Introduction To Marketing Automation

Multiply the effectiveness of your campaigns with marketing automation Marketing automation technology has been shown to dramatically increase lead conversions and average deal sizes as well as improving forecasting and customer segmentation. A subset of CRM, it focuses on defining, scheduling, segmenting, and tracking marketing campaigns. This friendly book demystifies marketing automation in straightforward terms, helping you leverage the tools and handle the processes that will enable a seamless integration with your CRM program. Learn to establish a buyer profile, assess your needs, select tools, create a lead scoring model, and much more. Marketing automation is a next-generation, CRM-related tool for increasing lead conversions and improving forecasting and customer segmentation This book provides an easy-to-understand introduction to the tools and technology, helping you evaluate your current processes, choose the appropriate tools, and follow best practices in making the most of them Written by Mathew Sweezey, Marketing Automation Evangelist at Pardot (ExactTarget), a leading provider of marketing automation solutions Covers working with the marketing lifecycle, evaluating your assets, integrating marketing automation with CRM and with other processes, nurturing your leads, and using marketing automation to reach buyers via e-mail, social media, and more Marketing Automation For Dummies is the ideal guide to get you up and running with marketing automation, putting your business on the cutting edge and enhancing your competitiveness.

Marketing automation is a top trend in digital marketing, and it has the potential to help any business connect with more customers when they visit your website. New systems such as Infusionsoft and Hubspot are bringing the power of marketing automation to more businesses, to help them run more efficiently, capture more leads, retain more customers, and generate more revenue. This book helps readers to progressively explore marketing automation at your own pace, so you can develop a good understanding and get a sense of related concepts and issues. There are helpful explanations in easy to understand language, hands on exercises, and real world perspective. Audience - Anyone interested in learning more about marketing automation - Small to medium size business owners who are ready to take their business to the next level - Local Service Providers (ex: lawyers, accountants, home improvement contractors) Features/Scope - Overview of affordable tools: Mailchimp, Infusionsoft, HubSpot - Hands-on tour through all the pieces of a basic marketing ecosystem - Interviews with industry perspective on a variety of related topics Ch1 - Intro: What the Heck is Marketing Automation? - General intro to marketing automation, high-level view of what an automated marketing campaigns look like, discussion of some of the basic "moving parts" of a simple marketing ecosystem: website, email list, ads, CRM. Ch2 - Tools of the Trade - Mailchimp - An introduction to MailChimp, a popular email list tool, and discussion of how gathering and managing contact information is the foundation for marketing automation. Ch3 - Tools of the Trade - Hubspot, Infusionsoft - Overview of two leading marketing automation tools, discussion of the concept of inbound marketing. Ch4 - Hands-On: Making a Basic Website - Opportunity to try making a website and blog, as a hands-on experience to help understand the basic building blocks of a simple marketing strategy. Ch5 - Hands-On: Starting an Email List - Opportunity to try creating an email list, using MailChimp. Ch6 - Hands On: Collecting Contact Info on Your Blog or Site - An exercise in putting some of the pieces together, such as adding a contact form to a blog, and discussion of the role of capturing customer information as part of marketing automation. Ch7 - Hands-On: Automating Customer Follow-Up - B2C - Step by step exploration of basic automation, to help you understand the basics, using MailChimp. Ch8 - Lead Nurturing with Infusionsoft - A closer look at how the popular tool Infusionsoft is used for marketing automation. Ch9 - Lead Nurturing with Hubspot - A closer look at Hubspot, another leading tool. Ch10 - Going Beyond Google Ads - Industry perspective from Bill Crawford, founder of Rainmaker Internet Marketing. Includes strategies for going beyond pay per click and getting the most out of your ad budget. Ch11 - Case Study - Brian Young of Home Painters Toronto - An excellent example of how a dedicated approach to marketing automation can transform your business and your life. Pros and cons, challenges, etc.

Multiply the effectiveness of your campaigns with marketingautomation Marketing automation technology has been shown to dramaticallyincrease lead conversions and average deal sizes as well asimproving forecasting and customer segmentation. A subset of CRM,it focuses on defining, scheduling, segmenting, and trackingmarketing campaigns. This friendly book demystifies marketingautomation in straightforward terms, helping you leverage the toolsand handle the processes that will enable a seamless integrationwith your CRM program. Learn to establish a buyer profile, assessyour needs, select tools, create a lead scoring model, and muchmore. Marketing automation is a next-generation, CRM-related tool forincreasing lead conversions and improving forecasting and customersegmentation This book provides an easy-to-understand introduction to thetools and technology, helping you evaluate your current processes,choose the appropriate tools, and follow best practices in makingthe most of them Written by Mathew Sweezey, Marketing Automation Evangelist atPardot (ExactTarget), a leading provider of marketing automationsolutions Covers working with the marketing lifecycle, evaluating yourassets, integrating marketing automation with CRM and with otherprocesses, nurturing your leads, and using marketing automation toreach buyers via e-mail, social media, and more Marketing Automation For Dummies is the ideal guide toget you up and running with marketing automation, putting yourbusiness on the cutting edge and enhancing yourcompetitiveness.

Every business wants to scale. The million dollar question is: how? There are many ways, but in the information age digital marketing is the key to most business' growth. This book lays the strategic foundation for businesses to scale through digital marketing. Over 78 percent of high-performance marketers identify marketing automation as a key contributor to increasing revenue. While marketing is still the art of persuasion, the delivery and management of marketing is increasingly reliant on automation. Virtually every marketing process is being automated, from advertising campaigns to lead generation and customer engagement. We're tracking every click, page visit, comment, and social media platform. Marketing automation is not only tracking everything we do online, but also using intelligent software to actively seek and engage prospects. This book was written as an overview of digital marketing automation. it introduces software tools and concepts that will help those not familiar with marketing automation get started.

This book will teach you the "Interest Driven" strategy to help you plan, build, and implement sales funnels that automatically mold to your subscribers, leads, and customers - allowing you to better relate and sell more. Inside, you'll learn: - Discover the 6 phases of the Macro Sales Funnel - You'll see the 3 major benefits of the Interest Driven Sales Funnel Strategy - It automatically allows people to self-segment - It's modular, ie. plug & play. Add new products and services to your system with ease! - Discover the "Main Series" and learn how it helps you build and maintain the relationship with your audience while simultaneously spreading awareness and gauging interest!

A new twist on how to get the best out of your Marketing Automation platform Don't settle for the traditional business books that will send you to sleep, reap the benefits from Brian's journeys around the world and his decade's worth of Marketing Automation experience, all in one book. This isn't just another book about marketing automation, it's also how marketing and you can thrive in your organisation.

The ever-evolving marketing technologies now include the extensive use of advanced AI with important implications for the decision making processes of both marketers and consumers. This detailed and insightful book rigorously examines the role of heuristics and marketers’ decision making within the industry’s growing utilisation of AI.

A comprehensive guide to advanced marketing automation for marketing strategists, data scientists, product managers, and software engineers. The book covers the main areas of marketing that require programmatic micro-decisioning - targeted promotions and advertisements, eCommerce search, recommendations, pricing, and assortment optimization.