If you’ve recently implemented a marketing automation system, or are thinking about doing so in the near future, then you’re probably ready to start dazzling your email recipients with highly targeted email communications, measuring and reporting on marketing campaign effectiveness, and automating tedious manual tasks like lead assignment. But first, let’s go through a few marketing automation dos and don’t — you don’t want to risk jumping in too quickly now, do you?
Before we get to all the great things you can and should be doing with your marketing automation system, let’s get a few of...
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I'm under the
belief that pure story-telling, personalized data, and integrated
marketing systems are the pinnacle of success for any marketing
professional. Or at least it should be. It is the humanization of
marketing systems that defines the next generation of marketing.
However, there is one thing that reigns true over all - at
the end of the sales cycle we are still dealing with an individual,
a human, not a business.
With over 50 breakout
sessions during 
Many
organizations don’t fit squarely into a B2B or B2C bucket. More
often, companies have multiple marketing teams, divisions or
business units that focus on different marketing and sales
objectives. One team may manage vendor or partner relationships;
another drives online sales; while yet another supports a lengthy
direct sales cycle.
Websites have evolved so much since the inception of
the World Wide Web. I recall first receiving a book on HTML for my
13th birthday and being incredibly excited to begin making my first
Web pages. (Note: for those asking why I was coding HTML at age 13,
I often ask myself the same question.) Back then, you had your
website published on something like Geocities, Angelfire, or some
other free provider who was willing to take on the expense of
hosting while displaying horrific ads to monetise their business
model. Only if you were serious did you have a domain!
