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The 14 Best Marketing Automation Tools

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Marketing automation software tools can be very helpful in making lead nurturing and sales acceleration efforts more effective—even if the category is badly misnamed. Marketing can’t be automated.) Recent research shows that 63% of B2B companies that are growing faster than their competitors use marketing automation.

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SalesPredict Offers Highly Automated, Highly Flexible Predictive Modeling

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In this case, the main technical differentiator is extreme automation: SalesPredict imports customer data, builds models, scores current records, and deploys the results with virtually no human intervention. Pricing was originally based on the number of leads but is currently being revised, with no new details available.

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Next-Generation Marketing Automation Systems Target Small Business

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I’ve been gearing up for the next edition of our VEST report on B2B marketing automation systems, which involves catching up with established vendors and chasing down some new ones. nurture campaigns), and share leads with a CRM system like Salesforce.com. Synchronization with Salesforce.com and SugarCRM are due by mid-2014.

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KXEN Packages Automated Predictive Models within Salesforce Apps

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As I mentioned in my Marketing Automation Beer Goggles post, KXEN introduced a free lead scoring app for Salesforce.com users at Dreamforce. This uses the same automated modeling methods as KXEN’s established on-premise product. This one won’t be free: list price is $50 per user per month.

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How RightWave Solves the Marketing Automation Skill Shortage

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One of the main reasons that marketing automation has not been adopted more quickly is that too few marketers know how to fully use it. Instead, RightWave offers what it calls “marketing automation as a service,” gives each client access to staff members who will set up and execute campaigns for them.

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IBM May Buy Silverpop: B2B Marketing Automation and B2C Email Would Be Great Fit

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The other enterprise-level B2C email vendors ( ExactTarget , Responsys ) have already been bought at wondrously high prices, and every B2B marketing automation vendor I talk to tells me that potential investors are approaching them constantly. The only surprise in this deal is the price, rumored to be about $270 million or 3x revenue.

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

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Finally, Optify has expanded into conventional marketing automation over the past 18 months and most recently added basic contact management and distribution of lead information, scores, and alerts to sales people. This will remind marketing automation aficionados of HubSpot, which has made a similar journey.