Martech

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Marketing automation platforms are often at the center of the marketing organization, but with capabilities that go beyond your average email platform often come steeper prices and a sharper learning curve. Have we outgrown our current marketing system? What kind of marketing automation platform do we need?

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Martech

JUNE 22, 2023

Editor’s note: This is Part 2 of a four-part series on how AI will be infused into marketing automation platforms. Part 1, AI marketing automation: How it works and why marketers should care, is here. For example, ChatSpot (HubSpot’s AI interface) leverages the GPT model in its user interface. Get MarTech!

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SmartBug Media

JULY 6, 2023

In this blog post, we'll explore the benefits of using API integrations in HubSpot, common use cases, considerations for integrating APIs with HubSpot, and best practices for successful integration. By automating data transfer, businesses save time and reduce errors caused by human input. What Are API Integrations?

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Martech

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Timed to coincide with the opening of this year’s virtual Inbound conference today, HubSpot has announced CRM enhancements designed to make their offering more customer-centric. It also announced the launch of open beta for a new HubSpot Payments solution. “At HubSpot, we started with the idea of a unified platform.

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ClickZ

OCTOBER 22, 2020

30-second summary: We provide five examples of enterprise-level providers of marketing automation solutions including industry case studies. Each of these companies are leaders in marketing automation, with enterprise businesses (and, in some cases, SMBs) benefiting from their platforms, solutions, and technology.

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Martech

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Marketing automation platforms are a critical part of the martech ecosystem for many businesses, offering many benefits by streamlining manual B2B marketing tasks, including lead management, email campaign development and landing page creation. What marketing automation capabilities are most critical to our business?

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SmartBug Media

JULY 6, 2023

In this blog post, we'll explore the benefits of using API integrations in HubSpot, common use cases, considerations for integrating APIs with HubSpot, and best practices for successful integration. By automating data transfer, businesses save time and reduce errors caused by human input. What Are API Integrations?

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Biznology

JUNE 6, 2018

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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Customer Experience Matrix

OCTOBER 17, 2012

Microsoft today announced the acquisition of marketing management system vendor MarketingPilot , which will become part of its Dynamics CRM group. MarketingPilot is best described as integrated marketing management for mid-tier companies. Financial terms were not disclosed. I profiled them in a February 2011 post.)

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Customer Experience Matrix

AUGUST 2, 2012

In a young industry like B2B marketing automation, the primary focus is growth, and I published some figures on that yesterday (repeated below). We looked at those in Tuesday’s post ; I’ll repeat the caveat that figures for Eloqua and HubSpot are my own estimates based largely on client growth and (for HubSpot) changes in client mix.

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Martech

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Nearly every marketing organization uses marketing automation platforms these days. Justin Sharaf, vice president of marketing operations at data intelligence company Collibra, shares four easy ways to do that. “The Instead you get, “I am a director and my role is in marketing.”. Everyone does them,” said Sharaf.

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ANNUITAS

MAY 13, 2021

Marketing Automation Platforms (MAPs) are perhaps the most misunderstood component of the Demand Technology Stack. This evaluation looked at the four market leading platforms today—Oracle Eloqua, Marketo, Salesforce Pardot and Hubspot—analyzing 112 requirements that are critical for enterprise environments.

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Net-Results

OCTOBER 15, 2018

Having operated as a consultant in the B2B marketing automation space and having worked behind the scenes at a major marketing automation vendor, I can perhaps shed some light on this topic. The post What are some of the challenges marketing automation providers like HubSpot and InfusionSoft face?

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SmartBug Media

JANUARY 13, 2020

You’re on the hunt for a marketing automation tool? Marketing automation tools, such as Marketo , Eloqua , HubSpot , Pardot , and Act-O n, are all powerful support systems, but ultimately, choosing an automation tool comes down to what are the must-have elements for your business goals?

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Martech

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

This is Part 3 of a four-part series on how AI will be infused into marketing automation platforms. CRM and marketing automation platform (MAP) vendors are embedding genAI capabilities into their existing applications, and so are Microsoft and Google in their general-purpose productivity suites, Office and Workspace.

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SmarkLabs

APRIL 3, 2023

Combining the power of HubSpot, a leading CRM platform, and NetSuite, a comprehensive ERP solution, can help your organization unlock new levels of efficiency and growth. In this blog article, we’ll explore the benefits of the HubSpot NetSuite integration and some tips on how to implement it.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 31, 2015

Yesterday I released the mid-year edition of the VEST Report on B2B marketing automation vendors, thereby meeting my self-imposed deadline of July 31. Here are some observations: - market positions are pretty stable. Open source vendor Mautic has some interesting potential but it’s too soon to see any actual impact.

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Customer Experience Matrix

DECEMBER 27, 2010

Summary: The first of three posts describing my new scoring system for B2B marketing automation vendors. I’ve finally had time to work up the vendor scores based on the 150+ RFP questions I distributed back in September. vendor strength , which assesses a vendor’s current and future business position.

