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Can you do top-of-funnel marketing automation without CRM?

Biznology

If you’re a small or medium size business selling to consumers, you probably want to both automate and personalize your marketing campaigns. The solution, of course, is marketing automation linked to your customer relationship management (CRM) software. Fortunately for SMB marketers, CRM is becoming main stream.

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The Pond Just Got More Crowded: Google, Salesforce.com and Sequoia Invest in HubSpot

Customer Experience Matrix

Summary: HubSpot announced a $32 million investment yesterday by Sequoia Partners, Google and Salesforce.com. This could be a real game-changer in the small business marketing automation landscape. It’s not yet clear which vendors will dominate the industry or what form the successful systems will take.

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The 14 Best Marketing Automation Tools

Webbiquity

Marketing automation software tools can be very helpful in making lead nurturing and sales acceleration efforts more effective—even if the category is badly misnamed. Marketing can’t be automated.) Recent research shows that 63% of B2B companies that are growing faster than their competitors use marketing automation.

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Marketing Automation Vendor Consolidation: Lessons from History

Customer Experience Matrix

Summary: consolidation isn't new among marketing software vendors. When campaign management systems consolidated in the late 1990's and early 2000's, most were bought by enterprise software companies. Will weaker marketing automation vendors merge with each other to establish a larger market presence?

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Most Exciting Marketing Technologies to Adopt in 2017

Leadspace

After creating, building, and leading the Oracle Marketing Cloud from obscurity to industry leadership for the last 3 years, which was a beyond-amazing career experience (thank you Oracle!), Real-time content/offer management. Hello, all, and here’s to a promising 2017! As most of you know, I had a big change in 2016.

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Top 25 Content Marketers in Enterprise Software: The West Coast Edition

Content Standard

While 67 percent of CMOs report that they’ll spend more on marketing technology in 2015, only 54 percent of both CIOs and CMOs believe current marketing leadership can manage the intersection of technology and marketing. Being a content marketer in the enterprise software industry is no easy task.

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QlikView's New Release Focuses on Enterprise Deployment

Customer Experience Matrix

The company released QlikView 10 in October and Senior Director of Product Marketing Erica Driver briefed me on it in a couple of weeks ago. But more big enterprises are signing on as well. Development is focused on integration and enterprise support. Here’s what’s up. Business is good. Features are stable.