By Lisa Kirschner
I talk to a lot of marketers each week, and most of them have at least one thing in common: they’re frustrated because they have to use a TON of tools to complete their day-to-day marketing responsibilities.
There are a zillion third-party tools on the market for email marketing, social media, landing pages, forms, analytics, reporting, customer relationship management, ecommerce and many others. And if you’re like most other modern marketers, you have a hard time keeping up with the updates, user interfaces, training and login information for all of those disparate tools.
Often, smaller businesses try to save money by cobbling together low-cost tools and painfully trying hit-or-miss ways to integrate them together, even if they’re not designed to work with one another. Sometimes it works and sometimes results are less than desirable.