The Point

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Almost 5 years ago, our agency conducted a survey to determine whether B2B companies were getting maximum value from their investment in marketing automation. You’d assume, therefore, that marketing automation maturity – the level of sophistication at which companies employ the technology – has improved. Click To Tweet.

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SendinBlue

AUGUST 24, 2020

Marketing automation platforms offer tools that help grow your business and improve customer experience. This list details some of the best marketing automation software around to help you decide which one is right for you. Let’s talk about marketing for a minute. Sendinblue. ActiveCampaign.

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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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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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SalesIntel

JUNE 21, 2023

Here is everything you need to know about SalesIntel’s unlimited B2B data and pricing plan. Pricing—FAQ 1. How does SalesIntel’s unlimited pricing work? SalesIntel pricing includes a platform fee, which gives you access to unlimited data. Request Pricing B2B Data—FAQ 6. What software features are included?

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Heinz Marketing

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

In today’s digital technology landscape there are numerous platforms, tools and technologies at the disposal of every marketer—almost too many. For each category I’ll highlight a few platforms/tools, the pros and cons of each, benchmarks and additional resources. Today’s post is about Marketing Automation.

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BenchmarkONE

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

Seventy-nine percent of high-performing companies have been using marketing automation for at least three years. Using marketing automation software has numerous benefits for your marketing and sales departments. The real question is, which software out there is right for your particular needs? .

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Oktopost

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Military service was optional, Athenian culture was based on its rich philosophy, arts, literature, architecture and sports. What does this have to do with marketing automation software? Well, in many ways, Marketo and HubSpot are not unlike Sparta and Athens. Pricing (monthly). Full feature pricing: $3,195.

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Customer Experience Matrix

APRIL 10, 2014

Marketo wrapped up its three day Marketing Nation conference yesterday, having once more displayed its own marketing prowess by attracting national media attention (see here and here ) with an appearance by Hillary Clinton. This borders on integration of Web display with marketing automation, an extremely important trend.

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Net-Results

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

I’m the founder & CEO of Net-Results, a marketing automation startup that regularly goes head-to-head with Marketo. I speak regularly with multi-year Marketo users considering whether they should switch to another platform. If you weren’t aware, Marketo was acquired by Adobe.

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Martech

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Navigate to the Predictive Audiences page in the Admin area of Marketo Classic. This feature is only available to those of you with Prime or Ultimate pricing bundles. According to Alexandra Quick at Marketo, “AI should be made available to everyone and should be easy to use and to adopt.” Why does it matter? Sales Insight.

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Customer Experience Matrix

OCTOBER 11, 2011

Marketo today announced the launch of Spark , a new brand aimed at small and mid-size business. Functionally, Spark is pretty much identical to the standard Marketo system. So the news here is price. Marketo has discontinued its $1,200 per month Small Business Edition, which lacked some features now included with Spark.

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SalesIntel

APRIL 19, 2024

This blog will help you identify the top ten lead enrichment tools and ensure you choose a reliable data provider for your prospecting efforts. This is when lead enrichment tools become essential. This tool sources data from public records, social media, and internal sources and can process large datasets efficiently.

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Sharpspring

MARCH 2, 2021

Marketing platforms are becoming more and more key to any comprehensive business strategy. From back-end office automation to customer-reaching tools, finding one that fits all of your needs and is easy to use can be challenging. Several companies offer a wide range of different marketing platforms.

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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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Sprout Social

AUGUST 28, 2023

Not only is it fundamentally shifting how we work but AI marketing tools are also reshaping marketing now and in the future. Companies are investing in these tools to get more out of their efforts. Whether you’re looking for marketing automation or to write email copy, there’s an AI marketing tool that meets your needs.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

APRIL 26, 2018

(“*Duplicates”—multiple records for the same person and/or company in CRM/Marketing Automation platforms.) A lot of marketing managers only become aware of the fact that they have a duplicate problem when they exceed the database limit listed in their marketing automation contract.

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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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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). The standout performer in all these tables is Marketo, but bear in mind that they’ve also taken much more investment than any of the others ($107.5 What about profitability?

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Customer Experience Matrix

AUGUST 23, 2012

final installment in my series of posts on leaders in the different B2B marketing automation sectors, as determined by the ratings in our VEST report. This covers a broad range of marketing users with widely varied needs. Most require the full set of marketing automation functions but apply these in simple ways.

