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Email Marketing and Marketing Automation in Complex Buying Processes
Email marketing-and-marketing-automation-in-complex-buying-process
Email Marketing and Marketing Automation in Complex Buying Processes 1
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We often hear the question: “How is Marketing Automation different from email marketing?”. In this short paper, we’d like
to shed some light on the differences, and explain when to use email marketing and when to use Marketing Automation.
When executed well, email marketing is one of the most powerful tools that a marketer can use. It’s more scalable than
telemarketing, and it’s more personalized and more interactive than direct mail. And on top of that, it’s cheaper and more
measurable. Email may not be the only channel of communication we use, but it’s certainly one of the most important
ones.
Email marketing has a long history. It has been used since the mid-nineties when the Internet was still in its infancy.
Marketers quickly grasped the importance of this channel and started using email in a more sophisticated way. They
realized that emails could have personalized greetings, they could be scheduled, they could be measured more accurately,
and subject line testing was discovered as a great way to boost response rates. However, the email marketing tools of the
past were still mainly focused on consumer applications, where a one-time email can immediately influence a purchase.
Nowadays, many organizations have clients who need a lot more time to make a purchase decision. This is particularly true
for business to business environments, and for considered purchases in B2C as well. In this paper, we’ll look at how to use
email marketing to support these complex buying processes, and whether email marketing or marketing automation are
the right tools to use.
Introduction
Marketing Automation systems take email
marketing to the next level
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Complex buying processes may take weeks or months and involve many
different people. In order to be effective, email marketing campaigns need to be
designed to handle this longer buying cycle. Ideally, the content of the campaign
is tailored to the different stages in the buying process. And for each buying
phase, the campaigns have to address the needs of different roles in the buyer’s
organization: sales, marketing, CMOs, etc.
In traditional email marketing, you send messages when you have something
relevant to say. In email marketing for the complex sale you need to send
messages based on the buyer’s needs. Therefore, you have to design multi-step
email sequences that follow leads along their buying path. The goal is to set up a
lead nurturing process that turns new leads into sales-ready leads.
In a complex buying process, buyers will go through multiple stages. It starts
with awareness of the type of solution that you offer, through research of
possible solutions towards a final purchase decision. In your email marketing,
you need to provide the right information for the right stage. For example, in
the early stages you want to provide more educational information and thought
leadership, while in the final phases reference and analyst information is really
important.
In addition to alignment with the stages in the buying process, it’s also
important to tailor information to the different roles within the decision making
unit. For example, the economic buyer will need different information from an
end user.
Email Marketing for Complex Buying Processes
The email campaigns for the complex sale need to be proactive and
address buying stages and buying roles. This requires email sequences that
cover at least the length of the sales cycle, and that adjust based on the
needs of the recipient. To make this manageable, the process of starting
and adjusting email campaigns should be automated.
Email marketing for the complex sales is very different from traditional
“batch and blast” email campaigns. However, there are still several email
marketing best practices that are unchanged. For any type of email
marketing, it’s important to have compelling content, create an attractive
email layout, and ensure that email is delivered to the inbox.
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Email Marketing and Marketing Automation in Complex Buying Processes 3
As automated email campaigns become the best way to do email
marketing for complex buying processes, we’ll show how Marketing
Automation provides the tools that make these automated campaigns
possible.
First of all, campaigns should be initiated automatically. This can be done
with triggers. Traditionally this happens when leads fill out a form on your
website, or when you import a list of leads. Based on the type of trigger
and the lead’s profile, the Marketing Automation system will start the right
multi-step email campaign.
For each campaign, you specify which emails you want to send at which
time. A very simple example would be: a “thank you” or “welcome” email
on day one, a whitepaper on day three, a video on day seven, and a
promotional offer on day nine. Based on the recipient’s response you can
accelerate or slow down the campaign, or move the lead to an entirely
different campaign.
A proper and speedy response to the recipient’s behavior is possible
because the Marketing Automation system tracks email opens and clicks,
website visits and form submissions. All this tracking information is added
to the lead’s profile.
Based on the lead tracking information, it is possible to assign a lead score
to each individual. For example, for every email click you add five points,
and for every multi-page web visit you add 10 points. This lead score
How Email in Marketing
Automation Supports Complex
Buying Processes
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indicates how interested the lead is, which is essential information for the sales
team.
