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Best CRM for Marketing Automation: Salesforce.com, Microsoft or Oracle?

LeadSloth

If you look at Marketing Automation systems, the best supported CRM system is Salesforce.com. Should you look at Marketing Automation options first? What if you prefer Microsoft CRM, but you also want to have a choice of Marketing Automation systems? That is relatively easy for Marketing Automation systems to support.

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How to Run a Webinar: Have a Marketing Automation System in Place

Lead Liaison

This is the fifth installment in the series How to Run a Webinar. The next step is to consider using your marketing automation software to help you with the entire process. A marketing automation system can help you automate your webinar and create a repeatable model to use for future webinars.

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Oracle Fusion Marketing reduces the role of traditional CRMs

Martech

The offering seeks to automate the B2B lead generation and qualification process and push the outcomes directly into the systems used by sales representatives. ” Where’s the automation? “Salesforce as a category was intended to automate the work for sellers; it’s become administration.

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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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Marketing Automation's Unhappy Users: Trouble in Paradise?

Customer Experience Matrix

As I mentioned in last week''s post , I’m writing a paper on stages of marketing automation deployment. Key findings will be presented in a Webinar next Thursday, sponsored by TreeHouse Interactive ; you can register here. The paper itself will be available to Webinar attendees.

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Next-Generation Marketing Automation Systems Target Small Business

Customer Experience Matrix

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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Fabulicious Workbook Helps Assess CRM Integration Features of Marketing Automation Systems

Customer Experience Matrix

CRM integration is a fundamental feature of marketing automation. Pretty much every system can send leads to Salesforce.com , but capabilities vary significantly once you start looking for more. Even better, attend SalesFusion's December 6 Webinar on the topic ( register here ).