Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

APRIL 29, 2020

Your behaviors and habits, your limitations and concerns, and your life experience all shape your purchasing decisions. Questions will inevitably arise, and you want your customers to find the answers and reassurances they need to commit to a purchase. Have you made a purchase with us? It’s not just preference, either.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2017

Another way to welcome and thank new customers is to provide an offer or discount on future purchases. Offer Solutions and Establish Thought Leadership. Drip campaigns are excellent for promoting useful content that establishes you as a valued thought leader. Here are a few helpful tips to get you started.

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PureB2B

MARCH 8, 2022

96%* of your website visitors might not be ready to buy yet – Marketo 3. Only 3% of the market is actively looking to make a purchase - TechJury Taking the Next Steps with Converting Leads. 96%* of your website visitors might not be ready to buy yet – Marketo. Table of Contents 1. We get it: Lead generation is hard.

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PureB2B

MARCH 8, 2022

96%* of your website visitors might not be ready to buy yet – Marketo 3. Only 3% of the market is actively looking to make a purchase – TechJury Taking the Next Steps with Converting Leads. 96%* of your website visitors might not be ready to buy yet – Marketo. Table of Contents 1. We get it: Lead generation is hard.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

APRIL 1, 2015

When a purchase is made online, Google has made it fairly easy for marketers to tie revenue back to the ad. 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). More Data, Less Questions.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

It’s hard to feel buyer’s remorse over a purchase when a brand is consistently interacting with the buyer—even after the sale. On the other hand, the C-suite can help mobilize alignment across the entire team, redirect company resources to the strategy, and provide the kind of oversight to make sure the strategy is constantly improving.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JUNE 9, 2015

Specifically, attendees stopped by the Marketo booth to ask, “I get that we have to better engage consumers, but how do I do it? And how do I do it when my leadership—my counterparts—are afraid of digital?”. And make their path to purchase clutter-free. I started hearing a more familiar term— engagement. Shopping Is Shopping.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

It’s essentially the different stages that buyers will go through as they interact with your brand—from initial awareness through to purchase and advocacy. At Marketo, we’ve seen many versions of the customer lifecycle model, each with their unique stages, and have even gone through a few iterations of our own. Why is it important?

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

In fact, today’s customer is usually 57 percent of the way through their decision-making process before they directly connect with a company for the first time. They are providing thoughtful, relevant interactions that answer complex customer needs –– without the customer having to speak to a sales representative directly.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

DECEMBER 11, 2019

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?”. Trust and transparency, 5G and time to purchase will dictate success in 2020. . Gabie Boko, Global Vice President of Digital, HPE. Mark Settle, former CIO, Okta .

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

MAY 2, 2017

For example, tour companies can analyze a customer’s location history to suggest activities, events, and offers based on customers’ locations. For example, Facebook integrates with technologies like Square and Marketo to track purchases post ad-views.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

MARCH 16, 2017

With marketing increasingly playing a critical role in company growth, it’s important to find a viable solution that brings order to the overwhelming volumes of data from prospects and customers. Are you clear on the key criteria you should bear in mind as you evaluate possible options? Criteria 2: Extensibility.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

The company made the announcement after extensively testing the popularity of playlists curated by its editorial team and collecting data on user listening times and preferences. T hese types of groundbreaking data applications are helping companies like Spotify disrupt and seize control of entire industries. Great Expectations.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

DECEMBER 27, 2016

Whether they’ve engaged with you or not before, it’s important to keep your brand top-of-mind as they encounter other campaigns from all sorts of companies. Conversion/Purchase. However, be careful not to focus your strategy and resources solely on acquiring new customers and driving them to purchase once.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JANUARY 22, 2020

At the bottom of the funnel, marketing helps close the sale by creating urgency and helping prospects make the business case for purchasing the product or service. Marketing hands off enough leads to sales, but leads are hard to reach because they are not ready to consider a purchase yet and need more nurturing. How did you fix it?

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JULY 17, 2018

Jokes aside, have you given much thought to how your customers can actually contribute to helping you grow your customer base? It’s all about fully partnering with your network of happy customers to assist with social selling, referrals, and thought leadership. However, just like bad stories exist, bad case studies exist.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Smart Company illustrates why this approach doesn’t work by contrasting the demographic profiles of England’s Prince Charles and rock star Ozzy Osbourne. Marketo explains , “Resourceful, actionable, helpful websites are the ones that users linger on, click through, link up with, and return to, so modern digital marketing means good SEO.”.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

MAY 22, 2017

They may also be considering additional purchases. In the enablement phase, new customers are learning how to implement purchased products and use them to their full potential. For example, a Marketo marketer might notice on BloomBerry that people are asking questions about integrating with third-party tools.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

At Marketo, we have team members who are dedicated to verticals of interest. At Marketo, for example, we found that the ideal personas in certain industries may be sales or IT leaders as opposed to marketing leaders, as they drive most of the purchasing decisions. Let’s look at five key steps to penetrate a new industry: 1.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

Author: Jon Miller Google AdWords is one of the most important marketing channels for almost every company, and the ability to measure and optimize for conversions is one of its most powerful capabilities. Marketo Integration. A company may want to optimize for true prospects that match their profile of potential future customers.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

APRIL 4, 2017

As the Director of Online Marketing at Marketo, I get these asked these two questions all the time. Don’t assume that your website visitors are familiar with your company. This tactic is surprisingly effective for companies of all sizes. Author: Mike Tomita What kind of digital marketing are you doing? What works?

