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). When I joined ShipServ, it was clear that we needed to better align our selling cycle to the buyers' buying cycle.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

MAY 15, 2019

For many B2B companies, segmenting with parameters like title, industry, and role is the extent of their efforts. Are they at the right stage of the buying cycle? That certainly won’t provide you with a competitive advantage so you may need to lead a data overhaul. Five tips for effective audience segmentation.

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markempa

JANUARY 28, 2008

If all you do is send generic email marketing messages to your early stage leads over and over and over again, you're missing the point. To be truly effective, marketers must get over the “automated only” approach to lead nurturing (meaning there's no actual human interaction just a blind system that can't think).

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JULY 21, 2017

If you’re keeping up with the latest B2B trends, you’ve probably heard or read the term “Account Based” recently. Many B2B organizations deal with a smaller lead pool and longer sales cycle, which means you’ve probably had to adjust your marketing campaigns accordingly. Software: Marketo.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

APRIL 22, 2013

The need to engage meaningfully with prospects and customers has skyrocketed as savvy professionals increasingly self-educate at every stage of the purchasing cycle, and using video thought leadership content can be a great way to capture your buyer’s attention.

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Ambal's Amusings

APRIL 21, 2010

How should you adapt to the changing trends in B2B marketing? Galen De Young, managing director of Proteus B2B and Proteus SEO, helps B2B clients integrate content marketing, social media, email, and SEO to generate and nurture leads. Blog B2B Marketing Twitter GalenDY. " Blog B2B Marketing Twitter GalenDY. "

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

OCTOBER 26, 2010

Prior to the Marketo user summit I had heard a few great examples of nurturing programs being created without a lot of content, but after I shared some of these stories at the event I was approached by many others with similar stories. What I thought was the exception was actually the norm. What can they do?

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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. Q: What marketing metric(s) should I use to capture lead nurturing effectiveness? from those we do not.

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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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Valasys

AUGUST 19, 2019

The very purpose of content marketing has been associated with the feedback mechanisms to trigger lead generation processes for B2B businesses. According to the Content Marketing Institute, Content marketing lies at the very core of all the lead generation efforts.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

MARCH 16, 2015

This year, Marketo set out to make a splash at the event. in the middle of all the action—we had a fun mix of engaging marketing thought leadership sessions, plenty of places to charge your devices and relax, a sweet photobooth, swag, and a taco bar! No lead nurturing , and too much focus on the bottom-of-the-funnel.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

APRIL 7, 2016

Author: Stacey Thornberry A joint Marketo and Reachforce research piece found that businesses are 67% better at closing deals when sales and marketing work together. Recently, I spoke about sales and marketing alignment during my presentation,“Close More Deals with Effective Lead Scoring”at the InsideSales.com Sales Acceleration Summit.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JULY 7, 2014

Author: Heidi Bullock Marketers at all kinds of companies – B2B and consumer-facing, old and new, big and small – are turning to content marketing as a top strategy, for driving thought leadership, establishing relationships with buyers, and fueling their inbound marketing. Align key stakeholders. Now for a *Real Example*.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

FEBRUARY 23, 2015

Author: Rajiv Kapoor When I recently visited Marketo headquarters, my buddy asked me what I was working on, and I told him enterprise consulting in a strategic role (as opposed to more of an implementation role)—to which he responded, “so, what exactly are you doing?”. Please share your thoughts in the comments below.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

by Dayna Rothman IDC recently released their 2012 CMO Advisory Service Best Practices Series: Realizing the Vision of the 21st Century Lead Management. Here are some questions that IDC sought to answer with their survey: How do leading companies staff and organize teams for effective lead management?

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

By interviewing marketers who leverage video (see the video of our interviews here ), we found that many companies have integrated video marketing with their marketing automation , turning video into a top performing lead source for their organization. Use Video for Lead Generation & Nurturing. video b2b'

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JANUARY 6, 2009

Five Tips for Effective Lead Nurturing. It’s not uncommon to have 100,000s of contacts, or even millions, in a B2B company’s contact database. Finding out that most of what marketing calls “leads” are not really sales leads reinforces the sales team’s impression that marketing-generated prospects are not worth their time.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JULY 9, 2012

You have to make sure that you are thinking proactively about producing content and creating email campaigns that can speak to your prospects at all stages of the buying cycle. Keep them coming back for more through your content machine, lead nurturing programs, and social media. Try to keep it fresh!

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Ambal's Amusings

OCTOBER 15, 2009

In ClickInsights Expert Interview Series we feature top notch industry experts and thought leaders and get their insights, opinions and predictions. What types of metrics do B2B marketers need to measure a marketing campaign's success? Recommended Resources from B2B Marketing Experts. Marketo's Modern B2B Marketing.

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LEADership

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

The Definitive B2B Lead Generation Checklist: Part 1. Do you have the processes and best practices to make what was thought to be impossible possible? Make sure you have the essential ingredients for a successful lead generation recipe. Jon Miller, VP-marketing at Marketo Inc., Forget about legacy concerns!

