Digital B2B Marketing

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When Marketing Automation Is the Wrong Solution

Digital B2B Marketing

Marketing automation is quickly becoming like the self-driving car for B2B marketing. Led by Eloqua (now part of Oracle) and Marketo (with a very successful IPO last week), today marketing automation companies are collectively worth billions. When Marketing Automation Is Unnecessary. You Don’t Have Scale.

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Marketing Automation’s Next Frontier: Madison Avenue

Digital B2B Marketing

Marketers have invested in marketing automation, content and, in many cases, creating complex business rules to determine what content and message to deliver when. The next evolution in marketing automation will be extending the application of these rules across the full spectrum of digital and addressable marketing channels.

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7 Steps to Find Your Content Marketing Sweet Spot

Digital B2B Marketing

Examples: Eloqua has done a great job of focusing on content marketing as a topic, a priority for the demand generation marketers who are driving adoption of marketing automation platforms. Identify two or three opportunities that would allow you to focus on their priorities and easily bridge to your offerings.

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6 Cringeworthy Marketing Technology Failures

Digital B2B Marketing

From marketing automation to demand side platforms to content management systems, technology puts the right message in front of the right person at the right time. No list of marketing technology failures would be complete today without including Bank of America’s recent string of automated twitter responses. This happens: 2.

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Are Machines the Future of Marketing?

Digital B2B Marketing

Today, new solutions like DataPop are even automating ad copywriting! Marketing Automation. Marketing automation platforms like Marketo and Eloqua allow marketers to create complex business rules that are automatically executed, similar to the early bid management platforms. Search Marketing Platforms.