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Getting Started Guide for Marketing Automation

The Effective Marketer

Step 1: Sales and Marketing Alignment and Documentation. If you did your marketing automation purchase following best practices, the sales team (or at least sales management) was involved to help make the selection. How will marketing get feedback from sales? Step 4: The Content Marketing Plan.

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7-Step DIY Data Segmentation for Account-Based Marketing

DiscoverOrg

A bit further on, as part of your ABM strategy, you’ll fully recreate the journey for these companies – and identify key points where the marketing and sales processes made progress. Watch: DiscoverOrg documents our own Account-Based Marketing experiment. Your executive team will gladly help you find answers!

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7-Step DIY Data Segmentation for Account-Based Marketing

DiscoverOrg

A bit further on, as part of your ABM strategy, you’ll fully recreate the journey for these companies – and identify key points where the marketing and sales processes made progress. Watch: DiscoverOrg documents our own Account-Based Marketing experiment. Your executive team will gladly help you find answers!

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Listen Up Marketers: We Need Our Own Operating System

Kapost

Nearly every department has such an OS: Sales: CRM, sometimes referred to as Sales Force Automation; Salesforce.com is the dominant player, along with Microsoft, Sugar, and Oracle. In the execute stage , we turn our plans to produce initiatives and content into action and output.