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Marketing Automation Vendor Consolidation: Lessons from History

Customer Experience Matrix

Summary: consolidation isn't new among marketing software vendors. As I wrote in my June 30 post on consolidation among marketing automation vendors , I expect the number of competitors to shrink fairly quickly as new buyers concentrate their purchases among a handful of leading vendors.

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Ruth Stevens: Spotlight on the expert

Martech

Ruth Stevens found her way into B2B marketing by accident, as many B2B marketers do. Her route took her through the publishing industry, then grad school, before diving into the intersection of marketing and technology by learning database marketing. Q: How did you get into marketing, as a career?

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The B2B case for retention marketing: 7 key tactics

Martech

However, the sales team’s efficiency can be significantly enhanced through marketing strategies powered by database marketing. For instance, if a customer has a history of buying every 60 days and this interval passes without an order, the vendor should reach out immediately.

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Pega: AI will power the autonomous enterprise

Martech

“I still run into people who want to talk about audiences and segments — which goes back 35 years to database marketing,” he told a press panel. “Most marketing is remarkably unevolved,” he continued. ” Dig deeper: Artificial Intelligence: A beginner’s guide What’s in it for marketers? .

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Data Cleansing VS Data Enrichment – What Should Be Your Focus?

SalesIntel

To ensure that marketers and sales professionals can identify and reach the right leads at the right time, data cleansing and data enrichment are the two most commonly used methods to have accurate contacts for outreach. This is something you can do with data from your CRM system or data purchased from a third-party vendor.

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B2B prospecting data just keeps getting better

Biznology

To get an understanding of the depth of data available to B2B marketers for prospecting, we invited a set of reputable vendors to open their vaults and share details about the nature and quantity of the fields they offer. Executive race, religion, country of origin, and second language (Stirista).

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Claritix Assembles Marketing Data for Analysis: Maybe That's Enough

Customer Experience Matrix

The system has prebuilt connectors to import data from popular vendors including Salesforce.com , Marketo , Hubspot , SAP , SugarCRM , and Facebook. The imported data is loaded into MongoDB, a NoSQL database that offers great flexibility and ease of deployment. Here’s a deeper look. It can connect with others through standard APIs.

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