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! With buyers conducting their own research, engaging with you in multiple channels and involving more decision makers than ever, the B2B buyer’s journey has never been more complicated.

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Ambal's Amusings

APRIL 21, 2010

How should you adapt to the changing trends in B2B marketing? Galen De Young, managing director of Proteus B2B and Proteus SEO, helps B2B clients integrate content marketing, social media, email, and SEO to generate and nurture leads. Blog B2B Marketing Twitter GalenDY. " Blog B2B Marketing Twitter GalenDY. "

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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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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?”. This is a strategic question. Marketing Automation Deployment Strategy.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

MARCH 16, 2015

This year, Marketo set out to make a splash at the event. in the middle of all the action—we had a fun mix of engaging marketing thought leadership sessions, plenty of places to charge your devices and relax, a sweet photobooth, swag, and a taco bar! Use holistic, agile methodologies, software, and processes.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

APRIL 7, 2016

Author: Stacey Thornberry A joint Marketo and Reachforce research piece found that businesses are 67% better at closing deals when sales and marketing work together. According to MarketingSherpa, 61% of B2B marketers send all leads directly to sales; however, only 27% of those leads will be qualified (aka in that “right time” window).

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

If you’re actively seeking out opportunities to integrate video into your core business processes, here’s how you can also produce measurable results. Video speeds up the buying cycle by answering common questions in a fast, digestible way, and making it easy to show your buyers exactly what you can offer. video b2b'

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JUNE 13, 2011

Of that group, some should raise their hands every month (or whatever time period is most appropriate to your buying cycle) and say, “now I’m ready to engage with sales.”. The conversion rates of each respective group will help you persuade those who claim nurturing doesn’t significantly alter the buying process.

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Ambal's Amusings

OCTOBER 15, 2009

In ClickInsights Expert Interview Series we feature top notch industry experts and thought leaders and get their insights, opinions and predictions. What types of metrics do B2B marketers need to measure a marketing campaign's success? Recommended Resources from B2B Marketing Experts. Marketo's Modern B2B Marketing.

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LEADership

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

The Definitive B2B Lead Generation Checklist: Part 1. Do you have the processes and best practices to make what was thought to be impossible possible? Here is a quick rundown of what I have seen to work as the definitive B2B lead generation checklist. These are automotive engineers and designers, all very brilliant minds.

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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!) This thought leadership also builds your credibility. discussed the top seven ways to utilize marketing automation to generate more sales revenue.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JANUARY 2, 2014

As head of our Customer Success/Account Management team here at Marketo, one question I hear frequently from new CMOs, VPs of Marketing and Directors of Marketing/Lead Generation is: “How can I build my marketing automation team?”. At Marketo, we have a much larger team. Director of Marketing at Marketo. “ Content Manager.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JANUARY 2, 2014

As head of our Customer Success/Account Management team here at Marketo, one question I hear frequently from new CMOs, VPs of Marketing and Directors of Marketing/Lead Generation is: “How can I build my marketing automation team?”. At Marketo, we have a much larger team. Director of Marketing at Marketo. “ Content Manager.

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Velocity Partners

APRIL 16, 2024

This is the sixth in a series we’re running about the new B2B GTM playbook. 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. You talk about how the old B2B playbook just doesn’t work anymore. SW : Hi Jon.

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Valasys

AUGUST 19, 2019

The very purpose of content marketing has been associated with the feedback mechanisms to trigger lead generation processes for B2B businesses. In marketing, the action or process of identifying and cultivating potential customers for a business’ product or services is termed lead generation.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

According to the companies surveyed, here are some key attributes and skills that you need to think about when looking for your team: Attributes: Process and systems thinker: comfortable working in complex environments, process oriented, and able to conceptualize the entire lead life-cycle. We would love to hear about it!

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

MAY 13, 2009

The next interview in the B2B Marketing thought leader interview series is with Jill Konrath, Chief Sales Officer and Author of Selling to Big Companies. This interview with Jill provides great insight and best practices to improve sales and marketing alignment and shorten the sales cycle for B2B companies.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

NOVEMBER 11, 2009

Marketing automation has the ability to benefit almost every B2B company and industry, but are there benefits specific to open source companies? What aspects of the buying cycle are most important to open source companies? The entire buying cycle is important.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JANUARY 3, 2014

Instead, they build relationships with companies and products in a non-linear, difficult to predict way – they conduct independent research, they talk to a friend, they do more research, they see an advertisement online, they research on Facebook, they change their minds entirely, and then – seemingly at random – they buy.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JANUARY 3, 2014

Instead, they build relationships with companies and products in a non-linear, difficult to predict way – they conduct independent research, they talk to a friend, they do more research, they see an advertisement online, they research on Facebook, they change their minds entirely, and then – seemingly at random – they buy.

