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Top 8 Insanely Useful Content Marketing Tools Brands Need

nDash

There’s no shortage of content marketing tools at our disposal and, because of that, the number of choices can get overwhelming. For example, in the content and experience category, you’ll find subcategories filled with various tools, including the following examples: Content Marketing: Buzzsumo, Oracle, and nDash.

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Teradata Buys Aprimo for $525 Million: More Marketing Automation Consolidation To Come

Customer Experience Matrix

Summary: Teradata's acquisition of Aprimo takes the largest remaining independent marketing automation vendor off the market. The market will probably split between enterprise-wide suites and more limited marketing automation systems. Given the previous Unica deal.

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Salesforce.com and Oracle Buy Social Marketing Systems: Not the End of Marketing As We Know It

Customer Experience Matrix

Salesforce.com yesterday announced agreement to buy social media publishing vendor Buddy Media for $689 million, thereby adding another big fluffy piece to its “marketing cloud”. Oracle followed suit this morning with an acquisition of social media monitoring and semantic analysis vendor Collective Intellect.

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Marketing Automation 101

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

But in order to achieve these goals along the way, you need to align your people, process, and technology. Marketing automation technology can help. If you’re new to our blog, read on; if you’ve been around a while, consider checking out one of our more advanced posts such as The ROI of Marketing Automation.

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4 Tips to Succeed With Marketing Automation

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

by Theresa Vu Last month Jon Miller wrote a detailed blog post on why you need a marketing automation platform , especially if you already have a CRM system. I’m assuming that you all have gone out, selected a platform, and you’re on your way to better marketing with marketing automation!

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PowerViews with Christopher Hosford – CRM/Marketing Automation/Social Convergence

ViewPoint

He is former editor-in-chief of Sales & Marketing Management magazine, and has written for Architectural Record, Inc. Click to start video at this point — Christopher notes the importance of the maturing of social media marketing in the last year by saying, “It’s no longer a hobby.

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PowerViews with Chris Hosford – CRM/Marketing Automation/Social Convergence

ViewPoint

He is former editor-in-chief of Sales & Marketing Management magazine, and has written for Architectural Record, Inc. Social Media’s Maturing: In-House Resources & Social Advertising. Companies are hiring social media people through their existing marketing budgets or recruiting social mavens in-house.”