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When Inbound Marketing Goes Wrong

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Marketo ‘s new whitepaper, “ Amplify Your Impact: How to Multiply the Effects of Your Inbound Marketing Program “, takes a different route from others out there. The reasons, according to Marketo, are many: Your aim is too wide. And, according to Marketo, outbound programs have their place in your marketing arsenal.

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Getting Started Guide for Marketing Automation

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Step 1: Sales and Marketing Alignment and Documentation. If you did your marketing automation purchase following best practices, the sales team (or at least sales management) was involved to help make the selection. If not, stop what you are doing and meet with the sales leadership. Step 2: Buyer Personas.

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Marketing Automation is More Than Technology

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A new research study by Sirius Decisions , “ Calculating the Return on Marketing Automation “, sponsored by Marketo talks about the different levels of companies implementing marketing automation platforms (or MAP, as they call it). The magic relies on the higher conversion rates throughout the sales cycle.

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What’s Wrong with Marketing Education?

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Marketing Automation : the typical step-up from email marketing, marketing automation software (such as Marketo , Eloqua , Act-On , Pardot , and others ) allows you to automate the sending of your emails and, more importantly, of nurturing your leads.

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How Everybody Wins with HubSpot's Funding « The Effective Marketer

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This means that is time to update my previous charts on marketing automation funding (see below) and the funding timeline, because HubSpot just surpassed Marketo as the highest funded marketing software vendor to date.

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The Rise of the Content Marketer « The Effective Marketer

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Sales reps are sharing webinar recordings with prospects, the CEO is blogging his latest thoughts on the industry, the human resources manager is updating the company’s LinkedIn page. What used to be clear roles (i.e. the copywriter writes copy for the ad while the designer makes the ad look pretty), is now morphing into a free for all.

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A Brief History of Marketing

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I was made aware of the new infographic “ The Evolution of Marketing Automation ” by Jaclyn from BlueGlass , the company that worked on it for Marketo. The Reality of Mad Men (Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising, and Marketing History). A Brief History of Content Marketing (I might as well have a link to my eBook).