Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

DECEMBER 15, 2017

The number one reason why marketers invest in engagement is to boost conversions, but “buy now!” To do a better job of engaging customers, marketers need to evaluate how they define engagement and create goals along with journey that transcends the “buy now!” Lack of Executive Buy-In Sinks the Best Intentions.

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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 22, 2020

In most B2B organizations, marketing focuses on facilitating a successful hand-off to sales. The marketing team develops content to educate leads and identifies the leads who show buying intent by implementing a behavioral lead scoring model. Bad data leads to low contact rates and lower conversions.

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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

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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 fact, our SMB marketing team at Marketo has seen great results with this account-centric strategy. According to data from the Marketo ABM Benchmark Survey, 33% of B2B SMBs are already conducting ABM.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

APRIL 15, 2015

Author: Chandar Pattabhiram We’re just about to kick-off Day 3—the final day—of the Marketo Marketing Nation™ Summit 2015. If you told your friend about a pair of red shoes you just bought, would it make sense for her to suggest you buy the same red shoes again? They approached LinkedIn and Marketo to solve that problem for them.

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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

MARCH 6, 2015

How do you have personalized conversations at scale? He used the example of buying flowers for someone. Scott Moore, SVP of Best Buy, discussed auditing people’s experiences before, during, and after purchase. Our CMO at Marketo, Sanjay Dholakia , shared a framework for marketers to use when engaging with consumers.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JULY 29, 2016

Author: Mike Stocker Facebook’s recent announcement of their new Offline Conversions API generated a lot of buzz and excitement among marketers and for good reason. As a Facebook marketing partner, Marketo was excited to be a part of their launch announcement. What is an offline conversion event? focused on the retail use case.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

APRIL 11, 2017

We nurture our prospects and customers with the goal of increasing conversions and generating revenue, yet many of us are struggling to engage enough of our audience via email. Since we adopted Marketo in 2015, we’ve been nurturing our leads with weekly emails that provide educational content. However, the top reason why U.S.

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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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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.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

APRIL 6, 2018

It rarely fits neatly into spreadsheets, it generally defies quantification, it isn’t easily tied back to top-line metrics, and thus isn’t talked about enough in B2B. According to Berger, word-of-mouth is: Responsible for 20-50% of all buying decisions. Triggers —Are there everyday events that can trigger a conversation about it?

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NuSpark Consulting

AUGUST 23, 2018

While the marketing gurus tell you content is a must-have gizmo in the B2B marketer’s tool belt, sometimes the return on investment (ROI) feels a little squishy. Goals for this tactic range from building a reputation for thought leadership to increasing traffic through search engine optimization. Or is it just busy work?

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Email marketing, content strategy, customer conversion, brand philanthropy, and social media – check out five high-level strategies to improve each of these marketing functions. . CUSTOMER CONVERSION. Leave behind: Leaning Exclusively on MarTech Execution for Conversion. EMAIL MARKETING.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JANUARY 15, 2020

According to RetailDive , 87% of buyers start searching for products to buy online. Unlike many in-store buying experiences, digital marketing doesn’t stop at checkout. It goes beyond to ensure a buying customer becomes the brand’s ambassador. . Digital marketing offers a multichannel approach to boost conversions.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

MARCH 14, 2018

I’ve been in the B2B space for 20 years—I think before anyone even came up with the acronym B2B. It pisses me off that we’re sitting here in the year 2018 and we’re still having that conversation.”— And we know that what influences B2C buying also impacts B2B decisions. Stop Gender Pay Gap.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

APRIL 10, 2019

The fact that companies have started to recognize the importance of relationships is evident by the increasing popularity of account-based sales development (ABSD) and account-based marketing (ABM), which 87% of B2B marketers are implementing. In fact, it’s difficult to understand an individual’s true needs without such a conversation.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

There are a variety of tools that you can use to do this, but recently we did a webinar that focused on how combining the power of Marketo’s Real-Time Personalization and Google’s Remarketing can help accomplish these tasks. Targeting and Personalization b2b Consumer'

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

MARCH 22, 2017

Buzzwords become dated terms as time passes, but it’s just the tip of the iceberg for ABM as more B2B marketers than ever are realizing its significant impact and value. But account-based marketing is not to be ignored and it’s not just another buzzword. Why Is Account-Based Marketing Gaining Traction? Download today!

