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Get the Most Out of Your Marketing Automation Tools [Infographic] - MarketingProfs

Get the Most Out of Your Marketing Automation Tools [Infographic] - MarketingProfs | The MarTech Digest | Scoop.it
Marketing automation is a big investment, as are the barriers to adopting and fully implementing automation tools. See the steps marketers can take to successfully implement marketing automation.
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People and data and content. Boom: that's your list.

 

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Marketing Automation: Batteries Not Included - CMI

Marketing Automation: Batteries Not Included - CMI | The MarTech Digest | Scoop.it
Data reveals two truths that marketing-automation software sales reps will not bring up when they paint a picture of your idealized marketing future:

Marketing automation is complex and requires an investment from your teams to translate existing processes into an established sales and marketing process before implementing.
Marketing automation requires a fire hose of content.
What can you do to protect your investment and realize the true potential of marketing automation? Here’s what I recommend:

  • Hire a pro.
  • Assemble a team.
  • Map your buyer’s journey.
  • Plan for developing content.
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Well, for the most part the reps actually point out the need for content and the need for services (which is the reason why they've built out partner programs).

 

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Passing the Lead And Dropping The Ball: B2B Marketers And Sales Operations Need To Play Well Together - Forrester

It’s clear that marketers need to make an effort to better understand what happens after the lead has been passed:

  • Process and organization trump technology – Once a lead is accepted by sales, a whole new set of qualification actions take place, often based on concerns of territory and account planning not visible to marketing.
  • Compensation, configuration and contracts correlate to closing: Sellers, and Sales Operations, use a different lens to determine the quality of an opportunity, driven by considerations of how the seller gets paid, what product configurations help drive compensation, and how contracts are negotiated.
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The Comp Plan: the ring in the nose.

 

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5 Conditions For Marketing Automation Success - GetResponse Blog

5 Conditions For Marketing Automation Success - GetResponse Blog | The MarTech Digest | Scoop.it
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5 Ways Your B2B Marketing Automation is Failing - Oracle

5 Ways Your B2B Marketing Automation is Failing - Oracle | The MarTech Digest | Scoop.it
1. Lacking Strategy to Generate and Nurture Leads

2. Failing to Set Goals for Data Acquisition

3. Not Keeping Score

4. Sailing Without a Crew

Before you launch your marketing automation system, ensure you have people in place who can create the content to fuel it.

5. Neglecting to Measure Success
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How to Ensure Your Marketing Automation Efforts Fail - CMO Essentials

How to Ensure Your Marketing Automation Efforts Fail - CMO Essentials | The MarTech Digest | Scoop.it

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Bazinga!

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Step Around These Marketing Automation Pitfalls - CMO.com

Step Around These Marketing Automation Pitfalls - CMO.com | The MarTech Digest | Scoop.it

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This from the CEO of Salesfusion, so she knows what she's talking about.

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Marketing Automation Success Planning Template - Pardot

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Marketing Automation Is NOT the Silver Bullet for B2B Marketing - Kapost Content Marketing Blog

Marketing Automation Is NOT the Silver Bullet for B2B Marketing - Kapost Content Marketing Blog | The MarTech Digest | Scoop.it

Suffering from MarTech FOMO? We’ve got the cure. 

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The article delves into far more. But let me add an additional and vitally important component: the proper human resources.

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Less Than 10% Of Companies Are Using Marketing Automation, Here's Why - Forbes

Less Than 10% Of Companies Are Using Marketing Automation, Here's Why - Forbes | The MarTech Digest | Scoop.it

marketingIO executes your revenue-generating efforts with the right metrics and the appropriate reports. 

Ann Windham's curator insight, August 5, 2015 10:45 AM

#tsts #eventprofs  

Russ LeFevre's curator insight, August 5, 2015 1:35 PM

Other factors limiting adoption - culture, legacy systems, fear of change, lack of executive sponsorship.

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The Biggest Roadblock in Marketing Automation Has Nothing to Do With the Technology - ClickZ

The Biggest Roadblock in Marketing Automation Has Nothing to Do With the Technology - ClickZ | The MarTech Digest | Scoop.it
Why is content such a roadblock to a successful MAP implementation? Firstly, content development is a unique and expensive skillset that most small to mid-sized companies do not have internally, at least, not in a dedicated position (hint hint). Secondly, there are rarely any specific content development projects active at most smaller companies. Content tends to bubble up as important when it is needed for a specific campaign. Otherwise, content is relegated to the "I’ll get to it later" pile on the marketer’s desk.
Marketers need a wake-up call. For all the wizardry that a well-deployed MAP can provide your team, it cannot write interesting content for you. A MAP without content strategy is like a sports car without gas in the tank. In fact, content development is becoming so important and needed that entire companies are evolving as outsourced content development firms for small and medium-sized businesses.


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Content is the number 2 issue associated with the ongoing management and efficacy of your MAP. Number 1? Having the right people in place!

Paul Dyer's curator insight, December 10, 2014 9:08 AM

Marketing Automation: With great power comes responsibility. #marketing 

Tom King's curator insight, December 10, 2014 10:00 AM

intelligent, personalized, nurture-based email programs will see a rise in 2015, IMOHO.

Lacy Bauer's curator insight, April 16, 2021 10:33 AM
Technology in cars is not really the issue as each consumer would prefer different features. The real issue is how the companies who have more money can hire bigger and better firms to do the marketing for them. Where the smaller companies need to focus on things like questionaries to customers. Blogging would consist of internal features and reviews. Sales libraries with fancy brochures are catching more attention than a piece of paper with features listed. Each company needs to develop a long term consistent strategy that’s works for them.
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Marketing Automation Could Be Harming Your Business - Here's How to Tip the Scale - Forbes

Marketing Automation Could Be Harming Your Business - Here's How to Tip the Scale - Forbes | The MarTech Digest | Scoop.it

"An effective sales and marketing process guarantees that a lead acquired at a trade show is guided proactively through the sales funnel, it ensures that teams know how to treat leads that subscribe to an email list on your website landing page and there is a clearly defined path through the funnel with accountable staff leading to the eventual sale.

 

The work of nurturing leads can get very clunky as there are so many moving parts and things to keep track of to deliver a satisfying experience for the prospect. The good news here is that this is what marketing automation was built for and the harmonious process is what makes this kind of software worthwhile; not the other way around.

 

As you work on improving your internal sales and marketing processes, ensure that you:

•  Define and understand your target audience and client personas

•  Create a “story” that your team believes in and which you want to unfold through the course of the campaign and within the sales funnel

•  Visualized, planned and rehearsed all your moves that link with all your marketing and lead nurturing activities in a meaningful and relevant way"

 

 

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Joemktg's insight:

Part of the planning process, and a requirement BEFORE you select your MAP. It's a part of your overall requirements which will guide you towards the right solution for you.

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