Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

APRIL 10, 2015

Author: Ellen Gomes One of the questions we get asked a lot at Marketo is “what features are included in a marketing automation platform, and how can these features help my business?” Luckily, marketing automation offers a wide array of features to streamline marketing campaigns—from lead management to email marketing.

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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.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Marketers: it’s time to stop thinking about data. There is no question that the B2B industry, like much of the rest of the business world, has already entered what The Economist has termed “the data economy.” Even if you could organize and update your raw data manually, that isn’t enough. Automation is the Future.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

OCTOBER 23, 2019

The Fearless 50 is a yearlong program designed for marketers that have one thing in common: unstoppable drive to lead digital transformation in their organizations. The ultimate goal of the Fearless 50 is to sharpen members’ leadership skills and provide them with all the necessary tools for world-class digital transformation.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

MAY 18, 2015

Author: Sesame Mish Companies are increasingly realizing the benefits of marketing automation tools. According to The SiriusDecisions B2B Marketing Automation Study, there are a whopping 11 times more B2B organizations using marketing automation than there were in 2011. (So,

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JULY 22, 2021

Sometimes not investing in the right tools can cost you a lot more in the end. The same is true in marketing. If you manage a marketing budget, you know how much money goes into two critical areas: paid media and marketing technology. LinkedIn Ads have proven to be a powerful tool for B2B marketers.

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SnapApp

MARCH 15, 2017

Marketing automation is a topic we’re hearing a lot about in 2017. From robust marketing technology stacks to standalone tools, automation is improving operations around the world. By simplifying what used to be time-consuming tasks for marketers. The Big Marketing Automation Stats. Marketo.

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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. To avoid the squishiness — the feeling that your money and effort is going to waste — you need to set up your content marketing program on a firm foundation.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

MAY 24, 2019

But with more people fleeing traditional TV and radio for ad-free streaming services like Netflix and Spotify Premium, advertising on those once-powerful mediums has lost much of its luster. Organic vs. paid social: Which reigns supreme? Organic reach has dramatically declined in recent years. Social media. Here are a few ideas.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JUNE 13, 2017

Using rich data is commonplace in the B2B world. It seems though that people have tended to shy away from applying those same data-driven marketing principles to the consumer marketing world or may not have even known that it’s possible. B2B marketers have the art of prospecting down to a science.

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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. Before joining this team, I established and grew marketing divisions for two separate organizations. This example would be for a B2B software company.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

DECEMBER 17, 2019

The enormous influx of data and execution capabilities that organizations have available to them have transformed strategic planning. Forward-facing organizations will take advantage of the insights that technologies like AI and marketing automation provide, by viewing their 2020 marketing plans as organic rather than fixed.

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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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Oktopost

MARCH 11, 2020

Choosing the Right Platform. This seems like a no-brainer, but with so many platform providers out there, it can be challenging to find a strong fit. Your platform provider should be able to pump advocacy data across your martech stack giving you the opportunity to measure and optimize your entire advocacy program.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

APRIL 11, 2017

Author: Jingcong Zhao At this point, many marketing organizations have adopted a digital marketing platform. Your prospects are bombarded with pitches from different vendors. Since we adopted Marketo in 2015, we’ve been nurturing our leads with weekly emails that provide educational content.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JUNE 9, 2017

At this point, most of us have realized that traditional, or “spray-and-pray” marketing approaches no longer work. As Steve Lucas, Marketo CEO, said, to win in the Engagement Economy, marketers must listen and learn before they engage. Now, savvy marketers are turning to intent data to listen to their target audience.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JANUARY 22, 2020

At the top of the funnel, marketing increases traffic and fills the database with new leads through paid ads, social media, search, referral programs, and a variety of other channels. But in between, marketing needs to nurture and qualify leads by encouraging them to engage with content until they’re sales-ready. How did you fix it?

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

APRIL 3, 2017

Author: Robert Pease Account-based marketing (ABM) is not going away anytime soon. In fact, Sirius Decisions found that 92% of B2B marketers worldwide consider ABM “extremely” or “very” important to their overall marketing efforts. Align Sales and Marketing. Know Your Audience.

