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The Evolution of Marketing Automation: Are Traditional Platforms on Their Way Out?

Heinz Marketing

By Lisa Heay , Director of Business Operations at Heinz Marketing What platforms come to mind when you think of marketing automation? In the past, I’d assume the answer to that would always be limited to Marketo, Pardot, Hubspot or Eloqua. Not to date myself, but I’ve been using Marketo for close to 15 years.

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20 questions to ask marketing automation vendors during a demo

Martech

Marketing automation platforms often play a central role in marketing technology stacks, especially given the importance of email as a marketing channel. To start, set up demos with your shortlist of vendors within a relatively short timeframe after receiving the RFP responses to help make relevant comparisons.

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The 10 Best Webinar and Webcasting Tools

Webbiquity

Probably the most important is content: are you giving attendees useful, actionable information—not just a thinly veiled sales pitch? A final, sometimes overlooked element, is your webinar technology platform. GoToWebinar and WebEx (which is more of an online meeting tool) are no longer your only options. Total reviews: 552.

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A Guide to Marketing Automation

Zoominfo

While marketing professionals understand marketing automation can streamline essential processes, many do not leverage these systems to their full advantage. Marketing automation is beneficial. What is Marketing Automation, And Why is it Important? How Does Marketing Automation Work?

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Does your organization really need a marketing automation platform?

Martech

Marketing automation platforms are often at the center of the marketing organization, but with capabilities that go beyond your average email platform often come steeper prices and a sharper learning curve. Have we outgrown our current marketing system? What kind of marketing automation platform do we need?

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Why we care about marketing automation

Martech

Marketing automation is quite literally that — the automation of specific marketing tasks so that they are accomplished more speedily and efficiently, creating the opportunity to deliver personalized and relevant messages at scale. Table of contents What is marketing automation and why is it important?

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Key Findings from the 2021 ANNUITAS Enterprise Marketing Automation Platform Analysis

ANNUITAS

Marketing Automation Platforms (MAPs) are perhaps the most misunderstood component of the Demand Technology Stack. Too often MAPs are associated with tactical email nurturing and simple lead qualification — tactical use cases that dominate immature platform deployments. billion in 2019. Operations and Reporting.