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5 Essential Sales Enablement Best Practices to Speed Up Sales Cycles

Act-On

Moreover, 36% say that personas contributed to shorter sales cycles. And who doesn’t want shorter sales cycles, right? But here’s the tricky part: You need the ability to anticipate the audience’s needs at every turn, and doing that at scale is hard without a sales enablement tool such as marketing automation.

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The People Factor in Marketing Automation ROI

Act-On

Marketing automation is all about results, isn’t it? Sure, you need content that resonates with the target audience and strategically guides them along their journey , but it’s impossible to know if you’re on the right track without understanding marketing automation roi statistics and potential results.

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Why Is Marketing Automation Maturity Still Woeful?

The Point

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.

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Email marketing or marketing automation?

ClickZ

30-second summary: Even though marketing automation has grown businesses and revolutionized industries, it is not for everyone. Then, you need to review your sales process to see how your company can benefit from marketing automation. While marketing automation sounds great, it is not for everyone.

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Does your organization need a marketing automation platform?

Martech

Marketing automation platforms are a critical part of the martech ecosystem for many businesses, offering many benefits by streamlining manual B2B marketing tasks, including lead management, email campaign development and landing page creation. What marketing automation capabilities are most critical to our business?

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Does your organization really need a marketing automation platform?

Martech

Marketing automation platforms are often at the center of the marketing organization, but with capabilities that go beyond your average email platform often come steeper prices and a sharper learning curve. Have we outgrown our current marketing system? What kind of marketing automation platform do we need?

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The B2B Marketer’s Quick Start Guide: Marketing Automation

Heinz Marketing

Welcome to the seventh installment of The B2B Marketer’s Quick Start Guide. Today’s post is about Marketing Automation. Marketing automation platforms are a foundational element of the martech stack. Marketing automation is very powerful and can be very complicated. Marketing Automation Platforms.