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Welcome to this month's Marketing Automation Report. In this report you will learn about a few apps and features that received a "digital facelift". Which, in my opinion, is great. Also, let's not forget to appreciate competition. When marketing software tools push themselves the hardest is

Momentum seems to be picking up in the SMB marketing automation space. Looks like we'll have a lot to look forward to this second quarter and beyond. With that being said, it's important to remember to keep things simple. As more and more tools hit the

This month I took some time to pay attention to all the mobile applications I use that help me run my business. Commuting to work provides me a lot of time to work-on-the-go from a mobile device. In fact, I'm writing this very report in Evernote's

Welcome to the first quarter of the new year! Hopefully 2018 is off to a great start for you. For many businesses this is where they ramp up and see a lot of their profits. I  know of quite a few businesses that use the profits

Happy Holidays to you and yours! It has been an amazing year and I’m extremely thankful for all of you that hung in with me throughout the entire year and those of you that jumped on board along the way. As many of you are doing,

Welcome to another issue of the Marketing Automation Report. This month was a rough one for ActiveCampaign with a lot of people reporting issues with logging in and/or sending emails. To be fair I left Ontraport over stability issues a while back. As a new customer

It’s time to bring some clarity to the concept of marketing automation. Over the years, I've noticed that many people, including myself, have often used the term "marketing automation" incorrectly when referring to full business automation—the process of automating an entire business.  Automation serves various roles

With Q4 of the year approaching, how has your business been doing so far this year? If you run a more holiday centric, seasonal business you've been planning all year for the months coming up. If your business is year around you should be planning and

This month's theme is to look deeper than the surface. The time where one blindly gives some new tech company your money because it's a new cheap service has come to an end. Just think about this, you wouldn't hire just any babysitter to watch your

ActiveCampaign Consistently Updating One of the things I love to see as a digital marketing advisor, implementor, mentor, and employee is a platform that is consistent. This is often overlooked in the SAAS space as most startups don't make it past 3 years. Let alone consistently

GetResponse Automation Capabilities I have always thought GetResponse is more of a direct competitor to Drip than any platform. Mainly because their automaton capabilities are similar and they both offer landing pages for around the same price point. Plus, they're both very much email marketing focused

“Should I use multiple lists or tags to manage my contacts?" It’s a question I see asked often in many digital marketing communities. Among the most commonly asked are new ActiveCampaign users that have migrated from a list based platform like Mailchimp. Let me start out