A Focus on Marketing Automation with Sugar Market
Today’s buyers are 60% to 90% through the sales process before they first engage with a sales representative. By then they’ve done their research and know the features and prices of your products and all of your competitors’ products. This puts the pressure on marketing to further qualify and nurture leads because cold calling is just not the best use of anyone’s time. People will buy when they are ready and well informed and it is marketing’s job to make sure the programs and content are in place to do that.
Since the way people buy has changed, so should our sales and marketing tools and strategies. Email marketing is no longer the only tool marketers have and Marketing Automation applications are no longer a tool only large companies can afford.
So what is marketing automation?
Marketing Automation combines email marketing, lead scoring, lead capture and tracking, nurturing, event management, and social media marketing into one application. AKA: a marketer’s dream.
The Marketing Automation industry is growing fast at an average 52% annual growth rate over the past two years. The cost of these applications has decreased and more are popping up each year. If used properly, marketers should be able to see a return on investment within 6 months after implementation.
In our core CRM business, we help companies streamline sales processes within their CRM application. The sales process is directly affected by what happens at the top of the funnel during marketing qualification. Because these are tied so closely together, over the years we have been asked to complete several Marketing Automation integrations and implementation projects and have developed a core competency around Marketing Automation tools, best practices, training, and configuration.
We are diving into Marketing Automation as an extension of our existing CRM business and professional services. For any of our customers that have considered implementing Marketing Automation, we have already taken major steps to evaluate the applications on the market and will help to implement, train, and support the application for your company.
Sugar Market is a Marketing Automation application with connectors to SugarCRM and several other CRM systems. The team at Sugar Market has developed the system with extended capabilities, a forward-thinking product, as a native Sugar integration with multiple tools and resources for the user.
If you are interested in seeing a demo of Sugar Market or would like to discuss implementing Marketing Automation, contact us today.
