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HubSpot Announces LinkedIn, Facebook Partnerships and Free Marketing Automation Edition at INBOUND Conference

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Maybe it's me, but the show seemed to lack some of its usual self-congratulatory excitement: for example, CEO Brian Halligan didn’t present the familiar company scorecard touting growth in customers and revenues. (A Both integrations were presented as first steps towards deeper relationships.

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Mautic Offers Free, Open Source Marketing Automation

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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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Marketing Automation's Unhappy Users: Trouble in Paradise?

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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. So let’s look at some more data that illustrates the trouble in marketing automation paradise.

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How RightWave Solves the Marketing Automation Skill Shortage

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One of the main reasons that marketing automation has not been adopted more quickly is that too few marketers know how to fully use it. Instead, RightWave offers what it calls “marketing automation as a service,” gives each client access to staff members who will set up and execute campaigns for them.

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MindMatrix Adds Sales Support to Marketing Automation

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One easily predictable trend in B2B marketing automation is that vendors will tailor their systems to specific industries. The reason may be that B2B marketing automation products have a narrower scope than B2C systems, meaning there’s less advantage in creating vertical editions. Integrations with ACT!

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Marketing Automation Vendor Selection: Summing Up

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It’s time to wrap up this series of posts on marketing automation vendor selection, which were based on my November 10 Webinar with Neolane (replay available here ). Marketers have been doing such a bad job of selecting systems that they should forget their old approach and start from scratch. Change the Present.

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Marketing Automation Buyer Survey: Many Myths Busted but Planning is Still Key to Success

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The marketing automation user survey I mentioned last March has finally been published on the VentureBeat site (you can order it here ). So it''s correct that results ultimately depend on users rather than technology, but not in the simplistic way this is often presented. If anyone has a better solution, I''m all ears.