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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. The post Observations from the 2017 Marketo Summit appeared first on The Point. What plays should I run?)

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Marketo Email Campaign Keeps It Short & Sweet

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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. His logic (presumably): if a technology provider is promising to help improve our marketing effectiveness, shouldn’t their own marketing reflect those same high standards?

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21 Tips & Other Impressions from the Marketo User Summit

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Earlier this week, Marketo , the marketing automation company, held its second ever user conference in San Francisco. For one, I can report that no companies are coming to our firm asking us to help them align sales and marketing. Systems like Marketo can be used to remind sales reps (via sales alerts) of untouched or stale leads.

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8 Questions to Ask Before Investing in Marketing Attribution

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Fortunately, there are now some excellent third-party reporting, analytics and attribution tools that can help marketers get closer to attribution nirvana. Depending on the marketing automation platform (MAP) you use, this might be captured in different ways (for example: Pardot campaigns, Marketo acquisition programs).

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Accelerating the Pace of Inbound Leads: An Interview with Paul Albright of Captora

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Paul Albright boasts a 30-year track record of success in Silicon Valley, including executive roles at companies such as Marketo, SuccessFactors, NetApp, and Informatica. The key is to do this in a new way – don’t just tell marketing where they’re falling short via diagnostic tools; instead, help marketing fix the problem.

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Why is Inside Sales So Scared of Lead Nurturing?

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The client had only one BDR (Business Development Representative) but was generating a reasonable volume of leads with our help, so the decision was made to automate lead nurturing as a way of ensuring that every lead was responded to effectively and consistently, regardless of the BDR’s bandwidth on a given day. Wait 2 weeks. Wait 8 weeks.

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Sirius Decisions Thinks Websites Will Generate 71% of All B2B Sales Leads by 2015. I Disagree.

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Sirius Decisions wrote an insightful article last week about the acquisition by Marketo of Insightera (a Web personalization platform), and included was the following projection: “By 2015, we expect to see 71 percent of b-to-b organizations’ new inquiries coming via the corporate Web site.”. Virtually none. I doubt it. What do you think?