ANNUITAS

MAY 13, 2021

Marketing Automation Platforms (MAPs) are perhaps the most misunderstood component of the Demand Technology Stack. Too often MAPs are associated with tactical email nurturing and simple lead qualification — tactical use cases that dominate immature platform deployments. Service, support, and training.

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Webbiquity

AUGUST 4, 2020

A final, sometimes overlooked element, is your webinar technology platform. GoToWebinar and WebEx (which is more of an online meeting tool) are no longer your only options. Here are 10 of the best webinar and webcasting tools to consider evaluating for your next online presentation. Total reviews: 552. Total reviews: 679.

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Biznology

JUNE 6, 2018

If you’re a small or medium size business selling to consumers, you probably want to both automate and personalize your marketing campaigns. The solution, of course, is marketing automation linked to your customer relationship management (CRM) software. Fortunately for SMB marketers, CRM is becoming main stream.

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SmartBug Media

MARCH 16, 2023

In this blog post, we'll explore the benefits of using API integrations in HubSpot, common use cases, considerations for integrating APIs with HubSpot, and best practices for successful integration. Application programming interface integrations allow different software applications to communicate with each other.

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ClickZ

OCTOBER 22, 2020

30-second summary: We provide five examples of enterprise-level providers of marketing automation solutions including industry case studies. Each of these companies are leaders in marketing automation, with enterprise businesses (and, in some cases, SMBs) benefiting from their platforms, solutions, and technology.

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SmartBug Media

JANUARY 13, 2020

You’re on the hunt for a marketing automation tool? Marketing automation tools, such as Marketo , Eloqua , HubSpot , Pardot , and Act-O n, are all powerful support systems, but ultimately, choosing an automation tool comes down to what are the must-have elements for your business goals?

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Martech

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Nearly every marketing organization uses marketing automation platforms these days. Justin Sharaf, vice president of marketing operations at data intelligence company Collibra, shares four easy ways to do that. “The Instead you get, “I am a director and my role is in marketing.”.

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Martech

JUNE 22, 2023

Editor’s note: This is Part 2 of a four-part series on how AI will be infused into marketing automation platforms. Part 1, AI marketing automation: How it works and why marketers should care, is here. Even with automation, we rely heavily on human interaction and system interfaces to drive much of the input.

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Webbiquity

JULY 12, 2016

Marketing automation software tools can be very helpful in making lead nurturing and sales acceleration efforts more effective—even if the category is badly misnamed. Marketing can’t be automated.) Here are 14 of the best marketing automation tools based on their popularity with reviewers.

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Customer Experience Matrix

OCTOBER 17, 2012

Microsoft today announced the acquisition of marketing management system vendor MarketingPilot , which will become part of its Dynamics CRM group. MarketingPilot is best described as integrated marketing management for mid-tier companies. Financial terms were not disclosed. The acquisition is significant on several levels.

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SmartBug Media

JULY 6, 2023

In this blog post, we'll explore the benefits of using API integrations in HubSpot, common use cases, considerations for integrating APIs with HubSpot, and best practices for successful integration. Application programming interface integrations allow different software applications to communicate with each other.

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Customer Experience Matrix

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

HubSpot held its annual INBOUND conference in Boston last week. The big news was a free version of HubSpot’s core marketing platform, joining free versions already available of its CRM and Sales systems. (In HubSpot’s tool helps marketers find the best topics to try to dominate with their content.

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Martech

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Campaign management software helps marketers automate the manual tasks of planning, launching and measuring the impact of their campaigns. That’s important because there are a number of moving pieces to many modern marketing campaigns. creative, media, brand, legal, etc.)

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Customer Experience Matrix

JUNE 13, 2016

This is fascinating since Microsoft intersects with LinkedIn in several areas: Dynamics CRM software, Office productivity software, and Bing online advertising. LinkedIn is primarily a social network with revenue from subscriptions, recruiting services, and advertising. billion acquisition of LinkedIn.

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Customer Experience Matrix

AUGUST 2, 2012

In a young industry like B2B marketing automation, the primary focus is growth, and I published some figures on that yesterday (repeated below). We looked at those in Tuesday’s post ; I’ll repeat the caveat that figures for Eloqua and HubSpot are my own estimates based largely on client growth and (for HubSpot) changes in client mix.

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SmartBug Media

JULY 6, 2023

In this blog post, we'll explore the benefits of using API integrations in HubSpot, common use cases, considerations for integrating APIs with HubSpot, and best practices for successful integration. Application programming interface integrations allow different software applications to communicate with each other.

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Martech

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

This is Part 3 of a four-part series on how AI will be infused into marketing automation platforms. CRM and marketing automation platform (MAP) vendors are embedding genAI capabilities into their existing applications, and so are Microsoft and Google in their general-purpose productivity suites, Office and Workspace.

