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150+ Questions for Your Marketing Automation RFP

Customer Experience Matrix

Summary: I've posted a list of nearly 200 RFP questions that I hope many people will adopt to their own needs. If it's used widely, buyers and vendors both benefit. Death, taxes and RFPs. For business software vendors, all three are equally inevitable – and it's not clear which they dislike most. So bring it on. -

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Agency and Vendor Searches without Losing your Mind

Jackie Walts

The right vendors act as valued strategic partners and maximize the time of your marketing team. But if your call center, agency or marketing automation platform aren’t doing the job, is it time to make a switch? Here’s some hints on how to replace a critical vendor without losing your mind.

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The Truth About Intent Data

Rev

If you have a marketing automation platform — like Marketo, Oracle Eloqua, HubSpot, or Pardot — then you are probably using intent data. The Truth Intent Vendors Don’t Want to Talk About. Problem #3: The In-Market Fallacy. The big promise of intent data vendors is that these companies are “in market.”

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It’s An Open Platform World. HubSpot’s Growing App Ecosystem Helps You Thrive In It.

Hubspot

How do you coordinate marketing, sales, and service teams across your company to attract, engage, and delight your audience? Software has eaten the world, as Marc Andreessen predicted eight years ago. The term “tech stack” has entered everyday business conversations to describe these collections of tools. SMS messaging.

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Intent Data : How to Use it to Generate Quality Sales and Marketing Leads

DealSignal

The Ultimate Checklist: Questions to Ask B2B Data Vendors What types of intent data are there? The essence of B2B intent data is to proactively identify potential buyers searching online for similar products and services that your company is selling. The Ultimate Checklist: Questions to Ask B2B Data Vendors. GET THE CHECKLIST.

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What to Consider When It’s Time for New Marketing Technology

Content Marketing Institute

Marketing automation tools. Social media tools. Collaboration tools. As a marketing leader, you’re faced with a crushing number of marketing technologies to consider: almost 5,000 of them, falling into some 75 categories. B2B Marketing Academy co-founder Peg Miller has some guidance.

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6 Marketing Automation Lessons I Learned the Hard Way

Hubspot

Not too long ago, my colleague Katie Burke wrote a great article, " The Right Way to Think About Your Marketing Software RFP ," and it got me thinking about my own experiences as a buyer of marketing technology. Particularly I realized, more often than not, I was thinking about automation the wrong way.