Wednesday, November 10, 2010

Eliminate Startup Barriers with Marketing Automation

Entering a highly competitive market space, joining the persistent race to attract prospects, and devising strategies to successfully reach out to them can be enormously challenging- especially as a startup, when you do not have an extensive marketing department with sufficient resources. However, plenty of automation tools and programs are now available in the market, which can help make your marketing efforts more efficient and productive.
In competing with already established businesses and other peers, it is important to design effective marketing strategies and campaigns. Also, generating and maintaining a reliable database of prospect information, and using analytical tools to derive value from them can be time-consuming but not very rewarding. In addition to these, the actual task of generating qualified leads can be quite overwhelming without the right tools. All these challenges reinforce the need for marketing automation for startup companies.
Automated marketing can help startups understand and improve customer experience and this in turn can help them stand out from the crowd. For example collecting, organizing and analyzing prospect behavior on a website is not possible without the help of marketing software. Some sophisticated marketing automation solutions also provide accurate and reliable lead analytics, which can add great value in strategic decision-making. And by offering real-time intelligence on prospect intent, these solutions enable marketing teams to create convincing campaigns that effectively spread the word about a company and its products.
Today, there are advanced marketing automation tools which help start-up companies to identify, capture and convert online leads into sales opportunities. These solutions are specially designed to meet the basic needs of startup companies to create and propagate their brand.
Marketing automation software are usually easy to install and implement, and offer several benefits. They help:

  • Retrieve important lead insight information, including the best lead source and how you can grow it
  • Determine which marketing campaign is a rich source of leads
  • Assess your marketing team’s capabilities
  • Network with leading social networking sites including facebook, and Twitter
  • Achieve improvement in overall marketing outreach

With these immense benefits, marketing automation offers the most lucrative opportunity for startup companies to successfully establish, and carve a niche for themselves in an extremely competitive business environment. 

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