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ABM Vendor Guide: Special Features to Deliver ABM Messages

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Differentiators include: channels supported (display advertising, social advertising, CRM, marketing automation, email, direct mail, telemarketing, text, mobile apps, content syndication, etc.)

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How Lego Bocks Explain Why Bloomreach Bought Exponea

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The drive to build suites clarifies why predictive analytics vendors Bloomreach, RichRelevance, and Gpredictive are such frequent partners: stand-alone predictive tools are missing nearly all the features needed for a full marketing platform, so they have the most to gain from buying a CDP that fills those gaps.

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Infusionsoft: Impressive Marketing Power for a Very Low Price

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But most of us still assume there is a reasonable relationship between price and value. This is why it’s hard to imagine that low-priced software can deliver similar performance to mainstream products. Simple telemarketing could also be handled within the system using its CRM features. At least it’s worth a closer look.

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MakesBridge Offers Powerful Features to Small Business Marketers

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Summary: MakesBridge offers a full set of marketing automation features with some special strengths that will appeal especially to small companies. I’ve previously reviewed Genoo , which supplements the standard marketing automation features with Web hosting and built-in CRM but no shopping cart. MakesBridge is another contender.

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Pardot Offers Refined Demand Generation at a Small Business Price

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Pardot and other SMB systems don’t just offer a few simple features. The only common feature that’s missing in Pardot is rule-based branching within multi-step programs. But I didn’t check Pardot against my full list of possible features, so don’t get the impression that it does everything. Enterprise dichotomy isn’t enough.

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Build vs Buy Your Customer Data Platform?

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This isn’t always true but it will apply in most cases, especially when cost calculations include staff cost, on-going maintenance and feature updates, the risk of project failure or under-performance, and the opportunity cost of not using scarce developers to build other systems that do create unique advantages.

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In a World Run by AI, The Best Data Wins

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I tend to agree with this GP Bullhound study, which argues that “Any application introduced as an AI-enhanced alternative to an existing application or as a feature to a platform will likely become redundant when that incumbent platform implements the same AI features.” Rather, it’s the way they are treated.