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Can Old Database Marketers Learn Digital Tricks?

Customer Experience Matrix

Summary: Database marketing and digital marketing are more different than it seems. It’s self-evident that digital marketing (mostly on the Internet, but also mobile, in-game, and eventually interactive TV) is a major change from both traditional mass media and more recent database marketing (mail, email, telemarketing, CRM).

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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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Inbound Marketing Alone May Not Be Enough for Industrial Companies

Industrial Marketing Today

Inbound marketing with content has been getting all the attention lately. Consultants and practitioners of “pull” marketing want marketers to abandon “push” marketing because they say it is old school and no longer effective. They know what they need and are looking at vendor sites for specific information.

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Decoding the True Essence of Outbound Marketing

MarketJoy

Research & investigations have revealed that firms invest around ninety percent of their incomes on different forms of outbound marketing. With inbound marketing hogging the limelight across most of the world, outbound has kind of become old-fashioned. The Relevance of Outbound Marketing.

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Aprimo Marketing Studio Supports Sophisticated Business Marketers

Customer Experience Matrix

Rather, it has conceded the lower tiers of business marketing to simpler systems and aimed Marketing Studio at marketers who need greater sophistication and will accept higher cost and complexity to get it. For more on vendor classifications, see my list of demand generation vendors from last November.) Good stuff.

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Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media.

Convince & Convert

To do so efficiently requires a good database solution and marketing automation and filtration tools that incorporate social media intrinsically. iLinc is a vendor and partner of my company’s. link] Top 5 Inbound Marketing Articles to Start the Week: Social Media Fear : Charlie Abrahams [.]

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Demandbase: A New Twist In The Lead Management Automation Market

Online Marketing Institute

However, many tech buyers visit vendor Web sites many times to learn about and compare products, yet few register or leave evidence of their activity. Posted by Laura Ramos at 09:40 PM in B2B Marketing , Lauras Posts , Marketing Technology | Permalink Digg This | Save to del.icio.us So, take my comments with a grain of salt.