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…

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 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,…

The adoption of Marketing Automation technologies continues to be one of the fastest-growing Marketing trends today. In fact, according to a 2018 Forrester report, global Marketing Automation spend will reach $25.1 billion by 2023 – nearly double the amount spent in 2017. With this Marketing Automation technology, growth comes an increased need for a steady flow of customer data. Without this data, Marketing organizations struggle to deliver on initiatives related to e-commerce, lead generation/nurturing, accumulating…

Email Marketing is one of the strongest and most efficient ways to reach your customers. In fact, the average person checks their email about 15 times per day. With an estimated 293.6 billion emails anticipated to be sent worldwide in 2019, it’s safe to assume that your customers are getting their fair share of email communication. So, how can your small or midsized business (SMB) make sure your email marketing stands out? Integrating Marketing Automation with your Email Marketing campaigns is absolutely essential to give…

Popwallet, the world's only mobile wallet marketing automation platform, announced Series Seed funding of $4 million led by Stout Street Capital. Additional investors include Loeb.nyc, 3Lines Venture Capital, IrishAngels, Cultivation Capital, MATH Venture Partners, Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator, and angels from the marketing technology community. The Popwallet platform enables brand marketers to deliver personalized and connected experiences to people through mobile wallets like Apple Wallet and Google Pay. These…

Applications of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning have proliferated across nearly every industry in recent years, and rightfully so. The technology has come a long way in a relatively short period of time, and its utility is now being appreciated in realms where AI and Machine Learning were never considered before. However, along with this advancement has come a growing concern: What if the technology makes the wrong decision? What if we’re unaware of the long-term consequences of handing decisions over to…

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…