Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JANUARY 27, 2009

You may ask, why should anyone care what I have to say about demand generation? 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.

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The ABM Agency

APRIL 21, 2023

Reading Time: 13 minutes Winning strategies for account-based marketing (ABM) are essential for any director of marketing or CMO at a large B2B SaaS organization. Next, you’ll learn how to develop a target account list that aligns with your objectives. Segment Your Target Account List D.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JANUARY 22, 2020

The middle of the demand generation funnel receives way less attention than it deserves. 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. What exactly is the middle of the funnel?

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Vidyard

SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

About 15 years ago, marketing automation technology came on the scene, designed to help marketers more effectively and efficiently market across channels. It has grown in popularity, and according to SiriusDecisions , 40% of organizations will own automation by next year. Read the post.) Read the post.)

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Customer Experience Matrix

AUGUST 2, 2012

I’ve been creeping in that direction with the previous two posts about revenues, growth rates, and market share. In a young industry like B2B marketing automation, the primary focus is growth, and I published some figures on that yesterday (repeated below). Now let’s plunge in with some more substantial analysis.

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Customer Experience Matrix

NOVEMBER 18, 2009

One of the audience members at the B2B Marketing University in Boston asked about demand generation systems for small businesses, and how to distinguish among the vendors in general. My brief answer was that the biggest difference was less functionality than the target markets the different vendors pursue.

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Martech

MARCH 16, 2022

As chat software users ourselves, we’re advocates of using conversational marketing to engage with website visitors and are looking forward to this feature. For example, you might upload your target account list and create a unique conversation with them versus all other visitors. Source: 2022 Marketo User Study.

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Martech

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Marketo’s Dynamic Chat updates were aimed at improving user experience — from minor updates like automating meeting links within calendar invites to more major updates like allowing new data types to use more fields. It’s also a time saver for Marketo admins and sales reps. Previous chatbot enhancements are here.

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The Point

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

Sungard AS runs a highly successful demand generation program, an integrated mix of both online and offline campaigns, to generate a consistent flow of leads to the company’s sales force. Design, build and launch a nurture campaign targeted to “Mid Stage” leads. Spear is a Marketo agency partner.) “A

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Customer Experience Matrix

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

Summary: Marketing automation and CRM systems may eventually converge, but for now marketers need help explaining why they need a system of their own. I hugely enjoyed yesterday’s Boston session of the Silverpop -sponsored B2B Marketing University. Will Marketing automation and CRM remain separate?

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Customer Experience Matrix

DECEMBER 8, 2011

Social media is arguably overhyped as a marketing trend: it gets well under 10% of marketing budgets (different surveys have figures from 3% to 8%) and results are questionable (it was rated the least effective content marketing tactic in a recent MarketingProfs study ).

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Vidyard

JULY 2, 2015

Marketers, take note. If video is not already a part of your digital marketing strategy, now’s the time to jump on board and grab ahold of some of that 2%. it’s a no-brainer that your marketing strategy should—no, no…MUST—include video content. This is my M.O. Enter, video. Bottom line: Do it.)

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Customer Experience Matrix

JUNE 13, 2016

When I first starting thinking about Account Based Marketing, I assumed that an ABM system would let marketers replicate at scale how sales teams manage key accounts: that is, to analyze each account in depth, set goals specific to that account, and then execute against those goals.

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ViewPoint

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

Unfortunately, as a result of this thinking, marketing spends a ton of money generating leads for sales that are never followed-up. Here are 5 things CEOs need to consider in order to fix what is broken: What is the CEO’s role as it relates to marketing and sales? What should I know about Account-Based Marketing?

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2012

by Jon Miller Marketing automation is a technology that streamlines and automates marketing tasks so companies can increase operational efficiency and grow revenue faster. In other words, companies don’t buy marketing automation to automate their marketing. Measure and prove marketing ROI.

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DealSignal

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Did you know that, according to a study by HubSpot , 61% of B2B marketers rank lead generation as their number one challenge? With businesses constantly searching for new customers, it’s no wonder that B2B lead generation has become a top priority for marketers.

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ANNUITAS

MARCH 20, 2014

Rather than write a summary of the fantastic Marketing Operations Executive Summit , which just wrapped up in San Diego yesterday, I thought I might share the highlights by pulling together my “stream of consciousness” twitter stream from the event. RT @RHsays What does sales need from marketing? Why the marketing tech explosion?

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

by Dayna Rothman You have decided to purchase marketing automation software and now you need to present your business case to internal stakeholders. Remember to make sure you have your presentation ready to go, including slides that explain the benefits and what the ROI will be for your business.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JANUARY 3, 2017

At Marketo, we get the opportunity to work with some of the brightest minds in our industry—both within and outside of our company—and our content team works hard to bring you their insights. Even if you’re a consumer marketer, people do research on your company and products long before they decide to make a purchase.

