Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

OCTOBER 8, 2020

Most companies in the technology sector evolve in a very competitive environment, and leads generated by Marketing represent more than 50% of the opportunities signed by sales representatives. In these conditions, implementing a marketing automation platform is a no brainer. . How often do you publish new content ?

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SmartBug Media

APRIL 4, 2022

As marketers, our job is to help our sales teams find high-quality leads. You may use outbound marketing to try and catch your audience’s attention, or you might use inbound marketing to attract leads to your website. These leads are perfect for your sales team because they’re already hot!

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

MARCH 22, 2018

For marketers, AI enables scalable growth, drives revenue, and personalizes customer experiences. Savvy marketers are discovering that AI is an exceptionally powerful strategy. Let’s look at five ways AI can help marketing and sales continue to tear down silos. Agree on Qualified Leads and Accounts from the Beginning.

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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. This requires a constant re-loading of the sales funnel with new, expensive leads. In contrast, for Marketo, the proportion of sales derived from slow leads is an astounding 50 percent.

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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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SmartBug Media

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

We also know that, as marketers and salespeople, we need to understand where our prospects are in the sales process in order to utilize appropriate strategies, and lead scoring helps you make that a reality. What Is Lead Scoring? Lead Scoring Disclaimer. Lead scoring is not a process that can be done by marketing alone.

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Schubert B2B

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

It’s a great feeling when you first sign up for a marketing automation platform. Finally, you have access to the data you need to improve engagement and move the needle with your B2B digital marketing efforts. After years of not having enough marketing data, you find yourself facing the opposite problem–there are too many metrics.

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Directive Agency

MAY 29, 2019

Directive CEO, Garrett Mehrguth, builds off growth and takes search marketing experience to marketers nationwide. Mehrguth will continue to discuss how B2B and enterprise marketers can advance their digital “discoverability” and take control of their residency on search engine results pages. “I’ve said Mehrguth. “My

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Lake One

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Do you find yourself spinning your wheels on your inbound marketing strategy? Or maybe you’re just starting to entertain the idea of incorporating it into your overall marketing program and find yourself unable to get it off the ground. When it comes to the various challenges of inbound marketing, this is one you’ll see often.

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Webbiquity

FEBRUARY 14, 2010

Marketing automation provider Marketo has just published The Definitive Guide to Lead Nurturing , a white paper that provides real value, covering the lead nurturing process from the basic how and why through ROI measurement. The guide itself is well-researched, clearly written and highly practical.

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Schubert B2B

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

It’s a great feeling when you first sign up for a marketing automation platform. Finally, you have access to the data you need to improve engagement and move the needle with your B2B digital marketing efforts. After years of not having enough marketing data, you find yourself facing the opposite problem–there are too many metrics.

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The Point

JANUARY 13, 2015

No matter what your marketing resolutions this year – more content, better creative, etc. – Since email continues to be a dominant channel for most B2B marketers, let me suggest that a good candidate for #1 on your “to do” list for 2015 is to improve the way you measure email campaigns. no improvement matters if you can’t measure it.

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Only B2B

MARCH 13, 2020

Not all leads are at the same stage. Some are just visiting (leads), some know their problems (MQLs) and some are considering your product or service as a solution to their problems (SQLs). Lead Nurturing. Marketing Qualified Leads are in their early phase of buyer journey. MQL vs SQL. Do they fit?

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Schubert B2B

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

It’s a great feeling when you first sign up for a marketing automation platform. Finally, you have access to the data you need to improve engagement and move the needle with your B2B digital marketing efforts. After years of not having enough marketing data, you find yourself facing the opposite problem–there are too many metrics.

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Ambal's Amusings

MAY 27, 2010

We asked our panel of B2B marketing experts " What do you recommend to marketers that create and market content? What kind of content is most useful in each phase of the B2B marketing cycle? Blog Marketing Interactions Twitter Ardath421. Ardath Albee is a B2B Marketing Strategist. Ardath Albee.

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SnapApp

MAY 12, 2015

You may not be The Gray Lady, or even the viral media powerhouse of the day, but you can borrow their tactics to get unprecedented results in your B2B marketing. Marketers use assessments to let prospects identify their own problem areas and imagine what a future with your solution could look like. When Can Marketers Use Assessments?

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Directive Agency

MAY 29, 2019

Directive CEO, Garrett Mehrguth, builds off growth and takes search marketing experience to marketers nationwide. Mehrguth will continue to discuss how B2B and enterprise marketers can advance their digital “discoverability” and take control of their residency on search engine results pages. “I’ve said Mehrguth. “My

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Walker Sands

JULY 16, 2019

Although it’s been around for quite a while, Account-Based Marketing (ABM) seems to be the new holy grail for B2B marketers – and for good reason. Fueled by advances in data analytics and marketing automation, a well-designed and executed ABM campaign can speed up your sales cycle and dramatically increase conversion rates.

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Ambal's Amusings

NOVEMBER 12, 2010

Measuring ROI on content marketing is not straightforward; that is why most firms put measurement on the back burner. We asked our panel of B2B marketing experts "How can B2B marketers measure return on investment (leads generated, market awareness etc) for the money/effort spent on creating and marketing content?

