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The 14 Best Marketing Automation Tools

Webbiquity

Recent research shows that 63% of B2B companies that are growing faster than their competitors use marketing automation. Now owned by and tightly integrated with Salesforce.com, Pardot should at least be on the consideration list of marketing automation tools for any SMB already using Salesforce. Showcase reviews: SnapApp.

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

Biznology

Fortunately for SMB marketers, CRM is becoming main stream. And Steve King, a partner with Emergent research, predicts that to increase to 78% of small businesses by 2020. There seem to be three different platforms vying for the role of ‘non-CRM marketing hub’ for SMBs. Call tracking hub. Email marketing hub. Chat-Based Hub.

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7 Ways To Become A Leading-Edge Marketer

Hubspot

This article is a guest post by Laurie McCabe, a Partner and Analyst at the SMB Group , specializing on research in the highly fragment small to medium business market. to get the value across to the broad SMB market. Register to win an iPad: SMB Routes to Market Survey. Are you an SMB IT or Marketing buyer?

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10 New Year’s Resolutions to Improve Customer Experience

Kapost

When I started researching this assignment, I found this great post from Gerry Murray on Scott Brinker’s MarTech blog. If you sell to SMB the match rate is expected to be lower (<40%). A sales leader at Salesforce.com once told me: “We have a policy here called, stay in your lane.” They have a killer Salesforce app too.

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42 B2B Marketing Acronyms and Abbreviations

Digital B2B Marketing

SMB : Small and Medium Businesses. In the US, research generally considers businesses with less than 100 employees to be small businesses and those with 100 to 1,000 employees to be medium buisnesses. Salesforce.com. The Basics B2B : Business to business. You definitely already knew that one. SME : Subject Matter Expert.

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The Top #Nifty50 Women in Technology on Twitter for 2012

Webbiquity

SMB and Distribution. San Francisco-based Alex Hisaka is Growth Builder at Desk.com, part of the Salesforce.com family. Before founding InfiniEDGE, she served on the board of the Ascension Chamber of Commerce and worked with IBM and the Pennington Biomedical Research Center. Cindy Bates. Cindy_Bates. Susan Beebe. susanbeebe.

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The Top #Nifty50 Women in Technology on Twitter for 2012

Webbiquity

SMB and Distribution. San Francisco-based Alex Hisaka is Growth Builder at Desk.com, part of the Salesforce.com family. Before founding InfiniEDGE, she served on the board of the Ascension Chamber of Commerce and worked with IBM and the Pennington Biomedical Research Center. Cindy Bates. Cindy_Bates. Susan Beebe. susanbeebe.