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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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JUNE 12, 2019

The more customers have excellent experiences in their interactions with B2C organizations, the more they expect the same standard when working with B2B companies. This means ABM is no longer a competitive differentiator for customer engagement —it’s now essential for meeting customer expectations. So, what exactly is ABM?

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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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Vendors B2B Ethics B2B Thought Leadership 92

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JUNE 28, 2017

But for B2B products and services, especially those with a long, complex buying process, the brand needs to be accompanied by information the buyer cares about. Let’s say your product has three major differentiators, X, Y, and Z, and you usually pitch them in that order. The solution is nurturing, buy how do you do that?

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KoMarketing Associates

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

How can a good B2B video be characterized? Why is it a good idea to incorporate video into your B2B marketing? It provides a forum for company thought-leaders and visible employees. Categories of B2B video, with examples: Branding and Corporate Awareness. Marketo: What is Marketo? Informative. Entertaining.

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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? Looking closely at conversion rates, the primary success factors are: How well is the product / solution differentiated from your free or community edition (this can include services).

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

APRIL 25, 2017

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. The next guest to take the stage was Charles Phillips, CEO of Infor, who shared the vision for Infor and Marketo as a strategic partnership. What a start!

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

MARCH 28, 2017

The strategy of attracting prospects through content, social media, search engine optimizatio n, and more has taken over the B2B world and for good reason: inbound marketing costs 61% less than traditional advertising and produces 54% more leads than outbound marketing. The New 80/20 Rule. Have you tried any of these strategies?

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Example 4: A sample B2B audience journey map. For example, while product proposal review may not be a standard stage within your process, it may be helpful to track pre-and-post proposal interactions to see if the additional communication or brand differentiation would help speed up or enhance the proposal process.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

MARCH 4, 2015

The 2014 B2B Procurement Study from Acquity Group found that company websites are the most popular channel for conducting online research (according to 83% of respondents!). For example, based on the Marketo customer database, most company websites attract tens of thousands of visitors per month. Targeting and Personalization b2b'

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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? Know Your Customer. Be Creative.

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Business Brainz

JULY 11, 2021

B2B marketers and ABM practitioners rely heavily on authentic and relevant insight to scale their ongoing ABM programs. B2B Marketing. 73% of B2B buyers say they want a personalized, B2C-like customer experience. The insight you have on your target accounts will be a differential factor between you and your competitors.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

OCTOBER 2, 2015

Nearly 25, I thought to myself, when would there be a better time to disrupt my life and explore a new adventure? I shrugged my shoulders and thought, “When in Rome….”. If your a B2B marketer, evaluate how many opportunities were created. MarketingProf’s B2B Forum – October 20 th – 22 nd – Boston, MA. I loved it.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

MAY 27, 2015

For the past year, a number of Marketo customers have implemented real-time personalization technology to execute ABM and have seen great results: increases in both revenue and ROI. It uses ABM to target large, differentiated groups of named accounts, which are mostly high schools and colleges.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JUNE 12, 2019

The more customers have excellent experiences in their interactions with B2C organizations, the more they expect the same standard when working with B2B companies. This means ABM is no longer a competitive differentiator for customer engagement —it’s now essential for meeting customer expectations. So, what exactly is ABM?

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Account Based Marketing ABM Ideal Customer Profiles B2B 58

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

Just take a look at some of the top content marketing thought leaders – they each have certain skills that differentiate them from each other, but they are all still considered “grade A” content marketers. Interested in seeing which content marketing thought leader you are the most like? Content Marketing b2b Consumer'

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

AUGUST 19, 2015

That’s why I’m writing this blog: to help other salespeople in the B2B SaaS sales space recognize the red flags and nip ‘em in the bud before it’s too late. What this often means: “We are not worried about the price because we haven’t given any thought to actually investing in your solution. Does that sound fair?

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

MARCH 1, 2016

LinkedIn is a powerhouse in the B2B sector—with a website rank of 16th in the world and users totaling 400 million, according to Alexa. It clearly differentiates college and professional athletics , and hosts separate forums for each major sport. Are your customers really who you thought they were? You might be surprised.

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Communities Marketing & Strategy B2B Thought Leadership Thought Leadership 48

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JANUARY 28, 2015

I recently did a live webinar event with Marketo about The Art of Social Media, and we’d like to share the takeaways from the presentation and a few of the follow-up questions that we answered: Curate yourself. If you can write and publish content on LinkedIn, I think it benefits your industry thought-leadership.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

MAY 10, 2013

Did you know that B2B buyers say that 70% of the content they read and study before making a purchase decision is actually found by – well, themselves? In a way, successful marketers will “fool” their buyers into consuming their thought leadership and educational content in stages 1 through 5 – while hardly realizing its source.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

He thought big from the very beginning, building a corporation that literally would transform the global supply chain. And, it has to be different than the competition (be unique and differentiated…if you build essentially the same mouse trap, no one will buy it). It really is how we use “Marketo for Marketo.”

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B2B Thought Leadership Ad Building Tips Thought Leadership 48

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

Highlighting best practices and implementing them shows thought leadership and builds trust. Brands promote trust and privacy as a differentiator. How to Build Trust – A B2B Marketer’s Guide was posted at Modern B2B Marketing - Marketo Best Practices Blog. | [link]. Increase accountability.

