Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Customers are increasingly demanding more from B2B organizations. According to studies, 80 percent of B2B organizations say that customer’s expectations are higher because of what they experience as consumers. Leaders who focus on better experiences –– and improved service –– over sales, reap the benefits. And they have options.

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Only B2B

JULY 5, 2023

In the ever-changing landscape of B2B marketing, demand generation plays a pivotal role in driving business growth and success. As we enter 2023, it is crucial to adapt to the evolving nature of B2B demand generation and discover effective strategies to generate demand and engage target audiences.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JUNE 9, 2010

Top B2B marketers understand two key objectives 1) Building new business and 2) Becoming a thought leader. 56% of B2B marketing executives stated “positioning our company as a thought leader” as their top objective in a recent Economics Intelligence Unit study. This puts huge importance on being a thought leader.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

OCTOBER 8, 2020

Most companies in the technology sector evolve in a very competitive environment, and leads generated by Marketing represent more than 50% of the opportunities signed by sales representatives. What content do you have at your disposal (white paper, thought leadership , demo videos, etc )? How often do you publish new content ?

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Adobe’s recent Experience Maker’s Live two-day online event was insightful, thoughtful, and informative, just as I predicted. It’s a crucial outlook on leadership in modern business, especially for those who are looking to improve customer experiences, digitize business processes, and create better internal alignment. .

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JULY 22, 2021

Namely, B2B advertising leader LinkedIn and the #1 B2B marketing attribution application, Bizible. LinkedIn Ads have proven to be a powerful tool for B2B marketers. Measuring B2B Marketing Performance. This post is about the intersection of those two things. Do they pay you back many times over in revenue growth?

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

The internet is saturated with content marketing, people’s inboxes are full of well-designed emails , and account-based strategies are quickly becoming a B2B standard. It’s hard to feel buyer’s remorse over a purchase when a brand is consistently interacting with the buyer—even after the sale. Present Your Customer Engagement Goals.

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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. The effect on our sales pipeline has been impressive, to say the least.“.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JANUARY 30, 2019

B2B marketers are in a pickle when it comes to data. Data insights are critical to boosting marketing and sales performance. The lack of confidence B2B organizations have in their data is hindering the ability to deploy key sales and marketing initiatives,” the D&B report concludes. Integrate marketing and sales data.

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PureB2B

MARCH 8, 2022

96%* of your website visitors might not be ready to buy yet – Marketo 3. The median landing page conversion rate, for B2B marketing, is 2.35% - Wordstream 6. 96%* of your website visitors might not be ready to buy yet – Marketo. You don’t always have to offer a sales-meeting CTA. Table of Contents 1.

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PureB2B

MARCH 8, 2022

96%* of your website visitors might not be ready to buy yet – Marketo 3. The median landing page conversion rate, for B2B marketing, is 2.35% – Wordstream 6. 96%* of your website visitors might not be ready to buy yet – Marketo. You don’t always have to offer a sales-meeting CTA. Table of Contents 1.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

MARCH 6, 2018

In the year that I’ve been with Marketo, I’ve gained some interesting insights into enterprise organizations’ challenges around sales and marketing alignment. I’ve also implemented multiple marketing automation systems, the last of which was Marketo. In my previous role, I simultaneously implemented Marketo and Salesforce CRM.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

MARCH 28, 2019

Steve Lucas, SVP of Marketo, an Adobe company, on Thursday challenged the thousands of attendees at Adobe Summit—The Digital Experience Conference to make every experience count. With that, Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen came on stage to discuss with Lucas Adobe’s 2018 acquisition of Marketo. Helping B2B Meet the Experience Mandate.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JANUARY 13, 2020

Too often, and especially in B2B marketing, we give the job of building the relationship that turns marketing leads into sales prospects to the sales development rep (SDR). The post Why 75% of Your Marketing Emails Are Never Read appeared first on Marketo Marketing Blog - Best Practices and Thought Leadership.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

MARCH 8, 2017

So why has account-based marketing only recently gained widespread popularity and practice among B2B businesses? In the past, ABM was a fairly tedious, manual, and sales-driven process. In fact, our SMB marketing team at Marketo has seen great results with this account-centric strategy. SMBs Stand to Make Huge Strides with ABM.

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Metadata

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

The momentum and uptick in company growth can be attributed to sophisticated B2B marketers embracing growth-focused demand generation technologies, and autonomous marketing operations as a vehicle for scale. Metadata saw over 100% increase in the number of customers and improved net retention by 3x. return on ad spend. “We for 2020 by Inc.

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Smashmouth Marketing

AUGUST 6, 2009

Just a quick post to point readers to an interview of me on Marketo 's blog, Demand Generation and Social Media: Thought Leadership with Mike Damphousse of Green Leads. Questions discussed: What is B2B appointment setting ? Tags: lead nurturing interviews blogs socialmedia marketing marketo sales2.0

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

AUGUST 10, 2017

A few weeks ago, on #marketochat, we discussed How to Increase Your B2B Social Media Engagement with Social Media Influencer, Neal Shaffer. Today, having social media presence is a necessity for any B2B organization. People like to be heard and want to know that their thoughts and opinions matter. If So, Why or Why Not? .

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

DECEMBER 19, 2018

It’s that time of year when sales, marketing, and business pundits share predictions for what’s to come in 2019. This leaves sales leaders scratching their heads trying to figure out where the opportunities are for their organization and what they need to prepare for going forward. The Sales Stats You Need to Know.

