and integrates with popular tools like Salesforce, HubSpot, MailChimp , and Drip. Total reviews: 679.

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Martech

DECEMBER 28, 2023

We see this in the rate at which martech vendors released beta features to users over the past year. Dig deeper: 3 ways email marketers should actually use AI This piece focuses on the integration capabilities in customer relationship management (CRM) and marketing automation platforms (MAPs). What will I take into 2024?

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Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

I released the 2012 edition of our B2B Marketing Automation Vendor Selection Tool (VEST) report today, an event that deserves more hoopla that I’ve given it. The VEST provides by far the most detailed, objective information available on industry vendors. For those of us who don’t get out much, that’s downright exciting.

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Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

I’ve just finished the latest update of our B2B Marketing Automation Vendor Selection Tool (VEST), available on the raabguide.com Web site. The VEST is our evaluation of industry vendors, aimed primarily at companies choosing a marketing automation system. We use two methods: Vendor revenues.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 31, 2012

I’ve just released the latest edition of my B2B Marketing Automation Vendor Selection Tool (VEST), which contains detailed analysis of all 22 B2B marketing automation systems. Vendors in the VEST are asked for estimates of their client counts by company size. The table below shows the results.

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Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 12, 2013

Let me start by saying that the 50% revenue increase I’m projecting for B2B marketing automation in 2013 is a very healthy one. But still, as I noted last week, the growth rate is slowing – and for some vendors seems to have fallen considerably in the second half of 2012. That means even the absolute increase was down: $11.2

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Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 30, 2013

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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