Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Now, cloud computing is driving the creation of a network of connected machines that act as an intelligent network that can predict failures and trigger maintenance processes autonomously. As much as two-thirds of B2B deals are lost before a formal request for proposal (RFP) process even begins. Not a Campaign, But a Process.

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The Point

DECEMBER 11, 2018

There was a time, not so long ago, when Marketing Automation went through a similar transition. 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. Ignoring the buying cycle.

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Lake One

JULY 28, 2020

With marketing automation, you can serve the right content to the right person at the right time – at scale. You can also drive consistency and efficiency with internal processes. So, how does marketing automation apply in the real world? Here are some of our top tried and true must-have B2B marketing automation examples.

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Martech

JULY 14, 2022

Factors driving changes in ABM include shifts in buyer preferences and pre-purchase behavior, as well as the development of more sophisticated technology and data products that enable marketers to analyze behavior, identify in-market audiences, and craft experiences for a buying group or its individual members.

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Lake One

APRIL 23, 2020

One tool manufacturing companies can have in their toolbox, is marketing automation. Marketing automation helps manufacturers simplify complex b2b processes while personalizing and scaling their digital marketing and sales efforts. Marketing automation is all about using software to automate manual processes and activities.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

In fact, today’s customer is usually 57 percent of the way through their decision-making process before they directly connect with a company for the first time. And the buying phase often requires their sign-off. A marketing automation tool that uses AI-powered account profiling and selection will help streamline this process.

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 20, 2015

Companies that excel at lead nurturing generate 50% more sales ready leads at a 33% lower cost ( Marketo ). Your Brand Should Be Trustworthy Today’s customers are very savvy when it comes to unsubscribe processes, blocking online ads, and “Promotional” Gmail tabs. What do they want from you, and when? How are you improving?

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

APRIL 15, 2019

The difference is that marketing automation has made this process much more sophisticated. Using a series of drip emails, you can educate them on how your product can help solve their problems, reinforce their desire to buy, and nudge them toward the end zone. Download What Is Lead Nurturing? to learn more.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JUNE 24, 2019

That’s what account-based marketing (ABM) is all about—helping companies to target prospects with the highest propensity to buy. Add artificial intelligence (AI) to the mix—with its ability to process sophisticated algorithms, capacity for machine learning and facility for natural language processing—and you’re putting ABM on steroids.

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Avitage

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

Cause and effect relationships in a complex B2B environment characterized by multiple buyer touch points across a buyer driven buying cycle are as clear as mud. video, Jon Miller, Vice President of Marketing for Marketo, speaks to the importance of marketing quantifying its value to the rest of the organization.

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Conversica

OCTOBER 9, 2018

If your emails are sent to the right person at the wrong time, the chances of conversion are lower than if the same person receives a message at the right time in their buying process. This personalized approach shows that you’re genuinely interested in their process and their success as they evaluate solutions.

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Avitage

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

Cause and effect relationships in a complex B2B environment characterized by multiple buyer touch points across a buyer driven buying cycle are as clear as mud. This video of Jon Miller, Vice President of Marketing for Marketo, speaks to the importance of marketing quantifying its value to the rest of the organization.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2012

by Jon Miller Marketing automation is a technology that streamlines and automates marketing tasks so companies can increase operational efficiency and grow revenue faster. In other words, companies don’t buy marketing automation to automate their marketing. They buy it to: Grow revenue faster.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

APRIL 3, 2017

It follows on the heels of marketing automation, attribution , and other core themes that are becoming increasingly important as marketing becomes more data-driven. Understand that the buyer’s journey will vary—some may not be in an active buying cycle, some are currently evaluating your solution, and many others are considering options.

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LeanData

JULY 13, 2020

billion annual revenue, long buying cycles of 18+ months, complex buying groups, and stakeholders across the globe. However, without proper lead tracking, sales processes, and data management, it was difficult to track which opportunities resulted from marketing sourced leads or how they impacted revenue. The Problem.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JANUARY 2, 2014

In fact, football teams are a lot like marketing automation teams – you need talented players, of course, but you also need dedicated roles, internal coordination, and sound strategy. The Basic Structure of a Marketing Automation Team. At Marketo, we have a much larger team. These people prepare their own copy and content.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JANUARY 2, 2014

In fact, football teams are a lot like marketing automation teams – you need talented players, of course, but you also need dedicated roles, internal coordination, and sound strategy. The Basic Structure of a Marketing Automation Team. At Marketo, we have a much larger team. These people prepare their own copy and content.

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Webbiquity

FEBRUARY 14, 2010

Marketing automation provider Marketo has just published The Definitive Guide to Lead Nurturing , a white paper that provides real value, covering the lead nurturing process from the basic how and why through ROI measurement. The guide itself is well-researched, clearly written and highly practical. Seed this on Newsvine.

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Customer Experience Matrix

AUGUST 28, 2014

Starting at the beginning, the system imports a list of each client’s customers and sales opportunities from CRM and marketing automation systems. Standard integrations are available for Salesforce.com , Oracle Eloqua and Marketo. Models are built by 6Sense staff and take about three weeks to complete.

