Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JULY 12, 2018

While the sales team thinks the marketing team shared only contacts (read, unqualified leads), the marketing team blames the sales team for not being able to convert all the excellent qualified leads they hand off. Not only this, sales reps ignore 50% of the marketing leads according to a study by the TAS Group. Sound familiar?

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

APRIL 25, 2013

by Jon Miller (@jonmiller) Marketo’s Definitive Guide to Lead Scoring defines lead scoring as a “shared sales and marketing methodology for ranking leads in order to determine their sales readiness.”. “A In other words, how attractive is this potential lead to me ?

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Customer Experience Matrix

JUNE 9, 2009

Summary: Marketo's new Sales Insight ranks prospects for sales people, based on recent Web and email activities. It lets Marketo sell seats to sales departments, which could be more lucrative than selling its core demand generation system. The moments are set up as real time triggers within Marketo.

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ClickZ

JANUARY 22, 2020

In this article, we have focused on the top 10 tools that marketers should definitely know about. Holding a marketshare of 30%, the inbound marketing and sales software provides web analytics, landing page, social media marketing, search engine optimization and content management. Perfect for: Driving lead management.

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ANNUITAS

MAY 24, 2011

We recently had the opportunity to connect with Jon Miller, Vice President of Marketing and Co-Founder of Marketo. Jon leads strategy and execution for all aspects of Marketo’s hyper-efficient demand center (powered by Marketo’s solution, of course). For example, how does your organization define a “lead”?

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KoMarketing Associates

APRIL 25, 2013

Lead generation is at the top of almost every B2B marketer’s responsibility list. Generate more leads, generate better leads, and improve the rate to which lead opportunities turn into closed wins for the sales teams. Marketo is considered a leader in the lead management / marketing automation industry.

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Industrial Marketing Today

OCTOBER 7, 2010

Lead scoring has become very important in today’s B2B marketing. Lead scoring, a key component of lead nurturing and management, is an effective tool for aligning sales and marketing. In developing a lead scoring system, marketing has to make certain assumptions to classify prospects as hot or not.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

by Maria Pergolino Lead Scoring isn’t hard, but it does need regular tweaks. We have been adjusting ours every quarter or so for over three years, so I thought I would share some of our less obvious but super important scoring attributes. Here are some of the demographics we score that you might not normally consider: Bad data.

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Heinz Marketing

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Marketing automation is all about using software to automate activities which allows your teams more time to focus on strategy and the leads showing real promise. Marketo Engage. Everyone integrates with Marketo, so it really becomes the center hub of our martech, and maybe even sales tech, hubs. Marketing Automation Platforms.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

MAY 10, 2011

by Andrew Spoeth If there is a kink in your revenue cycle, chances are your lead scoring system isn’t what it could be. When you consider that nearly 75% of leads are not sales ready when they first enter your system, any breaks in your lead scoring system can result in significant lost revenue.

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ViewPoint

JUNE 7, 2016

Nurture leads until they’re ready to turn over to sales is the sixth of 7 Truths about Sales and Marketing that CEOs need to know. In the last blog in this series we discussed lead nurturing , and how an advanced lead generation program that includes nurturing can triple your sales. Set sales straight—it’s a win win.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2009

Last Wednesday I attended the Dreamforce session Using Lead Nurturing and Scoring to Deliver More and Higher-Quality Sales Leads. My boss, Jon Miller, VP of Marketing at Marketo was presenting with two of our awesome customers, Emily Salus of CollabNet, Inc. Collaborate with sales to define sales-ready leads.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JANUARY 27, 2009

Well, at Marketo , we’ve built a world-class demand generation machine that has helped us in just 10 months to sign up over 130 customers in more than eight countries, including companies such as Thomson Reuters, Reed Business, and CollabNet. Here’s an outline of the topics I covered: Marketo's demand generation funnel.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

MAY 9, 2012

by Rajiv Kapoor Lead lifecycle refers to how we manage the life of a lead (or contact or prospect depending on your terminology) from the moment it shows up in the system to deal close. The lead lifecycle defines where a lead can live, how a lead moves along, and what we do with a lead at each stage.

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Attendify

MAY 14, 2019

Because when time is money, quickly getting event leads into the hands of your sales team, marketing function or sponsors is directly linked to long-term ROI. You can’t afford not to have a speed-to-lead event data strategy. Tip 1: Get smart about event lead scanning. Instead, start categorizing your leads when you scan them.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

AUGUST 2, 2017

How do you convey value propositions that are deeper than ROI? I lead an organization and team that works with healthcare marketers to help them transform to become essential to their organization’s revenue program. Your brand and value proposition help define your organization and stick out from your competitors in a crowded market.

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Launch Marketing

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

They wanted a partner to lead the strategy and implementation of an Enterprise-class marketing automation solution, and with that in mind engaged Launch Marketing to lead the effort. Launch partnered closely with key sales and marketing stakeholders to outline the lead funnel, including naming and definitions at each stage.

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The Point

DECEMBER 11, 2018

In the giddy, early days when solutions like Marketo first arrived on the scene, the reigning view was that the technology was all a company needed to solve their lead management and email marketing woes. Not only is ABM success not measured by clicks, conversions, and leads, but the KPIs may vary according to campaign stage.

