Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

AUGUST 17, 2018

When I started my internship at Marketo, though, the other love of my life became marketing. Because I spend most of my time either watching a game or reading articles about MarTech, I thought it was a great idea to combine these two concepts and share with all of you where I see the overlap between business and sport. The Quarterback.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JULY 5, 2016

Historically in B2B demand generation, more has been better too. This is a very important concept to understand in marketing, especially for demand generation. More is not more, and here are three reasons why you should be wary of focusing solely on volume in demand generation: 1. More leads?

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ANNUITAS

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

So it is my pleasure to introduce to you six in-house experts who will be regularly posting on the ANNUITAS blog moving forward — sharing their thoughts on the most pressing practices and challenges we face in demand marketing. Expertise: Demand marketing strategy. Expertise: Demand marketing growth and leadership.

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Oktopost

AUGUST 10, 2022

He reminds us why the role of Customer Marketing is critical and how the great divide between demand generation and driving revenue growth from existing customers proves the SaaS model to be problematic. The success behind Marketo’s Marketing Nation and what brands must remember about their customers. Meet Kevin.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

APRIL 9, 2009

One of the great things about blogging is the opportunity to build relationships with thought leaders I would not otherwise meet. LeadSloth on Demand Generation: Smart Tools for Lazy Marketers. Here is his interview, part of the B2B Marketing thought leader interview series. You can also follow Jep on Twitter ( @jepc ).

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

As marketers, we know the challenge of ensuring sales reps follow and use best practices processes, sales playbooks , and marketing content we painstakingly created. From the start, I made a list of internal stakeholders that might touch the sales engagement program to ensure all needs and perspectives are accounted for.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

MAY 29, 2019

Our previous blog post looked at how important strategic content is for your demand generation campaign. Every successful demand gen campaign starts with a final goal in mind. To make sure you’re reaching the right people, you need to think about distribution in the earliest planning stages of your demand generation strategy.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

MARCH 19, 2020

Thanks to tools like Marketo, it’s possible to integrate with Sending Platforms and orchestrate online-to-offline campaigns, where an offline experience is triggered by marketing automation. . Keep reading for tactical integrated campaign ideas that generate seamless online-to-offline experiences. . Demand Generation.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

Before I lose those of you who are not football fans, I want you to reread the entire opening paragraph with a revised first sentence: “They say the toughest position in a high growth company is the demand generation quarterback.”. What other similarities have you seen between football teams and demand generation teams?

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JUNE 5, 2019

In our previous posts about demand generation , we explored some of the ways to drive an effective demand gen campaign. Marketing is rapidly transforming—from a cost center that supports sales and organizes activities to a revenue generator that sources and contributes to revenue.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

OCTOBER 19, 2016

Author: Mary Kate Francis If you’re a B2B marketer, you’re probably familiar with demand generation in one way or another. Maybe you’ve been working in demand generation for several years or you collaborate with the team on cross-channels campaigns.

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ANNUITAS

MARCH 4, 2020

Too often Growth Marketing in practice is just an evolution of a tactical lead generation mindset – where the ‘value’ seems to get lost in translation. And demand generation is often tied to creating a new customer only. Today Growth Marketing is somewhat of a victim of its own practice.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

APRIL 25, 2018

There are real, practical steps that, when applied, not only keep sales and marketing off each others’ backs but help them work together to achieve their goals and engage with customers in a unified manner. But by adopting these practices into your organization’s strategy, the improvements in each team’s performance may be drastic.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JULY 15, 2014

Author: Raymond Coppinger Today, B2B marketers have many core objectives – brand building, customer communications, multi-channel coordination…the list goes on. But regardless of what else your marketing strategy needs to accomplish, demand generation (the process of generating promising buyers for the sales team) probably tops the list.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JUNE 26, 2019

That’s why forward-thinking marketers are prioritizing account-based marketing —determining together with sales which accounts to target, why they should be targeted, and when they should be targeted. Previously, sales teams would create a target account list based on the sales data they had available in their CRM.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JANUARY 2, 2015

Author: Heidi Bullock Demand generation is a vital aspect of any marketing organization. With the New Year, I’d like to share the big trends I see for 2015—starting with a growing and continual focus on demand generation. Demand Generation b2b Consumer' It is too easy to feel like you have to do everything.

