Observed Signal · Apr 11, 2022 · Product Launch · Source: CMSWire · Impact: 2/5 · Sentiment: Positive
ActiveCampaign Extends Slack Integration for Marketing, Sales and Support
ActiveCampaign, a provider of Customer Experience Automation, announced an expanded integration with Slack to improve collaboration between marketing, sales, and support teams. The integration adds automated ticket management alerts, automatic qualifying messages to sales representatives, and automated marketing campaign reporting in Slack. Customers connecting ActiveCampaign with Slack can receive real-time alerts, such as follow-up prompts after demo requests or customer support notifications. ActiveCampaign and Slack are also offering each other's customers discounts: Slack customers get 20% off a year of ActiveCampaign, while ActiveCampaign customers get 30% off Slack business plans. Shay Howe, SVP of Platform Strategy at ActiveCampaign, said the next Slack app release this quarter will let users act on ActiveCampaign data without leaving Slack. ActiveCampaign also released new Growth Accelerator Apps in January, including Delighted, Magento, Snowflake, and Sendoso.
Expanded Slack integration for a CX automation provider is a meaningful but incremental MarTech product update, relevant for marketing, sales and support collaboration but not industry-shifting.
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Key Takeaways & Evidence Grounding
- ActiveCampaign announced an expanded integration with Slack to automate marketing, sales, and support workflows.
- The integration includes automated ticket management alerts, automatic qualifying messages to sales reps, and automated marketing campaign reporting.
- Slack customers receive 20% off one year of ActiveCampaign, while ActiveCampaign customers receive 30% off Slack business plans.
- ActiveCampaign planned a next Slack app release in Q2 2022 to enable in-the-moment actions without leaving Slack.
- ActiveCampaign released Growth Accelerator Apps in January 2022, including Delighted, Magento, Snowflake, and Sendoso.
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