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Observations from the 2017 Marketo Summit

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This week was my eighth consecutive Marketo Summit, all of them as a sponsor/exhibitor. The event has transformed since 2009, when the customer party fit (literally) onto a suburban restaurant patio. Marketo has their mojo back. It’s been a tumultuous year for Marketo since being acquired by Vista Equity Partners in late 2016.

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Integrating Social Leads into the Demand Generation Funnel

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In fact, one of our customers, a large global consultancy, recently compared the ROI of social ads with that of social advocacy. Our advanced analytics suite even goes into granular detail, such as the network, post and exact message which generated the clicks and conversions. However, that’s not necessarily true. times higher.

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Top 10 ABM Mistakes

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In the giddy, early days when solutions like Marketo first arrived on the scene, the reigning view was that the technology was all a company needed to solve their lead management and email marketing woes. Look at your own customer data. Or leverage technologies like Predictive Analytics and Intent Data.

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Take a Sales Guy to Lunch: Bridging the Sales & Marketing Divide

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BAS) I am pretty excited about the advances in marketing automation systems with built in analytics. Companies like Eloqua and Marketo have 1-click integration into CRM systems that make it easy to synchronize marketing and sales processes and lead data. Marketing can now be viewed as a revenue generator rather than a cost center.

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Does Creative Still Matter in B2B Marketing?

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Where once, good creative was everything, much of being an effective B2B marketer today means mastering relevancy, personalization, segmentation, predictive analytics, even knowing what your customer needs and wants before he knows it. But is data all that’s needed to drive B2B marketing success? I don’t believe so.

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New Report Confirms Immaturity of Most Marketing Automation Deployments

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However, the study also finds that this focus on efficiency can blind marketers to marketing automation’s true strategic value, what Forrester describes as: “improving lifetime value, building dialog with customers, and increasing collaboration.”. cross-sell and up-sell). ” – Manager of Email Marketing, Large Online Retailer. .