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SmartBug Media

APRIL 17, 2020

For newbies, Marketo proves its value right off the bat as an excellent email automation tool. Marketo allows you to manage truly multi-channel marketing experiences across social, web, and digital ads—and sales empowerment tools help your reps build consistent email journeys throughout the customer lifecycle.

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Customer Experience Matrix

AUGUST 6, 2013

One of the main reasons that marketing automation has not been adopted more quickly is that too few marketers know how to fully use it. Instead, RightWave offers what it calls “marketing automation as a service,” gives each client access to staff members who will set up and execute campaigns for them.

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The ROI Guy

AUGUST 24, 2018

You’ve invested in interactive content and marketing tools for your website, helping prospects and customers assess their needs, size and price the right solution, and understand the business value and differentiating cost advantages of recommended solutions. Instead, the information can be passed into the tool on the “call”.

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SmartBug Media

AUGUST 4, 2023

This is especially true for software-as-a-service (SaaS) businesses, in which customer happiness directly influences the ability to minimize churn, drive recurring revenue, and achieve sustainable growth. For instance, consider a situation in which a customer's utilization of your software starts to decline.

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Outbrain

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

From the dishwasher in your kitchen, to automatic monthly payment of your electricity bill, the majority of repetitive tasks are now done with some sort of automation. Why should marketing be any different? What are marketing automation platforms? What is marketing automation primarily used for?

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Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 27, 2013

There were two bits of news from Marketing Automation Land yesterday: Marketo announced it has filed a draft registration statement for an initial public offering, and Eloqua CEO Joe Payne was quoted as saying his company plans to expand into business-to-consumer marketing. The Marketo news is long-expected.

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SmartBug Media

DECEMBER 29, 2020

If you’re struggling to make the most of your Marketo account, your desire to move to HubSpot can feel even more prevalent—and more desperate. Many marketers have found success with HubSpot after migrating, wondering why they didn’t do so sooner. However, some companies are better off staying with Marketo. Marketo Might Be.

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ClearVoice

APRIL 30, 2020

As a result, many businesses invest in and adopt lead generation platforms. In fact, 79 percent of top-performing businesses leverage automated lead generation tools. However, with the wealth of lead generation tools out there, how do marketers know which tools are worth adding to their already-full tech stacks?

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SmartBug Media

APRIL 24, 2020

Tokens are part of the genius of Marketo, offering an incredible opportunity to streamline your marketing automation. In one instance, I was able to use program tokens to reduce the time it took to get an event program out the door from four hours down to about 45 minutes,” shared 2020 Marketo Champion Brooke Bartos. “In

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Customer Experience Matrix

MARCH 26, 2014

The other enterprise-level B2C email vendors ( ExactTarget , Responsys ) have already been bought at wondrously high prices, and every B2B marketing automation vendor I talk to tells me that potential investors are approaching them constantly. My only reaction was, What the heck took so long? So we’ll see.

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Net-Results

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

Note, I took these from the Marketing Automation’s Buyer’s Guide I wrote a while back (still 100% relevant!). You’d be surprised how few marketers can answer this question on a demo. These are not good reasons to buy a $40k+ platform! Marketing automation has become a “table stakes” kind of purchase.

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BOP Design

MAY 15, 2018

However, automating for its own sake isn’t the best strategy. Especially for B2B marketing , automation should only be implemented where it provides real value. If you search for “marketing automation” on a search engine, you are served up a ton of ads by, no surprise, marketing automation software providers.

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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. This is a combination of features, usability, technology, and price.

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Webbiquity

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

Two common business terms combined describe the an increasingly popular outreach tool: marketing automation. According to marketing research firm Raab Associates , the marketing automation system industry will reach $750 million in 2013, growing 50 percent from 2012. What is Marketing Automation?

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Customer Experience Matrix

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

It’s just over one year since I first spoke with Lytics *, which at that time was (accurately) calling itself a Customer Data Platform but had not yet released a beta version of its product. CEO James McDermot said the label was changed because big companies thought a CDP sounded like an IT project, not something run by marketers.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JUNE 7, 2017

You know the basics of marketing automation: it streamlines, automates, and monitors routine marketing tasks. But a good marketing automation platform is about more than making life easier for the marketing team—it should also help you close more deals. Check out these seven tips: 1.

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Customer Experience Matrix

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

My last two posts (not counting this morning’s detour into Marketo-land) described common errors marketers make when selecting marketing automation systems. I see two reasons: Marketers are like everybody else. Marketers can do a better job of system selection if they try. How did we come to this?

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