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Adobe to Acquire Marketo: So What?

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As banks and credit unions pour gasoline on their direct outreach, Adobe’s announced acquisition of Marketo shows us just how hot digital marketing automation is right now. For those not in the know, Marketo is a system vendor that automates lead management including email, mobile, social, digital ads, web management and analytics.

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Chargeback Automation Is An Opportunity For Scale

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Chargehound saw there were automation tools that could help optimize revenue and support retailers as they scaled: Customer relationship management (CRM), email automation, marketing automation, payments, the list goes on. But chargebacks, she said, had been exempt from the automation game.

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Financial Brand Forum 2018: 7 Takeaways in 7 Minutes

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It turns out that a conference about storytelling, design, customer experiences, applied data and delivery is a nice team fit. The most constructive general session I attended was by Content Marketing Institute ’s Joe Pulizzi who laid out a useful “how to” including how to “content tilt” to get messages to stand out for real.

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Chatbot Tracker: Are Payments The Missing Link To Chatbot Success?

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Commerce marketing automation software Bronto’s Senior Product Manager, Matt Davis, commented to Retail Dive about the impact chatbots are having on the customer service industry alone: “This really represents a shift now to where chat is starting to become the center of this kind of brand or product retailer interaction, directly with the customer.

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GonzoBanker Awards 2017

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Endless CRM and data management projects that shook our foundations and gutted our PMOs. While the darling of FinTech conferences, this divestiture seems primarily driven as a means of Customers delaying the $10 billion Durbin hit and maintaining quarterly EPS expectations from the Street. At a banking conference.

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Q2 Acquires Gro Solutions: So What?

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And it follows a string of Q2 acquisitions over the last few years, including: Centrix brought cash management functions of positive pay, fraud prevention and risk assessment as well as dispute management. UnBill brought a payments consolidation software allowing end users to manage their direct payment relationships.

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Banking’s CRM Conquerors

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At Dreamforce last year, Pete DuPré, CIO of Elevations Credit Union , took the stage to offer up one of the most enlightening and real experiences discussed at the conference. Sales and pipeline management has been the bread and butter of CRM, but setting it up in an integrated and user-friendly way has been grossly oversimplified.

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