Category Archives: Strategy

What Marketing Automation Success Looks Like

Marketing automation has dramatically increased the effectiveness and efficiency of finding, nurturing and converting customers. But there are challenging obstacles to marketing automation success. Marketing automation streamlines marketing processes to improve time-intensive tactics such as lead nurturing, the most important objective for agencies. Reaching out to individually nurture leads one at a time isn’t realistic for most companies and takes a huge amount of time for the ones that do. Marketing automation’s strength is that by segmenting leads based on interests and stage in the buying cycle, you can have a one-on-one conversation... with thousands of people at once. Obstacles to Successful...
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Marketing Automation Strategy: Companies Are Adopting Marketing Automation More Aggressively Than Ever

95% of companies use or plan to use marketing automation. Once thought of as just a "buzzword," marketing automation is no longer a niche software only available to a select few. Now, almost all companies are exploring the benefits of marketing automation to drive more leads, close more sales, and optimize their marketing ROI. Virtually all companies believe marketing automation is important to the success of their marketing programs. Case study after case study show the tremendous results from using marketing automation. More leads, more won deals, higher revenue per deal, and shorter sales...
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What’s Trending in Marketing for 2017

What’s Trending in Marketing for 2017 Heather Pennington, CEO- I Speak Business Just ask people you know in different industries what they view as trending in marketing and see what response you receive. As a consultant that interfaces with a broad range of clients, it is always interesting to see how companies are keeping up with technology and remaining agile with market trends. Today’s consumer is one of the smartest, most well versed at scouring the internet for information to make an informed purchase decision. Research estimates over a 35-day period, the average consumer visits approximately 9 different websites totaling 33-35 minutes...
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Whats Next?

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! I hope 2016 has been a good year leading up to a very prosperous 2017. Many friends have asked me what is next… this year I have had some amazing milestones in my life. I sold my other business, Day Three Media, Inc. in November and just graduated with my Masters at Kennesaw State University in December.  As I prepare to kick off a new year, I wanted to answer that question that  friends have asked, “What is next?” I plan to stay involved with Day Three Media as we are making plans to launch additional television shows in...
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