Leads are passed on to the sales team when they reach a certain lead score. The
sales team then receives notifications of the activity of their leads, and can see
the entire lead campaign history in the CRM system. This is possible because the
Marketing Automation system is synchronized with your CRM system.
In short: Marketing Automation allows you to create automated lead nurturing
campaigns using the multi-step email functionality and web tracking, the lead
scoring engine, and synchronization with the CRM system.
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To illustrate our comparison, we’d like to give some specific examples where
Marketing Automation provides excellent support for complex buying processes,
but where email marketing systems would typically fall short.
The organization of a webinar is a good example where Marketing Automation
surpasses email marketing. You can use a Marketing Automation system to send
an email invitation to your list, but also to capture the registrations. Registrants
will get an automated confirmation email and event reminders at predefined
dates. You can easily send a registration reminder to people who haven’t
responded yet, because the Marketing Automation system can exclude the
people who have already registered. Finally, you can also create an automated
follow-up email after the event (e.g.: to distribute the webinar recording and
slides).
Email marketing systems use a list that is separate from your CRM system, so
it takes a lot of time to copy contacts back and forth. Marketing Automation
prevents this issue by synchronizing contacts with the CRM system. This happens
in two directions: when sales people add contacts to the CRM system, they will
be copied to the Marketing Automation system, and when Marketing uploads
a list, it will also be send to the CRM system. While some email marketing
systems can copy contacts from CRM systems, it’s a one-time import, not a
synchronization process.
Many email marketing systems give subscribers only one option to change their
subscription: unsubscribe. A Marketing Automation system can offer an ‘update
your profile’ option, so the leads can set their own email preferences, rather
than having an “all-or-nothing” unsubscribe option.
Examples of Email Marketing in
Complex Buying Processes
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Once people have a relationship with your company, it can be a smart
strategy to send email on behalf of the responsible sales rep. This is often
hard with traditional email marketing, because they can’t handle multiple
‘from’ addresses, and they can’t access the CRM to find out the reponsible
sales rep. Even more, some email marketing solutions send email from
their own email address, rather than an email address from your company.
With a Marketing Automation system you can send email exactly the way
you want.
These were just a couple of examples that illustrate how a Marketing
Automation system can provide a comprehensive solution to increase
marketing productivity in companies with a complex selling process.
Email marketing works when:
•	 Your entire business cycle is less than one week
•	 You have a simple selling process (as opposed to a complex sales
process)
•	 You sell via an e-commerce platform
•	 You are looking to send offers based on shopping cart abandonment
Email Marketing and Marketing Automation in Complex Buying Processes 5
Marketing Automation systems take email marketing to the next level, and can
support a complex buying process. The benefits of Marketing Automation do not
stop at email marketing. Here are some examples of how Marketing Automation
makes your marketing team more effective.
Most marketing campaigns send leads to your website at some point in time.
The creation of web pages and dedicated landing pages can be a bottleneck
when it has to be done by your webmaster, IT department or web agency.
Marketing Automation provides an easy landing page builder, which allows
marketing to create landing pages and registration forms. This reduces the
dependency on other departments or outside parties, and will increase the
speed with which new campaigns can be rolled out.
Marketing Automation can help optimize your marketing strategy with reporting
and analytics. Marketing Automation goes beyond open and click rates to show
the sales readiness of leads, cost per lead and cost per qualified leads. Using
information from the CRM system, it can also show you which campaigns were
most effective, and how marketing campaigns influence revenue. And if the
standard reports are not sufficient, you can create a custom report with exactly
the information you want.
Salespeople will also be more productive with Marketing Automation in place.
With Anonymous Web Traffic Analysis they can see the companies that are
visiting the corporate website, and focus their prospecting activities on those
companies. Once leads have filled out a form, sales people can get a notification
every time these leads come back to the website. They can access the full
activity history, and when they talk to a lead, they can enter them to the most
appropriate marketing campaign, or pause all campaigns.
Marketing Automation Beyond
Email Marketing
These are just three examples of areas where Marketing Automation helps
increase the productivity of the entire marketing department, in addition to
revolutionizing the way email campaigns are done.
