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18 Common Features of a Best-in-Class Lead Nurture Program

The Point

It wasn’t that long ago, when marketing automation first burst on the scene, that the height of lead nurture sophistication was the simple, automated sending of multiple, sequential emails. Today, advances in marketing technology make such “automation” seem laughably basic. Photo by Marvin Meyer on Unsplash.

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The 14 Best Marketing Automation Tools

Webbiquity

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.

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Marketing Automation Vendor Consolidation: Lessons from History

Customer Experience Matrix

Summary: consolidation isn't new among marketing software vendors. When campaign management systems consolidated in the late 1990's and early 2000's, most were bought by enterprise software companies. Will weaker marketing automation vendors merge with each other to establish a larger market presence?

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8 Surprising B2B Use Cases for Chatbots

The Point

If you ask most B2B marketers how they use chat platforms like Drift , the immediate answer would most likely be: converting Web visitors. However, chat is also a powerful tool that can integrate into virtually any type of B2B demand generation program, campaign or initiative. Progressive Profiling.

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The B2B Marketer’s Quick Start Guide: Marketing Automation

Heinz Marketing

In today’s digital technology landscape there are numerous platforms, tools and technologies at the disposal of every marketer—almost too many. For each category I’ll highlight a few platforms/tools, the pros and cons of each, benchmarks and additional resources. Today’s post is about Marketing Automation.

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TOP 15 Content Marketing Agencies in South East Asia

Outgrow

Top 15 Content Marketing Agencies in South East Asia. Did you know that 72% of marketers agree that content marketing increases engagement? But, content marketing is easier said than done. ‘ 60% of marketers create at least one piece of content each day ’. iProspect Indonesia. Dog Digital.

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Career Advice for a Young Marketer

The Point

It’s a large corporation where you’ll learn the difference between product marketing, field marketing, and corporate marketing, between branding and demand generation. Work for an agency. At some point early in your career, work for an agency. Take a sales training class if your company offers one.