Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 20, 2015

Contact information is easy to get, but how do you turn a lead into a customer? There is no magic bullet for conversion, despite the many wild promises you may hear, but lead nurturing can drive huge improvements. In fact: 79% of marketing leads never convert to sales. Buyers respond to brands they trust.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

OCTOBER 21, 2016

The Sales and Marketing Blind Spot. However, when it comes to sales and marketing, very little has changed despite significant changes in buyer behaviors—the result of which has decreased the volume of leads that sales receives. Generating more leads isn’t a short-term, “one and done” campaign.

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Lake One

JULY 28, 2020

With marketing automation, you can serve the right content to the right person at the right time – at scale. And not to mention, it just might be my favorite tool in our marketing tech stack. . So, how does marketing automation apply in the real world? What is B2B Marketing Automation? Lead Scoring.

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The Point

DECEMBER 11, 2018

There was a time, not so long ago, when Marketing Automation went through a similar transition. In the giddy, early days when solutions like Marketo first arrived on the scene, the reigning view was that the technology was all a company needed to solve their lead management and email marketing woes.

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Lake One

APRIL 23, 2020

One tool manufacturing companies can have in their toolbox, is marketing automation. Marketing automation helps manufacturers simplify complex b2b processes while personalizing and scaling their digital marketing and sales efforts. House of Marketing “Yearly Marketing Survey 2019” (2019). .

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Martech

JULY 14, 2022

Factors driving changes in ABM include shifts in buyer preferences and pre-purchase behavior, as well as the development of more sophisticated technology and data products that enable marketers to analyze behavior, identify in-market audiences, and craft experiences for a buying group or its individual members.

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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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Webbiquity

FEBRUARY 14, 2010

Marketing automation provider Marketo has just published The Definitive Guide to Lead Nurturing , a white paper that provides real value, covering the lead nurturing process from the basic how and why through ROI measurement.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

APRIL 15, 2019

The difference is that marketing automation has made this process much more sophisticated. Drip marketing can be particularly effective when you’re: Reengaging a cold sales lead: Did a once-promising prospect suddenly abandon you at the one-yard line? Download What Is Lead Nurturing? to learn more.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JANUARY 2, 2014

In fact, football teams are a lot like marketing automation teams – you need talented players, of course, but you also need dedicated roles, internal coordination, and sound strategy. The Basic Structure of a Marketing Automation Team. At Marketo, we have a much larger team.

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Lattice

MAY 24, 2016

The B2B world is moving fast towards Account-Based Marketing, Account-Based Sales Development…well “Account-Based Everything.” B2B sales and marketing have an imperative to be aligned on which accounts to go after and win. According to IDG research , on average 17 individuals are involved in a buying decision.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JANUARY 2, 2014

In fact, football teams are a lot like marketing automation teams – you need talented players, of course, but you also need dedicated roles, internal coordination, and sound strategy. The Basic Structure of a Marketing Automation Team. At Marketo, we have a much larger team. 1 full-time employee).

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2012

by Jon Miller Marketing automation is a technology that streamlines and automates marketing tasks so companies can increase operational efficiency and grow revenue faster. In other words, companies don’t buy marketing automation to automate their marketing. Consider just a few studies.

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LeadSloth

AUGUST 17, 2009

Earlier this year I downloaded Silverpop’s lead management workbook , and I planned to write about it. Unfortunately, not enough time… Last week I received a copy of Marketo’s Lead Nurturing workbook. Both books show how you can increase sales by nurturing all leads, from inquiry to opportunity.

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Conversica

OCTOBER 9, 2018

If your emails are sent to the right person at the wrong time, the chances of conversion are lower than if the same person receives a message at the right time in their buying process. Use your marketing automation software to automate messages based on audience behavior. Behavioral triggers. Always be testing.

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Avitage

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

Cause and effect relationships in a complex B2B environment characterized by multiple buyer touch points across a buyer driven buying cycle are as clear as mud. Knowing what questions to ask of your metrics differentiates successful marketing programs from the money pits. In a recent CRMSoftware.TV

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

APRIL 3, 2017

In fact, Sirius Decisions found that 92% of B2B marketers worldwide consider ABM “extremely” or “very” important to their overall marketing efforts. It follows on the heels of marketing automation, attribution , and other core themes that are becoming increasingly important as marketing becomes more data-driven.

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Tony Zambito

JANUARY 5, 2011

.  Understanding what buyers are doing in the lead generation to sales cycle gap is proving to be a competitive difference maker.   It also redefines marketing’s role in terms of just lead generation to that of working in tandem with sales through the entire end-to-end process of revenue generation and management. 

