Have sales left you feeling overwhelmed and burned out? It used to seem so simple. Now there are hundreds of millions of potential clients, along with millions of competitors vying for their attention. The world of sales is moving faster than anyone can keep track of, leaving only one thing for certain: If you’re using the same methods and tools you were using a few years ago, you’re going to be left behind. If you’ve spent any time with us at Reply, you’ll know we’re big fans of automation. We’re constantly looking…

Client and policy data from HawkSoft flows into AgencyZoom to trigger automation workflows to nurture leads and engage existing policyholders Interconnected systems are force multipliers for independent insurance agencies. AgencyZoom, the Insurance Sales Analytics and Automation platform, is leveraging HawkSoft's Partner API to bring the two complementary systems together. Marketing Technology News: Microsoft Signs a 5-Year Deal with The Coca-Cola Company To Transform Global Engagement And Experiences AgencyZoom…

The Upgraded Sales Automation Toolkit Is Tightly Integrated with CRMs, Voice Platforms, Social Media and Offers Excellent Support from Cadence, Print and Email Marketing Perspective Mindmatrix has enhanced its channel and sales enablement software’s sales automation toolkit to include tight integration with CRM, voice (Phone calls and diallers), social media platforms and print and email marketing modules. This enhancement makes Mindmatrix’s sales automation functionality more powerful. This is the first major enhancement…

Leader in Conversational AI Recognized for Delivering Exceptional Results for Customers Conversica, the leader in conversational AI for business, has been recognized with a Digiday Technology Award for best sales automation platform, besting worthy finalists Intercom and Certain. The Digiday awards recognize the companies, campaigns and creative that are modernizing media and marketing. Judges specifically mentioned Conversica’s product innovation and notable customer success when the awards were announced yesterday in a…

The Partnership Will Deliver AI, Robust Automation and Cloud Integration to Businesses, Allowing Them to Run Their Marketing and Sales Productions with Ease Automate.io, a leading cloud and integration platform, announced that it has joined HubSpot as a Connect Certified Partner. HubSpot, a leading CRM, marketing, sales, and customer service platform, works hand-in-hand with varying tiers of Connect Partners to help grow their businesses through co-marketing and business development campaigns. Connect Partners are…

Integration Brings Retailers Closer To Unified Commerce, With Stitcherads’ Customers Now Attributing Up To 27% Of In-Store Purchases To Paid Social Media Engagement StitcherAds, a global Facebook and Instagram Marketing Partner, today announces its unified commerce solution that integrates retailers’ point of sale data with Facebook’s offline API and new ad formats for driving in-store purchases. Through StitcherAds’ new feature, which deconstructs the complex relationship between social media ads and brick-and-mortar…

Inperium, a provider of customer engagement and cloud communications platform for small and medium-sized enterprises, announced that it is coming out of stealth mode to launch a suite of essential SaaS applications that organizations of all industries and sizes can leverage to achieve their ever-increasing growth goals. Marketing Technology News: Stoneshot Offers Email Marketing Benchmarking for Financial Services Marketers Inperium announced the general availability of their first product, Inperium Sell, a sales force…

XANT, the leading Enterprise Sales Engagement Platform, was recognized in the recent Forrester Wave™: Sales Engagement, Q3 2020 report with the highest scores in the AI and automation criteria. XANT also received the highest possible score in the category vision criteria which reflects XANT's strong point of view on revenue generation and differentiated approach. The report gave XANT the highest possible score in eleven other criteria, including CRM integration, email/calendaring integration, dialer integration,…

Ada’s expanded integration strategy with Salesforce brings the power of accessible AI to the broader market and organizations seeking a best-in-class, automation-first approach to CX Ada, the market leader in Automated Customer Experience (ACX), announced deeper integrations with Salesforce to help organizations benefit from an automation-first digital strategy that makes it easy to create personalized customer experiences at scale. Ada’s automation capabilities now synchronize with Salesforce Live Agent, Service Cloud,…