You probably want to consider a Marketing Automation system when:
•	 You are a B2B, B2B2C or B2C company with selling process longer than
one week
•	 You need to qualify leads before you send them to sales
•	 You have a CRM system
•	 You’ve been doing email marketing for a while, and spend a lot of time
on executing manual processes
•	 You want reports that show the effectiveness of your marketing
campaigns
© 2010 Marketo, Inc | +1.877.260.MKTO (6586) | www.marketo.com | www.twitter.com/marketo | blog.marketo.com
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It is clear that Marketing Automation provides significant benefits for sales and
marketing organizations. It requires an investment to get started, but is paid
back almost immediately by increasing marketing effectiveness. It helps the both
organizations:
Convert: First of all, Marketing Automation helps turn more new leads into
qualified leads and sales opportunities. Automated campaigns provide the right
information at the right time, and will increase conversion and shorten the
sales cycle. Prospects’ questions will be answered before they are asked, and
objections will be preempted. In companies with a long sales cycle, it’s often hard
to adequately follow up with each and every lead. Automated lead nurturing
campaigns solve this issue, and - just by itself - will already justify the investment in
Marketing Automation.
Automate: Concerning the automated processes of Marketing Automation, you can
save time and money in Marketing. Using automated processes, you can do more
with less, and be more agile at the same time.
Nurture: In companies with a long sales cycle, it’s often hard to adequately follow
up with each and every lead. Automated lead nurturing campaigns solve this issue,
and - just by itself - will already justify the investment in Marketing Automation.
Prioritize: Sales productivity will also increase. Rather than trying to manage
hundreds of unqualified leads, salespeople can now focus on a handful of highly-
qualified leads. The salespeople have more information available and better
tracking to help them understand the activities of these leads.
Prove: Marketing Automation provides the information to make marketing a
metrics-driven department. Based on these metrics, marketing effectiveness can be
further increased, revenue is more predictable, and marketing can show how they
contribute to the company’s bottom-line.
The ROI of Marketing Automation
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Email Marketing and Marketing Automation in Complex Buying Processes 7
Often the implementation of a Marketing Automation system is a great time
to clean up your list. You may have data in your CRM system while other data
is only stored in the Email Marketing system. A single database is obviously
easier to manage, so merging your email list with the CRM system is often the
first step. You want to make sure that duplicates are merged, and that obsolete
information is removed from the CRM system (or tagged as ‘invalid’). You should
also copy your unsubscribe information to the CRM system, to avoid the fact
that people who have unsubscribed will suddenly receive email again.
The next step is to sync up the Marketing Automation system to the CRM
system. For most CRM and Marketing Automation systems, this is fairly easy: it
only requires entering the CRM login information into the Marketing Automation
system. The Marketing Automation system will then copy all required
information into its own database.
Finally, you will need to set up your email. You migrate your existing email
templates, or choose to create new ones. You also need to specify the email
deliverability settings: this means that you let the world know that you will be
sending email from your new system. There are several standards for this, such
as Sender Policy Framework (SPF) and DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM). Your
Marketing Automation vendor will help you with this setup.
There will be some additional setup activities, such as adding tracking code
to your website, choosing a domain for your landing pages (e.g. http://pages.
company.com) and creating landing page templates. This is essential for the
broader role of your marketing automation system, but it’s not directly related
to sending emails.
Moving from Email Marketing to
Marketing Automation
Altogether, it’s usually a fairly quick process to get started with Marketing
Automation.
© 2010 Marketo, Inc | +1.877.260.MKTO (6586) | www.marketo.com | www.twitter.com/marketo | blog.marketo.com
“Marketing Automation uses email
as a key communication channel,
so it’s often compared with email
marketing software. However,
Marketing Automation has so
much more impact on Sales and
Marketing effectiveness that a
comparison with email marketing
is like comparing apples and
oranges.
Jep Castelein – Marketing Automation Expert,
LeadSloth (www.leadsloth.com, twitter.com/jepc)
Email marketing-and-marketing-automation-in-complex-buying-process
Marketo is the revenue performance management company, transforming
how marketing and sales teams of all sizes work — and work together — to
accelerate predictable revenue. Marketo’s solutions are both powerful and easy
to use, providing explosive revenue growth throughout the revenue cycle from
the earliest stages of demand generation and lead management to deal close
and continued customer loyalty.
About Marketo
Marketo, Inc.
