Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

Once again Salesforce.com has delivered a great set of new features for Marketers in the Winter 10 release. To use this, create different campaign record types for each of your different types of marketing programs, like email, webinars, direct mail, tradeshows, and website/landing pages.

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markempa

DECEMBER 12, 2016

I’ve compiled a list of the 10 most popular and shared posts on the B2B Lead Blog, chosen by marketers, just like you, to help you get ready to have a great 2017. For the majority of B2B companies with complex sales, marketing-generated leads rarely account for 50% of revenue and often it’s often much less. Here’s why.

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markempa

MAY 30, 2017

Getting the right content to the right people continues to be a challenge in B2B marketing. To do a detailed audience analysis to help marketers understand how they can improve marketing accuracy. I wanted to talk with Mat and bring this vital information to B2B marketers. As a marketer, we have metrics.

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Brandpoint

MAY 18, 2020

In today’s digitally focused business environment, it’s more important than ever for sales and marketing departments to work together to create content and collateral that’s effective in driving sales. closely measure the ROI of their content marketing, according to the 2019 Content Marketing Institute and Marketing Profs B2B report.

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Liveintent

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

C ustomers can enjoy accurate and enriched CRM data via up-to-date, deterministically matched unified profiles to perform marketing in the Identity-driven Era. Salesforce AppExchange, the world’s leading enterprise cloud marketplace, empowers companies, developers and entrepreneurs to build, market and grow in entirely new ways.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JULY 30, 2009

The next interview in the B2B Marketing Thought Leader interview series is with David Taber. David is the author of the new Prentice-Hall book, " Salesforce.com Secrets of Success ," which covers the people, policy, and process issues surrounding effective CRM solutions. Q: David, why did you write this book?

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Zoominfo

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Account-Based Marketing (ABM) always seems like a great idea … until you get into the nitty-gritty. In fact, with just a few simple steps, DIY customer data segmentation for account-based marketing is a great way to get started. Discover your best marketing account segments from within your current customer base. Sound familiar?

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Customer Experience Matrix

MARCH 26, 2015

Tuesday’s post on the Adobe Marketing Cloud illustrated the complexity of solutions that combine many marketing and advertising components. For many smaller companies, a suite like Adobe, Oracle , IBM , Salesforce.com , SAS , or Teradata isn’t an option and would be overkill if it were. email-based targeting.

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ViewPoint

MAY 13, 2016

How to define a lead and gain agreement is the first of 7 Truths about Sales and Marketing that CEOs need to know. This post is part of a series about the CEO’s role in eliminating wasted marketing spend and increasing sales results. A couple of years ago I wrote a blog for Salesforce.com about lead definition.

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Customer Experience Matrix

APRIL 30, 2015

A recent piece in TechCrunch quoted me as saying that “almost 70 percent of marketers are either unhappy or only marginally happy with their marketing automation software.” This lead to enough questions about the data that it now seems worth a blog post on the topic. Answers came from 159 marketing automation users.

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Salesforce Marketing Cloud

JANUARY 22, 2024

For many content marketing teams, last year started with “What the heck is generative AI?” At Salesforce, 2023 was the year our content marketing team started playing around with generative artificial intelligence (AI). million blog posts will likely publish every day. So, that’s how we’re using AI in content marketing.

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NuSpark Consulting

JULY 17, 2010

We attempt to set the record straight as we simply look at Marketing Automation systems as compared to Email Programs. We’ve been testing a variety of Marketing Automation programs; the ones we like we have agreed to offer as potential solutions to our clients. Marketing Automation gives you that intelligence.

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Webbiquity

JULY 12, 2016

Marketing automation software tools can be very helpful in making lead nurturing and sales acceleration efforts more effective—even if the category is badly misnamed. Marketing can’t be automated.) Recent research shows that 63% of B2B companies that are growing faster than their competitors use marketing automation.

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Customer Experience Matrix

NOVEMBER 16, 2014

When this blog last left Geoff Rego in 2010 , he had just sold the assets of pioneering B2B marketing automation vendor Market2Lead to Oracle. The new product is Hushly , which addresses the reluctance of prospects to provide their email address even in return for valuable content.

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LeadSloth

MARCH 8, 2010

I write about Marketing Automation, so why am I at a sales conference? I’m here because I believe Sales & Marketing should be on the same team. Marketing Automation can help both Marketing and Sales, but it requires intense collaboration: that’s what Sales 2.0 Chatter and Marketing Automation.

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Customer Experience Matrix

MARCH 2, 2015

Back then, they positioned themselves as a “marketing operating system” that provided core functions but would ultimately let users connect with third party apps. The latest incarnation describes itself as “software for multi-channel marketing” but still provides core functions and connects with third party apps. So what has changed?

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DiscoverOrg

AUGUST 14, 2018

Account-Based Marketing (ABM) always seems like a great idea … until you get into the nitty gritty. In fact, with just a few simple steps, DIY data segmentation for account-based marketing is a great way get started. In fact, with just a few simple steps, DIY data segmentation for account-based marketing is a great way get started.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 10, 2013

sales enablement: systems to share marketing information with sales ( Genius , SalesFusion , LeadFormix , RightOn Interactive , Optify) distributed marketing: systems shared between central marketing organizations and local branches, dealers, distributors, sales agents, etc. That''s theme number three.

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Customer Experience Matrix

MARCH 16, 2016

Can computers understand an individual human’s personality (and then, presumably, use that understanding to better target marketing messages)? And, yes, Crystal advises you how to interact with others based on those insights, going so far as to suggest changes to your emails to better fit the style of the recipient. How many more?

