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Observations from the 2017 Marketo Summit

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This week was my eighth consecutive Marketo Summit, all of them as a sponsor/exhibitor. Marketo has their mojo back. It’s been a tumultuous year for Marketo since being acquired by Vista Equity Partners in late 2016. They’re incorporating sales outreach, social media, account-targeted display ads, and even (gasp!)

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How Should I Market to Purchased Lists?

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Indeed, the days of marketing en masse to cold lists via marketing automation platforms (MAPs) like Marketo are behind us. When contacts engage with that first layer of ads, run retargeting ads across LinkedIn, Facebook, and Google Display Network offering different content assets to spark additional engagement. Click To Tweet.

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Report: 19 Experts on the State of Marketing Automation

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The guide features insights, projections, and opinions on current challenges, opportunities, and trends from 19 B2B marketing experts and practitioners, including leading executives from Marketo, Oracle, SiriusDecisions, and Forrester Research. You can download the entire guide here. (DGR)

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Top 10 Tips for Better Email Templates

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Plus they display more information at a glance (i.e. You’ll have less control over font display, but as HTML, your headline will always be visible, even with images turned off in Outlook. Use sidebars. Sidebars allow you to showcase items (offer images, speaker bios, etc.) Design your headline as HTML, never text as image.

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3 Crucial Tips for Promoting Live Product Demos

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As an unvarnished display of your product’s capabilities, a product demo is only ever going to appeal to prospects at the latter stages of the selling cycle. Let’s face it; a live product demo is a tough sell. So how do you make sure that a demo attracts those critical buyers who are actively evaluating solutions like yours?

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3 Ways to Make Your Corporate Blog’s Sidebar Work Harder

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These days, however, it’s not enough to simply display a row of icons (RSS, Tweet, Email) and expect the reader to act. Just be sure to offer the reader as many subscription options as possible, and at a minimum: Email, RSS, and Twitter. If you post blog content to your Facebook or LinkedIn or Google Plus page, add those also.

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How Much Copy Do I Need On My Landing Page?

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Online display ads, text links, and PPC (search) ads impart very little information. The degree to which you still need to “sell” the offer at hand once your reader is at the landing page is influenced in large part by the amount of information he or she received on the front end of the campaign.