The Lead Agency

JUNE 7, 2023

Lead nurturing is a powerful B2B marketing strategy for companies to create meaningful connections and drive engagement with customers and prospects at every stage of the sales funnel. Almost 80% of marketing leads don’t actually convert into sales. What is lead nurturing?

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Zoominfo

MAY 9, 2022

It wasn’t long ago that sales as an industry was driven largely by volume — more leads meant more prospects, which sometimes translated into more revenue. This process was inefficient, time-intensive, and unpredictable. Today, sales is driven by insights. Why Do You Need a Sales Engagement Platform?

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ANNUITAS

MARCH 4, 2020

The Growth Marketing movement (aka growth hacking ) – now nearly ten years old – has had a significant and positive impact on the efficacy of demand marketing. Yet ‘first generation’ Growth Marketing has hit a wall. Yet ‘first generation’ Growth Marketing has hit a wall. It’s time for Next Generation Growth Marketing.

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Sprout Social

JUNE 28, 2023

For today’s marketing teams, it’s nearly impossible to do your work and stay agile without marketing automation. There has never been more customer, competitor or industry data available to marketing teams. In this article, we’ll walk through what marketing automation is, how and why to use it and examples of tools.

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Zoominfo

APRIL 29, 2022

For go-to-market teams, data is critical to staying competitive, but not just any data. To ensure the quality of their data, some organizations hire data quality managers. Below we define what a data quality manager is, their roles and responsibilities, and why the job is so important. What is a Data Quality Manager?

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Marketing Insider Group

DECEMBER 28, 2020

For marketing efforts, technology enables you to automate, track, personalize, and more. And what tools do you need to streamline your marketing? MarTech is a set of technology tools marketers use to assist with marketing efforts. Having the right MarTech stack is imperative for the modern marketing organization.

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SmartBug Media

OCTOBER 15, 2020

But once you’re ready for it, Marketo’s funnel analysis tool can help you score some big wins. The Revenue Cycle Modeler (RCM) is a tool that helps Marketo understand and track your Buyer’s Journey. Once running, it captures historical data about which leads are in each stage of your funnel and how long they stay there.

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SmartBug Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Take a moment to imagine your ideal in-house marketing team. Here’s what I see: Marketing is consistently exceeding their SMART goals; return on marketing efforts and progress towards key performance indicators (KPIs) are simple to track; and sales and marketing work side by side as a well-oiled machine.

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Martech

OCTOBER 3, 2023

The updates that stand out most in Marketo’s September release are enhanced integrations with other platforms and applications. Dynamic Chat capabilities now facilitate engagement on multiple fronts and closer integration with Marketo Engage. This is where expertise and creativity come into play for the Marketing Operations team!

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Engagio

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

They engage with companies on their own terms, conducting extensive research across various channels long before they want to engage with sales teams. That’s why lead nurturing remains such a key element of a good B2B go-to-market. OK, so now onto the core question: should lead nurturing come from marketing or SDRs?

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Oktopost

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Here at Oktopost, we love Marketo. As always, getting to spend time with the Marketo team was awesome. As Marketo users ourselves, finding new b2b marketing tools to enhance our own experience is a win and we wanted to share that with our readers. We use it, we recommend it, we are BIG fans.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Now more than ever, marketing has to prove its impact on the success of the business. All too often, it’s assumed that marketing exists solely to support sales, or that we throw fancy parties with nothing to show for our work. With the pressure increasing, it’s time for marketers to take control of the revenue process.

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SmartBug Media

APRIL 17, 2020

For newbies, Marketo proves its value right off the bat as an excellent email automation tool. But its potential goes far beyond email and event management. Here are five popular Marketo add-ons for mid-sized businesses, along with a few considerations for each. Sales Insights. Sales Connect.

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Scoop.it

OCTOBER 5, 2023

But what is a substitute for the old-good (yet no longer effective) marketing tactics? Some have probably whispered account-based marketing (ABM) in your ear, and you want to dig this topic deeper. Source: Marketo That’s why you should thoroughly examine the topic before getting to implementation.

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SmartBug Media

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Actionable analytics always start with clean data. If you read our post about using Marketo's Performance Insights tools , you know clean data is especially crucial for making decisions about the health of your marketing efforts as a whole. Tuesday: Do a quick thumb-o-meter with your sales team. If not, update.

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Webbiquity

AUGUST 18, 2020

Today’s virtual event platforms are adding features like virtual expo halls and exhibitor booths, 3D environments and avatars, social media integration, gamification, one-to-one video networking, content libraries, and detailed attendee activity analytics. A tool to manage and produce conferences, workshops, and other virtual events.

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SalesIntel

MAY 4, 2023

In today’s fast-paced and ever-evolving business landscape, sales enablement tools have become essential for companies looking to stay ahead of the competition. With technology advancements happening at an unprecedented pace, the sales enablement tools landscape has also undergone a significant transformation in recent years.

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Oktopost

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

What does this have to do with marketing automation software? Well, in many ways, Marketo and HubSpot are not unlike Sparta and Athens. To make it easier for you to guess, let’s take a look at both platforms and try to determine: HubSpot vs. Marketo: which is the marketing automation platform to rule them all?