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ViewPoint

MAY 30, 2012

Working with a wide variety of clients from tech firms to sports properties and lifestyle brands, Andrew has crafted successful campaigns built around white papers, event-based advertising and sales training materials for clients such as Major League Baseball, Canon, DuPont, SAP, Business Objects, Oracle and many others.

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Webbiquity

MAY 23, 2011

It’s not that B2B companies aren’t finding success in social media marketing, but more (in my experience at least) that they are less willing to publicly reveal their strategies for competitive reasons. Recently, that’s begun to change a bit as blogs like TopRank and Marketo have highlighted b2b social media success stories.

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Ambal's Amusings

JANUARY 21, 2010

One of the goals of marketing is to generate leads. What is the next logical step once you have managed to get high quality leads? Yes, getting those leads into the sale pipeline. How do marketers overcome this roadblock? Blog Marketing Interactions Twitter Ardath421. Salespeople need leads—right now.

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TrustRadius Marketing

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

70% of marketers say marketing automation software is critical to their success. Marketing automation occurs when marketers pass the burden of monotonous tasks to software logic to complete. What is marketing automation and why is it used? What are the most important marketing automation features?

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

OCTOBER 28, 2010

A great addition to Marketo’s Resources has been the Spear Marketing Group white paper, Top 10 Tips for Lead Nurturing Success , written by Howard Sewell. Not only is it a helpful resource when starting your lead nurturing , it also embodies and reinforces so many Marketo best practices.

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Leadspace

JANUARY 17, 2017

B2B Marketing and Sales leaders are constantly looking for the next innovative method to give them a competitive edge – particularly in driving revenue for their business. Having created numerous products that leverage massive volumes of data in the marketing and sales space, I continue to hear many questions on this subject.

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Ambal's Amusings

APRIL 29, 2010

How should marketers leverage content? Which content should be gated to genereate leads? We asked B2B Marketing experts: " How should B2B marketers balance the need for free content (helpful for prospects decision making) Vs. the need to have content that produces a steady flow of good leads (that can directed to sales team)?

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Everything Technology Marketing

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

One of my recent posts (“ The Top-10 B2B Marketing Trends for 2011 ”) received a lot of great comments. The number one marketing trend for 2011, according to the 17,000 member B2B technology marketing group on LinkedIn, is the increasing integration of social media with traditional marketing tactics to drive qualified leads.

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Industrial Marketing Today

DECEMBER 7, 2010

Here’s the shocking reality of B2B lead generation – 79% of marketing leads never convert into sales opportunities. Source: Marketing Sherpa/ KnowledgeStorm). B2B marketing and lead generation experts point to a lack of lead nurturing as the primary cause of this poor performance.

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SnapApp

AUGUST 20, 2015

To get the ebook, you have to fill out a lead form on a landing page — no big deal. As a marketer, you are the brains behind the landing page. You balance the need for rich data and quality prospects with high numbers and low cost per lead. Advantages of Shorter Lead Forms . Shorter lead forms decrease cost per lead. .

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JULY 28, 2015

Author: Glen Gow Too often marketers talk about activities instead of outcomes—for example, how many campaigns they ran, how many trade shows they participated in, how many new names they added to the lead database. These are metrics that reinforce the perception that marketing is a cost center, not a revenue driver.

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Ambal's Amusings

OCTOBER 15, 2009

What types of metrics do B2B marketers need to measure a marketing campaign's success? We have invited B2B Experts to shed light on the following question: "In what ways have metrics evolved with the increase in digital B2B marketing? Recommended Resources from B2B Marketing Experts. Marketo's Modern B2B Marketing.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

APRIL 27, 2011

by Maria Pergolino Remember the days when cold calling was one of the primary ways sales reps managed lead generation ? Marketing Qualifies, Sales Closes. With a new focus on sales and marketing alignment, companies are ensuring the two teams work together to focus on what they do best. Thanks to Sales 2.0

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JANUARY 12, 2011

by Katie Byrnes The most recent Marketo white paper, Using Marketing Automation to Increase Your ROI on CRM , describes the key features offered by marketing automation systems as well as the various benefits of CRM systems and Marketing Automation systems can provide to your organization.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JANUARY 12, 2011

by Katie Byrnes The most recent Marketo white paper, Using Marketing Automation to Increase Your ROI on CRM , describes the key features offered by marketing automation systems as well as the various benefits of CRM systems and Marketing Automation systems can provide your organization.

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Hinge Marketing

NOVEMBER 26, 2015

In case you haven’t noticed, online marketing for professional services is here to stay! And according to our research , 47% of firms plan to develop a content marketing program in the near future. Which, in turn, brings in new qualified leads without having to leave the office. Who wouldn’t want that?

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JULY 16, 2013

Imagine all the leads in your database being drivers, your email nurturing tracks being the freeways, and your emails being the roadside signs. Each email that you send should help your leads make an informed decision and get to the desired destination –hopefully, purchasing your product or solution.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2011

by Jason Miller Part two of the follow up from our Reaching the Social Customer webinar features our very own Jon Miller, VP of Marketing and co-founder of Marketo. Jon shares his thoughts on content marketing, lead nurturing, social media, and lead generation responding to your questions that were unanswered during the live webinar.

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