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Future Proof Your Marketing Automation: 7 Considerations to Select a System That Won’t Turn Obsolete

David_03_06By David M. Raab, Principal, Raab Associates

It’s almost a cliché that today’s buyers can gather product information for themselves. No one has taken this to heart more than marketing automation vendors, which publish mountains of information on their own web sites and subsidize distribution of still more by third parties. But even the most complete information and insightful analysis can’t accurately predict the future. Since the future is when you’ll use any marketing automation system you buy today, that’s a problem.

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SXSW and The Digital Conversation

Jesse_NoyesBy Jesse Noyes, Corporate Reporter, Eloqua

This year’s South By Southwest Interactive festival didn’t deliver much breaking news. That’s surprising because SXSWi has become an annual pilgrimage for tech geeks looking to discover the next Twitter or Foursquare.

This time around mostly incremental improvements were rolled out, like CNN’s “Open Stories” initiative. In case you missed it – and you probably did – Open Stories is basically a platform where users can contribute content to individual stories with photos, location-mapping and text. Yeah, it’s a lot like Wikipedia.