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JANUARY 2, 2014

As head of our Customer Success/Account Management team here at Marketo, one question I hear frequently from new CMOs, VPs of Marketing and Directors of Marketing/Lead Generation is: “How can I build my marketing automation team?”. At Marketo, we have a much larger team. These people prepare their own copy and content.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JANUARY 2, 2014

As head of our Customer Success/Account Management team here at Marketo, one question I hear frequently from new CMOs, VPs of Marketing and Directors of Marketing/Lead Generation is: “How can I build my marketing automation team?”. At Marketo, we have a much larger team. Lead Nurture Manager.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

DECEMBER 20, 2010

by Katie Byrnes In a recent webinar, Mac McIntosh, Founding Partner of AcquireB2B, and Jep Castelein, Founder of LeadSloth (and new Principal Consultant at Marketo!) Nurture your leads to get 3 out of 4 sales opportunities that come from prospects with longer-term needs. Focus on qualified leads. Reactivate old leads.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JUNE 26, 2014

Lead generation also used to be more of a numbers game. You can begin to humanize your lead pool by gaining insight in four areas: prospect intelligence, lead intelligence, lead scoring, and lead nurturing. But on top of that, lead scoring enables you to filter leads based on their stage in the buying cycle.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

MAY 13, 2009

The next interview in the B2B Marketing thought leader interview series is with Jill Konrath, Chief Sales Officer and Author of Selling to Big Companies. This interview with Jill provides great insight and best practices to improve sales and marketing alignment and shorten the sales cycle for B2B companies.

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The Effective Marketer

MAY 9, 2011

When companies start to tailor content to different audiences and stages of the buying cycle, they greatly increase the amount of content, and the type of content needed changes&# Marketing Roles Are Evolving Marketing used to have clearly defined roles. Does it sound familiar? A new role is starting to take shape.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

NOVEMBER 11, 2009

Marketing automation has the ability to benefit almost every B2B company and industry, but are there benefits specific to open source companies? What aspects of the buying cycle are most important to open source companies? The entire buying cycle is important.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

MARCH 28, 2013

If these promotional messages are not relevant, your potential reader may never dive into your thought leadership. Past behavior: Responses to emails or actions taken on your website can help inform a person’s interests and/or place in the buying cycle. Want to learn more about dynamic content and promoting your content?

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

Do you want to drive new leads or nurture existing prospects? An effective video campaign requires you to segment your audience and target your video content accordingly, by factors like age, industry type, stage in the buying cycle, etc. Digital Marketing b2b Consumer' Who’s your target audience?

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JUNE 2, 2011

I recently got a chance to discuss the survey’s results and their implications for the future of B2B Marketing with Susan McKittrick, an Analyst and Senior Consultant at the Patricia Seybold Group. Leading-edge or above average data usage to support marketing activities. Did you find a correlation with business performance?

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JANUARY 3, 2014

Instead, they build relationships with companies and products in a non-linear, difficult to predict way – they conduct independent research, they talk to a friend, they do more research, they see an advertisement online, they research on Facebook, they change their minds entirely, and then – seemingly at random – they buy.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JANUARY 3, 2014

Instead, they build relationships with companies and products in a non-linear, difficult to predict way – they conduct independent research, they talk to a friend, they do more research, they see an advertisement online, they research on Facebook, they change their minds entirely, and then – seemingly at random – they buy.

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Velocity Partners

APRIL 16, 2024

This is the sixth in a series we’re running about the new B2B GTM playbook. The other day, I had the privilege of sitting down with Jon Miller, founder CEO of Marketo and Engagio and most recently CMO at B2B Go-to-Market powerhouse Demandbase. You talk about how the old B2B playbook just doesn’t work anymore. SW : Hi Jon.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

Any B2B marketer concerned with marketing ROI and sales enablement needs to know how and when to use it. Conveniently for us B2B marketers, video also conveys more information per minute than any other media platform. How video engages prospects throughout the buying cycle. by Jon Miller Online video is exploding.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

The rise of what some are calling the “ Data Economy ” also comes at an opportune moment for B2B marketing and sales in particular, as they move increasingly towards account-based frameworks. But ABM actually requires an even greater measure of targeting and personalization than a purely lead-led approach. Personalize Your AdTech.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Most B2B companies have a set of personas usually developed by product marketing teams to understand and add context to the buyer. Personas who are later in the buying cycle should also be scored higher based on their actions- for example, requesting product demos. Map Personas to Segments.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JUNE 12, 2018

Whether it’s project management, user experience , content personalization, or lead nurturing , we have endless opportunities to create flow on a regular basis—we simply need to be deliberate about it. How to Implement Flow in Your B2B Marketing. Complicated infographics with difficult interactive controls rarely lead to flow.

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