Digital B2B Marketing

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When Marketing Automation Is the Wrong Solution

Digital B2B Marketing

Led by Eloqua (now part of Oracle) and Marketo (with a very successful IPO last week), today marketing automation companies are collectively worth billions. Marketing automation gives you a way to automate your marketing activity with far more complex business rules. Are you still struggling with the simplest of rules?

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Marketing Automation’s Next Frontier: Madison Avenue

Digital B2B Marketing

Marketers have invested in marketing automation, content and, in many cases, creating complex business rules to determine what content and message to deliver when. The real value is in the rules and logic used to deliver the right message at the right time. Disclosure: Demandbase is a client of my employer.]

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6 Cringeworthy Marketing Technology Failures

Digital B2B Marketing

You just create the rules. Here is my best guess: Eloqua populates this content dynamically and they didn’t have enough content, or content that matched to the business rules, to populate the entire template for some individuals. On Facebook and across their site, Marketo believes I am actually Lauren, one of my colleagues.

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Are Machines the Future of Marketing?

Digital B2B Marketing

Marketing automation platforms like Marketo and Eloqua allow marketers to create complex business rules that are automatically executed, similar to the early bid management platforms. What if everyone could always get the right communication, based on all of the information you have about them?