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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. 1) Marketo.

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Can you do top-of-funnel marketing automation without CRM?

Biznology

If you’re a small or medium size business selling to consumers, you probably want to both automate and personalize your marketing campaigns. The solution, of course, is marketing automation linked to your customer relationship management (CRM) software. Fortunately for SMB marketers, CRM is becoming main stream.

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ActiveConversion Review - SMB Lead Management

LeadSloth

Therefore I initially called them a ‘niche vendor’ However, the product has evolved into a fairly complete marketing automation suite for SMB companies. Salesforce.com integration. ActiveConversion also integrates with Salesforce.com , although using Salesforce is not a requirement.

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Vocus Purchased by Private Equity Firm GTCR: This Could Be Interesting

Customer Experience Matrix

million in cash, a premium of 48% over their stock market price. x revenue, compared with the 6 to 7 x multiples paid for ExactTarget and Responsys by Salesforce.com and Oracle and the 14 x that Marketo commands in the stock market. Salesforce.com synch is bi-directional and works with lead and contact records.

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Pardot Offers Refined Demand Generation at a Small Business Price

Customer Experience Matrix

Actually I don’t know why I find the contrast between Pardot and Marketbright intriguing, except for the implication that marketers can be divided into two simple categories, SMB and Enterprise, and no further distinctions are necessary. What’s odd about the SMB vs. Enterprise dichotomy is that both sets of systems are quite similar.

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Marketo’s Take on Salesforce.com’s ExactTarget Acquisition

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

Author: Phil Fernandez Today, Salesforce.com announced plans to buy ExactTarget. Where marketing is going. Our comprehensive solution includes great email capabilities, but goes much deeper to include enterprise-class marketing automation, social marketing, marketing financial management, and revenue cycle analytics.

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8 Lessons From HubSpot’s $32 Million Round with Salesforce, Google, and Sequoia

Hubspot

Create A Category, Don’t Join A Category - You are better off creating a marketing category today than joining an existing category. We made an early choice to create the “inbound marketing” category versus joining either the marketing automation category or the Internet marketing software category.

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