Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JANUARY 22, 2020

At the top of the funnel, marketing increases traffic and fills the database with new leads through paid ads, social media, search, referral programs, and a variety of other channels. But in between, marketing needs to nurture and qualify leads by encouraging them to engage with content until they’re sales-ready.

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Only B2B

MARCH 13, 2024

Must Read: B2B Content Syndication Strategies The Challenge: Where’s the ROI? Many B2B marketers struggle to connect their content strategy to concrete results. It can be hard to know if your content is generating leads or boosting brand awareness. Absolutely, if you can measure its return on investment (ROI).

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Launch Marketing

APRIL 20, 2022

Here are 10 B2B marketing influencers we think are a must-follow for relevant and entertaining content to help you improve your marketing strategy. . As a co-founder of Marketo, Jon now continues to share thought-provoking content on Twitter in his new role as Chief Marketing Officer at Demandbase.

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ANNUITAS

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

So it is my pleasure to introduce to you six in-house experts who will be regularly posting on the ANNUITAS blog moving forward — sharing their thoughts on the most pressing practices and challenges we face in demand marketing. Expertise: Demand marketing growth and leadership. Certifications (and more!):

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JULY 26, 2019

Marketing Nation Live, a B2B Marketing virtual event, is bringing together marketers from all over the world on September 18 for a day full of inspiration, education, and social networking. Marketo Engage customers and members of our Marketo Advocate Nation will share their marketing truths and best practices with you.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JUNE 9, 2010

Top B2B marketers understand two key objectives 1) Building new business and 2) Becoming a thought leader. 56% of B2B marketing executives stated “positioning our company as a thought leader” as their top objective in a recent Economics Intelligence Unit study. This puts huge importance on being a thought leader.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JANUARY 3, 2017

At Marketo, we get the opportunity to work with some of the brightest minds in our industry—both within and outside of our company—and our content team works hard to bring you their insights. However, because we publish our blogs every weekday, we understand that it can be hard to read every piece we publish. His recommended tactics?

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

OCTOBER 8, 2020

Most companies in the technology sector evolve in a very competitive environment, and leads generated by Marketing represent more than 50% of the opportunities signed by sales representatives. What content do you have at your disposal (white paper, thought leadership , demo videos, etc )? How often do you publish new content ?

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

At the end of this blog, y ou’ ll be able to share your resolutions , priorities, concerns, and more. . Acquiring buy-in from executive leadership and the C-suite . But only about one-fourth of all B2B product companies and one-third of B2B s ervice companies can prove the impact of marketing activities on revenues. *.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JULY 22, 2021

Namely, B2B advertising leader LinkedIn and the #1 B2B marketing attribution application, Bizible. LinkedIn Ads have proven to be a powerful tool for B2B marketers. Measuring B2B Marketing Performance. This post is about the intersection of those two things. Do they pay you back many times over in revenue growth?

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Marketo is happy to be one of the partners contributing to this vision through our integrations with Facebook that connect the dots between seemingly disparate activities, digitally and offline. A Marketo Case Study. in-store purchases, event attendance, content downloads), to digital campaigns to optimize their program and spend.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JULY 6, 2018

So now it’s time to fire up the ads and watch as your leads turn into revenue, right? While a high quantity of leads can undoubtedly be good, it’s not enough. According to research done by eMarketer , the highest priority of B2B marketers is increasing lead quality , while increasing volume only ranks in third regarding importance.

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TrustRadius Marketing

OCTOBER 1, 2018

In an age where inbound marketing has taken over, it is almost impossible to find a software or influencer who does not have a blog. When blogs abound, it can be difficult to sort through blogs that are merely throwing keywords at you and the gems that can actually inspire an ‘ah-ha’ moment. B2B Personal and Consulting Blogs.

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Only B2B

JULY 5, 2023

In the ever-changing landscape of B2B marketing, demand generation plays a pivotal role in driving business growth and success. As we enter 2023, it is crucial to adapt to the evolving nature of B2B demand generation and discover effective strategies to generate demand and engage target audiences.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

The internet is saturated with content marketing, people’s inboxes are full of well-designed emails , and account-based strategies are quickly becoming a B2B standard. In this blog, I’ll cover how to achieve executive-level alignment to take your customer engagement to the next level. . Present Your Customer Engagement Goals.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

MARCH 6, 2018

In the year that I’ve been with Marketo, I’ve gained some interesting insights into enterprise organizations’ challenges around sales and marketing alignment. I’ve also implemented multiple marketing automation systems, the last of which was Marketo. In my previous role, I simultaneously implemented Marketo and Salesforce CRM.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JANUARY 13, 2020

Too often, and especially in B2B marketing, we give the job of building the relationship that turns marketing leads into sales prospects to the sales development rep (SDR). The post Why 75% of Your Marketing Emails Are Never Read appeared first on Marketo Marketing Blog - Best Practices and Thought Leadership.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JULY 17, 2018

Jokes aside, have you given much thought to how your customers can actually contribute to helping you grow your customer base? Peer-to-peer marketing is not only a viable channel you should be exploring, but it’s also one that has seen great success in both B2B and B2C marketing. 2) Open Your Blog to Customers.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JUNE 28, 2017

According to SiriusDecisions, 80% of unqualified leads today—those understandably ignored by sales—will go on to buy from someone within the next 24 months. But for B2B products and services, especially those with a long, complex buying process, the brand needs to be accompanied by information the buyer cares about.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

MARCH 8, 2017

So why has account-based marketing only recently gained widespread popularity and practice among B2B businesses? In fact, our SMB marketing team at Marketo has seen great results with this account-centric strategy. According to data from the Marketo ABM Benchmark Survey, 33% of B2B SMBs are already conducting ABM.

