SmartBug Media

APRIL 14, 2021

Each quarter, Marketo rolls out a release including product enhancements, additional features, bug fixes, and more. So what did the Q1 release include, and how can it help Marketo users? Marketo Q1 Releases: Overview. Multi-Channel Personalization. Email Marketing. Multi-Channel Personalization.

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Only B2B

JULY 5, 2023

In the ever-changing landscape of B2B marketing, demand generation plays a pivotal role in driving business growth and success. It encompasses various marketing and sales activities designed to create awareness, generate interest, and drive actions.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JUNE 5, 2012

Salesforce.com yesterday announced agreement to buy social media publishing vendor Buddy Media for $689 million, thereby adding another big fluffy piece to its “marketing cloud”. Oracle followed suit this morning with an acquisition of social media monitoring and semantic analysis vendor Collective Intellect. In a word, no.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JULY 27, 2016

Some of the biggest challenges that marketers face are the cost of programs and the infrastructure needed to support multi-channel communication in this digital age. Many marketers out there are making similar decisions, in which features and functionality are ultimately weighed against platform cost.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

AUGUST 13, 2015

Author: Marcus Taylor The marketing automation industry has snowballed over the past few years, and yet it’s only just getting started. According to Marketing Automation Insider, in the past five years alone, we’ve seen over $5.5B worth of acquisitions made, and an aggregate vendor revenues increase from $225M to $1.65B!

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

DECEMBER 14, 2012

by Theresa Vu Last month Jon Miller wrote a detailed blog post on why you need a marketing automation platform , especially if you already have a CRM system. I’m assuming that you all have gone out, selected a platform, and you’re on your way to better marketing with marketing automation! Don’t Reinvent the Wheel.

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Inbox Insight

AUGUST 12, 2019

79% of marketing leads don’t convert ( HubSpot). 96% of visitors who come to your website aren’t ready to buy but are likely to exchange contact info for valuable content ( Marketo ). Email nurture workflow programs can vary massively in size and complexity due to your available resource and marketing automation platform.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JUNE 29, 2011

You probably saw ExactTarget ’s June 13 announcement of its strategic partnership with Marketo and Eloqua ’s June 21 announcement of its new AppCloud marketplace for connectors with other systems. But it took a little while to connect with the vendors to get the details, so I’m only now ready to write about them.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

Author: DJ Waldow I love email marketing. I’ve been living, breathing, eating, sleeping, and sometimes dreaming email marketing for nearly a decade. While I’d never go as far as to say that email marketing is for everyone, it certainly is effective for most businesses – small, large, B2B, and B2C. I know email marketing.

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Customer Experience Matrix

MARCH 26, 2015

Tuesday’s post on the Adobe Marketing Cloud illustrated the complexity of solutions that combine many marketing and advertising components. Some vendors do this better than others. For B2B marketers, this has happened mostly through Demandbase and what was formerly Bizo (now part of LinkedIn). email-based targeting.

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SmartBug Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

For marketers—especially those in B2B and/or who have a long sales cycle— campaign attribution is critical to understanding which channels are winners and which are dead weight. Without knowing which of your campaigns are driving sales, you don’t know which marketing channels you should be adding budget to or subtracting budget from.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2012

by Jon Miller A common question I hear from marketers is “I already have a CRM system (e.g. salesforce.com, Microsoft Dynamics CRM), so why do I need marketing automation ”? Many CRM systems have a module for marketing. Architecture of Marketing Automation versus CRM. Marketing Automation.

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ClearVoice

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

Consider this scenario: You are super stoked to attend an upcoming marketing conference. It happens… There are dozens of marketing conferences to choose from each year, but not all have the same caliber, audience or takeaways. Has your marketing team made plans yet? contentmarketing #marketing Click To Tweet.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JANUARY 20, 2017

Author: Hila Nir The value of account-based marketing (ABM) is undeniable. Let’s start with the obvious: As with any successful B2B marketing strategy, close sales and marketing coordination is essential. According to MarketingProfs, companies that have aligned sales and marketing teams generate 208% more revenue.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

AUGUST 18, 2016

These changes in business models have major implications for how marketers should reach and engage their buyers. Here are three ways that technology is transforming marketing: 1. Technology is Empowering Marketing. So how can marketers seize this opportunity? Mobile is dominating your buyers’ mindshare.

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Martech

JANUARY 13, 2022

Marketo is perhaps one of the best-known marketing automation platforms for marketers. Since then it has been integrated into San Jose, California-based Abobe’s suite of marketing software. This guide will walk you through some of the key capabilities of Marketo. Click here to download!

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

NOVEMBER 21, 2013

Marketo’s sessions were flatteringly well-attended (sold out, in fact!) by the many marketers at Dreamforce this year. Andrew points out that as marketers, we need to put ourselves in the shoes of our buyers. Many marketers only give subscribers a choice to opt-out of email communications altogether. Was it good?

