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The 14 Best Marketing Automation Tools

Webbiquity

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.

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Best CRM for Marketing Automation: Salesforce.com, Microsoft or Oracle?

LeadSloth

Forrester recently released a vendor evaluation for midmarket CRM vendors. If you look at Marketing Automation systems, the best supported CRM system is Salesforce.com. Should you look at Marketing Automation options first? That is relatively easy for Marketing Automation systems to support.

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Next-Generation Marketing Automation Systems Target Small Business

Customer Experience Matrix

I’ve been gearing up for the next edition of our VEST report on B2B marketing automation systems, which involves catching up with established vendors and chasing down some new ones. nurture campaigns), and share leads with a CRM system like Salesforce.com. Here are highlights of several vendors I’ve looked at recently.

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Marketing Automation's Unhappy Users: Trouble in Paradise?

Customer Experience Matrix

As I mentioned in last week''s post , I’m writing a paper on stages of marketing automation deployment. Key findings will be presented in a Webinar next Thursday, sponsored by TreeHouse Interactive ; you can register here. The paper itself will be available to Webinar attendees.

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How to Run a Webinar: Have a Marketing Automation System in Place

Lead Liaison

This is the fifth installment in the series How to Run a Webinar. The next step is to consider using your marketing automation software to help you with the entire process. A marketing automation system can help you automate your webinar and create a repeatable model to use for future webinars.

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B2B Content Marketing: Will Video Kill eBooks?

markempa

“With the rise of content marketing, a lot of businesses get stuck in the eBook rut,” saysLinda West ( @ misslindawest ), Director of Digital Marketing at Act-On Software , a rapidly growing company that makes a marketing automation Software as a Service (SaaS). And no wonder. “We

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Fabulicious Workbook Helps Assess CRM Integration Features of Marketing Automation Systems

Customer Experience Matrix

CRM integration is a fundamental feature of marketing automation. Pretty much every system can send leads to Salesforce.com , but capabilities vary significantly once you start looking for more. Sadly, most marketers pay little attention to these nuances until they've already selected a product.