Marketing Automation

What is Automation?

Automation – Using computer programs to perform tasks that are repetitive, that would normally be completed by a human. Email programs can use automation to send email messages to people based on certain triggers (new customers, did or did not open the last email, etc). Marketers also use automation to nurture leads by sending relevant content to previous visitors of a website, in an attempt to get the visitor back to convert into a sale.

Marketing automation is all about using software to automate marketing activities. Many marketing departments automate repetitive tasks such as email marketing, social media posting, and even ad campaigns — not just for the sake of efficiency, but so they can provide a more personalized experience for their customers. The technology of automation marketing makes these tasks easier.

2020 Marketing Automation

Today Marketing is a combination of software and strategy. It should allow you to nurture prospects with highly personalized, useful content that helps convert prospects to delighted customers.

Think of effective automation marketing like growing a garden. You need fertile soil, ripe for growth. You need seeds to sow. And you need water and light to nurture those seeds into a lush, blooming plant. With good marketing automation, it’s easier to nurture leads (the seedlings) well enough to produce paying customers (a lush, full-grown plant).

But it doesn’t end there. Customers are more than just the output of successful automated marketing. They should be at the center of everything you do, which means marketing automation should continue to play an important role in your relationship with them.

That’s why the most successful automation marketing strategies don’t consider customers an afterthought at the end of a traditional funnel. Instead, customers should be at the center of a flywheel that gets more efficient when you add force to that flywheel and reduce points of customer friction.

Successful strategies will reduce that friction and speed up your flywheel, helping you continue to nurture customer relationships well after the sale.

Conclusion

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