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The Real Cost of Duplicates in Your CRM/Marketing Automation Platform

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

The other day I was talking to yet another marketing operations manager who has “a duplicate problem*” and “just needs a one-time dedupe job.” (“*Duplicates”—multiple records for the same person and/or company in CRM/Marketing Automation platforms.) Now you have two Anns in your CRM!

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The (marketing) funnel isn’t dead

MKT1

But, it’s best to use the names of stages you use in your CRM and marketing automation tool, like lead (interest), qualified lead (desire), opportunity (action in the form of a meeting or product activity) when mapping your funnel. Use them as a reference to build out your marketing automation and CRM flows.

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Lead Tracking: 5 Best Practices for Marketing Operations

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

Marketing operations is often tasked with the responsibility of tracking leads , but it’s not without obstacles. Marketing operations must deal with challenges including time management , expectation management, system limitations, training, and enablement. 2) Define Fields in Your CRM Systems.

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CRM Series: 3 Ways CRM Integration Creates Alignment and Drives Sales

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

He is the CEO and chief marketing evangelist at LeadMD. The company helps businesses generate and manage leads better through marketing automation processes and technologies. Integration is really kind of a dirty word in marketing – it scares a lot of execs to even say it. MQL does not end the journey. Still here?

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Your Company has Graduated to Marketing Automation– Now What?

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

Author: Justin Gray When a brand seeks to harness the power of marketing automation, it’s easy to be distracted by expecting dramatic results right away. You’re ready to see an exponential increase in click-throughs on your emails, registrations for your webinars, and number of leads generated from every marketing campaign.

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How to Engage Stale Leads

SmartBug Media

Marketing professionals wear many hats—that’s nothing new. We juggle lead generation, demand generation, CRM management, partnerships, teammate training, securing buy-in, and so much more. Ownership: Marketing/Sales Team. If no luck after two weeks, mark as MQL and send through content-based nurture workflow.

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Experts Discuss Unifying Sales and Marketing at Walker Sands Event

Walker Sands

When does an MQL become an SQL? To close out the evening, Emily FitzPatrick , the sales enablement and training manager at Showpad, and Brooke Bartos , our marketing automation manager, discussed how tech can help bring everything together. When are things passed off to sales? Who is responsible for what?