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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. Misalignment during the marketing to sales hand-off: Marketing does not pass enough leads to sales to create a sufficient number of opportunities that meets their revenue target. Accelerate More Leads from Specific Segments.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

MARCH 8, 2017

If you’re influencing more than one individual in an organization for a deal, then it’s likely that you’ve been practicing some form of ABM. So why has account-based marketing only recently gained widespread popularity and practice among B2B businesses? Align sales and marketing: Account selection is collaborative.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

MARCH 29, 2019

Without this step, it’s impossible to define target account lists and prioritize accounts. Another roadblock is building the right target account list to support the strategy. As a result, successful ABM’ers can ensure they have a list justified by data, instead of opinions.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

APRIL 25, 2018

Nnamdi Nwoke, Senior Director, Demand Generation, GreenSky. Shad Khan, Marketo Consultant, Revenue Pulse. Emily speaks her mind to champion best processes and constant improvement in global campaigns, not only to her team, but even to those designing the Marketo Engagement Platform TM. Tara Petre, Strategist, Elixiter.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

MARCH 25, 2020

Successful webinars drive revenue and establish your organization as a thought leader in its space. Many best practices focus on maximizing registrations, but webinar attendance is what matters most. Ensure you have a thoughtful email cadence in place prior to delivering your first invitation. Remind, Remind, and Remind Again.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2019

Account-based marketing (ABM) is a B2B strategy in which sales and marketing teams work together on a clearly defined set of target accounts to serve personalized campaigns uniquely designed for each individual account. Finally, “fit indicators” show you how likely each account is to turn into an opportunity.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JANUARY 27, 2014

Author: Maggie Jones What happens when a rock star marketer, an excitable mascot, and Marketo employees with phenomenal dance moves get together? Lead generation, of course! But before you dive in, check out the music video — who knew generating leads could be so fun? Demand Generation' On my way to BOFU.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

A vertical approach can be very effective when marketing to target accounts as well, helping you and your organization deliver a more personalized experience. At Marketo, we have team members who are dedicated to verticals of interest. Start Your Demand Generation Engine. Understand the Market.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JANUARY 19, 2009

The next interview in the B2B Marketing thought leader interview series is with Sean Donahue , Senior Reporter for MarketingSherpa in charge of MarketingSherpa's newsletters that cover business-to-business marketing, mobile marketing, online publishing, search, subscription sales and great minds in marketing. Test social media channels.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

AUGUST 16, 2017

I had the privilege of interning at Marketo this summer, and it was an incredible experience. My experience working for a Demand Generation team has been terrific, and I’ve learned a lot about how to succeed in the business world. I followed this motto religiously during my time at Marketo, and it paid dividends.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

APRIL 14, 2017

Believe it or not, marketers face similar challenges as they’re assembling their account-based marketing team , combining unique roles into cross-functional teams that create beautifully orchestrated campaigns. MOPS and SOPS are critical to choosing the right accounts. If you have a lean team, this list may look overwhelming.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JULY 13, 2018

Who would have thought when this idea was hatched that the nominations would flood in the way they have? Kendall Brown, Manager, Global Demand Generation, Verizon. Marketo is proud to welcome the inaugural class of the Fearless 50—please be sure to check out our blog post that announced the first 25 members as well!

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Kapost

APRIL 19, 2017

The Marketo Marketing Nation Summit is headed back to the city by the bay next week after a short detour in Las Vegas last year. Pick your favorite poison, be it ABM, analytics, alignment, digital transformation, Marketo best practices, or (our favorite) content marketing, and take the deep dive. But don’t sell your pitch!

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

OCTOBER 3, 2018

Whether it’s the demand generation team evaluating our email marketing experience , or our account-based marketer strategizing how to make direct mail plays even more experiential, it’s clear that experience is baked into everything we do. At first, the team was hesitant, but then we thought, f#*k it.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

MAY 12, 2017

The revenue scorecard is what matters most to the CEO, who likely cares much more about pipeline generated, target accounts closed in new business, customer retention/adoption, and revenue won. Please share your thoughts and ideas below! appeared first on Marketo Marketing Blog - Best Practices and Thought Leadership.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JULY 17, 2019

It’s enabled them to collaborate with sales and incorporate an account strategy into all their existing marketing efforts. Additionally, it’s enabled both teams to gather accurate account insights and find their ideal customers to create the right target account list. Say you’re targeting a healthcare account.

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Kabbage

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

Note: To make it easier to navigate this list, we broke it up into multiple categories. What do they talk about: Variety of B2B topics ranging from demand generation, content marketing, SEO, social media, etc. Why should I read it: If there’s one thing Marketo does really well, it’s content. Demand Gen Report.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

APRIL 11, 2017

internet users unsubscribe from emails isn’t because they don’t like the content of those emails; it’s because they receive too many emails in general. Since we adopted Marketo in 2015, we’ve been nurturing our leads with weekly emails that provide educational content. What events does your target audience attend?

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Kabbage

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

Note: To make it easier to navigate this list, we broke it up into multiple categories. What do they talk about: Variety of B2B topics ranging from demand generation, content marketing, SEO, social media, etc. Why should I read it: If there’s one thing Marketo does really well, it’s content. Demand Gen Report.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JUNE 22, 2018

by 2025, which means there’s no better time than now to adopt an automation solution in your own practices. This includes anything from email automation to demand generation to revenue attribution. The first is practically cost-free (as long as you have tap shoes), and the second sets the stage for years of potential growth.

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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. Crawl, Walk, Run.

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