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Biznology

JULY 26, 2017

Account-based marketing is a hot concept in B2B these days, but how does it really work on the ground? David identified four factors key to Enli’s ABM success: process, culture, attitude, and metrics. In terms of background, Enli is a Portland-based company with a population health management platform for health systems.

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SmartBug Media

APRIL 20, 2021

Masterful marketers know they need to close every possible gap in attribution reporting. That’s why the Marketo and Bizible Integration has become a reporting lifesaver in recent years. Here’s all you need to know about the Marketo and Bizible Integration, including how to use it to drive more leads to your site.

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Only B2B

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Lead scoring, a critical component of any successful sales and marketing strategy, can be the bridge that guides your leads towards conversion. Must Read: Revolutionizing Lead Generation with Automated Lead Qualification: A Data-Driven Guide Understanding Lead Scoring Lead scoring is grounded in data and analytics.

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Only B2B

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Intent is the lifeblood of sales. In the fiercely competitive B2B sales landscape, where businesses are vying to paint in lime green, standing out can be daunting. Learn how to leverage intent data for sales and craft the perfect sales strategy to increase your ROI and achieve sales targets.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

As marketers, we know the challenge of ensuring sales reps follow and use best practices processes, sales playbooks , and marketing content we painstakingly created. That’s where a sales engagement solution comes in. Here are 5 steps to successfully roll out a sales engagement solution: 1.

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Digilant

MAY 6, 2021

The best way to begin this is by using the best online marketing analytics tools. These tools help support the digital marketing strategy by measuring and managing performance. What do these online marketing analytics tools provide? Revenue funnel analysis. Marketo Engage. Competitive analysis.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

MARCH 11, 2019

But one constant has plagued social media since its birth: the challenge of tracking marketing impact and ROI. Thankfully, as platforms have evolved, so have the tools we use to analyze our social media marketing campaigns. Today’s analytics platforms can go a long way toward delivering stronger ROI and marketing attribution.

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SmartBug Media

OCTOBER 29, 2020

It may seem like just another marketing buzzword, but attribution is key for both marketers and sales leaders alike. When you think about all the effort your team is putting into creating integrated marketing campaigns, are you able to clearly identify which channels are driving the most revenue?

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Vidyard

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Expanded partnership helps Marketo Engage customers personalize their marketing experiences and drive greater audience engagement through the power of video content and video analytics. This means working with one trusted advisor to build a holistic marketing solution that includes video.

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SpotMe Blog

AUGUST 20, 2021

SpotMe joins Adobe Exchange Partner Program to enable B2B Marketers to enrich their post-event campaigns and activities with event data. 20 2021 — SpotMe, a leading B2B event marketing platform, today announced it has joined the Adobe Exchange Partner Program. LAUSANNE, Switzerland, Aug.

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Digilant

MAY 6, 2021

The best way to begin this is by using the best online marketing analytics tools. These tools help support the digital marketing strategy by measuring and managing performance. What do these online marketing analytics tools provide? Revenue funnel analysis. Marketo Engage. Competitive analysis.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

MARCH 22, 2018

For marketers, AI enables scalable growth, drives revenue, and personalizes customer experiences. Savvy marketers are discovering that AI is an exceptionally powerful strategy. Let’s look at five ways AI can help marketing and sales continue to tear down silos. Support Sales with Relevant Customer Experiences.

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ClickZ

JANUARY 22, 2020

30-second summary: By simply adopting marketing automation technology, a company can significantly free up a marketers time and enable them to focus on more important revenue building projects as these tools can help to automate numerous repetitive tasks such as emails, campaign management, website analysis and social media marketing.

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Litmus

APRIL 18, 2024

Email marketers need to consider not only crafting, designing, and developing individual emails but also strategy, planning, operations, and deliverability—and of course, coordinating these efforts with the rest of your team. That’s why the MVP of any email marketing team is an integrated marketing tech stack.

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Sprout Social

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Marketing teams depend on an ecosystem of tools everyday. The social media market is saturated with different integrations, which is why Sprout is thoughtful about our approach. We heard many of our customers’ challenges around integrating with social media management tools and took notes. Lead management & CRM.

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FunnelEnvy

MARCH 22, 2020

I’m writing this because it’s the year 2020 and we’re still having trouble attributing onsite campaigns/testing to Marketo MQLs/Opportunities/Revenue. As a result, this guide is very tactical in nature, with the end goal of helping you answer the question ‘What impact is my onsite campaigns/tests having on revenue?

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Martech

JANUARY 22, 2024

Imagine this: Your agency has created a clear and effective digital marketing plan. For digital marketing agencies, driving campaigns is only half the battle. Establishing shared processes for both teams. Understanding this simple yet crucial factor sets apart an effective digital marketing agency.

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MKT1

JANUARY 11, 2024

If you don’t adopt AI as a marketer, you won’t be efficient or effective enough to compete—we’ve all heard this many, many times at this point. Kathleen and I are marketers and investors. Improve marketing operations and processes : Use AI to streamline your team and free up time to work on meatier projects.

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SmartBug Media

MARCH 10, 2021

If you are in a marketing or sales role, I’m sure you have. Questions typically included with this request may be: How many marketing-qualified leads (MQLs) do I have? Gathering lead lifecycle data in Marketo can be done a few different ways. Lead Lifecycle Reports in Marketo. The Revenue Cycle Model.

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