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Top Key Benefits of Marketing Automation vs. Email Marketing

Stevens & Tate

It is a common misconception that marketing automation and email marketing are essentially the same thing. In email marketing, you build an email list and then start sending out emails to market your business. How Marketing Automation Benefits Your Business.

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Database Marketing: Five Important Things to Know

Webbiquity

A form of direct marketing , database marketing uses business and consumer databases to generate targeted recipient lists. What distinguishes database from direct marketing is the awareness to the analysis of data. Both consumer and business database marketers are likely to use marketing automation tools.

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33 Thought-Provoking B2B Social Media and Marketing Stats

Webbiquity

As noted in the 2016 B2B Marketing Trends report , B2B marketing strategies and practices are in the midst of significant change, driven by new technologies and evolving buyer expectations for more “consumer-like” experiences. B2B marketing budgets are shifting to digital and social. Direct Marketing ).

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B2B Email Marketing: Timing and Relevancy, not Volume Key to Success

Sword and the Script | B2B

Many prospects expect an immediate response and you’d think this would be easier given the capabilities of marketing automation , but that doesn’t seem to be the case. Responding to leads with personalized email Every salesperson knows it’s essential to respond to warm leads quickly before they cool. Give our services a try.

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How to Calculate the ROI of Email Marketing

Optinmonster

Again, the direct access of email is an advantage, since you don’t have to create content every day just to be seen like you would on social media. Let’s look at some email marketing statistics to see how effective it really is. Email Marketing ROI Statistics. Balance Marketing Automation With Live Content.

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Marketing Vendor Selection: Trends You'll Need to Support

Customer Experience Matrix

As I wrote yesterday, no one knows exactly what we’ll want from our marketing automation systems in the future. The first wave of marketing automation features for social media is now several years old. Many marketing automation vendors have added mobile interfaces for the marketers and salespeople who work with them.

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5 Steps To Perfecting Your Email Automation

Sharpspring

Now that you understand the benefits of email automation, let’s look at five ways they can maximize your campaign results. #1 The first and most crucial step to email marketing automation is segmentation. The statistics regarding the effectiveness of email segmentation speak for themselves.