Mastering marketing automation is not an easy task but is probably one of the most valuable things you can do for your business. There are many elements and, like most technical subjects, there is “overwhelm” – too many ideas and too many products to evaluate. But if you take things ...

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I did a webinar with Act-on software (www.act-on.com), who contacted me to share information on their platform and products.  I was pretty impressed and I’m sure that Act-on will make it onto next year’s Top Twenty Small-Business-Friendly Marketing Automation Vendor List.  The webinar was ...

Webinar, Screensharing, and Teleconferencing Tools – The Software Spectrum There are companies that invent, companies that dominate, and companies that innovate. These first movers are usually rewarded with high margins, bigger-spending customers, and low competition… for a while. The business ...

MarketingAutomation.com Releases “The Ideal Marketing Automation Cycle”, an Infographic Chino Hills, CA, January 20, 201 – MarketingAutomation.com released “The Ideal Marketing Automation Cycle” today, an infographic that displays how a marketing automation program should ...

  I ran across this nice infographic on marketing automation vendors. Enjoy… © 2011 Capterra, Inc.

Many people, if given the chance to do something over again, would take it. It is almost certain that with more insight, you could have made a better, more informed decision. Using this as my premise, I decided to survey users of marketing automation software to find out what they would have changed ...

Lead scoring is crucial step in demand generation and can greatly improve the number and quality of leads that marketing passes on to sales. But how do you go about scoring leads? Mac McConnell over at BlueBird Strategies came into the Software Advice offices to host a whiteboard session on lead scoring. ...

A 30 Day Small Business Marketing Automation Review I’m doing a review of my transition from no real marketing automation to the use of Prophet by Avidian Software. Disclaimers: I recently interviewed the CEO of Avidian and they were kind enough to donate one license to me for my review. I will ...

I’m going to give myself one month to do each/any of these reviews at which point, I’ll either stay using it or move to another. I want to make MarketingAutomation.com a place where people can see many reviews, but I also run a regular business so I face the same challenges that any company ...