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Measuring Marketing Effectiveness

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Email marketing, marketing automation, web analytics, CRM, and the myriad of software now permeating marketing organizations gives us more data than we can process in a timely fashion. The quote above is from a Marketo whitepaper, The Definitive Guide to Marketing Metrics and Analytics , which I have reviewed before. And it is spot on.

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Getting Started Guide for Marketing Automation

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Problem is, sometimes the rush to get the software installed and running ends up trampling the creation of processes, content planning, and other key ingredients that are necessary for a successful marketing automation implementation. But let’s say you got approval and have purchased the marketing automation software of your dreams.

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What’s Wrong with Marketing Education?

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Not of basic marketing concepts like the 4 P’s , advertising , or branding but their utmost ignorance of modern marketing tactics and tools like webinars, marketing automation, and even CRM software. The video roundtable below from CRMSoftware.tv, What Colleges Should Be Teaching Marketing Majors , is worth watching and reflecting upon.

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How Everybody Wins with HubSpot's Funding « The Effective Marketer

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This means that is time to update my previous charts on marketing automation funding (see below) and the funding timeline, because HubSpot just surpassed Marketo as the highest funded marketing software vendor to date. For Eloqua, at least, they say there’s no need to worry since HubSpot is serving a very different market.

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The Rise of the Content Marketer « The Effective Marketer

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The power of marketing automation is the ability to target your marketing database with specific content based on their behavior and stage in the purchasing process. Web Design Webinar Yes, Please Share This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 United States License.

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Email Design Review Gallery « The Effective Marketer

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Sure, our email marketing software has some canned templates but they are very bland. Is always good to see what’s out there to give you some ideas. After searching a bit on the web I couldn’t find any “email design gallery” or something like it that would show me different email designs. So I decided to create one and share with you.

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Marketing Automation Catching On Fire

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I agree, more companies are adding marketing automation and marketing software in general to their budgets. That points to the evolving nature of the market, and the key functions of lead nurturing, scoring, and automated triggers becoming part of email marketing and other marketing solutions. Greg, thanks! United States License.