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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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Optify Lets Agencies Provide Small Business with Marketing Automation, Distributed Marketing, and Sales Enablement

Customer Experience Matrix

sales enablement: systems to share marketing information with sales ( Genius , SalesFusion , LeadFormix , RightOn Interactive , Optify) distributed marketing: systems shared between central marketing organizations and local branches, dealers, distributors, sales agents, etc. That''s theme number three.

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More Than Just Email Marketing: What Is Marketing Automation?

TrustRadius Marketing

70% of marketers say marketing automation software is critical to their success. Marketing automation occurs when marketers pass the burden of monotonous tasks to software logic to complete. What is marketing automation and why is it used? Automated marketing began with the “email”.

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Subscribers to Free Content are NOT Leads

Industrial Marketing Today

I’ve heard some of my manufacturing clients call their subscribers free content leads. I’ve also read articles by other industrial marketers where they recommend using free content to generate new leads. That is good advice and it is a proven tactic for inbound marketing. One example would be inviting them to a webinar.

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Sherpa and ActiveDEMAND: Automation, Connection and Trust Through the Buyer’s Journey

ActiveDEMAND

What’s the right messaging and strategy that can support successful sales relationships? Let’s talk about using empathy and building trust through marketing automation? Let’s first look at some common misconceptions around marketing automation. Marketing automation should be used in place of human connection.

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Lead Nurturing Explained: 3 Tips to Increase Qualified Leads

Hubspot

" Lead Nurturing " sometimes goes by other names: marketing automation, drip marketing, auto-responders, etc. Simply put, lead nurturing is a system that allows you to send an automated series of emails to an early stage lead in order to pre-qualify them before handing them over to your sales team.

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B2B Leads Consume Content In Bursts

Brainrider

If you have a marketing automation solution like Pardot, Marketo, Eloqua, or similar, you already know that your website visitors consume your content in bursts of activity. Related content suggestions in auto-responder emails that you send to deliver download links, event registration confirmations, etc.