SmartBug Media

APRIL 28, 2021

Are you thinking about using Marketo for your marketing automation needs? Or maybe you’ve already decided to either switch to Marketo or implement Marketo as your marketing automation solution. However, with the right knowledge and tools, you can shorten the time it takes you and your team to learn the Marketo platform.

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SmartBug Media

APRIL 6, 2020

Someone I worked with once told me that Marketo is like a Swiss army knife, while the marketing automation tool she was used to was more like a plastic spork. Like a multi-tool, Marketo gives you options. Every time you dream up a campaign, you have to choose which type of Marketo program to use. What Are Marketo Programs?

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Oktopost

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

On the other hand, Athens was inherently different. Well, in many ways, Marketo and HubSpot are not unlike Sparta and Athens. Both companies have different strategic paradigms. Marketo: which is the marketing automation platform to rule them all? HubSpot vs. Marketo: Which Capabilities Should You Expect?

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SmartBug Media

MAY 4, 2020

To start A/B testing in Marketo, it helps to understand the math, understand the tool, and understand what your tests can teach you. (If When testing variables, we are asking two questions: First, “Did this change make any difference?” Understanding A/B Tests in Marketo. The Marketo Email Program is ideal for batch emails.

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SmartBug Media

MARCH 13, 2020

Marketo has account-based marketing functionality, giving marketers and sales teams alike the capability of running successful account-based marketing campaigns. Here are three tips to help you get Marketo set up for success. Once you have identified your accounts with the necessary fields, it’s time to upload the list to Marketo.

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SmartBug Media

MARCH 17, 2021

The Marketo customer lifecycle is defined by six core stages, represented in a Venn diagram that concentrates at a common point at the base, allowing for complete customer flexibility and movement within the customer lifecycle. Now that you’re aware of the core stages of the Marketo Customer lifecycle model.

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SmartBug Media

MAY 11, 2020

Migrating from another marketing automation tool into Marketo is no different. Here’s a checklist for the planning and packing stage of your Marketo migration. Make a Marketo Migration Chore Chart. By the time the ink is dry on your Marketo contract, people should already have a high-level sense of what’s coming.

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SmartBug Media

OCTOBER 29, 2020

According to Marketo , marketing attribution is the process of determining which interactions influence a customer to purchase from your brand. Whether you measure success in FT or MT attribution, setting yourself up for success in Marketo is a necessity. Attribution Reporting in Marketo. Setting Yourself Up for Success.

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SmartBug Media

JUNE 1, 2020

Marketo is a powerful tool that can automate marketing campaigns for every step in the customer journey. Marketo makes it easy to build, customize, and automate email newsletters at scale, even across multiple geographies or verticals. Here are seven steps for getting started with email newsletters in Marketo.

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SmartBug Media

MAY 21, 2020

One of the most overlooked functions in Marketo is the ability to segment lists. Rather than sending email blasts about a sale in Denver to prospects all over the country, you can use segmentation within Marketo to target based on geolocation. Marketo segmentation is crucial for creating personalized emails, web content, and more.

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SmartBug Media

MARCH 10, 2021

Gathering lead lifecycle data in Marketo can be done a few different ways. Here are a few different features and reports you should explore. If you are reporting on lead lifecycle stages as a Marketo user, one of the first steps you will need to take is building a Revenue Cycle Model (RCM). The Revenue Cycle Model.

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SmartBug Media

APRIL 17, 2020

For newbies, Marketo proves its value right off the bat as an excellent email automation tool. Marketo allows you to manage truly multi-channel marketing experiences across social, web, and digital ads—and sales empowerment tools help your reps build consistent email journeys throughout the customer lifecycle. Sales Insights.

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Optinmonster

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Are you looking for a quick and easy way to create a custom Marketo popup that converts? By the end of this post, you’ll know exactly how to easily create a custom Marketo popup that will help your business grow. Why Create a Custom Marketo Popup. A Marketo popup is a lead capture form that sits on top of your website content.

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Perkuto

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

If you spend significant time building in Marketo, you will very likely encounter scenarios where things don’t happen the way you’d expect. For example, you may have two different Smart Campaigns - which are perfectly functional - but produce an undesired result because they didn’t execute in the right order.

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Customer Experience Matrix

APRIL 10, 2014

Marketo wrapped up its three day Marketing Nation conference yesterday, having once more displayed its own marketing prowess by attracting national media attention (see here and here ) with an appearance by Hillary Clinton. But it''s Acxiom, not Marketo, doing the hard part of matching advertising audiences with identified individuals.

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Customer Experience Matrix

APRIL 17, 2015

My first question when Marketo announced its new mobile app connector this week wasn’t, “What cool new things can marketers do?” But one of Marketo’s biggest technical weaknesses has always been an inflexible data model. I suspect that underestimates the technical savvy of Marketo users, but no matter. Well, maybe a little.)

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SmartBug Media

JANUARY 12, 2021

Salesforce and Marketo have a variety of standard reports that allow you to understand how many leads you are generating, the source of your leads, the number of leads in each lifecycle, and more. But what are the differences between the reports? Marketo Data. Marketo vs. Salesforce Data. Company Web Activity Report.

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Customer Experience Matrix

APRIL 15, 2015

Marketo held its annual Marketing Nation Summit this week, hosting 4,000+ clients and partners. The event seemed relatively subdued for Marketo – I didn’t spot one costumed character – but the over-all atmosphere was positive. Marketo has attracted a respectable array of partners who extend its capabilities.

