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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 solution being preached at the conference was for personal, relevant, authentic messages.

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Hosted Landing Pages vs. Embedded Forms

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A client asks: “Should we be hosting our campaign landing pages in Marketo? We’ve always hosted them on our main site and simply embedded Marketo forms. This question comes up all the time in client work, and not just with Marketo customers. This is beneficial for companies that might be handling sensitive personal data (e.g.

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5 Basic Things Every B2B Marketer Needs to Do to Prepare for GDPR

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Of these, GDPR is the most far-reaching in that it not only impacts email communication (the focus of CAN-SPAM and CASL) but also the way companies gather, store, protect, share, and utilize personal data. GDPR requires that companies who collect and manage personal data protect that data from any potential misuse and exploitation.

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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. For Tier 1 accounts, conduct targeted, personalized sales outreach, but (critically) support those efforts with marketing air cover to the same companies. However, outbound shouldn’t translate into “spray and pray.”

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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.”. Fair enough. I doubt it. What do you think?

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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. HS) Marketing is becoming more and more personalized.

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Why is Inside Sales So Scared of Lead Nurturing?

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Rather than reinvent the follow-up process, we sat down with the BDR, documented her standard follow-up procedure (a series of phone calls and emails that stretched over a number of weeks) and automated every step using Marketo , a leading marketing automation platform. Marketo sends first follow-up email. Wait 2 weeks. Wait 8 weeks.