Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

APRIL 7, 2020

With all of the hype about AI and machine learning transforming how business is done, it’s easy to focus on automation and data at the expense of letting the human elements atrophy. Some see AI and automation as a threat. Humans and machines work best when they work together, and this will become the new normal.

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Zoominfo

JULY 2, 2020

While marketing professionals understand marketing automation can streamline essential processes, many do not leverage these systems to their full advantage. Marketing automation is beneficial. What is Marketing Automation, And Why is it Important? How Does Marketing Automation Work? The ultimate goal? Closing more sales.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

They no longer want to be treated just as “leads” in your system. This is where an advanced lead generation strategy comes in. At the same time, the goal of lead generation has evolved to meet these changing customer habits. Now, lead generation is less about finding new customers than about making sure new customers find you.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JULY 8, 2019

Every business eventually realizes that much of its marketing can be automated. Gone are the days of remembering to follow up with a lead, or websites that present the same offers to every visitor regardless of how they arrived on the page. For the most part, automating your marketing campaigns is typically a net-positive.

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The Point

JANUARY 21, 2020

A client asks: “Should we be hosting our campaign landing pages in Marketo? We’ve always hosted them on our main site and simply embedded Marketo forms. This question comes up all the time in client work, and not just with Marketo customers. Is there a big advantage to hosting them separately?”. Effectiveness. Design Capability.

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DealSignal

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Did you know that, according to a study by HubSpot , 61% of B2B marketers rank lead generation as their number one challenge? With businesses constantly searching for new customers, it’s no wonder that B2B lead generation has become a top priority for marketers.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JANUARY 22, 2020

At the top of the funnel, marketing increases traffic and fills the database with new leads through paid ads, social media, search, referral programs, and a variety of other channels. But in between, marketing needs to nurture and qualify leads by encouraging them to engage with content until they’re sales-ready.

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The Point

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

A prospective client asks: “We’re just getting our demand generation programs ramped up, and I’m not sure I’m ready for marketing automation. Do I need it in order to do lead nurturing?”. My answer: “It depends how you define “ lead nurturing ,” but technically: no, you don’t need marketing automation in order to nurture leads.

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SmartBug Media

JANUARY 12, 2021

Salesforce and Marketo have a variety of standard reports that allow you to understand how many leads you are generating, the source of your leads, the number of leads in each lifecycle, and more. We will compare Marketo versus Salesforce data to help you understand how to successfully report on marketing's impact.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JUNE 7, 2017

You know the basics of marketing automation: it streamlines, automates, and monitors routine marketing tasks. But a good marketing automation platform is about more than making life easier for the marketing team—it should also help you close more deals. Pass Over Sales-Ready Leads Using Lead Scoring.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JUNE 20, 2018

Inherently tech-based, a plethora of marketing automation solutions has made ABM more measurable and affordable for businesses of all sizes. ABM is an antidote to the conventional lead generation efforts that leave marketers increasingly frustrated. Here are four steps you can take to use marketing automation to drive ABM efforts.

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Envy

MARCH 4, 2021

B2B lead nurturing is crucial for driving conversions and revenue scientifically and removing "gut instinct" from the equation. These B2B lead nurturing nuggets will help you tweak your funnel for better results. 74% of companies say converting leads is their TOP PRIORITY. B2B lead nurturing isn't a "nice to have" anymore.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

MARCH 19, 2020

Direct mail and other offline channels are not new, but the old barriers to entry with these strategies have been overcome: Sending Platforms enable companies to automate personalized offline campaigns like direct mail and measure ROI. 3 Online-to-Offline Campaigns Made Possible with Marketo. Engage Leads That Demonstrate Intent .

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

As marketers, we are always looking for ways to automate, optimize, and make things simpler for ourselves so we are able to run more programs, produce more content, achieve higher ROI, and the list goes on. Overwhelmingly, most of this engagement can be achieved with a marketing automation platform.

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Martech

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Best of the MarTechBot showcases the MarTechBot’s responses to prompts submitted by readers. How can technology be used to improve the effectiveness of social media marketing? Examples: Increase brand awareness Drive lead generation Improve customer engagement Increase sales 3.

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Heinz Marketing

APRIL 24, 2020

What if she asks how many qualified leads that event generated for the sales team? If you’re starting from square one, lead sourcing is a great place to start. Why are lead sources important? Lead source data enables marketing to understand the value and effectiveness of its efforts. Lead Source Details.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Automation. If there is one thing companies need — other than a working product, that is — leads. When done well, marketing automation delivers new leads for 80 percent of companies. Marketing automation comes in many flavors, some of them easier to implement than others. Influencer relations.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

APRIL 20, 2018

To get the best results, your content marketing efforts need to run like a well-oiled machine so you can focus on the big picture, do your job better, and achieve more. Together, content marketing and marketing automation can help you create a cohesive, efficient, and effective engagement marketing powerhouse.

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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. Leading Edge Virtual Event Platforms. Total reviews: 156.