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The Effective Marketer

MAY 9, 2011

The power of marketing automation is the ability to target your marketing database with specific content based on their behavior and stage in the purchasing process. Marketing Directors and Managers on top, Marketing Coordinators, Marketing Specialists in the middle, followed by Copywriters, Designers, Web Masters, and more at the bottom.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JANUARY 6, 2009

It’s not uncommon to have 100,000s of contacts, or even millions, in a B2B company’s contact database. This critical marketing asset sits idle even as the company spends new money to generate new contacts, perpetuating the inefficient process. Unlike the popular perception, however, it is not a process but a conversation.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

Any B2B marketer concerned with marketing ROI and sales enablement needs to know how and when to use it. Conveniently for us B2B marketers, video also conveys more information per minute than any other media platform. How video engages prospects throughout the buying cycle. by Jon Miller Online video is exploding.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Most B2B companies have a set of personas usually developed by product marketing teams to understand and add context to the buyer. Personas who are later in the buying cycle should also be scored higher based on their actions- for example, requesting product demos. Map Personas to Segments.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

The rise of what some are calling the “ Data Economy ” also comes at an opportune moment for B2B marketing and sales in particular, as they move increasingly towards account-based frameworks. Identify the key influencers with buying power within each account. But B2B AdTech is catching up, finally. Personalize Your AdTech.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JUNE 12, 2018

The heart of flow relates to effortless engagement and the peace of mind found in getting lost in an activity without a thought of the outside world. Let’s consider a hypothetical involving the customer journey: A potential customer becomes aware of your brand through a piece of thought leadership and clicks through to learn more.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JUNE 21, 2019

In some fascinating ways, B2B and B2C marketing teams are similar to positions on a soccer field. For B2B and B2C marketers, the goal is to track, manage, and provide engaging experiences throughout the customer journey. B2B and B2C marketers can benefit from cross-collaboration to navigate this new normal. Why it matters

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Ambal's Amusings

AUGUST 27, 2009

In ClickInsights Expert Interview Series we feature top notch industry experts and thought leaders and get their insights, opinions and predictions. B2B marketers are producing, managing, and distributing marketing content to reach prospects and turn them into customers. Recommended Resources from B2B Marketing Experts.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

MARCH 16, 2016

Author: Amar Doshi There’s a lot of talk around account-based marketing (ABM) in the B2B marketing realm and for good reason. Over the past decade, an increasing amount of content about B2B products has become available online. Processing Power of Big Data: Technology to Distinguish Signal from Noise.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2015

Author: Michael Powers Chances are if you’re in events marketing at a B2B company, your schedule is full of trade shows. Today, it’s marketing’s job to work closely together with sales to engage with customers throughout most of the buying cycle. In other words, the sales process is now a team effort.

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Valasys

JULY 9, 2019

In the survey, 48% of the marketers termed ABM initiatives beneficial for getting the maximum out of their marketing endeavors, while 33% of them considered its value as a tool for streamlining the customer acquisition process & 32% associated ABM endeavors with a clutter-free pathway to Return on Investment (ROI).

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LeadSloth

JANUARY 12, 2010

Several new vendors appeared on the market, many existing vendors experienced rapid growth, and Marketing Automation as a term gained popularity among B2B marketers. I have asked many of the vendors, consultants and thought leaders to give their opinion. Adam Needles , Director, Field Marketing and B2B Marketing Evangelist, Silverpop.

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B2B Marketing Zone Posts

MAY 3, 2010

Best of B2B Marketing. Great stuff this month in the world of B2B Marketing. HP, P&G) to the channel… The Difference Between B2B Leads and Personas - Marketing Interactions , April 17, 2010 B2B marketers have relied on lead definitions to define their marketing programs for years. April 2010.

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Full Circle Insights

MAY 20, 2022

There is a steady interest in predictive analytics from B2B marketers – possibly related to the popularity of account-based marketing (ABM). Can predictive analytics help you accelerate the buying cycle? Gartner estimates that a complex B2B purchase decision involves from six to 10 people. Viewing a blog post.

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Full Circle Insights

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Responding to customer demand, Full Circle rolls out the first B2B marketing measurement application that provides comprehensive ABM metrics inside a CRM. Full Circle ABM addresses the reality that nearly all modern B2B companies sell to buying groups rather than individuals. SAN MATEO, Calif., SAN MATEO, Calif.,

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TrustRadius Marketing

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

The Webexpeneses software suite provides additional solutions for automated invoice processing, corporate travel management, payments + reimbursements and, audit. With any time, anywhere access process payroll, and gain insights into pay and earnings trends. LEARN MORE. Built to help operate a business and meet compliance needs.

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TrustRadius Marketing

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

The Webexpeneses software suite provides additional solutions for automated invoice processing, corporate travel management, payments + reimbursements and, audit. With any time, anywhere access process payroll, and gain insights into pay and earnings trends. LEARN MORE. Built to help operate a business and meet compliance needs.

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