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SalesIntel

DECEMBER 6, 2023

To skyrocket the numbers, sales reps make use of various sales tools available in the market. Investing in a random sales tool is a waste of time, money and effort. We have listed the 10 best sales tools you must be acquainted with to boost your B2B sales. What are Sales Tools? Why Use Sales Tools?

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Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 5, 2015

I just finished the latest release of the B2B Marketing Automation Vendor Selection Tool , a.k.a. That’s a technical step backwards but will actually make it easier for buyers to access the detailed vendor information, and in particular to screen for vendors with particular capabilities. VEST Report.

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TrustRadius Marketing

OCTOBER 23, 2022

It’s surprisingly easy to go through the whole selection process and buy the wrong software (many reviewers have said as much). Companies often forget about team input, review sentiment, and research the vendor’s reputation. One of the most common errors buyers make is not reading the terms of service (TOS) before buying.

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Martech

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Twilio, the customer communications service company, has announced the launch of a new component of its Customer Engagement Platform, Twilio Engage. The latest offering adds a marketing engine to Twilio’s existing Twilio Frontline for sales and Twilio Flex for customer service. Snapshot: Marketing automation.

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Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 13, 2014

The Interwebs have delivered an unusually rich trove of data about the marketing automation industry in the past few weeks. Taken together, these provide a clearer picture than usual of the state of marketing automation. Here’s how I see things. They are vastly more likely than average to have a system in place.

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The Point

DECEMBER 16, 2015

Research company TrustRadius just published their new edition of the “Buyer’s Guide to Marketing Automation Software,” and it’s a doozy. At a whopping 107 pages, their new marketing automation guide provides what I think is one of the most useful and comprehensive reports to date on this fast-moving category.

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KoMarketing Associates

JANUARY 19, 2022

Choosing the right stack of MarTech solutions can be a difficult task for B2B marketers, especially for those working in cybersecurity, who may have a more complicated sales cycle, changing regulations, and other obstacles. WordPress is my foundational platform for storytelling. Conversational marketing platforms, such as Qualified.

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Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

I’ve just published the latest edition of our B2B Marketing Automation Vendor Selection Tool (VEST), with updated entries on all your favorites and several new entries to boot. This is always a fun project because it gives me an overview of what all the vendors have been up to for the past six months.

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Customer Experience Matrix

DECEMBER 27, 2010

Summary: The first of three posts describing my new scoring system for B2B marketing automation vendors. I’ve finally had time to work up the vendor scores based on the 150+ RFP questions I distributed back in September. vendor strength , which assesses a vendor’s current and future business position.

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TrustRadius Marketing

APRIL 6, 2022

You need to manage the site itself to ensure customers make it to the checkout screen, but you also need to drive traffic with marketing and then follow up to keep customers coming back. If you want to transform your platform and workflow all at once, you might consider digital experience software.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 31, 2015

Yesterday I released the mid-year edition of the VEST Report on B2B marketing automation vendors, thereby meeting my self-imposed deadline of July 31. Here are some observations: - market positions are pretty stable. Open source vendor Mautic has some interesting potential but it’s too soon to see any actual impact.

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TrustRadius Marketing

JUNE 19, 2019

Of all the love-hate relationships out there, the one between marketers and their marketing automation platform is a classic—at least in the world of software. In a recent TrustRadius survey, 70% of marketers said that Marketing Automation software was very essential to achieving their marketing goals.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JUNE 19, 2015

The only real question about free, open source marketing automation from Mautic is what took so long. The core features of B2B marketing automation have been well understood for nearly ten years and prices have been dropping steadily for about the same time. So the opportunity seems obvious.

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Valasys

JULY 1, 2021

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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Martech

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Timed to coincide with the opening of this year’s virtual Inbound conference today, HubSpot has announced CRM enhancements designed to make their offering more customer-centric. It also announced the launch of open beta for a new HubSpot Payments solution. “At HubSpot, we started with the idea of a unified platform.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 30, 2013

Raab Associates officially released the new edition of our B2B Marketing Automation Vendor Selection Tool (VEST) yesterday. This is our flagship report on the industry, with nearly 200 data points on 23 vendors and separate ratings for micro-business, small to mid-size companies, and enterprise marketing departments.

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Velocity Partners

JANUARY 28, 2019

This is another post in our Content Performance series, in which we look at what B2B businesses need to make their marketing more effective. Choosing the right marketing automation tool is like picking a needle in a needlestack. I’ve been lucky enough to work with many different tools for our content performance clients.

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Customer Experience Matrix

DECEMBER 8, 2011

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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Martech

DECEMBER 28, 2023

We see this in the rate at which martech vendors released beta features to users over the past year. Dig deeper: 3 ways email marketers should actually use AI This piece focuses on the integration capabilities in customer relationship management (CRM) and marketing automation platforms (MAPs).

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Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 9, 2012

New-ish marketing automation vendor NurtureHQ showed me its product recently. Clean interface, easy to use, all the standard marketing automation features. Definitely take a look if you’re in that market for that sort of product. Other vendors have asked the same questions and reached the same conclusions.

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