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KoMarketing Associates

APRIL 25, 2013

Lead generation is at the top of almost every B2B marketer’s responsibility list. A marketing automation solution is one tool B2B marketers use for succeeding at these lead management challenges. Marketo is considered a leader in the lead management / marketing automation industry. What is Marketing Automation?

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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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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JULY 6, 2018

According to research done by eMarketer , the highest priority of B2B marketers is increasing lead quality , while increasing volume only ranks in third regarding importance. Write in an upbeat, conversational manner, remembering that you are speaking to humans on the other end. Who’s Buying? Timing is Everything.

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Vidyard

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Here’s an example of the video personalized for an individual named Marta Uceda (note that the video was personalized for each individual recipient to boost engagement): The runners-up exhibited an incredible knack for storytelling in the B2B space.

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Engagio

JANUARY 27, 2021

Marketing trailblazer, thought leader, entrepreneur, and physics enthusiast. And before that he created and co-founded the popular marketing automation software Marketo. Needless to say, he has some serious street cred in B2B tech.). From Should I buy this? to What solution should I buy? How he got here.

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Crimson Marketing

APRIL 23, 2015

Traditionally, B2B marketers have created buyer personas from customer hunches, not factual customer data. “As a result, a vast majority (83%) of B2B marketers say that their buyer personas are only ‘somewhat’ effective, according to a study from the ITSMA. Why is Data on Buying Intent the Key? .”

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

AUGUST 30, 2016

All of the thought-provoking sessions, tips and tricks to bring back to the office, friends and colleagues in your industry, and, of course, a bunch of sweet prizes to win. Thought Leader Conference Sessions. Are you a B2B marketer looking to generate some demand? Author: Rick Siegfried Aren’t trade shows so much fun?

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

But it’s 2018 and ABM has become even more popular in the B2B world as marketers are seeing value in targeting accounts, not just leads. Being able to fill in the blanks of those key contacts within your buying committee will set your entire sales cycle up for success. Many of us were wondering ‘Will this thing stick?’ Comment below!

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

OCTOBER 12, 2017

Tips for B2B. While this is true (certainly by percentages), B2B ecommerce and their requisite cart abandonment issues should not be overlooked. The important thing to realize with B2B websites and an abandonment process is there are likely to be more reasons why people would visit the website beyond buying products.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JANUARY 3, 2017

At Marketo, we get the opportunity to work with some of the brightest minds in our industry—both within and outside of our company—and our content team works hard to bring you their insights. Set low bounce thresholds to keep your lists fresh, don’t ever buy lists, and stagger your email sends based on engagement.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

APRIL 24, 2018

And, as AI and machine learning marketing capabilities are giving B2B marketers more lift and scale across their programs, this exciting tech is poised to become standard best practice as fast as it becomes available. Here are four key ways that AI platforms and technologies are changing the game for B2B marketers right now.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JULY 21, 2017

If you’re keeping up with the latest B2B trends, you’ve probably heard or read the term “Account Based” recently. Many B2B organizations deal with a smaller lead pool and longer sales cycle, which means you’ve probably had to adjust your marketing campaigns accordingly. Software: Marketo.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JULY 13, 2018

Accounts most likely to buy: Intent data, or data sets that consist of people who have demonstrated a strong likelihood to be in-market for a specific product or service category, is becoming widely available across both the B2C and B2B spaces. Facebook also uses machine learning to power its Website Conversion engine.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JUNE 9, 2017

As Steve Lucas, Marketo CEO, said, to win in the Engagement Economy, marketers must listen and learn before they engage. Intent data can help you keep the pulse on your target audience at every stage of the buying journey. Company websites, B2B publishers, business or technology-focused online communities.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

MARCH 13, 2017

And, that’s not just online—I’ve been lucky enough to get to meet and work with a handful of influencers in my role here at Marketo, and let me say that they are even more dynamic, interesting, and engaging in person. There is no substitute for asking your question in person and having a discussion. Why am I belaboring this point?

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

AUGUST 27, 2008

B2B marketing professionals in today's economy are always looking for new ways to do more with less and still gain a competitive advantage within the marketplace. First up in our B2B Marketing interview series is Tom Pick of WebMarketCentral. You've been a B2B marketer since 1992. and StumbeUpon for B2B marketing in early 2007.

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ClearVoice

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

You buy a plane ticket, spend $2,000 on a conference ticket, and another $1,000 on a hotel. MarketingProfs B2B Forum. Of course, the advantage of attending a large conference like the B2B Forum is that many other B2B marketers are also attending and want to connect as much as you do. B2B Marketing Exchange.

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