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Marketing Automation

Marketing automation and Customer Relationship Management (CRM) can help organizations build better relationships with customers, both new and old. Explore tools, techniques, and marketing automation platforms for analyzing and responding to customer behavior with unique marketing. Browse our latest marketing automation news, analysis, and advice. 

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Dynamic Content Delivery Fuels the Ultimate Hyper-Personalization

Content is still king, but only when it meets the right customer at the right time and place.

Why Your Primary Focus Should Be on Customer Retention

The shift away from new customer acquisition is finally taking hold.

QR Codes Failed Because the Ask Was Bigger Than the Reward. That’s Changing

After many false starts, QR codes have finally found their footing, but marketers need to treat the post-scan experience as seriously as the code itself.

Keeping Customer Data More Secure with AI

AI might have the best chance of catching data threats at the hands of AI.

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Beyond Speed-to-Lead: How AI Improves Lead Quality for More Conversions

AI chatbots provide more than just rapid responses; they also ensure high-quality, consistent, and compliant CRM data that ultimately drives higher conversion rates.

A Martech Dilemma: Composability vs. Consolidation

This is a battle with no clear battle lines.

AI in CRM: Where Security Risks Are Hiding

As AI agents gain autonomy inside CRM platforms, cybercriminals are exploiting hidden security risks to turn trusted CX automation into a silent gateway for customer data theft.

The Global Content Playbook: Why Brands Need Cultural Intelligence to Avoid Customer Experience Missteps

As AI enables brands to scale global content creation faster, cultural intelligence is emerging as a strategic driver to ensure multilingual content is not only linguistically accurate, but also culturally relevant.

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7 Agentic AI Lessons We've Learned

Map out your processes and journeys now.

The Debate Around Dynamic Capabilities

Dynamic pricing models might be unfair, but what's a lot less ambiguous is how companies can use CRM data to dynamically alter other aspects of the customer experience.

The Marketer’s Guide to Answer Engine Optimization

Shoppers are loyal to convenience.

Output Is Not an Outcome: Resolving a Misperception About AI in CX

Any number of AI-driven outputs will be required to reach outcomes that have real value to businesses.

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