text: De-duplicate your leads. For newbies, Marketo proves its value right off the bat as an excellent email automation tool. But its potential goes far beyond email and event management. Marketo allows you to manage truly multi-channel marketing experiences across social, web, and digital ads—and sales empowerment tools help your reps build consistent email journeys throughout the customer lifecycle. MORE
  Point of interest introduces a ton of duplicate records in a CRM and, though hybrid introduces substantially fewer, it still creates a large number of duplicates. Which of the duplicate CRM records does the marketing automation platform update? If not, a large volume of duplicate contact records will emerge which will make it more difficult to run reports and more difficult to use the CRM system in general. MORE
  Imagine the number of hours that are wasted in just trying to manually standardize, validate, de-duplicate and upload the bad leads. Creating a successful demand generation plan is not easy. But then if it were, every B2B marketer would be driving full-funnel results remarkably. The top B2B marketing players are cutting down the complexities of demand generation strategies that cover different marketing targets, channels, and lead sources. MORE
  Amazon Mechanical Turk is based on the idea that there are still many things that human beings can do much more effectively than computers, such as identifying objects in a photo or video, performing data de-duplication, transcribing audio recordings, or researching data details. Having already experimented with outsourcing some database work to India, we thought we should give a try to Amazon's Mechanical Turk. MORE
  You’re the expert, after all, and you’re bound to find things like lead de-duplication and neural networks fascinating. “To the victor go the spoils,” is a truism in politics, love, war, and video marketing. You see, while video will soon account for 82 percent of all internet traffic, its gains are unevenly distributed. A few champions enjoy the lion’s share of views, engagement, and outcomes. MORE
  Below are just a few of the data pain points I’ve used R to solve: De-duplicated data based on multiple fields while still prioritizing one field over the others. If you have spoken with a data scientist in the past few years, you’ve probably heard him or her talk about “R.” R is a statistical programming language created in 1993 and is the modernization of the classical programming language “S.” MORE
  In order to remove the excess, first get all of your data in one place and then carry out these simple tasks: De-duplicate: Duplicate contacts muddy your database and irritate your recipients. Author: Will Oliver Any marketer you talk to will tell you they contribute to their team’s demand generation efforts in some way or another. MORE