Tuesday, 3 January 2017

Marketing automation – The secret element that will make your startup thrive

Any new business has a lot of work on its to-do list, but as compared to the earlier times, the modern world and entrepreneurs are blessed with technologies and tools that have simplified the task. As the time is passing, we are witnessing new tools and techniques unfolding and showing a new way of doing business. Whether its ways of promotion, marketing, connecting and advertising, business in every form has a strong influence of technology. Marketing automation is one such tool which has simplified business and has helped in streamlining the process which helps in removing bottlenecks.

What is marketing automation?

It’s a software platform which helps in automating your marketing and sales engagements such that you are able to generate more leads and gain your customers’ loyalty. Overall it ensures making your business a success by removing bottlenecks.
Marketing automation can be a great help if merged with sales and marketing team, it allows the team to work together and helps in optimizing leads.
Here are the benefits of marketing automation:
  • It helps in generation of more leads
  • It helps in qualifying leads
  • It helps in prioritizing the leads so that you can convert them
  • It helps in managing all marketing emailers
  • It helps in generation more leads
The benefits of the marketing automation can be reaped by entrepreneurs who have newly entered the business and those who are a well-established name in the market.
The sole objective of implementing marketing automation is that it helps in enhancing the performance of the sales and marketing team by streamlining their way of work and also prioritizing the leads which help enclosure and sales. Under marketing automation, you don’t have to micromanage the work; instead, everything runs on autopilot which gives you enough time to focus on your core area of work. It enables you to have a 360-degree view of how your prospects are communicating with the tool and how this tool is working on converting the prospects into clients.

Overview of how marketing automation helps in enhancing the business performance:

  • Saves time – The newbies and the established class in the business face the problem of time crunch, most of you will agree with me that sending emails, prioritising leads etc. bag more share in your daily work life, with marketing automation, all these tasks can be deployed to an automated tool which works as your team member so that you can focus on your work.
  • One stop shop- In order to use the best of technology, most of the companies end up using an array of marketing tools which only gets you webbed in using series of marketing tools, however, with marketing automation , you have a single tool to perform multiple tasks. It gives you a complete picture of your customers likes, interest to submit up, marketing automation helps you create, deploy, manage and measure your entire asset in one place.
  • Identifying sales leads- Marketing automation if merged with the CRM tool can help in understanding how customers are interacting with your marketing campaign and marketing materials, it also helps in aligning the process of sales lead prioritizing and thus helping sales team focus more on hot leads for closure.

Conclusion

Technology has come as a boon for many businesses to survive and succeed, marketing automation is the revolution in work of business and is working wonders for those who are start-ups and need to focus solely on their increasing the productivity of their business.