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JUNE 2, 2020

Challenging times provide opportunities for those who seek (and see) them — opportunities for companies to show their customers and the rest of the world that they are there to help when it matters most. Your customers share their thoughts, feelings, likes, dislikes, and what they did last weekend as data. You have a couple options.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

MAY 4, 2018

Corporate social responsibility is a hot topic today and one that impacts everyone—from your corner bodega to Fortune 50 companies. I’m not just referring to the direct impact on the companies that you’re donating to or the tax benefits that you’ll experience (though those are nice too.) Everyone is impacted. Manage Your Reputation.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

MAY 8, 2019

So, how does Marketo define demand generation? The pre-purchase, top-of-funnel stage should include “light” thought-leadership content that builds brand awareness, highlights a need, and drives desire. The three pillars of demand. Demand generation can be easily split into three key pillars: 1. Lead generation.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

When Taco Bell and Frito-Lay got together in 2012 to create the Doritos Locos Taco, they sold 100 million units in the first 10 weeks , according to Fast Company. Once the first Doritos Locos Taco was a hit, the companies felt more freedom to variate the theme, creating Cool Ranch Doritos Locos Tacos and Flamas Doritos Locos Tacos.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

APRIL 11, 2017

Since we adopted Marketo in 2015, we’ve been nurturing our leads with weekly emails that provide educational content. At this time, there are a handful of companies in the B2B space (known as third-party intent data providers ) that can provide you with data on what your prospects are learning and talking about online.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

Applying this concept to B2B marketing is just as important as consumer marketing for major purchases. Raising engagement levels sets the stage for internal and external advocacy, and delivers critical support for your sales teams within the complex buying committees that decide today’s business purchases.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Tis the season for companies to publish their thoughts and plans for 2019, including us. Companies will be able to create a comprehensive picture of Jane based on her browsing preferences and past purchasing behavior. Predictive Purchasing. It’s a new year, and you know what that means: new annual predictions.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JUNE 20, 2018

By appealing to specific leaders and stakeholders who can benefit from what your company has to offer, you can make marketing efforts simultaneously more tailored and more effective. Marketing automation plays a key role in driving such impressive results, as it allows companies to hyper-target their outreach based on interests and actions.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JULY 19, 2017

A company that successfully embraces Twitter and builds its community around it will move beyond likes and followers. Their activities work to inspire identification with their brand and empower social customers to act, which translates into a willingness to purchase and spend. Twitter lists is a powerful, yet underutilized feature.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

APRIL 19, 2017

My recent switch from the enterprise consulting team to the education team at Marketo has given me greater exposure to customers who are either brand new to marketing automation or switching from another platform. Marketo suggests a “Crawl, Walk, Run” phased approach. What are my key KPIs and how am I going to report on them?

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

APRIL 10, 2019

In fact, LinkedIn’s State of Sales 2017 US Report notes that trust in a salesperson is the number one factor in a purchase decision. Marketers create content that’s customized to an account’s information needs, helping them to make the purchase that’s right for them. By showing value, a company builds trust.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

MAY 3, 2017

We tend to hear about the one or two stories where marketers were able to capture lightning in a bottle, but most marketing campaigns rely on careful testing and thoughtful adjustments. For instance, just because someone’s purchases or their browsing history correlates to home buying doesn’t mean that they’re getting ready to sell.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

MAY 18, 2016

This technology, like Marketo’s digital ads app, enables you to engage customers across their entire lifecycle and tell a continuous, relevant and personal story based on the activity and engagement of your audience member from other channels. The time for companies to augment programmatic with personalization is now.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JUNE 19, 2017

It starts with one question: “On a scale of 1 to 10, how likely would you be to recommend our company to a friend or colleague?”. In fact, strong customer success programs have been credited with reducing some companies’ churn rates to <1%. more likely to purchase from companies with a great customer experience.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

MARCH 28, 2019

The younger the consumer, the higher their expectations for the companies they engage with. For example, more than half of online shoppers across age groups said they expect to receive an emailed receipt following a purchase. Among those who posted on social media about their experience, two in three heard back from the company.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JUNE 7, 2019

Automation is making waves in the business world as more and more companies are moving towards digital transformation. Companies are allocating large sums of their marketing budgets for technology investments that promise to make their teams more productive and the business more profitable. Marketing automation is creating new roles.

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