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Social CRM, Inbound Marketing and Marketing Automation

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Today I’m a panelist at the Silverpop Client Summit and we’re talking about Social CRM, Inbound Marketing and Marketing Automation, moderated by Adam Needles. Social CRM. CRM is very broad, it’s not just about sales, but about pretty much anything that involves communicating with your customers.

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Best CRM for Marketing Automation: Salesforce.com, Microsoft or Oracle?

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Forrester recently released a vendor evaluation for midmarket CRM vendors. If you look at Marketing Automation systems, the best supported CRM system is Salesforce.com. However, Forrester states that Microsoft Dynamics CRM may actually be a better CRM product. What if you’re choosing a CRM system today?

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How Are CRM and Marketing Automation Different?

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Last week I presented a session at Silverpop’s B2B Marketing University in Atlanta. In addition to Marketing Automation, there were two big topics: Social Media and CRM. I will write about Social Media some other time, and focus on CRM in this post. Strong Features of CRM. Native Email Marketing.

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B2B Marketing Analytics

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On Saturday I presented a session about B2B Marketing Analytics at AnalyticsCamp in Chapel Hill ( slides here ). My specialty is Marketing Automation, but Analytics and Reporting come up in pretty much any project I do. So it’s no wonder that marketers who believe in automation also want to see reports on marketing performance.

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Social Media & Marketing Automation

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This week there was a discussion about Social Media and Marketing Automation in the LinkedIn Group of the Marketing Automation Association. I asked myself: Does Marketing Automation Get Social? How can Social Media be integrated with Marketing Automation? The most critical collaboration is between Marketing and Sales.

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Abandon Your Marketing Automation System!?

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I’m working on an interesting project right now: moving away from a marketing automation system. The company in question has used a comprehensive marketing automation system for about 2 years. In addition to cost savings, the thinking is that a full-blown marketing automation system just makes less sense with the new strategy.

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Sales 2.0: Marketing Automation & Salesforce Chatter

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I write about Marketing Automation, so why am I at a sales conference? I’m here because I believe Sales & Marketing should be on the same team. Marketing Automation can help both Marketing and Sales, but it requires intense collaboration: that’s what Sales 2.0 Chatter and Marketing Automation.