901 Mariners Island Blvd, Suite 200
San Mateo, CA 94402
Tel: 650.376.2300
Fax: 650.376.2331
www.marketo.com
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Email marketing-and-marketing-automation-in-complex-buying-process

  • 1. Email Marketing and Marketing Automation in Complex Buying Processes
  • 3. Email Marketing and Marketing Automation in Complex Buying Processes 1 “ We often hear the question: “How is Marketing Automation different from email marketing?”. In this short paper, we’d like to shed some light on the differences, and explain when to use email marketing and when to use Marketing Automation. When executed well, email marketing is one of the most powerful tools that a marketer can use. It’s more scalable than telemarketing, and it’s more personalized and more interactive than direct mail. And on top of that, it’s cheaper and more measurable. Email may not be the only channel of communication we use, but it’s certainly one of the most important ones. Email marketing has a long history. It has been used since the mid-nineties when the Internet was still in its infancy. Marketers quickly grasped the importance of this channel and started using email in a more sophisticated way. They realized that emails could have personalized greetings, they could be scheduled, they could be measured more accurately, and subject line testing was discovered as a great way to boost response rates. However, the email marketing tools of the past were still mainly focused on consumer applications, where a one-time email can immediately influence a purchase. Nowadays, many organizations have clients who need a lot more time to make a purchase decision. This is particularly true for business to business environments, and for considered purchases in B2C as well. In this paper, we’ll look at how to use email marketing to support these complex buying processes, and whether email marketing or marketing automation are the right tools to use. Introduction Marketing Automation systems take email marketing to the next level “© 2010 Marketo, Inc | +1.877.260.MKTO (6586) | www.marketo.com | www.twitter.com/marketo | blog.marketo.com
  • 4. 2 Complex buying processes may take weeks or months and involve many different people. In order to be effective, email marketing campaigns need to be designed to handle this longer buying cycle. Ideally, the content of the campaign is tailored to the different stages in the buying process. And for each buying phase, the campaigns have to address the needs of different roles in the buyer’s organization: sales, marketing, CMOs, etc. In traditional email marketing, you send messages when you have something relevant to say. In email marketing for the complex sale you need to send messages based on the buyer’s needs. Therefore, you have to design multi-step email sequences that follow leads along their buying path. The goal is to set up a lead nurturing process that turns new leads into sales-ready leads. In a complex buying process, buyers will go through multiple stages. It starts with awareness of the type of solution that you offer, through research of possible solutions towards a final purchase decision. In your email marketing, you need to provide the right information for the right stage. For example, in the early stages you want to provide more educational information and thought leadership, while in the final phases reference and analyst information is really important. In addition to alignment with the stages in the buying process, it’s also important to tailor information to the different roles within the decision making unit. For example, the economic buyer will need different information from an end user. Email Marketing for Complex Buying Processes The email campaigns for the complex sale need to be proactive and address buying stages and buying roles. This requires email sequences that cover at least the length of the sales cycle, and that adjust based on the needs of the recipient. To make this manageable, the process of starting and adjusting email campaigns should be automated. Email marketing for the complex sales is very different from traditional “batch and blast” email campaigns. However, there are still several email marketing best practices that are unchanged. For any type of email marketing, it’s important to have compelling content, create an attractive email layout, and ensure that email is delivered to the inbox. © 2010 Marketo, Inc | +1.877.260.MKTO (6586) | www.marketo.com | www.twitter.com/marketo | blog.marketo.com
  • 5. Email Marketing and Marketing Automation in Complex Buying Processes 3 As automated email campaigns become the best way to do email marketing for complex buying processes, we’ll show how Marketing Automation provides the tools that make these automated campaigns possible. First of all, campaigns should be initiated automatically. This can be done with triggers. Traditionally this happens when leads fill out a form on your website, or when you import a list of leads. Based on the type of trigger and the lead’s profile, the Marketing Automation system will start the right multi-step email campaign. For each campaign, you specify which emails you want to send at which time. A very simple example would be: a “thank you” or “welcome” email on day one, a whitepaper on day three, a video on day seven, and a promotional offer on day nine. Based on the recipient’s response you can accelerate or slow down the campaign, or move the lead to an entirely different campaign. A proper and speedy response to the recipient’s behavior is possible because the Marketing Automation system tracks email opens and clicks, website visits and form submissions. All this tracking information is added to the lead’s profile. Based on the lead tracking information, it is possible to assign a lead score to each individual. For example, for every email click you add five points, and for every multi-page web visit you add 10 points. This lead score How Email in Marketing Automation Supports Complex Buying Processes © 2010 Marketo, Inc | +1.877.260.MKTO (6586) | www.marketo.com | www.twitter.com/marketo | blog.marketo.com indicates how interested the lead is, which is essential information for the sales team. Leads are passed on to the sales team when they reach a certain lead score. The sales team then receives notifications of the activity of their leads, and can see the entire lead campaign history in the CRM system. This is possible because the Marketing Automation system is synchronized with your CRM system. In short: Marketing Automation allows you to create automated lead nurturing campaigns using the multi-step email functionality and web tracking, the lead scoring engine, and synchronization with the CRM system.