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Lead Liaison

JULY 9, 2021

Check out the powerful new enhancements on Lead Liaison’s Sales & Marketing Lead Management platform. MARKETING ACTIVATIONS: Games, Improvements & Updates. . MARKETING/EVENTS: GAMIFICATION IMPROVEMENTS & UPDATES. ™ from the Apple App Store or Google Play Store. 1: Activation Builder Redesign.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

NOVEMBER 27, 2009

Last Thursday at Dreamforce, I had the chance to attend The Secrets to Email Marketing Success: Marketing Panel. This panel session focused on how to get more from email marketing as well as discuss the latest trends and strategies in email marketing. Go Viral - Encourage sharing in your email.

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DiscoverOrg

AUGUST 14, 2018

Reading Time: 9 minutes Account-Based Marketing (ABM) always seems like a great idea … until you get into the nitty gritty. In fact, with just a few simple steps, DIY data segmentation for account-based marketing is a great way get started. Watch: DiscoverOrg documents our own Account-Based Marketing experiment. Sound familiar?

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Account Based Marketing Segmentation Ideal Customer Profiles Work Management 120

Webbiquity

FEBRUARY 14, 2010

Marketing automation / demand generation software provider Manticore today announced the release of Manticore Technology VII, which includes a fully customizable user interface, email and landing page folders, an email delivery wizard, and drag-and-drop list building functionality.

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LeadSloth

APRIL 15, 2009

On this blog I primarily write about integrated Lead Management systems , rather than small tools. However, in a previous post I wrote about a project in which I’m replacing a full-blown Marketing Automation system with tools that add on to Salesforce.com. Salesforce.com integration complexity. Advanced Features.

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Customer Experience Matrix

APRIL 10, 2014

Marketo wrapped up its three day Marketing Nation conference yesterday, having once more displayed its own marketing prowess by attracting national media attention (see here and here ) with an appearance by Hillary Clinton. This borders on integration of Web display with marketing automation, an extremely important trend.

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Leadspace

JANUARY 4, 2017

After creating, building, and leading the Oracle Marketing Cloud from obscurity to industry leadership for the last 3 years, which was a beyond-amazing career experience (thank you Oracle!), Only 10% of the marketers out there are even doing this as common practice right now, and we should see a lot more adoption this year.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 15, 2013

But since late 2011 the company has also offered a suite aimed at marketers, which now has more than 4,000 paid clients. Even in the small business sector, that count would make Vocus one of the largest marketing automation systems. But Vocus doesn’t quite match the profile of standard marketing automation products.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

NOVEMBER 21, 2013

by the many marketers at Dreamforce this year. Here are some highlights from our sessions: 11 Secrets to Writing Emails that get Opened , Read, and Clicked. First up was Andrew Kordek, who asked the audience to think about the last experience they had subscribing to emails. Were the emails useful? Was it good? Was it bad?

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Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 30, 2009

Yesterday’s post described one strategy to sell marketing automation to small businesses: provide a specific, turnkey service that requires virtually no skill or effort from the user. If the vendors fail, the business will go to consultants, ad agencies, and other service firms that do the clients’ marketing for them.

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Customer Experience Matrix

DECEMBER 2, 2010

It's looking more like a conventional small-business marketing automation system every day. HubSpot has always aimed to provide small businesses with one easy-to-use system for all their marketing needs. As both sets of systems expand their scope, their features will overlap more and marketers will compare them directly.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JANUARY 31, 2010

Summary: Aprimo Marketing Studio offers powerful features in an on-demand system for sophisticated business and consumer marketers. When I wrote about Aprimo Marketing Studio in a post last August , I was impressed by the scope of the product but reserved judgment because it hadn’t yet been launched. You know who you are.

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markempa

APRIL 13, 2015

Tweet The management of sales leads is critical to generating marketing ROI. Sadly, sales leads often land on the scrap heap because marketers throw leads over the wall and then expect salespeople to catch them. Qualify all marketing leads as sales-ready before the hand-off. The key is to match readiness of the lead (i.e.,

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LeadSloth

MAY 16, 2009

This week I’m finishing up my day job as Sr Marketing Manager at Backbase, and will be available full-time for Marketing Automation Consulting. If you have Marketing Automation challenges, I’d love to hear from you ( or toll-free 1-888-4A-SLOTH). Around that time I will also pick up blogging and Twittering again.

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Convince & Convert

MAY 4, 2010

Check out Phil’s blog too ) Your new book The Next Wave of Technologies deals with how organizations can adopt and adapt to new processes and advances. I’m delighted to have had the chance to interview technology consultant and author Phil Simon about how technology and social media adoption is changing companies.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JUNE 4, 2013

Author: Phil Fernandez Today, Salesforce.com announced plans to buy ExactTarget. Where marketing is going. Where marketing is going. We believe that marketing is undergoing a deep transformation driven by large-scale trends such as the rise of self-directed consumers and broad and instant availability of information online.

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markempa

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

How can you drive fast growth with marketing? I first met Fowler when he was co-founder of the cloud-based contact management platform Jigsaw which he sold to Salesforce.com for $175 million (now Data.com). After you sold Jigsaw to Salesforce.com why didn’t you decide to ride off into the sunset? . Transcript.

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The Point

SEPTEMBER 6, 2011

When marketers embark on a formal lead nurturing strategy, opportunities for process improvement can arise in unexpected ways. First, the company invested in Marketo , a leading marketing automation platform that integrated well with the company’s CRM system, Salesforce.com.

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