Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JANUARY 15, 2020

Some ways digital marketing improves the “traditional” methods of keeping loyal customers are: Using digital testimonials from happy customers instead of the old “word of mouth”. Automated but personalized thank you and follow up email campaigns instead of the physical letters or pamphlets. TrackMaven found many SMBs are.

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B2B Marketing Directions

MARCH 1, 2015

Salesforce.com recently published the results of its 2015 State of Marketing survey. The 2015 survey was conducted online in October and November of 2014 and generated over 5,000 responses. Both B2B and B2C participants in the survey were optimistic about marketing budgets for 2015.

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Hubspot

JUNE 28, 2016

The inbound strategy also consists of marketing automation software integration, website design, SEO, social media, email marketing, and lead nurturing, among others. 2) "Inbound Marketing is an Internet ‘fad’ that will pass.”. 4) “Digital marketing is a cost, not a revenue generator.”.

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SnapApp

AUGUST 10, 2015

So you’re always on the lookout for funnel-boosting new technologies at each layer in your marketing stack. Marketers spend a lot of time and money investing in the right infrastructure and analytics – platforms like Salesforce.com, Marketo, Eloqua, Omniture, Google Analytics and more. That’s where interactive content comes in.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

DECEMBER 16, 2016

Author: Jessica Menden and Tim Wolfe Like many of you out there working on big initiatives with a small budget, marketers in the higher education industry are facing challenges right up your alley. Add to this the fact that you have one of the most distinct customers: young kids and teenagers.

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Vidyard

MAY 7, 2015

At the end of last month, the International Advertising Bureau (IAB) released a report on the current state of video marketing spending. It’s probably no news to anyone at this point that video spending is on the rise, but the size of the shift towards video is larger than many marketers may have anticipated.

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markempa

DECEMBER 12, 2016

As a follow-up to this popular 2015 post, How to Use LinkedIn to Generate Leads , I interviewed Susan Tatum (@susanptatum) , Partner at The Conversion Company. I see sales and marketing people trying too hard to automate and template-ize their actions, focusing on quantity and not quality.

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LeanData

APRIL 15, 2014

With the increased pressure on marketing departments, Marketo wants to be known as an innovator (event theme – Innovation Nation) to help marketers change the way they address their jobs. Revenue attribution of marketing spend. I’m sure 2015 will be coming round the corner before we know it.

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LeanData

APRIL 15, 2014

With the increased pressure on marketing departments, Marketo wants to be known as an innovator (event theme – Innovation Nation) to help marketers change the way they address their jobs. Revenue attribution of marketing spend. I’m sure 2015 will be coming round the corner before we know it.

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LeanData

MARCH 28, 2016

So that’s exactly what Invoca , a call-intelligence platform for marketers, began doing in the second half of 2015. Invoca found itself gaining a reputation as one of the trailblazers in the emerging Account-Based Marketing trend. LeanData automates a process that previously had to be done manually. Ari Echt. “We

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LeanData

MARCH 28, 2016

So that’s exactly what Invoca , a call-intelligence platform for marketers, began doing in the second half of 2015. Invoca found itself gaining a reputation as one of the trailblazers in the emerging Account-Based Marketing trend. LeanData automates a process that previously had to be done manually. Ari Echt. “We

Account Based Marketing 40

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LeanData

MARCH 28, 2016

So that’s exactly what Invoca , a call-intelligence platform for marketers, began doing in the second half of 2015. Invoca found itself gaining a reputation as one of the trailblazers in the emerging Account-Based Marketing trend. LeanData automates a process that previously had to be done manually. Ari Echt. “We

Account Based Marketing 40

Account Based Marketing Ideal Customer Profiles ABM Multi-Touch Attribution 40

LeanData

MARCH 28, 2016

So that’s exactly what Invoca , a call-intelligence platform for marketers, began doing in the second half of 2015. Invoca found itself gaining a reputation as one of the trailblazers in the emerging Account-Based Marketing trend. LeanData automates a process that previously had to be done manually. Ari Echt. “We

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

Here at Marketo, the marketing operations team owns all things data–cleaning our lead database, appending data from 3 rd party sources, and segmenting our data. Marketing automation is a powerful platform because you can architect it to start tracking what your leads are doing through each stage of the buyer’s journey.

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chiefmartech

JUNE 20, 2016

Then consider that LinkedIn’s Marketing Solutions , which offers promtoional services to marketers such as sponsored content, sponsored InMail, display ads, text ads, and more. ” Marketing software has more power over marketers, especially for larger or more expensive solutions where switching costs can be high. (As

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Convince & Convert

NOVEMBER 9, 2015

That’s why marketers should be paying more attention to the numerous marketing charts being produced each month from every corner of the Internet. Let’s look at 10 of the more interesting marketing charts to emerge since January 2015, and what they imply for the state of marketing in 2015.

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Content Marketing Institute

JULY 11, 2018

That’s just one of the many retail marketing takeaways to learn from the success of one of retail’s most powerful forces of nature: Amazon. The so-called “everything store” launched its members-only one-day shopping extravaganza, Prime Day, in 2015 and has continually chipped away at the post-Thanksgiving Black Friday’s sales supremacy.

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Hubspot

NOVEMBER 9, 2015

The same study says that 80% of marketers struggle to demonstrate the business effectiveness of their marketing activities to their top management. How can marketers win the budgets they need to attract customers if they can't prove to management that inbound marketing spend will result in a measurable return?

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chiefmartech

APRIL 12, 2022

Having reviewed hundreds of entries to The Stackies over the years — here are all of them from 2015 , 2016 , 2017 , 2018 , 2019 , 2020 , and 2021 — I’ve distilled 10 patterns that I’ve seen on their own and in combination together. Relative Degree of Automation. Which ones have significant automations?

