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Why Most Consumer Marketing Automation Systems Are Not Software-as-a-Service, And When That Will Change

Customer Experience Matrix

Consumer marketing databases also generally have more data feeds and more complex update processes than business marketing systems, again because the consumer systems are managing existing customers as well as leads. SaaS Systems Will Bring Lower Costs and Better Products This can only be good news for consumer marketers.

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Marketo Releases Marketo Lead Management 3.0

WebMarketCentral

Promising deeper support for a "conversational model of marketing," the new release provides 75 user interface enhancements as well as new features including: More fine-grained control over segmentation, targeting, and triggering; "Progressive profiling" on forms (i.e. tags: marketing automation software, Marketo Lead Management 3.0,

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Demandbase: A New Twist In The Lead Management Automation Market

Online Marketing Institute

I worry that this tool only ends up helping sales pick out cold calls to make, and is not used by marketers enough to segment, collect, and improve their prospecting databases. The main problems targeted are keeping the pipeline full of marketing-qualified leads and automating the process of nurturing demand not yet ready to buy.