These services offer what you would expect in 2013: a variety of templates to choose from, easy uploading of data, good metrics to track campaign responses, integration with customer relationship management (CRM) applications and affordable pricing.

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And that data is coming at firms in an ever increasing array of formats making integration and customer insight increasingly difficult.

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