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Marketing Insider Group

JANUARY 8, 2013

When I created my own B2B Marketing Blog almost 3 years ago, I looked out across the blogosphere and asked “what do I have to say that is unique, valuable and helpful?” ” And so I created the B2B Marketing Insider to help provide an insider’s point of view. The Best B2B Marketing Blogs.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JANUARY 30, 2019

B2B marketers are in a pickle when it comes to data. Yet the marketer’s trust in data has plunged to a new low that’s putting a damper on strategic marketing initiatives, according to Dun & Bradstreet’s (D&B) recently released Sixth Annual B2B Marketing Data Report. Instead of creating opportunity it’s creating chaos.”.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

APRIL 11, 2017

Here at Socedo , getting our leads to engage with our emails is an ongoing challenge. Since we adopted Marketo in 2015, we’ve been nurturing our leads with weekly emails that provide educational content. Marketo User Group in Seattle, WA), the influencers they follow, and the articles they share and comment on.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

DECEMBER 15, 2017

I’ll lead with the positive: 98% of marketers have customer engagement strategies. I promise it will lead to more revenue in the long run, too. Internal experiments—even if they’re small in scale—that can produce outcomes to share with leadership. 82% believe they have a deep understanding of their audience. approach pay off?

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JULY 12, 2018

While the sales team thinks the marketing team shared only contacts (read, unqualified leads), the marketing team blames the sales team for not being able to convert all the excellent qualified leads they hand off. Not only this, sales reps ignore 50% of the marketing leads according to a study by the TAS Group. Sound familiar?

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

AUGUST 10, 2017

A few weeks ago, on #marketochat, we discussed How to Increase Your B2B Social Media Engagement with Social Media Influencer, Neal Shaffer. Today, having social media presence is a necessity for any B2B organization. People like to be heard and want to know that their thoughts and opinions matter. If So, Why or Why Not? .

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

MARCH 28, 2019

Steve Lucas, SVP of Marketo, an Adobe company, on Thursday challenged the thousands of attendees at Adobe Summit—The Digital Experience Conference to make every experience count. With that, Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen came on stage to discuss with Lucas Adobe’s 2018 acquisition of Marketo. Helping B2B Meet the Experience Mandate.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JULY 7, 2017

Because there is more to lead scoring than just fit. The lead must also have a need for your product or service and be ready to research and evaluate solutions. Unfortunately, you can’t tell whether a lead is ready by scoring them on fit alone. That’s an important aspect of behavioral lead scoring. Why is that?

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NuSpark Consulting

AUGUST 23, 2018

While the marketing gurus tell you content is a must-have gizmo in the B2B marketer’s tool belt, sometimes the return on investment (ROI) feels a little squishy. Guest Blogging. With guest blogging, you’re writing articles that you plan to publish on other organizations’ websites. Add to status as a thought leader.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

APRIL 15, 2015

Author: Chandar Pattabhiram We’re just about to kick-off Day 3—the final day—of the Marketo Marketing Nation™ Summit 2015. They approached LinkedIn and Marketo to solve that problem for them. Together, Marketo and LinkedIn have made doing this a lot easier. Digital Marketing b2b Consumer' It’s been a great event so far.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

OCTOBER 23, 2019

The Fearless 50 is a yearlong program designed for marketers that have one thing in common: unstoppable drive to lead digital transformation in their organizations. The ultimate goal of the Fearless 50 is to sharpen members’ leadership skills and provide them with all the necessary tools for world-class digital transformation.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2019

Account-based marketing (ABM) is a B2B strategy in which sales and marketing teams work together on a clearly defined set of target accounts to serve personalized campaigns uniquely designed for each individual account. All in all, ABM shortens the sales cycle and improves your lead conversion ratio. Identify metrics that matter.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

APRIL 1, 2015

However, the system breaks when the purchase is made offline–like when a buyer works directly with a salesperson who takes the order (a typical use case for B2B purchases). In other words, if one of these prospects connects with a sales rep, and ultimately ends up purchasing, Marketo feeds that conversion back to Google AdWords.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JULY 20, 2009

The next interview in the B2B Marketing thought leader interview series is with John Watton, VP Marketing at ShipServ , the leading e-marketplace for maritime shipping (and also a Marketo customer). And yes, we do have a ShipServ Twitter account , but it's simply a feed from our blog.

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Smarte

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

If you are a B2B company and you were to focus on only one channel for your company’s lead generation, it has to be LinkedIn. It allows you to build relationships, establish thought leadership, gain insights, generate leads , improve branding, and build communities. What is LinkedIn Lead Gen Forms?

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Smarte

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

If you are a B2B company and you were to focus on only one channel for your company’s lead generation, it has to be LinkedIn. It allows you to build relationships, establish thought leadership, gain insights, generate leads , improve branding, and build communities. What is LinkedIn Lead Gen Forms?

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JUNE 20, 2018

ABM is an antidote to the conventional lead generation efforts that leave marketers increasingly frustrated. In fact, a report on B2B lead generation presented by the Technology Marketing Community on LinkedIn showed that only 16% of marketers believe their current efforts are extremely effective. Tag and Segment Accounts.

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