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SmarkLabs

JANUARY 12, 2023

Why HubSpot CRM? HubSpot CRM was built from the ground up to be ready for the front-line teams of the modern world. In 2014, when HubSpot CRM was first released, most CRM systems were pretty complicated and manual to use. HubSpot took a different approach, starting with the capabilities of front-line teams.

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Webbiquity

JULY 12, 2016

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.) Here are 14 of the best marketing automation tools based on their popularity with reviewers. 2) HubSpot.

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TrustRadius Marketing

JANUARY 8, 2020

Hubspot’s ‘human’ voice, vast collection of educational materials and networking events have solidified its place as the authority on inbound marketing — and also as one of the most popular marketing automation platforms in the field. . But Hubspot might not be the right fit for everyone. . Let’s jump in.

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SmartBug Media

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

You may be considering using the e-commerce platform Shopify , integrated with the marketing automation platform HubSpot , to help sell your products and services. If you’ve decided to use Shopify, you’ll want to set up your account and online store before you start integrating with your HubSpot platform.

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Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

I’ve just published the latest edition of our B2B Marketing Automation Vendor Selection Tool (VEST), with updated entries on all your favorites and several new entries to boot. This is always a fun project because it gives me an overview of what all the vendors have been up to for the past six months. But that’s old news.

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Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 13, 2014

The Interwebs have delivered an unusually rich trove of data about the marketing automation industry in the past few weeks. Taken together, these provide a clearer picture than usual of the state of marketing automation. Here’s how I see things. They are vastly more likely than average to have a system in place.

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Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 5, 2015

I just finished the latest release of the B2B Marketing Automation Vendor Selection Tool , a.k.a. That’s a technical step backwards but will actually make it easier for buyers to access the detailed vendor information, and in particular to screen for vendors with particular capabilities. VEST Report. social data.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 22, 2011

The folks at HubSpot have been busy this summer, announcing their acquisition of Performable in June and their HubSpot App Marketplace last week. App markets are quite the fashion right now, and HubSpot’s joins the Eloqua AppCloud announced in June. Both events mark a continued expansion of their product.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JUNE 19, 2015

The only real question about free, open source marketing automation from Mautic is what took so long. The core features of B2B marketing automation have been well understood for nearly ten years and prices have been dropping steadily for about the same time. So the opportunity seems obvious.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JUNE 13, 2016

The prospect of seamlessly integrating third party data with a company’s own sales and marketing products is intriguing, although neither Salesforce nor Oracle has done much with it. Other vendors like Nimble and HubSpot have done a better job of simplifying access to third party data about an individual or company.

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KoMarketing Associates

JANUARY 19, 2022

Qualified (a Salesforce–tied conversational marketing platform) has become a huge asset for us at Alation. We’ve had quick internal buy-in from our SDR team, have generated SAL numbers that we hadn’t seen with a previous vendor, and are beginning to tie it into different facets of demand gen (like ABM, paid, email marketing, etc).

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SmartBug Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

But did you know that 65 percent of B2B marketers have not established any lead nurturing? In this blog post, we’ll talk about four steps to take to set scalable lead nurture workflows in HubSpot, so that all of your contacts are being touched with relevant content that moves them closer toward a purchase. Know Your Personas.

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The Point

DECEMBER 16, 2015

Research company TrustRadius just published their new edition of the “Buyer’s Guide to Marketing Automation Software,” and it’s a doozy. Let’s face it, most martech “guides” are written by, well, marketers, and are either sponsored by or authored by the technology vendors themselves, so the content needs to be read with a critical eye.

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Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 12, 2013

Let me start by saying that the 50% revenue increase I’m projecting for B2B marketing automation in 2013 is a very healthy one. But still, as I noted last week, the growth rate is slowing – and for some vendors seems to have fallen considerably in the second half of 2012. That means even the absolute increase was down: $11.2

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Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 31, 2012

I’ve just released the latest edition of my B2B Marketing Automation Vendor Selection Tool (VEST), which contains detailed analysis of all 22 B2B marketing automation systems. Vendors in the VEST are asked for estimates of their client counts by company size. The table below shows the results.

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Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

I’ve just finished the latest update of our B2B Marketing Automation Vendor Selection Tool (VEST), available on the raabguide.com Web site. The VEST is our evaluation of industry vendors, aimed primarily at companies choosing a marketing automation system. We use two methods: Vendor revenues.

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Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

I released the 2012 edition of our B2B Marketing Automation Vendor Selection Tool (VEST) report today, an event that deserves more hoopla that I’ve given it. The VEST provides by far the most detailed, objective information available on industry vendors. For those of us who don’t get out much, that’s downright exciting.

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Customer Experience Matrix

AUGUST 1, 2012

I’ve gotten used to thinking of the B2B marketing automation industry as entering a consolidation phase, during which a handful of dominant vendors emerge and small vendors drop away. It's only in the later stages of consolidation – after crossing Geoffrey Moore’s chasm – that the dominant vendors really take control.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 10, 2013

sales enablement: systems to share marketing information with sales ( Genius , SalesFusion , LeadFormix , RightOn Interactive , Optify) distributed marketing: systems shared between central marketing organizations and local branches, dealers, distributors, sales agents, etc. That''s theme number three.

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