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SalesIntel

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

The top 3 barriers to effective implementation of marketing strategies were considered to be lack of brand awareness, lack of leads generated and lack of automation of processes. The top 3 2022 marketing priorities include funnel conversion, lead generation and marketing automation. Try Our EdTech Data Free.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

MARCH 13, 2013

by Heidi Bullock Marketing automation is a great solution to help drive your business. While there is a great deal of discussion on the undeniable advantage marketing automation can provide, there has been less discussion around what that means for your team. What other players do you have on your marketing automation team?

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

MARCH 5, 2013

by Dayna Rothman For our recent Definitive Guide to Marketing Automation launch, I interviewed several marketing automation experts to get their input on key questions such as the future of marketing automation and it’s key benefits over an Email Service Provider (ESP). Marketing is no longer a one-way conversation.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JULY 7, 2017

By failing to track the activities a lead performs before they engage with your brand, you’re missing out on the first half of their research process! Now, social intent data can be matched with the leads in your marketing automation system to greatly improve your lead scoring model.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

OCTOBER 24, 2011

Today I’m asking if marketing automation is changing the world of B2B marketing? Marketing automation is the platform from which modern B2B marketers are launching their new programs and adapting to the changing environment. Remember to involve sales early in the process and agree the framework to ensure no lead gets left behind.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

DECEMBER 20, 2010

by Katie Byrnes In a recent webinar, Mac McIntosh, Founding Partner of AcquireB2B, and Jep Castelein, Founder of LeadSloth (and new Principal Consultant at Marketo!) discussed the top seven ways to utilize marketing automation to generate more sales revenue. Use marketing automation driven campaigns to generate more referrals.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

AUGUST 2, 2017

It’s easy to buy software, but it’s difficult to transform. How do you overcome your legacy systems and processes? How do you maintain relationships throughout years-long healthcare buying cycles? How do you navigate the regulatory waters? How do you convey value propositions that are deeper than ROI? Lead Management .

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Ambal's Amusings

MAY 12, 2010

In 2010, organizations will increasingly deploy marketing automation tools. Recognizing that marketing automation tools are only effective when fed sufficient content to nurture leads throughout the buying cycle, more B2B organizations will commit a growing percentage of their budget to content creation. Over to you.

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Tony Zambito

JANUARY 5, 2011

When looking at lead-to revenue management models, as recently put forth by Marketo and Forrester , they offer promising perspectives on shifting the focus from the quantity of leads to actual revenue generation.    This makes buyer personas, mapping of the buying process, and qualitative research even more important! . 

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

NOVEMBER 1, 2012

by Dayna Rothman What is the difference between email marketing and marketing automation? We all know how powerful and important email marketing is to your marketing toolbox, but implementing marketing automation can dramatically increase the effectiveness of the email marketing strategy you already have in place. Feature Comparison.

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LeadSloth

AUGUST 17, 2009

Unfortunately, not enough time… Last week I received a copy of Marketo’s Lead Nurturing workbook. that is one of the great suggestions in Marketo’s book). Marketo has published separate Lead Scoring Guide with similar suggestions. Silverpop presents a 5-step process for proving the ROI. Read them both!

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

I think Disney’s advice rings true today for those considering marketing automation. When it comes to content and marketing automation I tell people to consider the following: Use quality over quantity —You can effectively start your journey into marketing automation with just a few key pieces of content.

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Webbiquity

FEBRUARY 13, 2010

Marketing automation systems—from vendors like Eloqua , Marketo , Genoo , Manticore and others—are great tools for moving prospective buyers along the path from interest to desire to action. Without a solid content strategy to support that movement through the marketing and sales cycle, all you’ve got is a nice email system.

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Ambal's Amusings

APRIL 21, 2010

The pace of adoption of marketing automation will quicken, but most B2B adopters will struggle with its effective use. Conduct an audit to determine nature and effectiveness of content marketing assets vis-à-vis purchase influencers and points in the buying cycle. Galen De Young's Marketing Action for 2010. Fill the holes.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

MARCH 3, 2011

Send pertinent messages related to where your prospect is in the buying cycle offering them information to help move them from one stage to the next. Save time by using marketing automation software that incorporates lead management , inclusive of crucial activities such as lead scoring and lead nurturing.

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NuSpark Consulting

JANUARY 21, 2012

B2B lead generation and lead management is a complicated process that can’t be detailed all in one book. The original book from Hubspot that started the transition from outbound marketing and push advertising to inbound marketing; the process of making prospects find you. Makes complicated processes easy to understand.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

FEBRUARY 23, 2015

Author: Rajiv Kapoor When I recently visited Marketo headquarters, my buddy asked me what I was working on, and I told him enterprise consulting in a strategic role (as opposed to more of an implementation role)—to which he responded, “so, what exactly are you doing?”. Marketing Automation Deployment Strategy.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

APRIL 7, 2011

Rethinking the Sales Cycle: How Superior Sellers Embrace the Buying Cycle to Achieve a Sustainable and Competitive Advantage. The lesson to learn from this book is to pay attention to the entire buying cycle. Their company shows clients how to improve their sales efficiency and customer experience processes.

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