Customers come into contact with brands through a wide variety of channels every single day. Marketing campaigns can only be effective if they reflect all these channels, which will increase the probability of user engagement. Being present in the right channel at the right time with the right message is a challenge for marketers and one that ties up a lot of time and resources. Professional Marketing Automation solutions can help: they enable the precise, time-controlled placement of messages using pre-defined customer…

Marketing Automation Software automates recurring marketing tasks and saves time by providing quick results. This software offers a single platform for storing all marketing information and enables marketers to manage workflows efficiently. Marketing software also has the ability to analyze the results of marketing campaigns, which in turn helps enhance ROIs. The software also helps manage potential leads through varied channels and track them through the sales funnel. With the growing adoption of AI, machine learning, and…

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Agency Revolution allows agencies to personalize their customer communication and drive powerful automated campaigns HawkSoft and Agency Revolution are both insurtech companies serving independent insurance agents with a long history of collaboration. Today, HawkSoft announces that Agency Revolution's cloud-based marketing automation platform Fuse™ and HawkSoft's agency management system can integrate via HawkSoft's new Partner API. Mutual customers can sync data across both systems to access the depth of client and…

Rising importance of chatbots and increasing use of virtual and online channels to result in 15.7% growth of the MAS market, finds Frost & Sullivan Frost & Sullivan's Post-pandemic Growth Opportunity Analysis of the Marketing Automation Solutions Market forecasts how the marketing automation solutions (MAS)market is expected to perform from 2020 to 2025 under two likely scenarios. The aspirational forecast is under the assumption that the COVID-19 virus will be contained by August 2020 and the global markets will…

Performant Capital announced today that it has formed Dealer Holdings, a leading SaaS provider of marketing automation software and services primarily to automobile repair facilities and dealer service centers, through the acquisitions of MyShopManager and uNotifi. The businesses will continue to operate independently under their respective brands but share best practices across all functional areas. Launched in 2015, MyShopManager provides a best-in-class marketing automation SaaS platform primarily for independent…

Integrated Social Listening into Social Media Management, in the only Marketing Technology Platform That Serves All of a Brand’s Technology, Marketing, and Media Needs in One Portal Silvercrest’s robust proprietary martech portal, Local Marketing Automation Platform (LMap), is the only platform that allows brands to manage and access all of brands’ marketing and media needs from one portal, LMap. Typically, Social Media Management platforms enable multi-unit social media management, with a secondary tier of other…

Marketing Automation isn’t a thing of the future—it’s very much a part of the here and now for small and midsize businesses (SMBs) across the world. However, there are a variety of Marketing Automation tools that many are unaware of and have the ability to help SMBs reach customers in a timely and effective way. In order for SMBs to compete with larger firms when it comes to customer reach, they need to approach their Marketing plan with a strategic mindset.   Marketing Automation not only provides important opportunities…

Analyst Firm Recognizes Zift as a TCMA Leader in 2020 Enterprise Channel Management provider Zift Solutions was named as a "Leader" in The Forrester Wave: Through Channel Marketing Automation, Q2 2020 report by Forrester Research, Inc. "We believe our recognition as a TCMA Leader in the 2020 WAVE, including our top ranking in the Strategy category, and the highest scores possible in 11 criteria all underscore ZifONE's unique ability to power the digital transformation that is redefining the channel in 2020 and beyond,"…

BrandMuscle Receives Highest Possible Score in Market Presence Category BrandMuscle, the industry leader in integrated local and channel marketing, today announced Forrester Research has positioned BrandMuscle as a leader in its report, The Forrester Wave™: Through-Channel Marketing Automation, Q2 2020. We believe this recognition further validates BrandMuscle’s continuous, 20-year innovation and deep industry expertise in through-channel marketing automation (TCMA) solutions. Forrester evaluated 13 of the most significant…

G2 Spring 2020 Rankings Inform Marketing Technology Buying Decisions Selligent Marketing Cloud, the omnichannel marketing technology company, announced that it was recognized as one of the best marketing automation solutions in the market – ranked a ‘Leader’ in the G2.com (formerly G2 Crowd) Spring 2020 Mid-Market Grid Report for Marketing Automation. The report is published by G2, the global user review site that helps businesses make smarter buying decisions. Marketing Technology News: Insight Recognized in Gartner 2020…

CRM company Pipedrive announced that it has acquired Mailigen, provider of a cost-effective, easy-to-use email marketing automation solution. Mailigen, the first acquisition in the company's history, will make it easier for Pipedrive customers to access software that generates leads and nurtures customers with the ease of use that is a hallmark of Pipedrive. "Our vision has always been to make sales success inevitable," said Timo Rein, CEO and co-founder of Pipedrive. "To us, that means providing a complete toolkit to…

Partnership between eCommerce Platform and Email Marketing Automation Provider to Help Merchants Improve the Effectiveness of Their Email Campaigns. Miva, Inc., ecommerce software and service provider for mid-size and enterprise merchants for 21 years, and Sendlane, behavior-based email marketing automation for eCommerce stores, announced that they have partnered to integrate Sendlane’s email marketing automation into the Miva ecommerce platform. While email marketing is a significant revenue driver for some online…

ZINFI’s Unified Channel Management SaaS Platform Expands Significantly with the Introduction of a Multi-Touch, Drag-and-Drop Campaign Canvass for Its Through-Channel Marketing Automation Applications ZINFI Technologies, Inc., a company leading the definition and creation of Unified Channel Management (UCM) solutions, announced it has launched the newest version of its next-generation adaptive SaaS (aSaaS) platform, version 11. The new platform includes an advanced set of applications for its through-channel marketing…

G2's Dual Recognition Validates Blueshift's Mission To Provide The World's First Data Activation Solution Blueshift, the leading Customer Data Activation Platform, was identified as a leader in G2's Customer Data Platform (CDP) and Marketing Automation grids in the Winter 2020 report. The dual recognition validates Blueshift's accomplishment of providing the world's first data activation solution, which simultaneously offers the flexibility of a CDP and the intelligence of marketing automation in a single, scalable…

Setting up your online store is easy and it is also not difficult to add relevant images of the products. However, the difficult part of any online business is undoubtedly making Sales, which is also known as conversion. To make sales, you have to make sure that you are Marketing your products. Unlike the brick and mortar stores, people will not know that your online business exists unless you are advertising in front of the target audience. When talking about a physical store, it is important to understand that people are…

Hotnest Technology raises additional USD 6 Million Series A, total funding to date exceeds USD 8 Million Round led by leading Chinese investors China Merchants Capital and Oriza Holdings, followed by existing investors Funds will be used to further develop big data technology, European market entry and helping brands and companies scale in the Chinese market Hotnest Technology, a China - Germany based AI Marketing Automation Platform, has raised 6 Million USD for their Series A funding. This brings its total…

Automation and Artificial Intelligence are two quick solutions to a major 2019 Marketing issue: lack of speed. This goes beyond website load speeds which should have become a norm by now. A lagging transition to Marketing Automation and AI is what keeps marketers from reaching Netflix or Amazon-like personalization at scale. Those eCommerce websites that shapeshift according to each visitor’s preferences are going to win at Digital Marketing in 2020. But what does that mean? Each touchpoint has to adapt to visitors’…

Communigator has collaborated with Smart Insights to bring us their recent survey results in relation to Marketing Automation. For both B2B and B2C companies, Marketing Automation is a valuable tool. These survey results show how applications and attitudes have changed since a similar study from 2016. 1 in 8 businesses in 2019 is not using Marketing Automation, compared to 18% in 2016. Of those businesses who have opted for this incredible technology, only 5% are taking advantage of all the features available to them,…