The Point

JULY 21, 2016

Frequently, this is due to a backlog of campaigns and other tactical needs – as soon as the platform is deployed, the company moves immediately into “campaign mode” to address that backlog, and never has the time thereafter to hit “pause” and address the big picture. Not setting up SPF and DKIM. Sending too many emails. Lack of segmentation.

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Sales Engine

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

Since the days of buying lists and blasting them sales messages are mostly gone, creating experience through content is becoming more necessary than ever before. It’s no wonder that Marketo, Hubspot and others consistently talk about content development strategies on their blogs and in their webinars.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

MAY 30, 2017

To succeed in this new climate, you must adapt your tactics and shift your brand to become more human and digital native-friendly. At the very least, it should include the following: 70% original content: The bulk of your content should be original—articles, white papers, videos, case studies, webinars, etc.

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Sales Engine

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

Since the days of buying lists and blasting them sales messages are mostly gone, creating experience through content is becoming more necessary than ever before. It’s no wonder that Marketo, Hubspot and others consistently talk about content development strategies on their blogs and in their webinars.

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SmartBug Media

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

By the time they are ready, they’ve seen your website, your competitors’ websites, attended a webinar, watched a YouTube video , been on all the review and social media sites, and downloaded applicable thought leadership content. Lead scoring is not a process that can be done by marketing alone. What Is Lead Scoring?

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The Point

OCTOBER 30, 2013

If you send the prospect directly to the content (say, a white paper) upon him or her clicking in the email, how confident can you be that the individual is expressing an active interest in your topic? Here’s why: 1. A click is not a response. People click on a whim, out of idle curiosity, even by accident.

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The Point

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

The most glaring symptom was the absurdly high scores: hundreds of contacts had lead scores of more than 1,000, even though the supposed threshold for a sales-ready lead was a mere 100 points. attends Webinar, VP-level title or above). A lead that was very active 6 months ago, for example, isn’t very interesting to a sales rep today.

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Webbiquity

FEBRUARY 13, 2010

Marketing automation systems—from vendors like Eloqua , Marketo , Genoo , Manticore and others—are great tools for moving prospective buyers along the path from interest to desire to action. Without a solid content strategy to support that movement through the marketing and sales cycle, all you’ve got is a nice email system.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JULY 17, 2018

From my experience through the case studies I’ve been involved with at Marketo and the feedback I’ve gathered from sales (because they are on the frontline of feedback—and we’re all about that marketing and sales partnership!) 3) Feature Customers on Webinars. This was a really fantastic way to document the event!

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Ambal's Amusings

MAY 27, 2010

" Match Content to the Buying Process " Ardath Albee's Bio. Her company Marketing Interactions helps companies with complex sales and quantify marketing effectiveness by using interactive e-marketing strategies driven by compelling content. Ardath’s book, eMarketing Strategies for the Complex Sale is now shipping!

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Ambal's Amusings

JULY 22, 2010

Her company Marketing Interactions helps companies with complex sales and quantify marketing effectiveness by using interactive e-marketing strategies driven by compelling content. She empowers her clients to create customer-centric nurturing programs that leverage strategic story development to engage prospects until they are sales ready.

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SnapApp

MAY 12, 2015

You may not be The Gray Lady, or even the viral media powerhouse of the day, but you can borrow their tactics to get unprecedented results in your B2B marketing. The modern B2B buyer does a huge amount of research during their purchase process. is perfect top-of-funnel content. Unconvinced? Stay with me.

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TrustRadius Marketing

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

Ideally, your team would define this process once, perform maintenance checkups, track the provided analytics, and take action on those insights. Common automation themes include outbound and inbound lead generation, campaign management, workflows, email sequences, reporting, and analytics. Lead Management Features.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2012

by Seth Resler Did you miss our webinar on inbound marketing? ” In an age where customers prefer to avoid salespeople and do their own research early in the sales cycle, inbound marketing is a vital part of a successful marketing strategy. .” Marketo and Acquisio employ what they call the Inbound Marketing Multiplier : 1.

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Vidyard

JULY 7, 2016

So I actually started my career as an inside sales rep at a startup in the early 90s when Windows 3.1 We don’t have to worry about having the Heinz Marketing sales kickoff and sales training events every year, and a big strategy planning initiative that puts everyone in a standstill and neutral for a quarter.”.

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The Point

JANUARY 13, 2015

That likely means one of two options: • a marketing automation system like Eloqua , Marketo or Pardot that in turn integrates with a CRM database like Salesforce. Most would argue 100 Webinar leads are worth more than 100 White Paper leads. Leads are at least a measure of genuine interest. MQLs/Cost Per MQL.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JUNE 13, 2011

by Jon Miller Last month I participated in a webinar on Adding the Human Touch into Your Lead Nurturing with Brian Carroll, author of Lead Generation for the Complex Sale and the “godfather” of lead nurturing. At Marketo, our prospect-to-lead conversion rate triples with lead nurturing.

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Ambal's Amusings

FEBRUARY 3, 2010

" Gordon Graham is That White Paper Guy , an award-winning writer who helps B2B technology firms tell their stories with crisp, compelling white papers. Many will use B2C tactics like branding for B2B marketing. and not a sales pitch. Hint: Tips, webinars, and white papers.).

