Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

APRIL 19, 2018

When we were still a small, scrappy team, we took a piecemeal approach to developing our sales process and didn’t involve anyone who actually worked exclusively in sales. At the time, leads would encounter delays, going cold before sales had a chance to act on them. On the sales side, the problem was even worse.

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Martech

JULY 14, 2022

A survey by the IT Sales and Marketing Association (ITSMA) found 27% of the marketing budget dedicated to ABM in 2021, with 75% of those surveyed saying they planned to increase spending on ABM in 2022. Platforms, not point solutions. Help for the sales team. Consolidation of ABM and demand gen.

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Heinz Marketing

MARCH 27, 2023

By Matt Heinz , President of Heinz Marketing If you’re not already subscribed to Sales Pipeline Radio or listening live every Thursday at 11:30 a.m The show is less than 30 minutes, fast-paced and full of actionable advice, best practices and more for B2B sales & marketing professionals.

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ClickZ

AUGUST 20, 2019

Meeting automation platform SummitSync has announced a partnership with Conversica, a leading developer of conversational AI assistants for businesses. We asked the question, how can you use software to drive more of offline relationships?” We found that there was often a disconnect between sales and marketing teams.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JULY 22, 2021

The same is true in marketing. If you manage a marketing budget, you know how much money goes into two critical areas: paid media and marketing technology. Namely, B2B advertising leader LinkedIn and the #1 B2B marketing attribution application, Bizible. And it’s all automated. Ads and Attribution.

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SalesIntel

AUGUST 21, 2023

So as B2B industries become more competitive, we need to find more effective ways to market our products and services. That’s where personalization for B2B marketing campaigns comes in handy. Research indicates that 97% of marketers see better results when they implement personalization in their marketing efforts.

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Marketing Insider Group

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

As we look ahead, the future of marketing is shaping up to be an exhilarating swell, filled with evolving challenges and opportunities. Keen to see how your marketing playbook compares with the industry’s best? Or maybe you’re itching to find out the latest strategies keeping top marketers on their toes?

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JUNE 7, 2019

Automation is making waves in the business world as more and more companies are moving towards digital transformation. Companies are allocating large sums of their marketing budgets for technology investments that promise to make their teams more productive and the business more profitable.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

MAY 21, 2018

The Current Vendor Process. At the same time you are moving through this process, someone in the organization will have triggered a nurturing campaign and you will be bombarded with emails encouraging you to sign up for a trial. I’m not passing judgment on the process. Vendor Strategy Realized. So what should you do?

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JUNE 2, 2020

Recent reports have shown that many companies plan to reevaluate their budgets with a focus on eliminating non-business essential marketing. Therein lies the keyword that will guide marketing in the post-COVID era – business essential. Today marketing is largely about technology. 6 Budgeting and Strategic Planning.

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Envy

JANUARY 28, 2018

Of course, AI-based marketing and social media videos are still firmly on that upward trajectory. Needless to say, the GDPR is also poised to make a big impact on B2B marketing and the way we manage customer data. Marketing Automation. Influencer marketing. The secret to success?

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DealSignal

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

It’s easy to shrug off this scenario as “the way it’s always been,” but misalignment between sales and marketing teams can create detrimental results and cost B2B companies 10% or more of their revenue per year. Read on to learn everything you need to know about creating powerful sales and marketing alignment.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

APRIL 25, 2017

Author: Ellen Gomes As 6500+ marketers descended on Moscone in San Francisco, it could only mean one thing. Marketing Nation Summit has arrived. We kicked off the 2017 Marketing Nation Summit on Sunday with an amazing Fun Run, Marketo University training, and our annual customer and partner awards gala, The Revvies.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JULY 10, 2015

Author: Jignesh Shah What’s the most precious and scarce commodity for a marketer? As former CMO of a software company, I discovered it was customer engagement. Like all marketers today, my team and I had many channels and tactics we could use to reach customers. Enter, Marketing Automation.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

Management could understand these metrics. It was easy for the VP of Sales to see my results via a dashboard in the CRM system. Well, that is unless you were a sales rep. Your sales reps know this. This is why when a marketer brings back a list of leads, they only pick out a few to follow up with.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2012

by Jon Miller A common question I hear from marketers is “I already have a CRM system (e.g. salesforce.com, Microsoft Dynamics CRM), so why do I need marketing automation ”? Many CRM systems have a module for marketing. Architecture of Marketing Automation versus CRM. Marketing Automation.

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chiefmartech

JANUARY 2, 2020

They span sales and marketing functions, roughly from left to right. Jon also classified each product by where he thought they fit in the 6 C’s martech orbits , the 4 forces of marketing technology and operations , and the stages of the classic demand funnel. Salesforce 1, Marketo 2)? This is a work of art.

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Litmus

OCTOBER 1, 2018

ESPs are the technological foundation of the email industry—and the biggest line item in email marketing budgets. White and Community & Product Evangelist Jason Rodriguez share findings from our first-ever State of Email Service Providers report , along with insights from other research we’ve done.

