The Point

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

A prospective client asks: “We’re just getting our demand generation programs ramped up, and I’m not sure I’m ready for marketing automation. Do I need it in order to do lead nurturing?”. My answer: “It depends how you define “ lead nurturing ,” but technically: no, you don’t need marketing automation in order to nurture leads.

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LeanData

JULY 13, 2020

Marketing budgets vary by company, but any marketer will tell you, no matter how much is allocated, it is never enough! 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.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JANUARY 7, 2020

I love account-based marketing (ABM). Because of the bigger deal sizes and longer sales cycle, we have found that a focused, ABM approach leads to better performance of our marketing department. We spend a considerable amount of time aligning on what accounts we should be targeting with marketing and outbound efforts.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JUNE 24, 2019

Inside sales has always been a high-touch and highly professional strategy for reaching out to business buyers with a targeted message. That’s what account-based marketing (ABM) is all about—helping companies to target prospects with the highest propensity to buy. Account-Based Marketing and AI Working Together.

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Leadspace

OCTOBER 3, 2019

Lead Nurturing Is…. According to Andre Pino over at Forrester Research, “ Lead nurturing is a process by which leads are tracked and developed into sales-qualified leads.” This means that they are ready and worthy of a salesperson’s time. Effective Lead Nurturing Starts with Great Data.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JUNE 5, 2019

Let us know when this scenario starts to sound uncomfortably familiar: You tell your boss you think spending money in a new marketing channel will produce a strong return. But after it’s up and running, your boss asks, “So, what did that marketing program get us?”. Digital marketing key performance indicators (KPIs).

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

Account-based marketing (ABM) is a game-changer, but it’s not uncommon for sales to push back against implementing it as a new strategy. On the surface, it appears that ABM is asking sales to work with fewer leads, and that kind of change can be a scary proposition. Sales and Marketing Alignment is Crucial. It’s understandable.

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SpotMe Blog

JULY 27, 2021

From anywhere in the world, you have the power to gain interest in your product, gather valuable feedback from participants, and generate massive amounts of highly qualified leads. I think that’s something that we don’t often put as much thought into,” Babitz explained as a guest of The Event Marketing Show.

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Vidyard

MARCH 23, 2021

You’re peppering them into your marketing, sales, support, and elsewhere throughout your business. You’ve even integrated your video platform with your customer relationship management (CRM) and marketing automation platforms to track views on the lead and account level. Why Do Video Marketing Metrics Matter?

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

APRIL 15, 2013

Mason is CMO of iLevel Solutions in New York and markets a cloud-based software platform to private equity firms worldwide. The 2,800 of us attending last week’s Marketo Summit all came for various reasons and got the opportunity to attend different agenda tracks. One speaker reminded us about a common pitfall – “We’re marketers.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

OCTOBER 19, 2016

Author: Mary Kate Francis If you’re a B2B marketer, you’re probably familiar with demand generation in one way or another. Whatever your situation is, one thing’s for sure: trying to figure out how demand generation really works and where marketing ends and sales begins can be downright tricky as a novice.

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ViewPoint

MAY 30, 2012

Merger & Acquisition Activity in CRM & Marketing Automation Expected to Increase. Click to start video at this point —Andrew expressed some surprise that last year there weren’t more mergers and acquisitions in the marketing and sales spaces. Look for Greater Process Integration and Alignment in 2012.

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chiefmartech

APRIL 5, 2017

DNN Corp invested in the martech space in 2016 to build our marketing technology stack around predictive analytics and multi-touch attribution to efficiently and effectively execute marketing activities. Grew high-quality leads by 80%. Infer , a predictive sales and marketing software. So, how did we do it?

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

Author: Anastasia Pavlova Whether you’re a small to medium-sized business or a larger enterprise organization, marketing automation is your company’s best bet for staying competitive in this digital age. 53% of the B2B organizations and 43% of B2C and combination B2B/B2C organizations have adopted marketing automation systems.–

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DiscoverOrg

MARCH 27, 2017

Account-Based Marketing. More specifically: Account-Based Everything (ABE) is a strategic go-to-market approach that orchestrates personalized marketing, sales, and success efforts to drive engagement and conversion at named accounts. While leads and opportunities are important to note, it’s not enough for ABE.

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Optinmonster

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Are you looking for the best lead generation tools to grow your business? Lead generation is more than just getting people to visit your site. And just like any tough job, lead generation requires the right tools–even for professional marketers. What Is a Lead Generation Software/Tool? Why is this important?

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

MARCH 20, 2014

If you’re in marketing, a “trend” you’ve probably heard about is marketing automation. So in a nutshell, what does marketing automation do, and why should you care? I first purchased marketing automation (Marketo, specifically) while working at an another company several years ago.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JULY 28, 2015

Author: Glen Gow Too often marketers talk about activities instead of outcomes—for example, how many campaigns they ran, how many trade shows they participated in, how many new names they added to the lead database. These are metrics that reinforce the perception that marketing is a cost center, not a revenue driver.

