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How to Create the Best Content For Your Marketing Automation System

KoMarketing Associates

How content strategy fits into marketing automation (and content marketing in general). It refers to what happens when content marketers get focused on just pumping out more content without any thought to strategy. Witness the #1 barrier to marketing automation success: It’s a lack of strategy.

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5 Trends that Will Define the Future of Marketing Automation

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

The evolution of marketing automation has had a profound influence on marketers and buyers alike. From the days of spray-and-pray email marketing and complicated database marketing, the technology and expertise of marketers have truly elevated marketing automation as a practice.

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Ranking B2B Marketing Automation Vendors: Part 2

Customer Experience Matrix

Summary: Yesterday's post described the objectives of my product fit scores for B2B marketing automation vendors and how I set up the original weighting for individual elements. But the original set of scores seemed to favor more complex products, even for small business marketers. Here's how I addressed the problem.

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Rules of Engagement from Marketo Summit: How Marketing Automation Wows Your Buyers

The Mx Group

At the Marketo Marketing Nation Summit! The event was full of great insights, but as a marketing automation specialist, I was most interested in the keynote by Marketo CEO Steve Lucas. He explained how marketers can use marketing automation to win in the engagement economy. Yes, I really met Fabio.

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Marketing Automation: Like Bringing a Gun to a Knife Fight

Webbiquity

Those are the types of questions marketing automation / demand generation software vendors seek to address with their offerings. “Marketing automation&# is a misleading term. You can’t really automate marketing, of course, any more than you can automate gourmet cooking or great painting.

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The Top Marketing Automation Posts of 2013

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

More than 640 voters selected their favorite posts from eight key areas in sales and marketing,and four posts about marketing automation made it into the top 50. Marketing Automation 101 by Jon Miller, Marketo. #1 1 in Marketing Automation, #2 in the Overall Contest. Here they are: 1.

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The Top Marketing Automation Posts of 2013

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

More than 640 voters selected their favorite posts from eight key areas in sales and marketing,and four posts about marketing automation made it into the top 50. Marketing Automation 101 by Jon Miller, Marketo. #1 1 in Marketing Automation, #2 in the Overall Contest. Here they are: 1.