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How to Have a Successful Marketing Automation Implementation

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If you know that you are going to be working with custom objects within your customer resource management (CRM), you need to make sure you are implementing your MAP to support custom objects. Integration with your CRM. Ensure you have the business owners in the room when you are discussing changes to your organization’s CRM platform.

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The Rise of the Marketing Technologist Part 3: People, Process, Content and then Technology

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All of the usual suspects were in the room – head of marketing, head of sales, marketing automation power users, demand generation leads, content marketer … but also present were the head of their CRM install and the lead project manager of their website and web analytics team — both IT roles in this particular company.

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The Growth Leader’s Guide to Embracing Strategic Demand Marketing

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Regardless of what you may hear from your marketing department or technology vendor partners, Strategic Demand Marketing is not just about marketing automation, chat, ABM, or CRM/CMS integrations. Yes, these things are a component, but technology is a tool – not a strategy. Investing in People is Key.

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What Marketing Automation and Basketball Have In Common

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Like a basketball coach, the power user ultimately can train, lead, evaluate, and is dedicated to optimizing the solution in every possible way. The problem could be something as simple as a field changed in your CRM solution that automatically updated the marketing automation solution field. Is this person trained on the solution?

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5 Reasons Why Marketing and Sales Technology Just Won’t Work

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.  These technologies included a marketing automation platform and a CRM system.     They went onto say that they had purchased the automation technology several years ago, but they only used it to send out survey links to customers. .   They used an entirely different system to send emails.  

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A B2B Perspective of Dreamforce

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However, there was quite a buzz as many tried to discover which marketing automation platform Salesforce.com decided to purchase for their own use. I’m sure there is probably no better place to get hands-on training if you’re a Salesforce.com user or administrator. Observation 2: Marketing Automation is Alive & Well.

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The Rise of the Marketing Technologist Part 2: Who Owns The Marketing Technology Stack?

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We are in the business of collecting data, and there needs to be an understanding of the true value of each recorded interaction throughout every separate stage of their purchase journey. . Less than 30% rate themselves as “best-in-class” when it came to the use of their technology purchases. Image Scott Brinker, chiefmartec.com.