One of our classes at #CampCloud is focusing on marketing automation and you’re about to get a crash course in what marketing automation is all about. First off what is it?

I could throw a lot of big words at you to describe what it is, but in basic terms marketing automation is software that makes your marketing and sales efforts automatic.

Common marketing automation features include:

• – Email Marketing
• – Landing Pages & Forms
• – Lists and List Segmentation
• – Scoring & Grading
• – Lead Nurturing
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Using marketing automation will streamline your sales and marketing teams and help you work more efficiently. The ultimate goal is to generate traffic to your website, create new leads, nurture those leads and move them along the funnel to a sale.

The possibilities with marketing automation are endless. You can create email campaigns and run A/B testing on them. The best part is that sending the emails is AUTOMATED, so when a prospect signs up for your ebook that action will trigger an email to be sent to them thanking them for downloading it and they will be added to your database. Based on what actions prospects take they will be given scores and you can better understand who has interest in you and who is a dead end. You can start personalizing your emails easier, you can create lists based on any criteria you want and can send emails that are specific to that list segmentation.

Marketing automation will save you time and resources. You aren’t going to be wasting your time mass emailing your leads the same message. You now have the ability to target your leads and send them the content they want. It takes the manual work out of your hands and allows you to focus on other tasks.