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Hubspot

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

Tomasz Tunguz has noted that SaaS companies invest between 80 and 120 percent of their revenue in sales and marketing , while Jason Lemkin has discussed using 40 percent of your revenue-growth delta as a marketing spend. Photo Credit: State of Pipeline Marketing. over that time period—a lasting, positive investment.

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Engagio

OCTOBER 1, 2019

In the first chapter of marketing technology (2000 – 2015) marketing departments became a strategic part of the revenue engine. As I like to say, Marketing evolved from being the department that throws parties and prints color brochures to becoming a real driver of pipeline and revenue. I know all this sounds hard.

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Engagio

OCTOBER 13, 2020

In the first chapter of marketing technology (2000 – 2015) marketing departments became a strategic part of the revenue engine. As I like to say, Marketing evolved from being the department that throws parties and prints color brochures to becoming a real driver of pipeline and revenue. I know all this sounds hard.

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EveryoneSocial

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Back in the early 2000s (around the time Hubspot and other marketing automation tools emerged), the internet was still pretty new. Somewhere around the 2015 timeframe is when traditional content marketing really started to degrade. is that most marketers became very risk-averse. Well, that’s what happened.

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Whale Pages

MAY 6, 2020

Growing a Bootstrapped SaaS Business with Minimum Marketing Spend. “How SkyCiv Engineering used lean marketing strategies to build a profitable and global SaaS company” Written by Simon Alcott: Published May 6th, 2020 | Updated May 6th, 2020. So we tried to automate as much as we could.

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Televerde

OCTOBER 30, 2019

Experts predict by the year 2034 fully 47% of today’s jobs will be automated, and 65% of today’s students will be applying for jobs that don’t exist yet. The marketing prowess that landed you your current role will likely be outdated when you are vying for your next one. Harvard Business Review, 2017). IAB, 2019).

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LeanData

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

When Adam New-Waterson became the chief marketing officer at high-tech startup LeanData in 2015, he completely revamped the company’s use of Marketo to take full advantage of the marketing automation platform’s capabilities. Marketo Champion of the Year – 2015. Here’s what we wrote. Accelerated deal velocity.

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LeanData

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

When Adam New-Waterson became the chief marketing officer at high-tech startup LeanData in 2015, he completely revamped the company’s use of Marketo to take full advantage of the marketing automation platform’s capabilities. Marketo Champion of the Year – 2015. Here’s what we wrote. Accelerated deal velocity.

Account Based Marketing 40

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LeanData

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

When Adam New-Waterson became the chief marketing officer at high-tech startup LeanData in 2015, he completely revamped the company’s use of Marketo to take full advantage of the marketing automation platform’s capabilities. Marketo Champion of the Year – 2015. Here’s what we wrote. Accelerated deal velocity.

Account Based Marketing 40

Account Based Marketing Ideal Customer Profiles Marketo Allocation 40

LeanData

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

When Adam New-Waterson became the chief marketing officer at high-tech startup LeanData in 2015, he completely revamped the company’s use of Marketo to take full advantage of the marketing automation platform’s capabilities. Marketo Champion of the Year – 2015. Here’s what we wrote. Accelerated deal velocity.

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Account Based Marketing Ideal Customer Profiles Marketo Allocation 40

Hubspot

AUGUST 27, 2012

4) 51% of the top 20% of B2B marketers generating leads through social media use social sharing tools, compared to the industry average of 39%. 5) 84% of B2B marketers use social media in some form. 6) Marketers spend an average of 4-6 hours a week on social media. 7) Currently, marketers allocate 7.6%

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SnapApp

MAY 30, 2017

88% of B2B marketers said at least 10-30% of their content would be interactive by 2018 ( DemandGen Report ). . A lot of marketers are jumping on the bandwagon - 99% ramped up or sustained their use of interactive content between 2015 and 2016. And, that trend looks set to continue into 2018. . .

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Marketing Insider Group

JULY 1, 2020

Under the leadership of CMO Karen Walker, Cisco brought on 200 content marketers back in 2015 and they haven’t looked back. In the B2C sector, content marketing is just as important. It’s definitely worth including the power of technology in the content you present to upper management. Marketing automation.

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Atomic Reach

APRIL 12, 2019

From Instagram stories to marketing automation and machine learning, the channel that represents the newest and most powerful trend in digital marketing can change. This situation can cause many marketers to look for “the next best thing,” and they can forget about tried and true methods. Email Marketing Automation.

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SnapApp

JANUARY 11, 2018

You’re not making effective use of your marketing spend if you don’t look for ways to make engagement a driving force behind your marketing strategies. . . What Is Engagement Marketing? . To understand what engagement marketing is, it might be easier to first grasp what it isn’t. . Here’s the hard data: .

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Full Circle Insights

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

In fact, the last 10 years saw the true emergence of social media marketing, mobile marketing and SEO-building content campaigns. Consumers became marketing rockstars themselves through influencer marketing and user-generated content on social media. Show Marketing’s Value by Moving from Tactical to Strategic Reporting.

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Single Grain

AUGUST 24, 2022

They use several social media marketing tools to monitor the progress. Continuous optimization and monitoring help advertisers gain an impressive return on their social media marketing spend. Dive Deeper: Social Media Marketing for Business Owners: How to Get Started in 2022. Get My Free Marketing Plan .

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QuanticMind

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

One of the biggest challenges that marketing leaders face is identifying and navigating opportunities to optimize their marketing offerings. So how can marketing leaders prepare for these and other changes? Misalignment between your revenue goals…and their pricing against your spend. over the previous year.

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