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How to Create the Best Content For Your Marketing Automation System

KoMarketing Associates

Because no content marketer worth their salary would ever do something like this. Publishing a post – even an awesome post – about oranges makes no sense if you’re in business to sell accounting services. How content strategy fits into marketing automation (and content marketing in general).

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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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Ranking B2B Marketing Automation Vendors: How I Built My Scores (part 1)

Customer Experience Matrix

Summary: The first of three posts describing my new scoring system for B2B marketing automation vendors. I’ve finally had time to work up the vendor scores based on the 150+ RFP questions I distributed back in September. This happens no matter how loudly analysts warn buyers not to make that mistake.

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B2B Marfketing Automation Vendor Selection Tool: What’s Inside and Why

Customer Experience Matrix

Summary: Our new B2B Marketing Automation Vendor Selection Tool (VEST) has been carefully crafted to help marketers at every step of the selection process. Explanations What It Is: This is basic information for people who are just starting to explore marketing automation.

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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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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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