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

MARCH 5, 2013

by Dayna Rothman For our recent Definitive Guide to Marketing Automation launch, I interviewed several marketing automation experts to get their input on key questions such as the future of marketing automation and it’s key benefits over an Email Service Provider (ESP).

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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

MARCH 13, 2013

by Heidi Bullock Marketing automation is a great solution to help drive your business. Marketers need to be more accountable, engage with customers and potential buyers, and also scale their activities. With marketing automation software , it becomes easier to scale programs (e.g. Content Manager.

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NuSpark Consulting

JANUARY 21, 2012

B2B lead generation and lead management is a complicated process that can’t be detailed all in one book. It’s easier said than done which is why firms like mine exist, to implement proper lead generation tactics that build revenue. General B2B Marketing & Lead Generation. Content Marketing.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

OCTOBER 24, 2011

Today I’m asking if marketing automation is changing the world of B2B marketing? Marketing automation is the platform from which modern B2B marketers are launching their new programs and adapting to the changing environment. And the answer is a resounding “Yes!”. The question is not “did that program work?”

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JUNE 24, 2019

Account-Based Marketing and AI Working Together. ABM is moving inside sales teams away from traditional lists and leads and helping them analyze customer data to build their ideal customer profile (ICP) and use that insight to identify prospects most likely to convert to customers. There’s just one challenge.

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Avitage

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

Cause and effect relationships in a complex B2B environment characterized by multiple buyer touch points across a buyer driven buying cycle are as clear as mud. Knowing what questions to ask of your metrics differentiates successful marketing programs from the money pits.

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Customer Experience Matrix

AUGUST 28, 2014

Starting at the beginning, the system imports a list of each client’s customers and sales opportunities from CRM and marketing automation systems. Standard integrations are available for Salesforce.com , Oracle Eloqua and Marketo. The company was founded in 2013 and released early versions of its product that same year.

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LeanData

JULY 13, 2020

Marketers are often tasked to do more with less, wear several hats, work with limited resources, generate pipeline, and demonstrate that the marketing team’s efforts had an influence on revenue. This is no different for our marketing team at GE Digital. We started with lead assignment and routing solutions. The Problem.

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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!) discussed the top seven ways to utilize marketing automation to generate more sales revenue. For outbound it is direct marketing (e.g.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

APRIL 25, 2013

by Jon Miller (@jonmiller) Marketo’s Definitive Guide to Lead Scoring defines lead scoring as a “shared sales and marketing methodology for ranking leads in order to determine their sales readiness.”. “A In other words, how attractive is this potential lead to me ? The ROI of Behavioral Lead Scoring.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 17, 2015

For those of you who aren’t familiar with Dave or Smart Insights – Dave Chaffey is CEO of Smart Insights, a publisher of planning templates and articles focusing on Digital Strategy with channels on B2B Marketing and Marketing automation. 4) What one Digital Marketing tactic should a B2B Marketer stop in the next year?

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

NOVEMBER 1, 2012

by Dayna Rothman What is the difference between email marketing and marketing automation? We all know how powerful and important email marketing is to your marketing toolbox, but implementing marketing automation can dramatically increase the effectiveness of the email marketing strategy you already have in place.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JULY 9, 2012

Now, what does this have to do with marketing automation specifically? And as my colleagues and I continued to reminisce, being the marketing geeks that we are, we couldn’t help but bring it back to well—marketing! 1) Don’t put all of your eggs in one basket. Try to keep it fresh! 2) Pay attention to your copy.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

MARCH 3, 2011

by Maria Pergolino It’s one thing to generate leads. The industry wide statistic of 70% of leads never receiving effective sales follow-up is astounding. With the mass amount of resources devoted to lead generation, the act of following up on leads has to be improved to experience growth in conversion rates.

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Industrial Marketing Today

OCTOBER 7, 2010

Lead scoring has become very important in today’s B2B marketing. Marketing’s role in interacting with prospects has expanded and goes further into the buy cycle than before. Lead scoring, a key component of lead nurturing and management, is an effective tool for aligning sales and marketing.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

AUGUST 2, 2017

How do you maintain relationships throughout years-long healthcare buying cycles? I lead an organization and team that works with healthcare marketers to help them transform to become essential to their organization’s revenue program. Lead Management . Marketing and Sales Technology . Media and Channels.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

I think Disney’s advice rings true today for those considering marketing automation. From time to time I speak with marketers who tell me, “We would love to get started but we don’t have enough content.”. Solution-oriented and company-focused materials are appropriate for prospects engaged in an active buying cycle.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

APRIL 10, 2011

The three things Carlos Hidalgo recommends to someone getting started with lead management include: Conducting an audit. Go though your lead management steps and determine where you are with you data, lead planning, metrics, etc. Figuring out (with sales) the definitions of each buying cycle.

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