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Getting Started Guide for Marketing Automation

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Problem is, sometimes the rush to get the software installed and running ends up trampling the creation of processes, content planning, and other key ingredients that are necessary for a successful marketing automation implementation. Grande Guide to Lead Nurturing , by Eloqua. Getting Started with Marketing Automation.

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What’s Wrong with Marketing Education?

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Marketing Automation : the typical step-up from email marketing, marketing automation software (such as Marketo , Eloqua , Act-On , Pardot , and others ) allows you to automate the sending of your emails and, more importantly, of nurturing your leads.

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Marketing Automation Catching On Fire

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Note: I used publicly available data and wasn’t able to find Eloqua’s Series A, so I deducted based on valuation of their second round. Also interesting to note that if you break down the fundraising of each of the above vendors into a timeline (like I did below), most of the investment has been made in the past couple years.