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How Are CRM and Marketing Automation Different?

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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. Many attendees were confused by CRM vendors claiming to offer full marketing functionality. Strong Features of CRM. Strong Features of CRM.

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Abandon Your Marketing Automation System!?

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Basic lead scoring features are built into Salesforce.com, and data quality tools are available from vendors like Ringlead , CRM Fusion and Datatrim. So there are lots of useful add-ons available at a nominal price. You can create reports and dashboards in Salesforce.com to provide analytics. What Is Your Take?

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7 Reasons Why Marketing Automation Projects Fail

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If you sell low-priced widgets with a very short sales cycle, Marketing Automation won’t help you. But I hope we can avoid the same disillusionment phase that CRM went through. You are better served with B2C merchandising tools. Have You Seen Marketing Automation Failures?