Marketing automation is software that triggers and personalizes messages across channels, such as email, SMS, and on-site, based on customer behavior and data rather than manual sending.
Category
Marketing Automation
Also known as
marketing automation software
It turns rules and customer signals into messages that go out on their own, from a welcome series to a post-purchase follow-up, so the team designs the logic once instead of sending each campaign by hand.
In practice
Automation multiplies whatever logic you give it, including the wrong logic. Map the trigger, the audience, and the exit condition on paper before you build a flow, or you scale a mistake across your whole list.
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