Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JULY 6, 2018

So now it’s time to fire up the ads and watch as your leads turn into revenue, right? While a high quantity of leads can undoubtedly be good, it’s not enough. 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.

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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

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. in-store purchases, event attendance, content downloads), to digital campaigns to optimize their program and spend.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

Acquiring buy-in from executive leadership and the C-suite . Many B2B organizations have static websites that serve up the same content to all visitors, regardless of where they are from, what device they’re using, and their business data. . But mobile selling is now coming into its own, both with B2B and B2C consumers.

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KoMarketing Associates

AUGUST 23, 2016

There’s no doubt that LinkedIn is one of the most effective social media lead generators for B2B marketers, offering businesses the chance to tell their brand story in a unique and meaningful way. On the other hand, many B2B brands still struggle to engage their audience on the platform.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JANUARY 30, 2019

B2B marketers are in a pickle when it comes to data. Yet the marketer’s trust in data has plunged to a new low that’s putting a damper on strategic marketing initiatives, according to Dun & Bradstreet’s (D&B) recently released Sixth Annual B2B Marketing Data Report. Don’t drown in excessive information.

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Smarte

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

If you are a B2B company and you were to focus on only one channel for your company’s lead generation, it has to be LinkedIn. It allows you to build relationships, establish thought leadership, gain insights, generate leads , improve branding, and build communities. What is LinkedIn Lead Gen Forms?

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Smarte

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

If you are a B2B company and you were to focus on only one channel for your company’s lead generation, it has to be LinkedIn. It allows you to build relationships, establish thought leadership, gain insights, generate leads , improve branding, and build communities. What is LinkedIn Lead Gen Forms?

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JUNE 28, 2017

According to SiriusDecisions, 80% of unqualified leads today—those understandably ignored by sales—will go on to buy from someone within the next 24 months. 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.

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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. They approached LinkedIn and Marketo to solve that problem for them. Meanwhile, she gets distracted by a personal phone call and closes her browser without providing any contact information.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

APRIL 11, 2017

Here at Socedo , getting our leads to engage with our emails is an ongoing challenge. Since we adopted Marketo in 2015, we’ve been nurturing our leads with weekly emails that provide educational content. Marketo User Group in Seattle, WA), the influencers they follow, and the articles they share and comment on.

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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). So now information is delivered through a mix of video, digital documents, podcasts, flash demos and eBooks.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JANUARY 9, 2020

Voice search is a technology that allows you to say a voice command to access information on Google and other search engines. Companies like Amazon, Apple, and Microsoft created voice technologies and aliases like Siri and Alexa to be your sidekick that helps you find information on the web. What does this have to do with voice search?

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

APRIL 29, 2019

They’re the unsung heroes of B2B marketing. The human brain is said to process visual information exponentially faster than text. The good news is there are a host of promising, nonintrusive ways to gather information about prospects. Landing pages. So, why stop with just one piece of content? Happy landings!

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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

JULY 7, 2017

Because there is more to lead scoring than just fit. The lead must also have a need for your product or service and be ready to research and evaluate solutions. Unfortunately, you can’t tell whether a lead is ready by scoring them on fit alone. That’s an important aspect of behavioral lead scoring. Why is that?

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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

JULY 12, 2018

While the sales team thinks the marketing team shared only contacts (read, unqualified leads), the marketing team blames the sales team for not being able to convert all the excellent qualified leads they hand off. Not only this, sales reps ignore 50% of the marketing leads according to a study by the TAS Group. Sound familiar?

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

FEBRUARY 17, 2015

But today, Marketo and Facebook have started to make this goal a reality for social advertising channels. The first integration between Marketo and Facebook Custom Audiences empowers marketers to better target “known” customers on Facebook with relevant information. I’d love to hear your thoughts in the comments below.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JANUARY 23, 2019

That’s right, email replies (like Out-Of-Office and Left-The-Company) contain valuable sales intelligence about your leads. Many of those auto-replies contain real-time updates to phone numbers, titles, and even emails — straight from the leads you’re actively engaging. Think about it. Left-The-Company.

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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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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

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

APRIL 3, 2017

In fact, Sirius Decisions found that 92% of B2B marketers worldwide consider ABM “extremely” or “very” important to their overall marketing efforts. However, all too often, a cool new feature, rather than the program’s goals and objectives, leads the tools and technology decision, giving marketers anxiety.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

I spent the next three hours pulling what I thought were weeds. If a writer produces a beautifully written thought leadership piece, but your goal was to generate leads for a webinar, can you blame them for missing the mark if you never communicated your goals? Demographic Information: Age, Gender, Income, etc.

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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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Kabbage

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

Source : B2B Content Marketing – 2017 Benchmarks, Budgets, and Trends Report. B2B Marketing Blogs. What do they talk about: Variety of B2B topics ranging from demand generation, content marketing, SEO, social media, etc. Why should I read it: If there’s one thing Marketo does really well, it’s content.

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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

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

This hyper-focus has been leading the shift away from impersonal communications to engagement marketing , which is all about building personalized, authentic relationships with your customers and driving the idea of wantedness. In fact, many decisions for both B2B and B2C products are made long before interacting with a human being.

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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

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

Until now, however, the AdWords conversion tracking tools have only worked for basic online conversions, such as a lead submission (form fill-out) or e-commerce transaction. Marketo Integration. That’s why I am excited that Marketo is the first marketing automation vendor to announce integration with this new feature.

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Kabbage

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

Source : B2B Content Marketing – 2017 Benchmarks, Budgets, and Trends Report. B2B Marketing Blogs. What do they talk about: Variety of B2B topics ranging from demand generation, content marketing, SEO, social media, etc. Why should I read it: If there’s one thing Marketo does really well, it’s content.

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Martech

JULY 28, 2021

As more B2B marketing teams adopt B2C strategies to engage and convert business customers, electronics giant Panasonic has found success in focusing on engaging customers where they are. His team is watching attendance rates closely and is finding that virtual events are producing more qualified leads, in many cases.

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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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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. Email, the website, and SEO.

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Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

I’ve just published the latest edition of our B2B Marketing Automation Vendor Selection Tool (VEST), with updated entries on all your favorites and several new entries to boot. My data are a little less comprehensive than previously because several of the big vendors are now part of public companies and don’t share detailed information.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JANUARY 25, 2012

With our latest Facebook campaign, we are doing just that; tying leads generated by Facebook directly into our revenue pipeline via Marketo. We developed a custom Facebook application that generates a special offer and is powered by a Marketo form. From there the names are added directly into a lead nurture campaign.

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