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BOP Design

MAY 15, 2018

Especially for B2B marketing , automation should only be implemented where it provides real value. Now, let’s unpack this definition to discuss when and where implementation is appropriate. Many tools, like Marketo and Hubspot , have extensive capabilities. What Is the Value? Increase Efficiency Not Add Processes.

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LeadSloth

JUNE 23, 2009

Many digital marketers are using marketing automation tools to automate lead nurturing. But if you want to expand your business, you also need to continuously add new leads to your database. Traditional lead sources are tradeshows or lead programs with magazines. Project management : work together with a team of people.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

Author: Tanya Chu What do the marketing leads look like? Where are all our leads going? Lead management is a critical piece to effective sales and marketing alignment , and without proper planning and execution, leads cannot move smoothly through the funnel. This is often the result of faulty lead scoring.

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Martech Advisor

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Lead management is defined as the methodology, process, and software used to reach prospective customers and convert them into buyers using targeted sales and marketing strategies. Lead management is essential for companies looking to grow their customer base and reach out to a wide audience. What Is Lead Management?

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

What is a lead? Jon Miller : In Marketo’s revenue cycle, a lead is a qualified prospect that is starting to exhibit buying behavior. Note that there is an asymmetry between the false positives and the false negatives. Craig Rosenberg: There are two elements to a lead – demographic and psychographic. What is a Lead?

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

At my previous company my success was measured by number of leads. If the total lead count was high, I was awesome. If I was short of my lead goal, I had some explaining to do. More leads equals more won deals. Management could understand these metrics. So how do marketers find the right leads?

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

At the top of the funnel, marketing increases traffic and fills the database with new leads through paid ads, social media, search, referral programs, and a variety of other channels. But in between, we need to nurture and qualify our leads by encouraging them to engage with our content until they’re sales-ready.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

MARCH 13, 2012

It’s very clear that marketers can now generate, score and nurture leads to a level that was not possible just a few years ago. The reason that many companies fail to exploit their demand generation success is that they fail to implement strong structures and process to manage the final piece of the marketing funnel.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JULY 2, 2015

Gone are the days of having to manually track data and nurture leads, because with marketing automation, you’re able to sit back, relax, and watch the system do it for you! This mighty marketing machine works to automate and sync your various efforts: Lead generation. Lead management. Prediction/scoring.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

MAY 4, 2012

Read Part 1: Lead Generation and Nurture and Part 2: Content, Content, Content.). Historically, the relationship between marketing and sales has been (to put it politely) problematic, with lots of finger-pointing, and lots of valuable sales leads falling through the gaps between the two functions. Score Your Leads Collaboratively.

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The Point

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

Recently I was asked to contribute some thoughts to Marketo’s new ebook, “ The Definitive Guide to Marketing Automation.” It sounds so basic, and yet it’s the primary reason why many companies don’t achieve the value they should from marketing automation. Increase the rate and volume of qualified leads passed to field sales.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JANUARY 27, 2016

Author: Sean Zinsmeister It used to be that prospect management meant dolling out “ Glengarry Leads ” to add to your Rolodex, keeping a spreadsheet of top prospects, or most recently populating an empty CRM database with leads that seem to “look good.” The current state of disconnect.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JANUARY 29, 2014

Here’s a recent Sponsored Update from Marketo: But although these ads were introduced in July, many companies have yet to crack their code. After months of trial and error at Marketo, we’ve learned a few best practices worth sharing. Your copy should also make the value of your content immediately obvious. Target Like A Champ.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

MARCH 7, 2011

by Bill Binch To create the best lead generation process, you’ve got to keep sales and marketing on the same page. There is a continuing challenge for marketing to fill the sales lead coffers. But before marketing can bring in the right leads for sales to close, both need to agree on what constitutes a qualified sales lead.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

OCTOBER 27, 2010

Brian Carroll, CEO of InTouch and author of Lead Generation for the Complex Sale , addressed the critical hand-off between marketing and sales as he spoke to a group of marketing professionals at MarketingSherpa’s 2010 B2B Summit. Step 1: Refine universal lead definition of “sales-ready”. Clear hand-off on every lead.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

OCTOBER 5, 2012

by Dayna Rothman The Lenskold Group and The Pedowitz Group recently released their 2012 Lead Generation Marketing Effectiveness Study. The study draws on 373 B2B marketers to discuss the practice of lead generation , marketing automation, ROI, and how they are all interrelated. 36% somewhat–we do cost per lead and cost per sale.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

MARCH 18, 2011

Motivation: Challenge – Of all the crucial aspects of B2B sales management when dealing with spread-out team members, motivation ranks is the most important. A steady stream of qualified leads. A score card. Make sure your remote sales team has access to great tools for lead management.

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LeanData

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

This was one of the best things I attended at Dreamforce,” wrote one attendee in a survey where 98 percent of respondents said they would definitely attend another Ops-Stars event. “I Nick Ezzo, vice president of demand generation, Host Analytics Title: “Combining the Power of Predictive Analytics and Lead Management”.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2012

Salesforce recently rebranded their social marketing application as the Marketing Cloud, and their website says you can use their solutions to “optimize campaigns from lead to close, on every channel”. Note: Although he was an independent consultant when he wrote that post, Jep is now the Director of Expert Services at Marketo.).

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