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Getting Started Guide for Marketing Automation

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Step 1: Sales and Marketing Alignment and Documentation. If you did your marketing automation purchase following best practices, the sales team (or at least sales management) was involved to help make the selection. If not, stop what you are doing and meet with the sales leadership. Step 2: Buyer Personas.

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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. The Modern Marketer.

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How Everybody Wins with HubSpot's Funding « The Effective Marketer

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This means that is time to update my previous charts on marketing automation funding (see below) and the funding timeline, because HubSpot just surpassed Marketo as the highest funded marketing software vendor to date. link] 2 days ago Virtual Events win marketers over low costs, but are attendees really paying attention?

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The Rise of the Content Marketer « The Effective Marketer

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Add a few other roles such as events coordinator and more recently email marketing specialist and maybe even something related to social media and you have the hierarchical organization of 90% of marketing departments today. link] 2 days ago Virtual Events win marketers over low costs, but are attendees really paying attention?

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A Brief History of Marketing

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I was made aware of the new infographic “ The Evolution of Marketing Automation ” by Jaclyn from BlueGlass , the company that worked on it for Marketo. HubSpot’s version is also brief (the point of any infographic, sure) but doesn’t overlook key events in marketing history.

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A Brief History of Marketing

The Effective Marketer

I was made aware of the new infographic “ The Evolution of Marketing Automation ” by Jaclyn from BlueGlass , the company that worked on it for Marketo. HubSpot’s version is also brief (the point of any infographic, sure) but doesn’t overlook key events in marketing history.

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Marketing Automation Catching On Fire

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With time, a shake out is likely (in fact, the recent acquisition of Unica and Aprimo may point to consolidation ) and the evolution of solutions will ensure marketing automation has a place in most marketing organizations, much like CRM is now standard for sales departments. United States License. United States License.