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Content4Demand

AUGUST 17, 2021

Jon Miller, Chief Marketing and Product Officer at Demandbase , offers a helpful vision into the future value of intent data and practical advice for B2B marketers eager to get started now. He expects intent data to play a vital role in the future of B2B content. There’s vast opportunity for B2B brands to use intent data.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JANUARY 22, 2020

At the bottom of the funnel, marketing helps close the sale by creating urgency and helping prospects make the business case for purchasing the product or service. But in between, marketing needs to nurture and qualify leads by encouraging them to engage with content until they’re sales-ready. Why focus on the middle of the funnel?

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

MAY 3, 2018

In my role at Marketo, I head up strategy and alliances, which gives me insights to all the partnerships we have across the organization, spanning technology, analytics, and consultant partners, as well as those within our Accelerate and LaunchPoint programs. For Marketo, it’s a little bit of both.

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Kapost

APRIL 19, 2017

The Marketo Marketing Nation Summit is headed back to the city by the bay next week after a short detour in Las Vegas last year. Pick your favorite poison, be it ABM, analytics, alignment, digital transformation, Marketo best practices, or (our favorite) content marketing, and take the deep dive. My Itinerary for Marketo Summit 2017.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

AUGUST 26, 2019

To do this successfully, we need to think about what occupies each of these stakeholders’ thoughts, what they want to hear, and what we can offer them in pursuit of their own goals. What Are You Trying To Prove With B2B Marketing? The traditional funnel’s problem is that it views marketing merely as a supplier of leads to sales.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JULY 17, 2018

Jokes aside, have you given much thought to how your customers can actually contribute to helping you grow your customer base? Peer-to-peer marketing is not only a viable channel you should be exploring, but it’s also one that has seen great success in both B2B and B2C marketing. 1) Customer Case Studies.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2017

For email marketers , tools like Marketo Email Insights is one way to gain insights into email performance. When it comes to audience attention, according to a study by eMarketer, 83% of B2B buyers say company websites are the most popular channel for online research. Why is this critical?

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JUNE 20, 2018

In fact, a report on B2B lead generation presented by the Technology Marketing Community on LinkedIn showed that only 16% of marketers believe their current efforts are extremely effective. Typically, the journey will look something like this: subscriber, lead, marketing-qualified lead, sales-qualified lead, and, finally, customer.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JULY 20, 2009

The next interview in the B2B Marketing thought leader interview series is with John Watton, VP Marketing at ShipServ , the leading e-marketplace for maritime shipping (and also a Marketo customer). But as boring as it sounds, I went back to basic marketing principles and thought seriously about where our audience 'hangs out'.

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BOP Design

JUNE 13, 2019

Is the goal of your B2B content marketing strategy to attract high-quality traffic to your website, to nurture existing prospects through to the final sale, to retain your existing clients, to generate qualified leads, or to increase the revenue of your existing client relationships? The first step is to define what you mean by “works.”

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

APRIL 1, 2015

However, the system breaks when the purchase is made offline–like when a buyer works directly with a salesperson who takes the order (a typical use case for B2B purchases). In other words, if one of these prospects connects with a sales rep, and ultimately ends up purchasing, Marketo feeds that conversion back to Google AdWords.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

DECEMBER 20, 2018

Some businesses reportedly get 18 to 20% of their annual sales between Thanksgiving and the cut-off date for Christmas delivery, so there is pressure and monetary incentive to make sure those few weeks run as smoothly as possible. B2B Tips and Tricks. two years ago to 6.8 two years ago to 6.8

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JULY 30, 2019

Adobe recently published a report detailing the findings of a survey we conducted of 1,215 marketers and B2B buyers in the U.K., The findings reveal that European business buyers expect vendors to display traits traditionally associated with consumer brands, demonstrating B2B and B2C landscapes are no longer distinct.

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Metadata

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Welcome to our “Ask Me Anything” blog recap, where we pull together the best insights and advice from the best (and brightest) minds in B2B marketing. Her impressive resume shows previous lives taking on senior leadership roles at SalesLoft (CMO), Adobe, Marketo, Demandbase and Alyce. Uh…no!

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

APRIL 11, 2017

Since we adopted Marketo in 2015, we’ve been nurturing our leads with weekly emails that provide educational content. Today, many of your buyers do their own research long before they enter an active sales cycle. Talk to your marketing and sales team to figure out what your target audience cares about.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

MAY 1, 2015

Author: Amy Guarino Forrester’s pronouncement of the death of the B2B salesperson recently made headlines. And at Marketo, we talk about this a lot from the marketers perspective, but what about sales? How does this new digital-first world effect the traditional B2B salesperson? Sales and marketing are now a team sport.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

MAY 4, 2017

Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the realm of B2B marketing may not be as sexy (or terrifying) as some of the more commercial and (so far) fictional applications of AI—but, here are three reasons why it is exciting for marketers : You Can Start Using It Right Now. AI is Being Rapidly Adopted—So Don’t Get Left Behind.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

NOVEMBER 11, 2016

To help you along, we’ve compiled a list of 20 of the top content marketers in both B2B and B2C. B2B Content Masterminds. Some companies measure ROI with goals related to reaching early-stage buyers, others focus on engaging new prospects, and others prioritize conversions in terms of leads, sales revenue, and retention.

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