Marketing Automation

How Marketing Automation Can Hurt Your Business

How Marketing Automation Can Hurt Your BusinessMarketing Automation when done correctly can be AWESOME for your business.  However, when done incorrectly, it can HURT your business.   So what is marketing automation and how can it HURT or HELP your business?

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Well, let’s start of by defining Marketing Automation (in my own way).  According to dictionary.com, Marketing is “the total of activities involved in the transfer of goods from the seller to the buyer, including advertising, shipping, storing, and selling” and Automation is defined as “the technique of controlling a process by highly automatic means, and reducing human intervention to a minimum.”

So my definition of Marketing Automation is “the technology used to control the activities involved in the sale of products or services to a consumer by automatic means, with minimum human intervention”

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3 Reasons You Should Use The World’s Easiest Email Marketing System

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Selecting the right tools for your business can really make a difference in the success of your business.  Tools can help you to accomplish sooo much, so it’s important to select the right ones.

A key tool that you will need if you plan to use Email Marketing in your marketing mix is an Email Marketing Service Provider (ESP).  This service allows you to send mass emails, track your results, automate and schedule your messages, and so much more.  There are many ESP systems on the market, and I love to research tools and figure out what is going to work best for my business.  So in the series, Essential Marketing Tools, I am highlighting the ESP tool I use that helps me to stay organized and consistent with my marketing effort.

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Email Marketing v. Marketing Automation, Which One Should You Be Using?

Email Marketing v. Marketing Automation, Which One Should You Be Using?

I have been in the world of email marketing for over 15 years; I remember taking a class on email marketing back in 2000 when I was studying for my Master’s in Business Administration.  A lot has changed in the online world since 2000, but email marketing has remained an important way for businesses to communicate online.

However, in more recent years, Marketing Automation, which includes the use of email marketing has become popular.  In order to understand the real difference between Email Marketing and Marketing Automation, we must first look at the definition of both:

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