Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

As marketers, we know the challenge of ensuring sales reps follow and use best practices processes, sales playbooks , and marketing content we painstakingly created. Start with an audit—dust off your sales playbook, review your sales process, and get feedback from sales leadership. Here is an example taxonomy: Outbound—B2B.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

Ask questions, share your best practices and lessons learned, and together, help each other get the most out of Marketo. Marketing Nation Community gives you an opportunity to connect with other Marketo users, open support tickets, exchange ideas and best practices, as well as grow your brand and career.

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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. Instead of creating opportunity it’s creating chaos.”.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

DECEMBER 14, 2018

Marketo Content AI uses machine learning to deliver engaging content based on past buyer behavior. The post The Practical Guide to Artificial Intelligence for Marketers appeared first on Marketo Marketing Blog - Best Practices and Thought Leadership. In the end, isn’t that what it’s all about?

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JULY 26, 2019

Marketing Nation Live, a B2B Marketing virtual event, is bringing together marketers from all over the world on September 18 for a day full of inspiration, education, and social networking. Marketo Engage customers and members of our Marketo Advocate Nation will share their marketing truths and best practices with you.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

MARCH 2, 2018

In this blog, I’ll give you five best practices for developing an optimized lead source. It’s often best practice to align your lead source with your program channels such as tradeshow, econference, webinar, content syndication, web-organic, web-PPC, etc. When was the last time you evaluated your lead sourcing best practices?

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

AUGUST 26, 2019

To do this successfully, we need to think about what occupies each of these stakeholders’ thoughts, what they want to hear, and what we can offer them in pursuit of their own goals. What Are You Trying To Prove With B2B Marketing? The post Do You Speak B2B Marketing?

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Let’s examine a few challenges faced and the top five best practices for tracking leads. Let’s examine the top five best practices for lead tracking : . Best practices include: Track basic lead information such as first name, email address, title, company name, company size, etc. Challenges Faced.

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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

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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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JUNE 9, 2010

Top B2B marketers understand two key objectives 1) Building new business and 2) Becoming a thought leader. 56% of B2B marketing executives stated “positioning our company as a thought leader” as their top objective in a recent Economics Intelligence Unit study. This puts huge importance on being a thought leader.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

APRIL 7, 2017

Below are three best practices for a holistic, personalized marketing strategy, aimed at building meaningful relationships with buyers at every turn: 1. Such an approach falls short of truly representing individuals, their interests, pain points, and actions. Find the Right Balance of Overt and Subtle Personalization.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

by Jon Miller The other day, I asked the following question: How would you define the difference between thought leadership and content marketing? — Here are some of the responses I got: RT @ jonmiller : Thought leadership can be in content used for content marketing, but not all content marketing has thought leadership ~ME.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

APRIL 13, 2017

Also, doing things right tends to take more time than you initially thought… this is just the nature of the beast; so, whenever possible, set more conservative timelines for the work that your team produces. Obviously, you don’t want to procrastinate so much that you never actually get anything done. Share them below!

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

Following best practices for enterprise marketing means: Breaking down silos —Using tools and creating a structure around content collaboration, take advantage of all the voices (and expertise) in the company. Best practices for enterprise-level SEO content include: Thorough keyword + user intent research. Search Engine Optimization.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

OCTOBER 8, 2020

A long-term relationship that allows you to build trust: In a B2B environment, t he act of buying itself does not usually take long, but the process that leads to it can take months or even years depending on your offer and the complexity of your buying cycle. A first strategy consists of analysing your content production.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

MARCH 11, 2015

The perfect Austin weather, thought leaders from around the globe, fantastic musical acts, and of course, the Uber pricing surges! This year, Marketo is going big. We are hosting 10+ sessions featuring marketing thought leaders from organizations like My Fitness Pal, The Economist, Kaiser Permanente, Mashable, and of course, Marketo!