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SmartBug Media

OCTOBER 30, 2019

Whether you’re a small mom-and-pop shop, a new startup looking to take over an untapped market, or a seasoned marketing pro, it can be overwhelming to find the best tools out there. Or spending hours on end tracking down information, manually sending out emails, and following up with leads? Best-In Class Marketing Automation Software.

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KoMarketing Associates

APRIL 25, 2013

Lead generation is at the top of almost every B2B marketer’s responsibility list. Generate more leads, generate better leads, and improve the rate to which lead opportunities turn into closed wins for the sales teams. Marketo is considered a leader in the lead management / marketing automation industry.

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The Point

APRIL 1, 2014

Recent studies tell us while the adoption of marketing automation technology continues to gain momentum, fewer than 20 percent of marketing executives say that they are fully integrating the technology into their current sales and marketing initiatives.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

Author: Anastasia Pavlova Whether you’re a small to medium-sized business or a larger enterprise organization, marketing automation is your company’s best bet for staying competitive in this digital age. 53% of the B2B organizations and 43% of B2C and combination B2B/B2C organizations have adopted marketing automation systems.–

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SalesIntel

DECEMBER 6, 2023

We have listed the 10 best sales tools you must be acquainted with to boost your B2B sales. Sales tools are software and technology solutions that help sales teams automate and streamline various tasks and processes, such as lead generation, customer relationship management, and sales forecasting. What are Sales Tools?

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

APRIL 8, 2019

Qualified leads would ultimately receive more attention—the sales rep might play 18 holes with them to help close the deal. But with the way modern customers conduct online research prior to purchasing, the human interaction aspect of qualifying leads has all but disappeared. A solid definition of “lead”. What’s a lead?

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The Point

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

Sungard AS runs a highly successful demand generation program, an integrated mix of both online and offline campaigns, to generate a consistent flow of leads to the company’s sales force. Design, build and launch a “Welcome” email program designed to improve follow-up and response to new leads. Spear is a Marketo agency partner.) “A

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The Point

OCTOBER 30, 2013

A client asks: “I notice that you’re recommending we gate our offer content behind landing pages as part of the lead nurturing campaign. It’s why click-to-lead conversion rates are never 100%, no matter how good your landing page. Why is that necessary when we already know who these people are? Here’s why: 1. A click is not a response.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JULY 26, 2019

Marketing Nation Live, a B2B Marketing virtual event, is bringing together marketers from all over the world on September 18 for a day full of inspiration, education, and social networking. Perhaps the best part of all: You can put your suitcases away because it’s a virtual event. Here’s why we think you should register.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JUNE 18, 2018

While having thousands upon thousands of social followers is certainly something to brag about, the number means little if those followers largely ignore your brand. Engagement is the key to success for social media marketing—brands that drive more engagement from their audience are generally rewarded with better visibility and organic reach.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JUNE 1, 2012

Rajesh is a Marketo expert and has hands-on experience defining projects and implementing them at both venture-backed start-ups and consulting firms. Social Media has quickly switched from a way for individuals to keep in touch, to a key strategy of business success. Social media posts also increasingly show up in search results.

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Kabbage

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

For marketers, it probably doesn’t come as a surprise that blogs are the second most used tactic for content marketing (behind social media content). Here are our lists from previous years: The 25 Best Marketing Blogs of 2014. The Best Marketing Blogs of 2015. Content is everywhere these days. B2B Marketing Blogs.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JUNE 5, 2018

Instagram is one of the most happening social networks out there now. It has a great platform that allows people to see what their friends, favorite movie actors, sports stars, social figures, and celebrities are up to. It’s a treasure trove for brands to engage users and drive leads. Focus on Hashtags.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JULY 7, 2017

Because there is more to lead scoring than just fit. The lead must also have a need for your product or service and be ready to research and evaluate solutions. Unfortunately, you can’t tell whether a lead is ready by scoring them on fit alone. That’s an important aspect of behavioral lead scoring. Why is that?

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Valasys

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

The digital market is one of the leading reasons for this revolution. In this guide, we’ll explore four of the best marketing technologies that every company needs to integrate into their system to thrive in the digital landscape. In this era of extreme development and growth, the business industry has transformed into a battleground.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Marketo is happy to be one of the partners contributing to this vision through our integrations with Facebook that connect the dots between seemingly disparate activities, digitally and offline. A Marketo Case Study. in-store purchases, event attendance, content downloads), to digital campaigns to optimize their program and spend.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JANUARY 27, 2014

Author: Maggie Jones What happens when a rock star marketer, an excitable mascot, and Marketo employees with phenomenal dance moves get together? Lead generation, of course! In today’s complex, multi-channel world, how do you fill your database with qualified leads? Chorus: Gotta get lead lead lead lead generation.

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Blue Flame Thinking

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Consider automation, templates, and data availability in your platform reviews. Enterprise solutions like Salesforce and Marketo offer powerful integrations and additional CRM management. New platforms such as Klaviyo focus on marketing automations and multichannel messaging such as SMS. Align your content strategy.

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