  • 6. 4 To illustrate our comparison, we’d like to give some specific examples where Marketing Automation provides excellent support for complex buying processes, but where email marketing systems would typically fall short. The organization of a webinar is a good example where Marketing Automation surpasses email marketing. You can use a Marketing Automation system to send an email invitation to your list, but also to capture the registrations. Registrants will get an automated confirmation email and event reminders at predefined dates. You can easily send a registration reminder to people who haven’t responded yet, because the Marketing Automation system can exclude the people who have already registered. Finally, you can also create an automated follow-up email after the event (e.g.: to distribute the webinar recording and slides). Email marketing systems use a list that is separate from your CRM system, so it takes a lot of time to copy contacts back and forth. Marketing Automation prevents this issue by synchronizing contacts with the CRM system. This happens in two directions: when sales people add contacts to the CRM system, they will be copied to the Marketing Automation system, and when Marketing uploads a list, it will also be send to the CRM system. While some email marketing systems can copy contacts from CRM systems, it’s a one-time import, not a synchronization process. Many email marketing systems give subscribers only one option to change their subscription: unsubscribe. A Marketing Automation system can offer an ‘update your profile’ option, so the leads can set their own email preferences, rather than having an “all-or-nothing” unsubscribe option. Examples of Email Marketing in Complex Buying Processes © 2010 Marketo, Inc | +1.877.260.MKTO (6586) | www.marketo.com | www.twitter.com/marketo | blog.marketo.com Once people have a relationship with your company, it can be a smart strategy to send email on behalf of the responsible sales rep. This is often hard with traditional email marketing, because they can’t handle multiple ‘from’ addresses, and they can’t access the CRM to find out the reponsible sales rep. Even more, some email marketing solutions send email from their own email address, rather than an email address from your company. With a Marketing Automation system you can send email exactly the way you want. These were just a couple of examples that illustrate how a Marketing Automation system can provide a comprehensive solution to increase marketing productivity in companies with a complex selling process. Email marketing works when: • Your entire business cycle is less than one week • You have a simple selling process (as opposed to a complex sales process) • You sell via an e-commerce platform • You are looking to send offers based on shopping cart abandonment
  • 7. Email Marketing and Marketing Automation in Complex Buying Processes 5 Marketing Automation systems take email marketing to the next level, and can support a complex buying process. The benefits of Marketing Automation do not stop at email marketing. Here are some examples of how Marketing Automation makes your marketing team more effective. Most marketing campaigns send leads to your website at some point in time. The creation of web pages and dedicated landing pages can be a bottleneck when it has to be done by your webmaster, IT department or web agency. Marketing Automation provides an easy landing page builder, which allows marketing to create landing pages and registration forms. This reduces the dependency on other departments or outside parties, and will increase the speed with which new campaigns can be rolled out. Marketing Automation can help optimize your marketing strategy with reporting and analytics. Marketing Automation goes beyond open and click rates to show the sales readiness of leads, cost per lead and cost per qualified leads. Using information from the CRM system, it can also show you which campaigns were most effective, and how marketing campaigns influence revenue. And if the standard reports are not sufficient, you can create a custom report with exactly the information you want. Salespeople will also be more productive with Marketing Automation in place. With Anonymous Web Traffic Analysis they can see the companies that are visiting the corporate website, and focus their prospecting activities on those companies. Once leads have filled out a form, sales people can get a notification every time these leads come back to the website. They can access the full activity history, and when they talk to a lead, they can enter them to the most appropriate marketing campaign, or pause all campaigns. Marketing Automation Beyond Email Marketing These are just three examples of areas where Marketing Automation helps increase the productivity of the entire marketing department, in addition to revolutionizing the way email campaigns are done. You probably want to consider a Marketing Automation system when: • You are a B2B, B2B2C or B2C company with selling process longer than one week • You need to qualify leads before you send them to sales • You have a CRM system • You’ve been doing email marketing for a while, and spend a lot of time on executing manual processes • You want reports that show the effectiveness of your marketing campaigns © 2010 Marketo, Inc | +1.877.260.MKTO (6586) | www.marketo.com | www.twitter.com/marketo | blog.marketo.com