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

AUGUST 16, 2018

Fortunately, we created five best practices on email metrics to help you get the most out of your email marketing initiatives. Best practices include: Set expectations with all stakeholders. The best practices covered should not be seen as just standalone pieces but part of an overall holistic email marketing and metrics approach.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Adobe’s recent Experience Maker’s Live two-day online event was insightful, thoughtful, and informative, just as I predicted. It’s a crucial outlook on leadership in modern business, especially for those who are looking to improve customer experiences, digitize business processes, and create better internal alignment. .

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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

JUNE 19, 2020

With our Predictive Audiences capability coming soon, Marketo Engage is transforming this fundamental piece of marketing in the most powerful way – through artificial intelligence. AI in B2B Marketing Today. But what is one universal challenge for all marketers? Audience segmentation. And, voila! Minimizing Opt-Outs.

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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. He’s also a Marketo alum and rock ‘n’ roll photographer on the side.) Ardath Albee is a B2B marketing strategist, CEO of Marketing Interactions, conference speaker, and author of Digital Relevance.

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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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BOP Design

JUNE 13, 2019

Is the goal of your B2B content marketing strategy to attract high-quality traffic to your website, to nurture existing prospects through to the final sale, to retain your existing clients, to generate qualified leads, or to increase the revenue of your existing client relationships? Case studies for B2B buyers can be either ungated or gated.

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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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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JANUARY 24, 2012

She discusses thought leadership and how she developed a successful campaign to overcome the challenge of accurately measuring her thought leadership efforts. While thought leadership has always been part of Ingenuity Systems’ marketing mix, in the past it had never been a formal program.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

OCTOBER 21, 2020

This meant we could take advantage of decreased ad costs to boost awareness of our offering, empowered with our Marketo Engage solution. That’s a lot of work for a marketing team of three, but we managed it with speed and confidence with Marketo Engage. Tip 2: Respond to customer needs. Tip 3: Always maintain sales alignment.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JUNE 21, 2016

Now, let’s explore how to measure the ROI of B2B social campaigns with multi-touch attribution: 1. If you’re using Marketo, you’ll need to configure an easy, out-of-the box integration with your CRM and SRP. In Marketo, you can run the Program Analyzer to see which channel drove the highest ROI.

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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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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

The internet is saturated with content marketing, people’s inboxes are full of well-designed emails , and account-based strategies are quickly becoming a B2B standard. 66% of B2B consumers want to advocate for brands that engage well. 66% of B2B consumers fully expect that all communications with a brand to be personalized.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

APRIL 4, 2018

This is why it’s imperative for B2B tech marketers to shift their focus from buying journey funnels to full-on customer lifecycle management. In this blog, I’ll cover best practices for B2B marketers to make the shift from funnel marketing to lifecycle marketing to increase ROI and help your customers stick with you for the long run.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

MARCH 25, 2020

Successful webinars drive revenue and establish your organization as a thought leader in its space. Many best practices focus on maximizing registrations, but webinar attendance is what matters most. Ensure you have a thoughtful email cadence in place prior to delivering your first invitation. Remind, Remind, and Remind Again.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

DECEMBER 11, 2019

From AR to VR, to marketing technology and personalization strategies: The B2B marketer’s toolkit is full of new options for engaging with B2B buyers. . To better understand the priorities of B2B companies in 2020, our CMO by Adobe team reached out to some B2B experts and asked: “What is your team’s big bet in 2020?”.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

MARCH 2, 2017

For example, Marketo customers don’t simply want to learn how to use our platform for the sake of being certified Marketo users. Education curriculum should never be thought of as a set-it-and-forget-it program. As you can tell, education is something we are passionate about at Marketo. Education Drives Adoption.

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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

JULY 9, 2018

Prior to Marketo’s IPO and eventual sale to Vista Equity Partners for $1.79Bn, they raised over $100m in VC funding from the likes of Battery Ventures, IVP, Mayfield, and Lead Edge Capital. In This Episode You Will Learn: How did Steve make his way into the world of SaaS and come to be CEO at Marketo?

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

The post 5 Things Marketers Need to Know When Working With Their Legal Team appeared first on Marketo Marketing Blog - Best Practices and Thought Leadership. What might you do differently when you approach a situation that requires your legal team? I’d love to hear about it.

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