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Optify Lets Agencies Provide Small Business with Marketing Automation, Distributed Marketing, and Sales Enablement

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Optify was founded in 2008 and launched its original product, a search engine optimization (SEO) tool, about a year later. You can also think of Optify as having worked its way down from the top of the funnel (SEO) to the middle (marketing automation) and towards the bottom (CRM).

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Social Media Features in Marketing Automation Systems: Who Does What?

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Social media is arguably overhyped as a marketing trend: it gets well under 10% of marketing budgets (different surveys have figures from 3% to 8%) and results are questionable (it was rated the least effective content marketing tactic in a recent MarketingProfs study ). But social is clearly growing fast and has great potential.

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Online Marketing Systems Are Still Very Fragmented

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These include Web application servers like IBM Websphere , Web development tools like Adobe Dreamweaver , and Web content management tools like Vignette. Demand generation systems like Vtrenz , Eloqua and Manticore combine email with some Web page creation and analytics.