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SmartBug Media

DECEMBER 29, 2020

If you’re struggling to make the most of your Marketo account, your desire to move to HubSpot can feel even more prevalent—and more desperate. However, some companies are better off staying with Marketo. As far as marketing automation platforms go, Marketo is no slouch. Marketo Might Be. Why Switch? Rebuilding Takes Time.

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SmartBug Media

APRIL 28, 2020

In Marketo, wait steps allow you to build specific wait times into the flow of your campaigns. Marketo’s wait steps can be incredibly helpful, but they require a little forethought to get right. You can also move people into different campaigns based on whether or not something happened—like a lead score change or sales touchpoint.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

AUGUST 24, 2017

With that in mind, I am excited to share that together Marketo and Google Cloud are announcing a multi-year alliance to transform engagement solutions for the enterprise. Here are three reasons Marketo and Google Cloud together will transform business for marketers: 1. Why is this critical? The AdTech/MarTech Walls Will Come Down.

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FunnelEnvy

MARCH 22, 2020

I’m writing this because it’s the year 2020 and we’re still having trouble attributing onsite campaigns/testing to Marketo MQLs/Opportunities/Revenue. If you happen to already be using FunnelEnvy, then enabling our Marketo Integration is all you need to do. Part 2: Pipe this list into Marketo.

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Customer Experience Matrix

OCTOBER 11, 2011

Marketo today announced the launch of Spark , a new brand aimed at small and mid-size business. Functionally, Spark is pretty much identical to the standard Marketo system. Marketo has discontinued its $1,200 per month Small Business Edition, which lacked some features now included with Spark. So the news here is price.

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Customer Experience Matrix

APRIL 2, 2013

Marketo made good today on its promise to file for an initial public offering (IPO). The S-1 registration statement gives considerable new information about Marketo’s business. Another way to look at it is this: Marketo would earn just 6% profit even if its sales and marketing costs were zero. It’s a major accomplishment.

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Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 27, 2013

There were two bits of news from Marketing Automation Land yesterday: Marketo announced it has filed a draft registration statement for an initial public offering, and Eloqua CEO Joe Payne was quoted as saying his company plans to expand into business-to-consumer marketing. The Marketo news is long-expected.

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SmartBug Media

MARCH 18, 2019

Because video is becoming such an integral part of digital marketing, we want to dive into the differences and benefits of video hosting platforms to help you decide which might be best for your business. They offer a free version, as well as a few different options that are paid: Vimeo Plus: $5/month. Vimeo PRO: $17/month.

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Customer Experience Matrix

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

Marketo this morning announced a new $50 million funding round, almost exactly one year to the day after raising $25 million in November 2010. I won’t go into the same details, but the key figures for 2010 and 2011 are: This is good news, in that Marketo has managed to increase the all-important Revenue per Client figure.

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The Point

JUNE 14, 2011

A client confessed recently that one of the reasons his company had selected Marketo as a marketing automation provider was because he was so impressed by their marketing. Quite apart from the merits of their technology, Marketo does indeed have a reputation for (to borrow a time-worn phrase): eating their own dog food.

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LeadSloth

OCTOBER 15, 2010

At this week’s Marketo Summit , I realized we’re right in the middle of B2B Marketing Event Season. In this post I’m giving a short impression of the Marketo Summit. The Marketo User Summit was BIG: 600 customers and partners were attending. Marketo University. Global Marketo Roll-Out.

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Martech

AUGUST 4, 2023

Marketo released a native function for creating visualizations of Smart Campaigns. Engagement Map is a game changer for Marketo users: Visuals are worth a thousand words when you’re trying to explain campaign details. Creating visualizations of campaign flows is now native to Marketo. Why we care. Get MarTech!

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Heinz Marketing

MARCH 28, 2024

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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Customer Experience Matrix

AUGUST 3, 2010

Summary: Marketo continues to follow its own path. I finally caught up with Marketo for a briefing on their Enterprise Edition (announced in March) and Revenue Cycle Analytics (announced in May). Since both are somewhat old news, and Marketo describes them in detail on its Web site, I’ll just make a few comments.

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Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

I’m going to diverge just slightly from my current obsession with usability to talk about a conversation I had today with Marketo President and CEO Phil Fernandez, who previewed the 3.0 Although I actually think that quite a few demand generation vendors share the Marketo philosophy, it’s still helpful to hear the distinction made clearly.

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B2B Marketing Directions

AUGUST 11, 2019

Recently, it's become popular to downplay the differences between B2B and B2C marketing. But have all the meaningful differences between B2B and B2C marketing really disappeared? But this doesn't mean that all meaningful differences between B2B and B2C marketing have disappeared.

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SnapApp

MAY 4, 2017

You might remember it as the week that both Marketo and Oracle/Eloqua hosted their massive marketing conferences, one in San Francisco and one in Las Vegas. . We gave away 300 Mimosas in about 90 minutes at Marketo. Sometimes they hit (Hillary Clinton at Marketo 2015), but often they don’t. This year was no different.

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The Point

OCTOBER 14, 2010

Earlier this week, Marketo , the marketing automation company, held its second ever user conference in San Francisco. Systems like Marketo can be used to remind sales reps (via sales alerts) of untouched or stale leads. Marketo has more than 300 content assets on offer on its Website.). Think you have enough content?

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Customer Experience Matrix

AUGUST 23, 2012

final installment in my series of posts on leaders in the different B2B marketing automation sectors, as determined by the ratings in our VEST report. The leaders quadrant in this sector is quite crowded, with Act-On , Eloqua , Pardot , and Marketo all jostling for position. Today I’ll present the third and (mercifully?)

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