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A Luddite’s Guide to B2B Marketing Automation

Square 2 Marketing

I’m a millennial who didn’t get my first smartphone until 2015! If you don’t incorporate B2B marketing automation into your lead and revenue generation approach, you’re self-selecting out of growth. I hear you. I’ve had the same laptop for 12 years. But the reality is we live in a constantly evolving, digital-first marketplace.

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Why Marketing Automation Customers are Migrating Downstream

The Point

Now, Steve happens to work in product marketing for Oracle Marketing Cloud , home of Eloqua, typically regarded as the most feature-rich (some would say: complex) marketing automation solution on the market. Most marketing automation failures come about from a lack of strategy. What can be improved?

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The benefits of marketing automation aren’t automatic

Savanta

Predictions that 2015 is the year of marketing automation seem to be spot on. The latest Benchmarking Report from B2B Marketing reveals that the vast majority of B2B marketers have either adopted an automation solution (43%) or plan to in the next 12 months (45%). Marketing automation is tough to implement.

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VEST Report: Competition in B2B Marketing Automation Isn't About Features

Customer Experience Matrix

Yesterday I released the mid-year edition of the VEST Report on B2B marketing automation vendors, thereby meeting my self-imposed deadline of July 31. Here are some observations: - market positions are pretty stable. Even B2C marketing automation is showing some interesting new life.

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Are 70% of Marketing Automation Users Unhappy? Well, Not Exactly

Customer Experience Matrix

A recent piece in TechCrunch quoted me as saying that “almost 70 percent of marketers are either unhappy or only marginally happy with their marketing automation software.” Answers came from 159 marketing automation users. You can buy it here if you’re interested. Hence the “almost 70 percent” quote.

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Mautic Offers Free, Open Source Marketing Automation

Customer Experience Matrix

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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How Iron Mountain implements conversational AI to drive engagement and revenue

Martech

Rapidly advancing generative AI models promise to help scale marketing and sales functions by automating customer conversations. The company implemented Conversica conversational AI tools integrated with Iron Mountain’s marketing automation platform (MAP), Oracle Eloqua. Marketing automation is powerful,” said Kaskade.