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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. But they’re just that: tools.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JUNE 21, 2016

Before we get started, let’s take a look as some assumptions I’ve made about your marketing and sales technology: Your sales team is using a customer relationship management (CRM) system and your marketing team is using a complete marketing automation platform. Details in our LaunchPoint ecosystem.).

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TrustRadius Marketing

OCTOBER 1, 2018

In an age where inbound marketing has taken over, it is almost impossible to find a software or influencer who does not have a blog. The B2B community has a wealth of information on digital marketing, SEO, modern sales techniques, and more. B2B Personal and Consulting Blogs. B2B Marketing.

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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. It’s also a highly inefficient and time-consuming process to measure the combined results and ROI from separated tools and channels that don’t talk to each other.

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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. If you’ve ever shopped at Nordstrom before, you may have realized how it’s the epitome of world-class customer service.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

MAY 30, 2017

I recently had the pleasure of attending one of the biggest marketing conferences of the year— Marketo’s Marketing Nation Summit. The “Engagement Economy” represents a clear shift in the way marketers communicate with customers. that have been created by your marketing team and are lead generating.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JANUARY 20, 2017

If you’re not familiar with the jarring statistics, here’s a recap: SiriusDecisions research shows that more than 90% of B2B marketers consider ABM “important” or “very important,” and 73% of B2B companies plan to increase their budgets for ABM initiatives in the next 12 months. Gain Full Company Support .

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

MAY 13, 2014

But even though marketing automation is at the center of the marketer’s ability to lead digital growth, enterprise marketers are some of its slowest adopters. That’s why enterprise marketers should strongly consider using marketing automation consultants, such as those offered by Marketo’s INNOVATE program.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JUNE 27, 2016

Sharks find a specific target and then spend time hunting it down, similar to account-based marketing (ABM) , in which an organization identifies a number of target accounts and dedicates sales and marketing resources to penetrate and close them. Different Tools. The similarity lies in our “feeding” habits.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

MARCH 13, 2017

In my career, anytime I wanted to learn about something or perfect my marketing practice, I’ve looked past a simple Google search and to influencers (and the many smart people who follow and interact with them) to coach me toward success. There is no substitute for asking your question in person and having a discussion.

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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.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JANUARY 2, 2014

In fact, football teams are a lot like marketing automation teams – you need talented players, of course, but you also need dedicated roles, internal coordination, and sound strategy. The Basic Structure of a Marketing Automation Team. At Marketo, we have a much larger team.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JANUARY 2, 2014

In fact, football teams are a lot like marketing automation teams – you need talented players, of course, but you also need dedicated roles, internal coordination, and sound strategy. The Basic Structure of a Marketing Automation Team. At Marketo, we have a much larger team. 1 full-time employee).

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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. Go back to the start of the decade – concepts like content marketing, social media marketing, influencer marketing, and inbound marketing were years away from conception.

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EveryoneSocial

JULY 24, 2018

While the importance of social media has been taken more seriously by companies in the last few years, many (particularly in the B2B space) are not focusing much attention as they should to social. It is understandable when you realize how fast tech, marketing, sales, etc. Why is Being a Social Business Important for B2B?

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ClearVoice

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

MarketingProfs B2B Forum. Description: Many of the conferences available spread their focus so that it applies to both B2B and B2C marketers, but MarketingProfs B2B Forum is one of the few that provides the kind of focus that allows B2B marketers to get a finely tuned experience specifically for them.

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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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Kabbage

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

For marketers, it probably doesn’t come as a surprise that blogs are the second most used tactic for content marketing (behind social media content). Source : B2B Content Marketing – 2017 Benchmarks, Budgets, and Trends Report. B2B Marketing Blogs. HubSpot’s Marketing Blog. Heinz Marketing.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JULY 12, 2012

by Maria Pergolino The other day someone commented on a blog post I had written about the importance of onboarding when using a marketing automation solution. To help those considering any online marketing tool (not just marketing automation ), I thought I would write a list of the 12 most important things to look for when purchasing.

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