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Customer Experience Matrix

DECEMBER 3, 2008

My little tour of demand generation vendors landed at Pardot just before Thanksgiving. As you’ll recall from my post on Web activity statistics , Pardot is one of the higher-ranked vendors not already in the Raab Guide to Demand Generation Systems. So I was quite curious to see what they had to offer. What I found was intriguing.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

OCTOBER 1, 2013

For a growing portion of users, mobile is no longer a secondary, fill-in-the-gaps channel, but the primary way they go online. At 76 million strong in the US alone, Millennials are the largest generational market since the Baby Boomers. Marketers have been trying hard to keep pace with these changes. In the US, almost $10.5

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Customer Experience Matrix

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

One of the more jarring aspects in Adobe ’s briefing last week about its Marketo acquisition* were several statements that suggested Marketo and Adobe’s other products were going to access shared customer data. I’ll also admit to some initial fear that a solution from these vendors will reduce the need for stand-alone CDP systems.

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LeanData

MARCH 28, 2016

The strategy just made sense for the marketing team at Invoca. So that’s exactly what Invoca , a call-intelligence platform for marketers, began doing in the second half of 2015. Invoca found itself gaining a reputation as one of the trailblazers in the emerging Account-Based Marketing trend. And that is Account-Based Marketing.

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LeanData

MARCH 28, 2016

The strategy just made sense for the marketing team at Invoca. So that’s exactly what Invoca , a call-intelligence platform for marketers, began doing in the second half of 2015. Invoca found itself gaining a reputation as one of the trailblazers in the emerging Account-Based Marketing trend. And that is Account-Based Marketing.

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LeanData

MARCH 28, 2016

The strategy just made sense for the marketing team at Invoca. So that’s exactly what Invoca , a call-intelligence platform for marketers, began doing in the second half of 2015. Invoca found itself gaining a reputation as one of the trailblazers in the emerging Account-Based Marketing trend. And that is Account-Based Marketing.

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LeanData

MARCH 28, 2016

The strategy just made sense for the marketing team at Invoca. So that’s exactly what Invoca , a call-intelligence platform for marketers, began doing in the second half of 2015. Invoca found itself gaining a reputation as one of the trailblazers in the emerging Account-Based Marketing trend. And that is Account-Based Marketing.

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Martech Advisor

MARCH 5, 2020

“Marketing automation is defined as the process of using tools and technology to automate repetitive marketing tasks, track and measure campaign performance, improve productivity, and drive efficiency by minimizing manual actions.” What Is Marketing Automation? What Is Marketing Automation?

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TrustRadius Marketing

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Email is a vital force in your marketing strategy, but not your only line of communication with customers. . As your social media, SMS messages, and chat boxes become more prominent in your marketing strategy, you need the right tools to handle all the available communication channels. . Email Marketing Software.

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chiefmartech

APRIL 6, 2016

It renewed my appreciation for the incredible transformation underway in marketing today and all the creative minds striving to shape its future. Looking beyond the logistics, however, here’s what I believe were the most important themes for marketing overall that emerged from this year’s conference… #1.

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OutboundView

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

The inbound marketing for B2B landscape of 2018 is a brave new world for business – one virtually unrecognizable from years past. Go back to the start of the decade – concepts like content marketing, social media marketing, influencer marketing, and inbound marketing were years away from conception.

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Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

Summary: A close look at which vendors have the least common features finds some are widely distributed, while others are concentrated among products for big companies. The main point, at least as I saw it, was that no single vendor dominates everything. I cautioned in that post that you can’t stop at the category level.

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Customer Experience Matrix

MARCH 29, 2016

It’s even more different from taking conventional multi-step campaigns and calling them "journeys”. But it's much more data-driven than starting with an marketer-created design. - By “journey as the framework for message selection” I mean that marketing messages or campaigns are triggered when customers reach a particular journey step.

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LeadSloth

JANUARY 12, 2010

2009 was the year in which Marketing Automation really took off. Several new vendors appeared on the market, many existing vendors experienced rapid growth, and Marketing Automation as a term gained popularity among B2B marketers. Sales & marketing alignment. Maria Pergolino , Sr.

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DemandBase

JULY 21, 2020

A company that was in the market for your solution only a few months ago could now be struggling to merely survive. If economic uncertainty continues, these programs should remain a core element of a marketing strategy.”. Pivoting Your Go-To-Market Strategy on a Dime. After all, you just lost a quarter to a half of your market.

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Engagio

JUNE 2, 2020

A company that was in the marketing for your solution only a few months ago could now be struggling to merely survive. If economic uncertainty continues, these programs should remain a core element of marketing strategy.” – Todd Berkowitz , Practice Vice President, Gartner. After all, you just lost a quarter to a half of your market.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

MARCH 7, 2013

by Jon Miller (@jonmiller) Modern marketing in the digital age is not just about numbers and processes. This is about your brand in general, but there is also a strong connection to how you market your company. This is about your brand in general, but there is also a strong connection to how you market your company. Here’s why.

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Heinz Marketing

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

By Matt Heinz , President of Heinz Marketing. The show is less than 30 minutes, fast-paced and full of actionable advice, best practices and more for B2B sales & marketing professionals. The show is less than 30 minutes, fast-paced and full of actionable advice, best practices and more for B2B sales & marketing professionals.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

OCTOBER 29, 2018

When initially building a company or trying marketing automation tools for the first time, a company might select a solution that is just “good enough” and not too complex for their team. Typically, it is the result of having a marketing team that is just beginning to implement digital engagement strategies.

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DealSignal

MAY 31, 2023

While every organization differs, benchmarking indicates that marketing typically contributes to 25-30% of qualified pipeline. Here’s how to manage sales pipeline full when you aren’t getting the support you need from marketing. You need to have great contact info across outreach channels to become highly effective.

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