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ViewPoint

MAY 10, 2012

He is former editor-in-chief of Sales & Marketing Management magazine, and has written for Architectural Record, Inc. Click to start video at this point — Christopher notes the importance of the maturing of social media marketing in the last year by saying, “It’s no longer a hobby.

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ViewPoint

MAY 10, 2012

He is former editor-in-chief of Sales & Marketing Management magazine, and has written for Architectural Record, Inc. Click to start video at this point —Chris notes the importance of the maturing of social media marketing in the last year by saying, “It’s no longer a hobby.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

Author: Vyoma Kapur So you’ve been tasked with running an account-based marketing (ABM) strategy that will target bigger deals that potentially close at a faster rate. You have thousands of accounts on your ABM list, selected by sales, marketing, or in tandem…but you’re a team of one. Sound familiar?

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LeanData

JULY 13, 2020

Marketing budgets vary by company, but any marketer will tell you, no matter how much is allocated, it is never enough! Marketers are often tasked to do more with less, wear several hats, work with limited resources, generate pipeline, and demonstrate that the marketing team’s efforts had an influence on revenue.

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The Effective Marketer

MARCH 10, 2011

This means that is time to update my previous charts on marketing automation funding (see below) and the funding timeline, because HubSpot just surpassed Marketo as the highest funded marketing software vendor to date. Market Segmentation And here is worth pausing for a moment.

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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).

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

by Dayna Rothman You have decided to purchase marketing automation software and now you need to present your business case to internal stakeholders. If you need help, take a look at our brand new Sample Marketing Automation Internal Selling Template for some guidance.

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The Effective Marketer

MAY 9, 2011

Besides the rise of social media as marketing channel, the emergence of marketing technology, more specifically Marketing Automation systems, in which you can configure the automated distribution of content to customers and prospects has been changing the way marketers see and create conent.

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ConvertKit

JANUARY 15, 2021

2021 is full of opportunities for budding podcasters, artists, freelancers, online coaches, musicians, and makers—and email marketing is the best way to grow your audience and turn your vision into reality. But here’s the problem: most email marketing advice is aimed at brands with massive audiences.

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Online Marketing Institute

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

B2B Marketing POSTs by Laura Ramos About the Author About this blog High tech marketers face incredible challenges building awareness, developing demand, enabling sales, and demonstrating marketings impact on the business in an increasingly digital world. This blog draws on the heritage of my Forrester research.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JANUARY 3, 2013

Rockefeller were a marketer today, there is no doubt that he would be finding success using marketing automation for lead scoring, lead management, lead nurturing, and so much more. The process was expensive and time-consuming. We blindly participate in trade shows that probably are not the best fit for us.

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Content Standard

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

For a lot of decision makers, ROI isn’t tracked in social shares, page views, or thought leadership, but in bottom-line movements like sales. Most brands today include content strategy and creation in their overall marketing budgets. Marketo Munchkin Codes for Blogging.

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Aberdeen

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Listen in to this week’s episode as Max dives deep into the power of complete data in making meaningful decisions, and why it’s so important to focus your marketing budget on the right channels to have a tangible impact on sales success.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

AUGUST 18, 2011

In several previous posts I have been discussing the ways that marketers (and other business professionals) can gain and maintain a secure position at the senior management table. According to the Lenskold Group’s 2010 B2B Lead Generation Marketing ROI Study, the most common answer to this question is “I Don’t Know.”.

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KoMarketing Associates

JUNE 2, 2016

A few weeks ago, we covered the “ 2016 State of B2B Digital Marketing ” report from Ascend2 and Marketo. Even though the most significant barrier to B2B digital marketing success relates to inadequate marketing budget, 84 percent of B2B marketers still believe their strategies are successful.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

The story is about the 2002 Oakland Athletics from Major League Baseball and how they try to put together a player roster to compete at the same level as larger market teams such as the New York Yankees. How did general manager Billy Beane and his staff do it? They call this analytical process “Moneyball.”

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Velocity Partners

APRIL 16, 2024

The other day, I had the privilege of sitting down with Jon Miller, founder CEO of Marketo and Engagio and most recently CMO at B2B Go-to-Market powerhouse Demandbase. Tens of thousands of marketers in B2B tech firms have based their go-to-market strategy (and careers) on his principles. SW : Hi Jon.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

APRIL 7, 2015

Which funnel stage gets the majority of a marketing budget? If you answered the top and the middle—congrats, you’ve passed today’s marketing pop quiz! According to CustomShow , 97% of a company’s marketing budget is spent on the top and middle-of-the-funnel— which is where online ad campaigns play a key role.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

Q: How large is your marketing team and what is the coverage model? A: We have about 50 people in the marketing team across 25 countries between product marketing and in country field marketing managers. Q: How does Panasonic Europe leverage marketing automation today? These are big numbers.

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