  • 8. 6 It is clear that Marketing Automation provides significant benefits for sales and marketing organizations. It requires an investment to get started, but is paid back almost immediately by increasing marketing effectiveness. It helps the both organizations: Convert: First of all, Marketing Automation helps turn more new leads into qualified leads and sales opportunities. Automated campaigns provide the right information at the right time, and will increase conversion and shorten the sales cycle. Prospects’ questions will be answered before they are asked, and objections will be preempted. In companies with a long sales cycle, it’s often hard to adequately follow up with each and every lead. Automated lead nurturing campaigns solve this issue, and - just by itself - will already justify the investment in Marketing Automation. Automate: Concerning the automated processes of Marketing Automation, you can save time and money in Marketing. Using automated processes, you can do more with less, and be more agile at the same time. Nurture: In companies with a long sales cycle, it’s often hard to adequately follow up with each and every lead. Automated lead nurturing campaigns solve this issue, and - just by itself - will already justify the investment in Marketing Automation. Prioritize: Sales productivity will also increase. Rather than trying to manage hundreds of unqualified leads, salespeople can now focus on a handful of highly- qualified leads. The salespeople have more information available and better tracking to help them understand the activities of these leads. Prove: Marketing Automation provides the information to make marketing a metrics-driven department. Based on these metrics, marketing effectiveness can be further increased, revenue is more predictable, and marketing can show how they contribute to the company’s bottom-line. The ROI of Marketing Automation © 2010 Marketo, Inc | +1.877.260.MKTO (6586) | www.marketo.com | www.twitter.com/marketo | blog.marketo.com
  • 9. Email Marketing and Marketing Automation in Complex Buying Processes 7 Often the implementation of a Marketing Automation system is a great time to clean up your list. You may have data in your CRM system while other data is only stored in the Email Marketing system. A single database is obviously easier to manage, so merging your email list with the CRM system is often the first step. You want to make sure that duplicates are merged, and that obsolete information is removed from the CRM system (or tagged as ‘invalid’). You should also copy your unsubscribe information to the CRM system, to avoid the fact that people who have unsubscribed will suddenly receive email again. The next step is to sync up the Marketing Automation system to the CRM system. For most CRM and Marketing Automation systems, this is fairly easy: it only requires entering the CRM login information into the Marketing Automation system. The Marketing Automation system will then copy all required information into its own database. Finally, you will need to set up your email. You migrate your existing email templates, or choose to create new ones. You also need to specify the email deliverability settings: this means that you let the world know that you will be sending email from your new system. There are several standards for this, such as Sender Policy Framework (SPF) and DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM). Your Marketing Automation vendor will help you with this setup. There will be some additional setup activities, such as adding tracking code to your website, choosing a domain for your landing pages (e.g. http://pages. company.com) and creating landing page templates. This is essential for the broader role of your marketing automation system, but it’s not directly related to sending emails. Moving from Email Marketing to Marketing Automation Altogether, it’s usually a fairly quick process to get started with Marketing Automation. © 2010 Marketo, Inc | +1.877.260.MKTO (6586) | www.marketo.com | www.twitter.com/marketo | blog.marketo.com “Marketing Automation uses email as a key communication channel, so it’s often compared with email marketing software. However, Marketing Automation has so much more impact on Sales and Marketing effectiveness that a comparison with email marketing is like comparing apples and oranges. Jep Castelein – Marketing Automation Expert, LeadSloth (www.leadsloth.com, twitter.com/jepc)
  • 11. Marketo is the revenue performance management company, transforming how marketing and sales teams of all sizes work — and work together — to accelerate predictable revenue. Marketo’s solutions are both powerful and easy to use, providing explosive revenue growth throughout the revenue cycle from the earliest stages of demand generation and lead management to deal close and continued customer loyalty. About Marketo Marketo, Inc. 901 Mariners Island Blvd, Suite 200 San Mateo, CA 94402 Tel: 650.376.2300 Fax: 650.376.2331 www.marketo.com