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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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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. Is there a big advantage to hosting them separately?”. Effectiveness. Design Capability.

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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. Here are 21 of the more useful, practical or inspiring ideas on lead nurturing, content marketing and demand generation that I heard: 1. Marketo has more than 300 content assets on offer on its Website.).

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Why Is Marketing Automation Maturity Still Woeful?

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The conclusion: most B2B companies were failing to follow even the most basic lead management best practices, even in areas that one would assume were a primary business case for purchasing marketing automation in the first place. The major software players in the marketing automation space have also seen a lot of changes in the last 5 years.

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

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If you use a marketing automation platform such as Marketo , that software will track anonymous visitors to your Website by capturing their IP address and other information by means of a browser cookie. We recommend all marketers consult with legal counsel on how best to fully comply with GDPR. Let Visitors Opt-Out of Cookie Tracking.

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Apparently It’s Now Safe (Again) to Use “Free” in a Subject Line

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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!”.

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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. Outbound marketing is an imperative if your audience doesn’t know your brand, or that your type of solution exists, or that they even have a problem worth solving in the first place.

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