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Social Media Features in Marketing Automation Systems: Who Does What?

Customer Experience Matrix

Social media is arguably overhyped as a marketing trend: it gets well under 10% of marketing budgets (different surveys have figures from 3% to 8%) and results are questionable (it was rated the least effective content marketing tactic in a recent MarketingProfs study ). Results are summarized in the table below.

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Mautic Offers Free, Open Source Marketing Automation

Customer Experience Matrix

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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Infusionsoft Gains $54 Million for Small Business Marketing Automation, Spends a Bunch on GroSocial

Customer Experience Matrix

Infusionsoft today announced it has acquired social lead generation vendor GroSocial. The system makes it easy for small business to generate leads through social marketing campaigns and track results. The system makes it easy for small business to generate leads through social marketing campaigns and track results.

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Demand Generation Vendors Offer Few Social Media Applications

Customer Experience Matrix

Summary: marketing vendors offer several types of social media applications. But none truly automates social media management, which is what's ultimately needed. Social media is this month’s Trend of the Year. They provide three basic functions: - send messages via social media.

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Genius.com Offers Free Edition: How Much Does It Lower True Cost of Entry?

Customer Experience Matrix

But I think its strategy of offering an intermediate product between email marketing and full marketing automation may actually be more useful in attracting new customers. LoopFuse also provides automated Salesforce.com integration, but doesn’t have Genius’s Web tracking technology.

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A Primer on Website Visitor ID and Smart Form Technology for Lead Generation

NuSpark Consulting

Long available within marketing automation, these programs complement sales and lead scoring efforts, by allowing you to capture intelligence and follow-up with firms visiting your digital destinations. Here’s an example of Loopfuse Marketing Automation. Sales people can be alerted immediately when activity occurs.

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How to Excel With the Most Underused Marketing Automation Features

Hubspot

From the results of its Marketing Automation Survey last year, Loopfuse released some interesting data about the adoption of advanced marketing automation features. So if it's so effective and easy to maintain, then why are only 49% of marketers utilizing this wonderful tool? Social Media Monitoring.