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| Page 1 of 1 | Previous | Next | THE POINT JULY 13, 2012 Do Lead Nurturing Campaigns Always Need an Offer? Over at Marketo, Jon Miller wrote a fascinating post recently on “ The 4-1-1 Rule for Lead Nurturing ” in which he posits (and here I’m paraphrasing) that lead nurturing campaigns don’t always need to feature the latest white paper, Webinar, or video, and that these kinds of offers or promotions are best interspersed with what Jon refers to as “educational or entertaining content.”. In my last post , I talked about creative campaign ideas for when you have no content to offer. Which leads to another question: do certain types of campaigns even need an offer in the first place? | THE POINT JUNE 20, 2012 Top 10 Tips for Better Email Templates Marketo users : Download a free set of professionally-designed email and landing page templates, along with complete instructions for how to download into Marketo, now available on the Spear Website. B2B Marketing Creative Demand Generation E-mail email design email marketing Graphic Design Marketo Uncategorized email best practices email templates marketo Marketo email templates marketo landing pages Marketo partner Marketo templatesBut one other element plays a key role even before you write one word of copy: the design template. | | | | | |
| THE POINT FEBRUARY 8, 2012 Key to Marketing Automation Success: Process First, then Campaigns B2B Marketing Lead Management Lead Nurturing Marketing Automation marketing automation agency marketing automation consultant marketing automation consultants Marketo agency Marketo consultant Marketo partner sirius decisionsIn a phone call this week I was swapping war stories with a well-known sales and marketing consultant, who, like us, works with B2B companies to improve their return on marketing automation. And that fact, I would propose, is a good sign for a maturing market. emphasis mine). No, not necessarily. | THE POINT JANUARY 25, 2012  7 Tips for a Successful PPC Landing Page ” B2B Marketing Demand Generation Inbound marketing Landing Pages lead generation search marketing SEM landing page design marketo landing pages ppc best practices ppc landing pages sem landing pagesWhere do most paid search (PPC) campaigns succeed or fail? The rewards from making even slight improvements to your PPC landing pages can be dramatic. Not “learn more.” Sell the offer. | THE POINT OCTOBER 14, 2010 21 Tips & Other Impressions from the Marketo User Summit Earlier this week, Marketo , the marketing automation company, held its second ever user conference in San Francisco. As a Marketo agency partner, I attended along with colleagues from Spear Marketing Group to greet clients, talk shop, and hear how other companies – including Marketo themselves – are putting technology to use in the service of improved lead management. From Marketo’s perspective, I understand the need to frame marketing automation in ever more mission-critical terms. Marketo has more than 300 content assets on offer on its Website.). Email? | THE POINT AUGUST 6, 2012  9 Ideas (and 1 Big Lesson) from the Marketo Social Marketing Roadshow Last week I attended (and was a presenter at) the Seattle edition of Marketo’s 2012 Social Marketing Rockstar Tour , a roving conference/seminar series being held this summer in cities nationwide. Marketo bills the event as an opportunity to hear, learn, and share advice on B2B social media marketing strategy. The real opportunity is with the friends and networks of those contacts. | | | | | | | |
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THE POINT | TUESDAY, JUNE 14, 2011  Marketo Email Campaign Keeps It Short & Sweet
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. And aside from the sophistication that no doubt powers when, how, and what Marketo communicates with prospective customers, their marketing creative (which, you could argue, has nothing to do with technology) is pretty darn good also. To wit: 1. MORE >> -
THE POINT | WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 2013  How to Sell Marketing Automation to Your CEO (& Other Burning Questions)
Recently I was asked to contribute some thoughts to Marketo’s new ebook, “ The Definitive Guide to Marketing Automation.” Disclaimer: Spear Marketing Group is an Preferred Services Partner of Marketo. B2B Marketing Lead Management Lead Nurturing Marketing Automation Marketo marketo Marketo agency Marketo consultant Marketo partnerYou can download a free copy of the ebook – 100 pages on everything you need to know about marketing automation – what it is, how it’s different from CRM, common features, keys to success, and more – by clicking here. MORE >> -
THE POINT | MONDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 2012  Lead Scores Too High? Maybe They Need An Expiration Date.
The method of assigning and subtracting scores described above is based largely on our work with clients using the Marketo platform , but the same overall approach could be adapted to work with virtually any other marketing automation system. lead scores lead scoring marketo Marketo agency Marketo consultant Marketo lead scores Marketo lead scoring Marketo partnerIn the early stages of a recent client engagement, it became apparent that the schema already in place to determine and assign lead scores was, well: broken. and so on. Thanks Dan! MORE >> -
THE POINT | MONDAY, MAY 14, 2012  New Report Confirms Immaturity of Most Marketing Automation Deployments
B2B Marketing Campaign Measurement Campaign Planning Campaign Strategy email marketing Installed Base Marketing Lead Management Lead Nurturing Marketing Automation forrester forrester consulting marketing automation consultants marketing automation planning marketing automation services marketing automation success Marketo agency Marketo consultant Marketo partner silverpopTo those of us who work in and around marketing automation every day, none of the results are startling. cross-sell and up-sell). ” – Manager of Email Marketing, Large Online Retailer. MORE >> -
THE POINT | TUESDAY, MAY 14, 2013  Apparently It’s Now Safe (Again) to Use “Free” in a Subject Line
'In follow-up to the recent 2013 Marketo Summit , the marketing team at ReachForce , a leading provider of B2B data services, sent a message to attendees (including this blogger) crowing about the success of their traffic builder campaign , an email that generated a 42.8% Marketo Summit – Free Beer, Gold for Everyone!”. B2B Marketing Campaign Measurement Demand Generation E-mail email marketing email best practices hubspot marketo Marketo agency marketo agency partner Marketo partner reachforce subject lines Well, apparently, they do. MORE >>
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