As we talked to marketing automation experts to prepare our recent white paper "52 Secrets to Marketing Automation Success," we saw an outpouring of fascinating predictions and analyses of the industry. Some discussions were simply too good not to share in full. Case in point,
Jonathan Block and
Jay Famico of SiriusDecisions prepared an extensive amount of research, all very enlightening about the future of the industry. When asked to provide their predictions on what will impact Marketing Automation in the next twelve months, Jonathan and Jay offered the following landscape evaluation...
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