Pega receives highest product score for B2C Sales use case Pegasystems Inc., the software company empowering digital transformation at the world's leading enterprises, announced it has been recognized by leading research firm Gartner in its Gartner Critical Capabilities for Sales Force Automation (1) report. Among the three use cases examined in the report, Pega received the highest score of any vendor in the B2C Sales Use Case category for Pega Sales Automation™. Gartner evaluated 15 sales force automation (SFA)…

SugarCRM Inc., the innovator of time-aware CX, announced that it was named a Visionary in the Gartner 2020 Magic Quadrant for Sales Force Automation for the 8th consecutive year. Sugar was recognized for its ability to execute and completeness of vision. In the report1, Gartner noted the top three reasons which drove the 100 vendor reference customers, who use the SFA solutions reviewed in the Magic Quadrant, to purchase from their vendor included: product functionality and performance (64%), competitive costs (62%), and…

Zendesk Sell differentiates itself with a user-friendly, mobile-first design; easy onboarding experience; an integrated platform; and attractively priced product bundles Based on its recent analysis of the North American small and mid-sized business (SMB) mobile worker apps market, Frost & Sullivan recognizes Zendesk with the 2020 North American Product Leadership Award for its Sell sales force automation (SFA) solution. The solution stands out for its ease of use, affordable pricing, creative bundling, ongoing…

The new functionality gives sales teams a holistic view of customer data, letting them automate repetitive sales processes without losing their personal touch ActiveCampaign, the leader in Customer Experience Automation (CXA), announced its expanded sales functionality, which includes custom and pre-built sales automations, a built-in CRM, and native integrations like Google Sheets and Slack. ActiveCampaign's CXA platform has everything growing companies need to make connections scalable, by automating personalized…

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…

Digital Document Transformation Suite offers new features that enable professionals to transform and automate to conquer the day, the week and the quarter Conga, the leader in end-to-end Digital Document Transformation (DDX), unveiled its future vision for the next-generation of Digital Transformation at its annual conference, Conga Connect 2020. The company also introduced enhancements across its Digital Document Transformation Suite that enable organizations to accelerate sales cycles and enhance the customer…

Conexiom’s Customers Can Now Easily Manage Emailed Orders in Salesforce Conexiom announced it has launched Conexiom Sales Order Automation for Salesforce Commerce Cloud on Salesforce AppExchange, empowering customers to achieve their digital transformation goals and increase productivity. Conexiom launches an order management app on the Salesforce App Exchange! Tweet this Built on Salesforce Commerce Cloud, Conexiom Sales Order Automation is currently available on AppExchange Marketing Technology News: Why Audio…

Those that know me, know that I am long robots. I’m of the opinion that eventually, robots will take many of our jobs and that we will live, not in a dystopian future, but in a future that is significantly altered by their proliferation. And perhaps it’s a future where many of us can pursue our own interests. We can be artists or makers or semi-professional golfers or simply do whatever we want to do with what was once just an “8-10 hour” workday. Recently, I had a conversation with a friend about whether robots will take…

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…

Email Marketing is the most reliable investment that CIOs and CMOs make for their organizations. We often hear from our CMO guests during the Martech interview series how email marketing helps to connect with the customers and amplify sales through effective messaging. However, email marketing can certainly be better, especially when we are chasing the new definitions of Customer Experience everywhere else! In marketing, sales and customer service, email messaging with a personalized touch can help marketing teams to build a…

ActiveCampaign, the leading Customer Experience Automation company, today announces two executive hires with a recent history of leading SaaS software growth to the deep technology experience already present on the ActiveCampaign team. Maria Pergolino, former Chief Marketing Officer for Anaplan, joins ActiveCampaign as its first CMO. Senior HubSpot leader, Chris Englund, joins as the company’s Vice President of International Operations. This follows recent announcements highlighting global expansion, strategic partnerships,…