Create a list of routine marketing activities in which the company engages, such as auto-response emails. For B2B organizations looking to shorten sales cycles, increase revenue and achieve better marketing ROI, marketing automation is the natural answer. These automated solutions manage the process of converting prospects to buyers by automating tasks and workflows such as:

It’s important to note that it’s always just the logos of these companies that appear, never the name of ABC, CNN, etc. in One of the most seemingly ludicrous, annoying, and pervasive Twitter scams are the promises of free teeth whitening.  So, what is this all about? The teeth whitening scams work by creating fake websites

Note that these are just the percentage of companies planning a budget increase; the actual average increase in digital budget was 17%. The average proportion of budget spent on digital was 24%, which is higher than other figures I’ve seen, suggesting the respondents were more digitally oriented than the industry as a whole. - lack of skills is the key impediment to digital growth: lack of staff, company culture and lack of digital understanding were three of top four problems (after lack of budget, which was number 1). Summary: a new survey from ExactTarget shows that digital marketing is growing faster than database marketing or mass media, and that agencies have a harder time adding digital capabilities than their clients.