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Content Marketing eBook and Infographics

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A Content Marketing eBook. Content Marketing is all the rave, that’s part of what drove me to do some research on the history of content marketing and publish this free eBook, A Brief History of Content Marketing. Here are some great Content Marketing Infographics you may enjoy. The Content Grid v2 , from Eloqua.

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Getting Started Guide for Marketing Automation

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Problem is, sometimes the rush to get the software installed and running ends up trampling the creation of processes, content planning, and other key ingredients that are necessary for a successful marketing automation implementation. The personas will help drive your content marketing efforts and your lead nurturing programs.

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What’s Wrong with Marketing Education?

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Marketing Automation : the typical step-up from email marketing, marketing automation software (such as Marketo , Eloqua , Act-On , Pardot , and others ) allows you to automate the sending of your emails and, more importantly, of nurturing your leads. Content Marketing : content marketing is not new , but it is all the hype now.

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How Everybody Wins with HubSpot's Funding « The Effective Marketer

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For Eloqua, at least, they say there’s no need to worry since HubSpot is serving a very different market. After all, now that they have the deep pockets to invest in improving their product , maybe their solution will start looking more like what marketing automation vendors have been selling for some time now. United States License.

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The Danger of Email Marketing Benchmarks « The Effective Marketer

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A good starting point is the major email service providers (ExactTarget, Silverpop, Lyris, Eloqua, ConstantContact, Emma, etc.). Analyze the results you get by segment (geography, products purchased, industry targeted, job titles, etc.) OK, if you insist, here are some links to benchmarks I found online. United States License.

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Email Design Review Gallery « The Effective Marketer

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Design #9 Email Sender: Eloqua Email Title: Using Social Channels What I Like: This is a really nicely designed email. The only “download&# link seems to be the red button to the right, I would have added a couple more ‘download’ options either within the text or right after it. United States License.

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A Brief History of Marketing

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So for someone who is publishing content with the title of evolution of marketing automation, they are surely missing out on a LOT of stuff that happened before in marketing history. A Brief History of Content Marketing (I might as well have a link to my eBook). The History of Content Marketing (CMI).