Marketing requires big efforts to gain that precious customer. But no matter how difficult or easy marketing may be to you, you can get better results with marketing automation.

Marketing automation involves having a repeatable system that sends the right message to your leads at the right time based on their interactions with your email, products, websites, or ads.

When you have the right execution for your marketing automation, it could be the game changer for your business. You can process your leads faster and gain more customers with less effort.

Setting up your marketing automation system allows you to have better conversations with potential buyers and see how they interact with your content and business generally.

Over the years, as automation became popular, marketers tagged it “robotic.”

You have probably read articles where the authors talked about how automation lacks the emotion that's important in human interactions. But these criticisms are unjustified!

With automation, marketers don't need to engage in tasks that are time and energy consuming. In the Automation in the Workplace 2017 report, 59% of respondents estimated they could save 6 or more hours a week when repetitive tasks are done by automation.

Apart from this, automation eliminates human errors and makes important information available in order to turn prospects into customers and serve current customers better.

But in what ways does automation improve your business? Let’s consider a few ways:

Hello again, welcome to Marketing Fridays.

This is part 4 of 12 ways to save time and money in your sales and marketing tasks. So if you haven't seen the first three parts, make sure to go back and see those first. They're going to be the ones where we shared already nine different ways. These are going to be the last three. 

Hello and welcome back to Marketing Fridays Episode 15.

This is going to be part two of twelve ways to save time and money in your sales and marketing. 

So for the fourth thing that we're going to be showing to you, that's going to be how to save your new clients into your accounting system. So saving new clients from your CRM system in this example, into for example here, QuickBooks Online. So another way to save some time, in this case specifically for sales, we set up a Zapier zap or a synchronization between AgileCRM and QuickBooks Online. So that the moment that I tag a specific contact, in this case we tagged with a tag called "invoice", that contact's information every 15 minutes through Zapier will automatically add that new customer into a customer within QuickBooks. 

Welcome to Marketing Friday's episode 13.

Today I'm going to quickly go over five benefits of email marketing automation. This is basically the idea of why you should be doing marketing automation. Most of it is usually done by email, so let's discuss.

1. One of the most important benefits of automating your marketing is the fact that you can save a lot of time and thus also a lot of money, once you do complete setting up your email campaigns? Why? Because there's going to be a lot of things being done automatically without you having to manually send emails. So that's benefit number one.

Sales automation is no longer a strange concept. It’s become an integral part of B2B management operations. However, the digital disruption is impacting it very strongly.

The good news is, we are living in an exciting time of rapid change and massive disruption to many industries. Exponential change in sales automation technology is bringing fantastic opportunities to B2B companies and online marketers. 

If you’re ready to thrive in sales automation even in this age, here’s exactly how to go about it:

Driving Business Results Without Effort

To many small business owners, the concept of marketing automation is nothing new. Integrating marketing and sales tools into your CRM can help you streamline your business and take repetitive tasks off your plate. However, there are also several unexpected benefits to utilizing this technology. Here are several business advantages you may gain by automating some processes:

Learn the Best Software For Your Business

For small businesses, every penny of investment counts. When it comes to software integrations, businesses can become overwhelmed with options. The right software stack can help your business perform better and save both time and money, all for a relatively nominal investment. Here’s what you need to know about choosing the right software stack for your business:

What is a Software Stack?

Your company’s software package can go one of two ways: You can either leverage all the tools you need to run your business effectively, or you can amass a collection of tools you pay for each month and don’t know how to use. Web developers call a foundational set of software working together as a “stack.” The right stack will help you achieve your business goals and shave repetitive tasks from your workload.

There is no question that business automation can help you get more sales and increase your engagement.

So, the question is: What's stoping you?

And that's precisely what we aim to answer in this exclusive SCORE webinar featuring Bloominari's very own, Jaime Nacach.

CRM and marketing automation software are popping up all over the blogosphere. Many eCommerce and customer service oriented sites are using these systems to improve efficiency, but many are asking: what are they, what do they do and how do they differ?