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The Ultimate Guide to the B2B Marketing Automation Solutions

Valasys

The Ultimate Guide to the B2B Marketing Automation Solutions. Marketing automation solutions have become a must-have for modern B2B marketers particularly as the marketers are headed to explore new avenues alongside the dawn to the next normal. Learn More: Marketing Automation: A Good or A Bad Idea.

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Social Media Features in Marketing Automation Systems: Who Does What?

Customer Experience Matrix

So marketing automation vendors are understandably eager to support it in their systems. I recently took a quick tour of vendor sites to see what social features they’re offering. I need to stress that I’ve only credited vendors for features they list on their site. Results are summarized in the table below.

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Marketing Automation: Like Bringing a Gun to a Knife Fight

Webbiquity

Those are the types of questions marketing automation / demand generation software vendors seek to address with their offerings. “Marketing automation&# is a misleading term. You can’t really automate marketing, of course, any more than you can automate gourmet cooking or great painting.

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My List of Demand Generation Vendors, and Who They Sell To

Customer Experience Matrix

One of the audience members at the B2B Marketing University in Boston asked about demand generation systems for small businesses, and how to distinguish among the vendors in general. My brief answer was that the biggest difference was less functionality than the target markets the different vendors pursue. Here it is.

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Book Review: eMarketing Strategies for the Complex Sale

Webbiquity

Marketing automation systems—from vendors like Eloqua , Marketo , Genoo , Manticore and others—are great tools for moving prospective buyers along the path from interest to desire to action. But they’re just that: tools.

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Is “social media campaign” an oxymoron?

Chris Koch

But then I see something like HP Technology Services (HPTS)’ “Where’s the Humanity in Your Technology” campaign, or Hitachi Data Services ( HDS )’ Social Media Buzz campaign. These campaigns were the winners of this year’s ITSMA Marketing Excellence Awards. You can read synopses of the programs here and here.)

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Is “social media campaign” an oxymoron?

Chris Koch

But then I see something like HP Technology Services (HPTS)’ “Where’s the Humanity in Your Technology” campaign, or Hitachi Data Services ( HDS )’ Social Media Buzz campaign. These campaigns were the winners of this year’s ITSMA Marketing Excellence Awards. You can read synopses of the programs here and here.)