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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. Just not for companies with a closed, proprietary CRM.

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Key Findings from the 2021 ANNUITAS Enterprise Marketing Automation Platform Analysis

ANNUITAS

Marketing Automation Platforms (MAPs) are perhaps the most misunderstood component of the Demand Technology Stack. Too often MAPs are associated with tactical email nurturing and simple lead qualification — tactical use cases that dominate immature platform deployments. billion in 2019.

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Marketing Automation Vendors Are Not Delivering On Marketers’ Needs For Reporting And Analytics. Here’s Why.

InsightSquared

Marketers look to their marketing automation platforms (MAPs) not only to execute many of their demand generation activities, but also to understand the effectiveness of their marketing programs. However marketers are largely dissatisfied with the reporting their MAPs offer.

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Marketing automation solutions every SMB should have in 2020

ClickZ

30-second summary: Marketing automation offers a variety of benefits, including time savings, the ability to drive more meaningful customer interactions that lead to transactions and the opportunity to gain customer feedback and track behavior. Can help guide sales and marketing teams to work together for a common goal.

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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.) Here are 14 of the best marketing automation tools based on their popularity with reviewers.

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Top 10 Marketing Automation Software Platforms for 2020

Martech Advisor

Marketing automation software tools are defined as comprehensive platforms that enable marketers to execute, measure, and analyze all marketing efforts efficiently. Let’s take a look at the ten best marketing automation platforms for 2020. billion by 2025. billion by 2025.

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Salesforce and Google Release AI-powered Commerce Tools with B2B Implications

ANNUITAS

Overview During the National Retail Federation’s NFR 24 conference, Salesforce and Google released a slew of AI-powered tools aimed at reducing go-to-market (GTM) friction. Google has released a new set of chatbots for automated commerce, as well as some new self-service customer service tools and search optimization capabilities.