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Hosted Landing Pages vs. Embedded Forms

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It’s also true that a full-blown CMS will provide greater design flexibility than a marketing automation platform like Marketo , Pardot , or Hubspot. But those systems weren’t really built with sophisticated Web design in mind.

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Survey: Marketing Automation Users Score a “C” in Maturity

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The survey asked marketing operations managers and other B2B marketing executives to rank their current deployment of marketing automation software in 33 separate categories relating to either key software functionality or generally accepted best practice. The report is available as a free download from the Spear Website.

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Apparently It’s Now Safe (Again) to Use “Free” in a Subject Line

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In a related post, inbound marketing software provider Hubspot reported on an A/B test using the word “Free” and concluded that the difference, at least in terms of deliverability, was statistically insignificant. However, Hubspot also noted that click-through rates increased when the word “free” was excluded.

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The One Marketing Automation Guide You’ll Ever Need?

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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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New Marketing Automation Buyer’s Guide Offers Valuable Advice

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TrustRadius , an online community designed to help business software users make better product selection, implementation, and usage decisions, just released their first-ever “ Buyer’s Guide to Marketing Automation Software.”. Hubspot and Act-On encompass many inbound features as well as outbound.

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Infographic: The State of Marketing Automation Maturity

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Are most B2B companies getting maximum value from their investment in marketing automation? A recent industry survey by Spear Marketing Group suggests: no.