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Observations from the 2017 Marketo Summit

The Point

This week was my eighth consecutive Marketo Summit, all of them as a sponsor/exhibitor. Marketo has their mojo back. It’s been a tumultuous year for Marketo since being acquired by Vista Equity Partners in late 2016. They’re incorporating sales outreach, social media, account-targeted display ads, and even (gasp!)

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How Social Media Can Act as a Primary Sales Channel for Your Business

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

By now, I’m sure you’re sick of hearing how social media can drive conversions and create brand growth. However, your social media accounts can be a fully functional sales channel that drives revenue. Let’s take a look at how you can strategize your social media platforms and examine sales tactics that work on social.

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The Evolution of Marketing Automation: Are Traditional Platforms on Their Way Out?

Heinz Marketing

In the past, I’d assume the answer to that would always be limited to Marketo, Pardot, Hubspot or Eloqua. Not to date myself, but I’ve been using Marketo for close to 15 years. Ease of support and customer service: If you’ve never tried logging a support ticket with Salesforce/Pardot or Marketo – count yourself lucky.

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What Is MarTech? Explore How Your Business Can Use It to Streamline Marketing Efforts

Marketing Insider Group

They assist with improving personalization, executing email marketing, social media publishing, and more. Social media publishing: Manual social media publishing is timely, and you can’t schedule posts within most platforms (Facebook is the exception). Marketing automation tools are the mecca for marketers.

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Top 10 B2B Marketing Influencers You Should Be Following on Twitter 

Launch Marketing

As a co-founder of Marketo, Jon now continues to share thought-provoking content on Twitter in his new role as Chief Marketing Officer at Demandbase. For over two decades Neil has been providing consulting and thought leadership to the business and marketing community. Mike_Stelzner Founder, Social Media Examiner .

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Integrating Social Leads into the Demand Generation Funnel

The Point

Social media may be a hot topic in B2B marketing circles, but most of that buzz focuses on the role of social media advertising. After all, as earned media, the “cost” of organic social is basically zero. HS) Social media advertising has taken off lately. However, that’s not necessarily true.

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Seven Ways B2B Tech Buying Behavior is Changing [Research]

Webbiquity

Case studies and customer references are also more important to B2B buyers when purchasing professional services (implementation, consulting, training, etc.) They also need to embrace mobile-friendly media including video and podcasts. They do need to interact with sales professionals to decide between Oracle (Eloqua) and Marketo.