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The 14 Best Marketing Automation Tools

Webbiquity

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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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. The Disconnect.

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ActiveConversion Review - SMB Lead Management

LeadSloth

Therefore I initially called them a ‘niche vendor’ However, the product has evolved into a fairly complete marketing automation suite for SMB companies. Salesforce.com integration. ActiveConversion also integrates with Salesforce.com , although using Salesforce is not a requirement.

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Vocus Purchased by Private Equity Firm GTCR: This Could Be Interesting

Customer Experience Matrix

x revenue, compared with the 6 to 7 x multiples paid for ExactTarget and Responsys by Salesforce.com and Oracle and the 14 x that Marketo commands in the stock market. But the main reason is probably that just 15% of Vocus'' 2013 revenue came from its marketing automation products. It’s still a modest multiple of 2.4

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Pardot Offers Refined Demand Generation at a Small Business Price

Customer Experience Matrix

Actually I don’t know why I find the contrast between Pardot and Marketbright intriguing, except for the implication that marketers can be divided into two simple categories, SMB and Enterprise, and no further distinctions are necessary. What’s odd about the SMB vs. Enterprise dichotomy is that both sets of systems are quite similar.

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Marketo’s Take on Salesforce.com’s ExactTarget Acquisition

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

Author: Phil Fernandez Today, Salesforce.com announced plans to buy ExactTarget. Our comprehensive solution includes great email capabilities, but goes much deeper to include enterprise-class marketing automation, social marketing, marketing financial management, and revenue cycle analytics. Where marketing is going. Customer support.

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8 Lessons From HubSpot’s $32 Million Round with Salesforce, Google, and Sequoia

Hubspot

We made an early choice to create the “inbound marketing” category versus joining either the marketing automation category or the Internet marketing software category. Create A Category, Don’t Join A Category - You are better off creating a marketing category today than joining an existing category.

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