Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

MARCH 22, 2018

AI technologies are also creating key internal opportunities that drive better alignment between marketing and sales resulting in an increase in revenue and a healthy pipeline. Let’s look at five ways AI can help marketing and sales continue to tear down silos. Support Sales with Relevant Customer Experiences.

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Heinz Marketing

MARCH 21, 2022

If you’re not already subscribed to Sales Pipeline Radio , or listening live every Thursday at 11:30 a.m The show is less than 30 minutes, fast-paced and full of actionable advice, best practices and more for B2B sales & marketing professionals. Changing the dynamic of prospecting and lead management strategies.

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Sword and the Script | B2B

APRIL 30, 2024

He was a co-founder of Marketo (acquired by Adobe) and is currently the CMO for Demandbase – among many other accomplishments. He wrote it up in a paper published online titled, Advertising effectiveness and the 95-5 rule: most B2B buyers are not in the market right now. Yet we need to make sure we understand the process behind it.

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KoMarketing Associates

APRIL 25, 2013

Generate more leads, generate better leads, and improve the rate to which lead opportunities turn into closed wins for the sales teams. A marketing automation solution is one tool B2B marketers use for succeeding at these lead management challenges. Marketo is considered a leader in the lead management / marketing automation industry.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JANUARY 18, 2013

by Dayna Rothman To truly build a high-performance revenue engine, you need to have solid alignment between sales and marketing. One of the keys to creating this synergy is the effective use of a Sales Development Team (you may call this inside sales, lead qualification, or even business development).

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Martech

JULY 27, 2023

It was really fast-paced, high-value work, so a lot of tight deadlines, a lot of content management, use of templates, approval processes. A: While working in those design jobs, I worked with photographers and that got me interested in photography, so my second career was starting a photography business.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JUNE 17, 2019

Event data is powerful, but you only unlock the full power of event data when it’s seamlessly connected to the rest of your business systems. This is critical for anyone managing the on-site experience (e.g., Understanding event performance requires more than just top-of-funnel metrics. Eliminate manual processes.

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The Mx Group

MAY 5, 2017

At the Marketo Marketing Nation Summit! The event was full of great insights, but as a marketing automation specialist, I was most interested in the keynote by Marketo CEO Steve Lucas. Buyers’ needs, not yours, drive the purchase process. Too-early sales contact is frustrating for both buyers and salespeople.

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Marketing Insider Group

AUGUST 4, 2015

One new set of insights published by DemandGen Report and Marketo is the 2015 Demand Gen Report Benchmark Study. Top-of-the-funnel heavy, that is. You may think webinars, events, and white papers are great top-of-funnel lead generation tactics. But don’t neglect the mid-and-late-stage funnel needs of your leads.

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The Point

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

When sales teams need marketing to help them make their numbers, the natural response is to go fishing for hot leads. This requires a constant re-loading of the sales funnel with new, expensive leads. In contrast, for Marketo, the proportion of sales derived from slow leads is an astounding 50 percent.

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SmartBug Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

For marketers—especially those in B2B and/or who have a long sales cycle— campaign attribution is critical to understanding which channels are winners and which are dead weight. Without knowing which of your campaigns are driving sales, you don’t know which marketing channels you should be adding budget to or subtracting budget from.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

MAY 30, 2017

To succeed in this new climate, you must adapt your tactics and shift your brand to become more human and digital native-friendly. Revenue Metrics: These metrics (also known as mid- and late-stage metrics) play a larger role in giving you an accurate picture of how advocacy drives opportunities and revenue for the business.

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Leadspace

JANUARY 17, 2017

B2B Marketing and Sales leaders are constantly looking for the next innovative method to give them a competitive edge – particularly in driving revenue for their business. Having created numerous products that leverage massive volumes of data in the marketing and sales space, I continue to hear many questions on this subject.

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Sales Engine

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

Since the days of buying lists and blasting them sales messages are mostly gone, creating experience through content is becoming more necessary than ever before. It’s no wonder that Marketo, Hubspot and others consistently talk about content development strategies on their blogs and in their webinars.

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Valasys

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

According to a study conducted by Forrester Research, there are only 8% of companies that have created a strong alignment between their sales and marketing departments. A company’s inability to align sales and marketing teams around the right processes and technologies costs them more than 10% in revenue per year.

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SmartBug Media

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

We also know that, as marketers and salespeople, we need to understand where our prospects are in the sales process in order to utilize appropriate strategies, and lead scoring helps you make that a reality. Lead scoring is not a process that can be done by marketing alone. What Is Lead Scoring? Lead Scoring Disclaimer.

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Sales Engine

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

Since the days of buying lists and blasting them sales messages are mostly gone, creating experience through content is becoming more necessary than ever before. It’s no wonder that Marketo, Hubspot and others consistently talk about content development strategies on their blogs and in their webinars.

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Ambal's Amusings

NOVEMBER 12, 2010

Her company Marketing Interactions helps companies with complex sales and quantify marketing effectiveness by using interactive e-marketing strategies driven by compelling content. She empowers her clients to create customer-centric nurturing programs that leverage strategic story development to engage prospects until they are sales ready.