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The Mx Group

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

Marketing Expertise. B2B Marketing Strategy. Account-Based Marketing. Demand Gen and Lead Management. Marketing Automation Optimization. Marketing Technology Outsourcing. Sales and Marketing Alignment. Content Marketing. Can you provide an example of an “account engagement score”?

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Vidyard

JULY 28, 2021

“Sign Up for an Account.” When you’re presenting a piece of content, you always want to include a compelling CTA that drives the next step. Marketers like you need to master driving engagement right from your videos. Your video content’s probably springing leaks in your marketing funnel. Download the eBook.” Book a Demo.”

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LeadSloth

OCTOBER 4, 2009

Monday and Tuesday I’m attending the Boston MarketingSherpa B2B Marketing Summit. In this post some thoughts about the program… First of all, the best thing about this event is that the speakers are marketing practitioners, not vendors. The Marketing Automation Vendors. Marketo (booth 6).

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Customer Experience Matrix

OCTOBER 15, 2010

I spent most of the past week in San Francisco at overlapping conferences for the Direct Marketing Association and Marketo. My Marketo presentation was based on the marketing measurement white paper I recently wrote for them, which argues that measurement should be based on tracking buyers through stages in the purchase process.

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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.

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Inbox Insight

AUGUST 12, 2019

Lead generation is an essential element of demand generation but if you think the work stops there, here’s some bad news…. 79% of marketing leads don’t convert ( HubSpot). Running a high response lead generation campaign resulting in downloads of your premium content is often not enough to expect a high ROI.

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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. Note: the source for this statistic wasn’t quoted, so if someone from Marketo reads this, feel free to provide any source reference in the comments.]. Why is Marketo’s percentage so much higher than the average?

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PathFactory

JUNE 29, 2020

When everyone is bidding for the same ad space and fishing for opens in the same inboxes, getting the most marketing bang for your buck can be tricky. To achieve this, I want to introduce you to a tactic that will garner more repeat engagement from the leads you’ve generated from any channel. It’s crunch time, folks.

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SnapApp

JULY 10, 2018

Running an effective demand generation campaign means you need to stay current with changes in the industry. And while this may seem simple enough, keeping up with industry trends entails keeping a finger on the pulse of marketing at all times to know what’s working and what’s not. Evolution of demand gen over the past decade.

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ANNUITAS

JULY 24, 2014

Back in January, I participated as a panelist in a webinar from the Content Marketing Institute, 2014 Content Marketing Trends (access their archive to find and download a transcript here ) also featuring Robert Rose, Chief Strategist for the Content Marketing Institute and Mark Bornstein, Sr. One more quick thing.

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The Point

SEPTEMBER 6, 2011

When marketers embark on a formal lead nurturing strategy, opportunities for process improvement can arise in unexpected ways. All this presents real challenges for both demand generation and lead management. Next, iDirect sought out a partner to provide strategic counsel and advice on best practices.

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Customer Experience Matrix

MARCH 26, 2009

you know that I see a lot of demand generation systems. There are two basic approaches to this: use a flow chart, or present a list of steps. I say this with the fervor of a reformed sinner, since for many years I looked at flow charts as the mark of an advanced marketing automation system.

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LeanData

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

You’ve seen countless variations of the same presentation about how to get started with ABM, how to sell ABM internally, the ideal ABM tech stack, and on and on. It also doesn’t involve having to buy the hottest, newest toy on the market. My example of an ABM campaign will be based out of Marketo. We’ve reached peak ABM hype.

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ClearVoice

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

Consider this scenario: You are super stoked to attend an upcoming marketing conference. It happens… There are dozens of marketing conferences to choose from each year, but not all have the same caliber, audience or takeaways. Has your marketing team made plans yet? contentmarketing #marketing Click To Tweet.

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ANNUITAS

OCTOBER 26, 2018

What makes Demand Generation perpetual ? One key component (other than a decreased reliance on tactical, campaign-based activities to drive demand) is its adaptability. The buyer’s journey is no longer linear, so your marketing programs need to be able to change with the customer’s needs. Lead Management Strategy.

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SnapApp

JULY 10, 2018

Demand generation is a rapidly evolving field — just a few years ago brands were still largely focusing on traditional outbound marketing strategies. Terms like inbound marketing and demand generation seemed more like buzzwords than actual marketing strategies.

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LeanData

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

You’ve seen countless variations of the same presentation about how to get started with ABM, how to sell ABM internally, the ideal ABM tech stack, and on and on. It also doesn’t involve having to buy the hottest, newest toy on the market. My example of an ABM campaign will be based out of Marketo. We’ve reached peak ABM hype.

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LeanData

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

You’ve seen countless variations of the same presentation about how to get started with ABM, how to sell ABM internally, the ideal ABM tech stack, and on and on. It also doesn’t involve having to buy the hottest, newest toy on the market. My example of an ABM campaign will be based out of Marketo. We’ve reached peak ABM hype.

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