Buyer personas, smart content, lead scoring: we hear these words, we talk about these words, we struggle to understand why our time spent learning about these words hasn’t generated any revenue. In this presentation, we cut the fluff and exploring, in-detail, what it takes to build an advanced marketing automation strategy that generates leads and nurtures them into loyal customers. Specifically, we focus on the two most neglected elements of marketing automation, audience research and user data, and why investing in these elements is the single greatest step your organization can take to maximize your marketing automation efforts.