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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. Maybe not so much anymore.

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Why Marketing Automation Customers are Migrating Downstream

The Point

Now, Steve happens to work in product marketing for Oracle Marketing Cloud , home of Eloqua, typically regarded as the most feature-rich (some would say: complex) marketing automation solution on the market. Most marketing automation failures come about from a lack of strategy.

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Why Is Marketing Automation Maturity Still Woeful?

The Point

Almost 5 years ago, our agency conducted a survey to determine whether B2B companies were getting maximum value from their investment in marketing automation. You’d assume, therefore, that marketing automation maturity – the level of sophistication at which companies employ the technology – has improved.

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Top 10 marketing automation tools every marketer must have

ClickZ

30-second summary: By simply adopting marketing automation technology, a company can significantly free up a marketers time and enable them to focus on more important revenue building projects as these tools can help to automate numerous repetitive tasks such as emails, campaign management, website analysis and social media marketing.

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VEST Report: Competition in B2B Marketing Automation Isn't About Features

Customer Experience Matrix

Yesterday I released the mid-year edition of the VEST Report on B2B marketing automation vendors, thereby meeting my self-imposed deadline of July 31. Here are some observations: - market positions are pretty stable. The VEST entries showed very little change in the features reported by the various vendors since the last report.

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5 leading providers of enterprise marketing automation solutions

ClickZ

30-second summary: We provide five examples of enterprise-level providers of marketing automation solutions including industry case studies. Each of these companies are leaders in marketing automation, with enterprise businesses (and, in some cases, SMBs) benefiting from their platforms, solutions, and technology.

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The Convergence of Marketing Automation and Account-Based Marketing

Engagio

A few years later, a couple of ex-e.pihanites, our very own Jon Miller along with Phil Fernandez, started Marketo to focus solely on B2B marketing and created what has now become the Marketing Automation space. You know the story here, Marketo, Eloqua and a few others came to quickly dominate the B2B marketing world.