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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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Ambal's Amusings

AUGUST 27, 2010

Content addressed to a Business Decision Maker. We asked B2B Marketing Experts the following question - "How should content that is addressed to a Technical Decision Maker be different from content that is addressed to a Business Decision Maker? Ardath’s book, eMarketing Strategies for the Complex Sale is now shipping!

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

Customer engagement is the strategy by which businesses build relationships with their clients and customers, with the intent of creating awareness and fostering brand loyalty. It’s hard to feel buyer’s remorse over a purchase when a brand is consistently interacting with the buyer—even after the sale. Outline the Strategy.

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The ROI Guy

MARCH 24, 2013

Traditional white papers are likely the staple of your content marketing portfolio, and for good reason. According to a recent IDG survey, 84% of buyers leveraged white papers as a key resource to help them make a purchase decision. Your current white papers just don’t have the same impact as they once had … but why?

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SnapApp

OCTOBER 16, 2015

Bringing your solution to life is one of the most important hurdles for a successful sales conversation. is a common spoken and unspoken question from prospects, and sales organizations that can tell the right story or demonstrate value through content get to that “a-ha” moment much faster. Want to accelerate sales like Qvidian?

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JUNE 8, 2018

and its subsidiary Filene’s Basement, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection after more than a half a century in the clothing business.” Not all marketers believe in this, but Sy managed to parlay the concept into a multimillion-dollar clothing empire that is still helping to educate today. On November 2, 2011, Syms Corp.,

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Heinz Marketing

APRIL 22, 2019

Did you know back in 2015 we started producing a weekly radio program called Sales Pipeline Radio? It’s just 30 minutes long, fast-paced and full of actionable advice, best practices and more for B2B sales & marketing professionals. We cover a wide range of topics, with a focus on sales development and inside sales priorities.

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TrustRadius Marketing

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

Ideally, your team would define this process once, perform maintenance checkups, track the provided analytics, and take action on those insights. Common automation themes include outbound and inbound lead generation, campaign management, workflows, email sequences, reporting, and analytics. Lead Management Features.

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Customer Experience Matrix

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

Neolane “ Making the Business Case for Enterprise Marketing Software ”. This paper contains step-by-step instructions for building a business case and even a link to a slide deck you can use as a template. higher sales quota achievement and 7% higher win rates • 100% increase in deal size 3. Statistics include: • 16.5%

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Biznology

JULY 18, 2016

In today’s B2B world, your prospects don’t want to hear from you until much later in the buying process, so attracting, engaging and nurturing them until they’re ready to talk to a sales person is no longer a nice way to supplement the top of your funnel. A white paper that takes a deeper dive? A worksheet template?

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

Keep in mind that your clients are just as busy as you are when crafting your messaging. If you’re selling a cloud-based customer service platform and you’ve got someone who has downloaded your ebook on authenticity in automated messages and watched related videos on your website, you can trigger a middle-of-the-funnel email.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JUNE 17, 2019

Event data is powerful, but you only unlock the full power of event data when it’s seamlessly connected to the rest of your business systems. This is critical for anyone managing the on-site experience (e.g., Understanding event performance requires more than just top-of-funnel metrics. Eliminate manual processes.

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Ambal's Amusings

JULY 22, 2010

Her company Marketing Interactions helps companies with complex sales and quantify marketing effectiveness by using interactive e-marketing strategies driven by compelling content. She empowers her clients to create customer-centric nurturing programs that leverage strategic story development to engage prospects until they are sales ready.

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Heinz Marketing

OCTOBER 18, 2018

“How I Work” is one of my favorite recurring features in Inc Magazine as well as via Lifehacker’s This Is How I Work Series, and recently several sales experts (including Anthony Iannarino , Dave Brock and Trish Bertuzzi ) participated as well. What is your email management strategy? Amazing. There’s a pattern.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

She is a classically trained concert pianist who insists that she’s not in sales (despite selling $3.5 It got me thinking about how what I’ve learned as a salesperson translates to my everyday life, and also served as a great reminder of how I’ve only begun to scratch the surface of sales and industry expertise. Back to Erica.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

Management could understand these metrics. It was easy for the VP of Sales to see my results via a dashboard in the CRM system. Well, that is unless you were a sales rep. Your sales reps know this. If not, you may end of with lots of traffic, but no new business. Makes sense, right? Life was good.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JUNE 13, 2011

by Jon Miller Last month I participated in a webinar on Adding the Human Touch into Your Lead Nurturing with Brian Carroll, author of Lead Generation for the Complex Sale and the “godfather” of lead nurturing. At Marketo, our prospect-to-lead conversion rate triples with lead nurturing.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JULY 28, 2015

To change that perception, marketers need to start talking about how their programs impact the whole sales process, with revenue being the core focus. It’s not about the first “touch” that brings a prospect into the sales funnel, or the last “touch” before signing a deal.

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SnapApp

MAY 12, 2015

You may not be The Gray Lady, or even the viral media powerhouse of the day, but you can borrow their tactics to get unprecedented results in your B2B marketing. The modern B2B buyer does a huge amount of research during their purchase process. is perfect top-of-funnel content. Unconvinced? Stay with me.

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