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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 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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Pardot Offers Refined Demand Generation at a Small Business Price

Customer Experience Matrix

My little tour of demand generation vendors landed at Pardot just before Thanksgiving. As you’ll recall from my post on Web activity statistics , Pardot is one of the higher-ranked vendors not already in the Raab Guide to Demand Generation Systems. Enterprise dichotomy is that both sets of systems are quite similar.

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Marketo’s Take on Salesforce.com’s ExactTarget Acquisition

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

Author: Phil Fernandez Today, Salesforce.com announced plans to buy ExactTarget. Where marketing is going. We believe that marketing is undergoing a deep transformation driven by large-scale trends such as the rise of self-directed consumers and broad and instant availability of information online.

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10 New Year’s Resolutions to Improve Customer Experience

Kapost

While, I’m the wrong guy to coach you into good eating and exercising habits, but I am former database consultant, a former head of marketing ops, and currently head of product at a new startup. My friends at Kapost invited me to share my top marketing and sales technology steps to optimize customer experience in B2B SaaS.

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The Top #Nifty50 Women in Technology on Twitter for 2012

Webbiquity

Not only leaders in their professional lives, nearly all these women use their social profiles to express their passions outside the workplace, which range from NASCAR, art, travel, billiards, wine and music to community service, politics and, of course, family. SMB and Distribution. ” ‘Nuff said. Abby Bailey. AbbyBailey.

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The Top #Nifty50 Women in Technology on Twitter for 2012

Webbiquity

Not only leaders in their professional lives, nearly all these women use their social profiles to express their passions outside the workplace, which range from NASCAR, art, travel, billiards, wine and music to community service, politics and, of course, family. SMB and Distribution. ” ‘Nuff said. Abby Bailey. AbbyBailey.