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Trust Marketing B2B Marketing B2B Thought Leadership Ad Building 48

OutboundView

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

The inbound marketing for B2B landscape of 2018 is a brave new world for business – one virtually unrecognizable from years past. This playbook is co-written by two veterans of the B2B sales and marketing space, Boudinet Media’s Jeremy Boudinet and OutboundView’s Blake Johnston. Market pulse was tougher to discern. Technique #1.

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Inbound Marketing Sales Management Ideal Customer Profiles Work Management 28

Vidyard

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Video has emerged as a powerful tool for modern B2B sales teams. is clearly differentiating themselves from competitors and booking more meetings with key prospects. Unlike email, phone, and social media, video offers a highly creative way to cut through the noise and build more personal relationships with buyers.

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Video Marketing Sales Cycle Work Management Marketing Proposals 117

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

But LinkedIn’s Jason Miller reminded me that the space is only crowded if you can’t differentiate your brand. Because content marketing is such a big part of Marketo’s own marketing strategy, I tend to forget that some marketers are still struggling to demonstrate content’s importance.

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Ambal's Amusings

DECEMBER 17, 2009

I have invited our Panel of B2B Marketing Experts to reflect on 2009 and answer the following question: What was your aha moment in 2009 ? Recommended Resources from B2B Marketing Experts. Brian Carroll's blog B2B Lead Generation Blog. Mac McIntosh's Sales Lead Insights: A B2B marketing Blog. Tom Pick's blog Webbiquity.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JANUARY 20, 2015

It’s a thought-provoking analogy from Jim Stengel, CEO of the Jim Stengel Company and former Global Chief Marketing Officer of Procter & Gamble. That is what we mean here at Marketo when we describe this as a “Marketing First” world. Would you care about what they had to say? Do you both share the same values?

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JUNE 23, 2014

Whether you blame Pinterest or Tumblr or Instagram, the evolution of the visual web has changed how people consume content and what they expect of it — regardless of whether you’re marketing in B2B or B2C. The bar has been raised, and if your content experience isn’t up to snuff, content ROI will suffer. Content Marketing'

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ROI Content Marketing Marketing Automation Services Demand Generation 48

Vidyard

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Video has emerged as a powerful tool for modern B2B sales teams. is clearly differentiating themselves from competitors and booking more meetings with key prospects. Unlike email, phone, and social media, video offers a highly creative way to cut through the noise and build more personal relationships with buyers.

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Video Marketing Sales Cycle Work Management Marketing Proposals 65

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JUNE 26, 2014

Many marketing organizations are struggling to differentiate segmentation from personalization ; others are still pushing out batch and blast email campaigns. Be Relevant or Die: The New Nature of Nurture was posted at Marketo Marketing Blog - Best Practices and Thought Leadership. | [link]. Modern B2B Marketing'

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Customer experience is what differentiates good and great businesses. In addition to providing your teams with the right data with the right context at the right time, here are five more benefits to having your customer experience management software and B2B marketing automation integrated: Strong Sales and Marketing partnership.

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Marketo Enterprise Management Marketing Automation Services Work Management 114

The Forward Observer

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Second Skin: Tales and Truths from the Mosh Pit of Life by Jason Miller About the Book Second Skin is a raw and unfiltered memoir that thrusts you into the author’s turbulent journey of self-discovery toward becoming a leading voice in B2B digital marketing. Battling mental health demons, grappling with the “what the f**k am I gonna do?”

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Metadata

JUNE 9, 2020

If content is king, then thought leadership is the kingmaker. That feeling of limitless possibility and opportunity when you, awesome B2B marketer, get your hands on a new thought leadership content asset. Writing, packaging, and publishing a long-form thought leadership asset is hard. Really hard.

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Demand Generation Distribution B2B Thought Leadership Top of Funnel 98

Metadata

DECEMBER 3, 2020

B2B Category Creators Episode 3 Complete Transcript Gil Allouche: All right, gentlemen. I do B2B marketing. I’ve been doing B2B marketing for longer than I’d like to admit. And nowadays I do advisory with a bunch of great B2B sales companies. Well, it’s nice to have you both. We had some cool guests.

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Metadata

DECEMBER 3, 2020

B2B Category Creators Episode 3 Complete Transcript Gil Allouche: All right, gentlemen. I do B2B marketing. I’ve been doing B2B marketing for longer than I’d like to admit. And nowadays I do advisory with a bunch of great B2B sales companies. Well, it’s nice to have you both. We had some cool guests.

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Paid Content B2B B2B Thought Leadership Top of Funnel 52

Vidyard

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Video has emerged as a powerful tool for modern B2B sales teams. is clearly differentiating themselves from competitors and booking more meetings with key prospects. Honorable Mention: Bizible (a Marketo company), TimeTrade. The post How Top B2B Video Sellers Use Video to Book More Revenue appeared first on Vidyard.

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Video Marketing Sales Cycle Work Management Marketing Proposals 51

Martech

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

For ages, I thought it was nothing more than a trendy made-up word, dreamed up by Gen Z to sell software and consulting hours. I thought it was a straight-up dirty word. Salesforce might be your B2B prospecting tool for sales agents. Salesforce might be your B2B prospecting tool for sales agents. Let’s find out.

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