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JULY 28, 2015

To change that perception, marketers need to start talking about how their programs impact the whole sales process, with revenue being the core focus. It’s not about the first “touch” that brings a prospect into the sales funnel, or the last “touch” before signing a deal.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2012

by Dayna Rothman We had a great webinar last week on content marketing with Toby Murdock, CEO and Co-Founder of Kapost , and Jason Miller, Social Media Strategist at Marketo. Unfortunately we didn’t have enough time to answer all of the questions about content marketing that our audience asked during the webinar.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

Management could understand these metrics. It was easy for the VP of Sales to see my results via a dashboard in the CRM system. Well, that is unless you were a sales rep. Your sales reps know this. Here at Marketo, we use lead nurturing and scoring to help us identify when someone is ready to buy.

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Ambal's Amusings

APRIL 29, 2010

We asked B2B Marketing experts: " How should B2B marketers balance the need for free content (helpful for prospects decision making) Vs. the need to have content that produces a steady flow of good leads (that can directed to sales team)? Ardath’s book, eMarketing Strategies for the Complex Sale is now shipping! Blog posts.

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The Point

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

The blog generated more than 500 leads in its first 9 months alone, and this from a target audience (billing managers at small- to mid-sized medical practices) that can hardly be described as the Facebook crowd. Navicure uses Marketo and Salesforce.com to track marketing ROI.).

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Rev

MAY 21, 2018

If you have a marketing automation platform — like Marketo, Oracle Eloqua, HubSpot, or Pardot — then you are probably using intent data. Page views, email opens, white paper downloads, site search strings, and so on. In that case, your sales enterprise CRM sales person will likely waste time talking to that prospect.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

APRIL 27, 2011

by Maria Pergolino Remember the days when cold calling was one of the primary ways sales reps managed lead generation ? With the new changes in B2B sales, namely Sales 2.0 practices, traditional cold calling has for the most part become a thing of the past and sales teams couldn’t be happier. We can help!”)

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The Point

JULY 13, 2012

Is lead nurturing always about generating measurable response, increasing lead scores, progressive profiling, and moving leads to sales? Or can you get away with a link to content, perhaps content that’s not even your own? More than once every couple of weeks? Not so much.”. What do you think?

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2012

by Seth Resler On Tuesday, February 7th, Alex Pelletier, Director of Marketing at Acquisio , co-hosted a webinar with our Senior Director of Marketing, Maria Pergolino on multiplying the effects of inbound marketing. There were some leftover questions at the end of the webinar, and we promised we’d answer them. Not at the moment.

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B2B Marketing Directions

AUGUST 27, 2017

SiriusDecisions calls the new version the Demand Unit Waterfall , and it's depicted in the following diagram: Source: SiriusDecisions The first version of the Demand Waterfall was introduced in 2006, and over the past decade, thousands of B2B companies have used the waterfall model to track and manage their demand generation efforts.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

MAY 7, 2013

You’ve seen the topic in countless blog posts, webinars, white papers – you name it. In a recent blog post from Marketo they back up the notion of using an agency , pointing out how agencies significantly shorten the time for success and improve overall results. What about your processes and proven methods?

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

by Maria Pergolino Demand Generation Managers are responsible for finding and executing the program mix that is going to drive revenue for their organization. This includes selecting programs that are going to identify new leads and campaigns that are going to cause current leads in the system to move farther down the funnel.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

MAY 17, 2011

by Carol Fox If your sales leads aren’t receiving lead nurturing efforts from marketing to convert them quickly into business, they ultimately aren’t going to benefit your bottom line. Improving lead quality requires a commitment from sales and marketing to focus on both quality and quantity, not just one or the other.

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WebMarketCentral

FEBRUARY 8, 2008

Marketing automation provider Marketo has just released Blind Date to White Wedding: Best Practices for Lead Nurturing that creates B2B relationships, builds trust and increases sales , a white paper on B2B lead nurturing. The Win.").

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Industrial Marketing Today

DECEMBER 7, 2010

Here’s the shocking reality of B2B lead generation – 79% of marketing leads never convert into sales opportunities. This is because of the prevalent trend of industrial buyers using online resources to go deeper and deeper into their buying cycle before engaging with your sales people. Source: Marketing Sherpa/ KnowledgeStorm).

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

APRIL 27, 2012

by Jason Miller Revenue Performance Management (RPM) is a strategy that allows you to track and measure each of your marketing initiatives so that you can connect them to the amount of revenue they generate. Here’s what Revenue Performance Management means for the different teams in your organization.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2011

by Jason Miller Part two of the follow up from our Reaching the Social Customer webinar features our very own Jon Miller, VP of Marketing and co-founder of Marketo. Jon shares his thoughts on content marketing, lead nurturing, social media, and lead generation responding to your questions that were unanswered during the live webinar.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JANUARY 24, 2012

This last year, I decided to take a programmatic approach to thought leadership versus executing a series of webinars, events, etc. The review occurred with our sales team and we discussed the results. Another nice benefit – no marketing folks were harmed in the process.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

AUGUST 27, 2009

This week Marketo released the final chapter of our Definitive Guide to Lead Nurturing which focused on calculating the ROI of Lead Nurturing. This webinar had over 1300 marketers register to learn about lead nurturing from Sergio Balegno, Sr.

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