Marketing automation software has come a long way in recent years. It is more than just email senders and list management, there are now a host of tools that can handle everything from 20+ social media feeds across different sites, payment portals, centralized multisite management, and everything else in between. Here are a few of our favorite tools for automating your marketing life.
MailChimp
MailChimp is the leading email marketing and auto responding service. The service is free for all to use when your list is relatively small, and once it grows there are a variety of affordable monthly payment options. MailChimp allows you to use A/B testing to split your list, email new subscribers a set series of emails automatically and interfaces with a host of different plugins, systems, and content managements systems such as Wordpress. One of the cheapest, easiest to use, and most popular email services, MailChimp is a strong choice to take your email marketing to the next level.
Hootsuite
Social media marketing can be tricky because of the fast-paced nature and changing preferences of users. A year of building your presence on one website can go to waste when a cool new site comes out of nowhere capturing more of your target demographic. Automation in the social media space is important so that individuals and companies can manage their social media presence across a host of different sites with different posting requirements and audiences. Hootsuite is one of many tools that allow just that type of management all from a central hub.
With Hootsuite you can schedule future social media posts, respond quickly to comments from many networks, and get an overall sense of how your brand is doing and what people are saying about it. Browser extensions for Chrome and Firefox are also available. These extensions allow you to post to your sites without even opening the Hootsuite program.
Infusionsoft
Infusionsoft is one of many all in one automated marketing tools. The power and range of options of the tool is amazing. From lead management, to helping close sales, to auto responding in multiple ways for individuals, to organizing all your content and social media in one central place. This program also helps with the actual processing of the sale. A fully functional e-commerce storefront and payment-processing network is part of the package. This payment system can link with popular players like Paypal and Amazon payments. While on the higher end of the price spectrum, Infusionsoft is recommend by thousands of users and could be the right fit for your business.
Pardot
Busy marketers that have multiple campaigns across a suite of website also desire a place where they can see how they all these are doing in one central place. Pardot is a software tool that gives you exactly that. Pardot allows the user to track their conversions, spending, lead generation, and engagement across all their marketing campaigns whether they are advertising, email, social, or otherwise. This software is specifically for business-to-business relationship management, however, rather than business to customer. If you have a large, complicated marketing plan or multiple sites that you manage, consider Pardot to organize your marketing life all in one place.
MailChimp
MailChimp is the leading email marketing and auto responding service. The service is free for all to use when your list is relatively small, and once it grows there are a variety of affordable monthly payment options. MailChimp allows you to use A/B testing to split your list, email new subscribers a set series of emails automatically and interfaces with a host of different plugins, systems, and content managements systems such as Wordpress. One of the cheapest, easiest to use, and most popular email services, MailChimp is a strong choice to take your email marketing to the next level.
Hootsuite
Social media marketing can be tricky because of the fast-paced nature and changing preferences of users. A year of building your presence on one website can go to waste when a cool new site comes out of nowhere capturing more of your target demographic. Automation in the social media space is important so that individuals and companies can manage their social media presence across a host of different sites with different posting requirements and audiences. Hootsuite is one of many tools that allow just that type of management all from a central hub.
With Hootsuite you can schedule future social media posts, respond quickly to comments from many networks, and get an overall sense of how your brand is doing and what people are saying about it. Browser extensions for Chrome and Firefox are also available. These extensions allow you to post to your sites without even opening the Hootsuite program.
Infusionsoft
Infusionsoft is one of many all in one automated marketing tools. The power and range of options of the tool is amazing. From lead management, to helping close sales, to auto responding in multiple ways for individuals, to organizing all your content and social media in one central place. This program also helps with the actual processing of the sale. A fully functional e-commerce storefront and payment-processing network is part of the package. This payment system can link with popular players like Paypal and Amazon payments. While on the higher end of the price spectrum, Infusionsoft is recommend by thousands of users and could be the right fit for your business.
Pardot
Busy marketers that have multiple campaigns across a suite of website also desire a place where they can see how they all these are doing in one central place. Pardot is a software tool that gives you exactly that. Pardot allows the user to track their conversions, spending, lead generation, and engagement across all their marketing campaigns whether they are advertising, email, social, or otherwise. This software is specifically for business-to-business relationship management, however, rather than business to customer. If you have a large, complicated marketing plan or multiple sites that you manage, consider Pardot to organize your marketing life all in one place.
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