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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. Define your content goals. Align key stakeholders.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

Author: Tanya Chu What does it mean to be a data-driven marketer? Everyone talks about the importance of tracking data and making decisions based on it, but no one tells you how to do it and what a data-driven marketing organization looks like. However, this data is not limited to who our leads are. How do you even get started?

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Martech

JANUARY 13, 2022

Marketo is perhaps one of the best-known marketing automation platforms for marketers. Since then it has been integrated into San Jose, California-based Abobe’s suite of marketing software. This guide will walk you through some of the key capabilities of Marketo. Click here to download! Product overview.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

AUGUST 9, 2016

This also happens in the world of marketing. From a field marketing perspective, some of these terms can get you into trouble if you don’t know what they mean. I’ll define some of these important field marketing terms below–complete with insider tips and personal stories: Executing Your Field Event. First-Touch Pipeline .

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MKT1

JANUARY 11, 2024

If you don’t adopt AI as a marketer, you won’t be efficient or effective enough to compete—we’ve all heard this many, many times at this point. Kathleen and I are marketers and investors. Improve marketing operations and processes : Use AI to streamline your team and free up time to work on meatier projects.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

DECEMBER 23, 2015

While PPC ads can sometimes feel like the elder statesman of digital advertising, it’s still in its prime and its birthday serves as a good reminder of how much potential there is for all the digital channels that marketers want to master. One possible metric is a simple yet powerful equation we use here at Marketo.

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SnapApp

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

As an event marketing manager, sometimes you look at your calendar and just think that you're crazy. Two years ago, G3 Communications merged their secondary conference into Content2Conversion to give both content and demand gen marketers a place to team up and get the most out of our programs. Multi-touch Demand Generation.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JULY 20, 2015

Author: Amber Tiffany Marketers are trained masters in the art of digital analytics. It turns out phone calls hold a ton of valuable (even essential) marketing insights. Here are 10 marketing insights you can only gain from phone calls: 1. It’s no secret digital marketing drives phone calls. Multi-touch Attribution.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JULY 15, 2014

Author: Raymond Coppinger Today, B2B marketers have many core objectives – brand building, customer communications, multi-channel coordination…the list goes on. But demand generation can mean quite different things to different marketing teams, and companies vary in how they define and measure it.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JANUARY 20, 2017

Author: Hila Nir The value of account-based marketing (ABM) is undeniable. Let’s start with the obvious: As with any successful B2B marketing strategy, close sales and marketing coordination is essential. According to MarketingProfs, companies that have aligned sales and marketing teams generate 208% more revenue.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JUNE 2, 2015

Generate more leads. Allow me to clarify: Lifecycle is a process that enables leads to move through a joint sales and marketing process (sales and marketing, unite!) A lifecycle is an efficient way for sales and marketing to work together in order to better track leads and at a lower cost. Increase upsell.

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SnapApp

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

As an event marketing manager, sometimes you look at your calendar and just think that you're crazy. Two years ago, G3 Communications merged their secondary conference into Content2Conversion to give both content and demand gen marketers a place to team up and get the most out of our programs. Multi-touch Demand Generation.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

Author: David Cain B2B marketers are always on the lookout for the best way to support their marketing goals and make their sales teams successful. This broad-reaching approach to marketing can be an effective way to generate leads and sales BUT it’s not the only way to organize your sales and marketing efforts.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

OCTOBER 4, 2012

For the last year or so, Marketo has been testing all these channels to determine what works and what doesn’t. At Marketo, we create fun, visual posts using popular memes that engage our audience AND link to a landing page with a registration form — and then we promote the post to make sure more people see it. Facebook Advertisements.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

MAY 29, 2014

Author: Frank Passantino Every marketing automation platform uses some type of reporting. But while every platform displays reports in different ways, and every marketer has different needs, there are some major insights that your marketing automation platform MUST be able to provide. Marketing Program Investment.

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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. Use outbound marketing to follow up, nurture and qualify your inbound leads.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

MARCH 26, 2014

As any marketer who has decided to start truly engaging with their audience can tell you, those same feelings usually apply. As a Marketo Solutions Consultant tasked with designing and configuring digital marketing strategies for our prospects, I think about engagement marketing a LOT. Guess we’re doing some running.

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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

JUNE 1, 2012

Growth Fusion is a boutique integrated marketing agency with a strong focus on ROI-driven Customer Acquisition and Demand Generation. Rajesh is a Marketo expert and has hands-on experience defining projects and implementing them at both venture-backed start-ups and consulting firms. This trend is also true in the B2B market.

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