Why combine a powerful CMS with popular marketing tools?
It is important to find a CMS that can integrate all useful add-ons, tailoring the experience for your team and your customers.
Written by Vegard Ottervig on
It is important to find a CMS that can integrate all useful add-ons, tailoring the experience for your team and your customers.
Written by Vegard Ottervig on
Looking for a CMS that does everything? Then we suggest you give up the hunt. After all, no single vendor can offer you a one-size-fits-all solutionâand in 2022, they shouldnât have to.
With so many amazing, best-of-breed marketing tools at your fingertips, itâs more important to find a CMS that can integrate all those useful add-ons. The result? A future-proof CMS thatâs tailored for your team and your customers.Â
Read the checklist that will show you how to choose the right CMS:
A CMS might be a lifesaver for your business, but it canât do everything. While there are many all-in-one content management suites that offer most of the features youâll need, thereâll no doubt be a day when these tools donât cut the mustard.
For those occasions, marketing tools are your best friends. Easier and cheaper to integrate with your CMS, these specialized tools can be a great way of building a seamless digital experience.
But to make the most of them, itâs important that your CMS offers the option to plug in third-party tools. This will ensure that you donât need to replace your CMS to support your ever evolving business needs.Â
Read more: How to use Enonic for effective content management »
Well established CMS platforms will feature ready made integrations with Google Analytics, marketing automation tools, SEO tools, A/B testing tools, and more. A good CMS knows its limitations and rather than building their own tools for all of these functions, they provide integrations that are easily accessible.Â
Integrations usually come in three flavors:
In addition to all this, youâll want to consider how adaptable your CMS is. Ensuring your CMS is pluggable is especially important when youâre dealing with tools that arenât easily integrated, or if you have a homebrew solution. And of course, be mindful of any security issues that might arise from having a broad range of integrations that youâre not managing.
Third-party marketing tools can help you build the right marketing tech stack for your company. Having access to the best tools can boost sales, provide useful customer analytics and tackle a host of other tasks such as reporting on content and results.
Combining a content management system with best-of-breed third-party tools like marketing automation or analytics tools, will increase your teamâs efficiency and contribute to a greater website user experience. Make sure youâre choosing a CMS platform that enables easy integrations, and youâre good to go.
First published 27 June 2018, updated 29 June 2022.
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Vegard Hovland Ottervig holds a Master's degree in film studies and has worked with journalism and marketing since 2010. He loves cycling, philosophy, gaming, and writing.
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