Marketo Summit is upon us and for attendees that means creating a plan to make the most out of the April marketing conference. To help you with this we created an infographic guide to Marketo Summit. See you at Marketo Summit! MORE

As we get closer to Marketo Summit, our planning intensifies, both as sponsors of the conference and as attendees. While creating value is clearly the top priority, attendees of Marketo Summit also know how to have fun. What better way to kickstart your Marketo Summit experience? MORE

So as a demand gen marketer, this week’s Leadspace-hosted panel at The Marketing Nation Summit in San Francisco — which brought together marketing thought-leaders from Microsoft, Facebook and Marketo — was a real treat for me. MORE

This year, Marketo is going big. We are hosting 10+ sessions featuring marketing thought leaders from organizations like My Fitness Pal, The Economist, Kaiser Permanente, Mashable, and of course, Marketo! Author: Dayna Rothman We can’t wait for SXSW! MORE

Each Spring, Marketo – one of the leading Marketing Automation platform providers – hosts its annual Summit conference, Marketing Nation. This year, Summit is taking a much broader focus on marketing and on its impact on business success, not necessarily just the Marketo platform. MORE

And in our short history, it sure seems like people want Marketo. First, we heard customers in the UK asking for our technology; in 2011 we took the international plunge and hung the first global Marketo shingle up in Dublin. Needless to say, that shift plays right into Marketo’s hands. MORE

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To answer this question, we caught up with Marketo’s internal thought leaders to hear about the changes they anticipate in the coming year and how they think marketers can prepare. MORE

My first question when Marketo announced its new mobile app connector this week wasn’t, “What cool new things can marketers do?” But one of Marketo’s biggest technical weaknesses has always been an inflexible data model. I suspect that underestimates the technical savvy of Marketo users, but no matter. This will be more true once Marketo finishes its planned migration of activity data to a combination of Hadoop and HBase. MORE

Marketo this morning announced a new $50 million funding round, almost exactly one year to the day after raising $25 million in November 2010. All this new information begs for an update of the analysis of Marketo’s finances that I prepared last year. I won’t go into the same details, but the key figures for 2010 and 2011 are: This is good news, in that Marketo has managed to increase the all-important Revenue per Client figure. marketo funding marketing automation industry MORE

Thousands of attendees are eagerly anticipating a trip to Vegas for Marketo Summit 2016. What this Year’s Marketo Summit Means For Marketing Technology. Bizible would love for Marketo Summit attendees to experience a new reality when it comes to their marketing data insights. MORE

Introducing Marketo’s Email Lookbook for Spring/Summer 2014 was posted at Marketo Marketing Blog - Best Practices and Thought Leadership. | [link]. Author: Dayna Rothman A really good email is often the difference between a click-through and a direct route into the spam folder. MORE

But the good folks at Marketo have taken a step in that direction with their latest enhancement, which they call an “engagement program”. This would only take a small tweak in the current approach, which is one reason I like what Marketo has done. MORE

The leaders quadrant in this sector is quite crowded, with Act-On , Eloqua , Pardot , and Marketo all jostling for position. Act-On, Pardot, and Genius specialize in smaller companies than Marketo or Silverpop, which in turn serve generally smaller clients than Eloqua or Neolane. MORE

With Marketo’s Marketing Nation Summit, SiriusDecisions 2017 Summit, Oracle MME and the MarTech series packed into just two months, it’s fair to say our events team — like many others — have their hands full right now! On Tuesday, Marketo announced the winners of its annual Revvie Awards, with Leadspace customer Microsoft receiving the Enterprise Marketing Team of the Year award. Events season is well and truly underway for B2B marketers. MORE

At Marketo, we recently decided to restart our social storytelling and are going back to page 1 of our social storybook—without any jargon. We realize that some people may not know what we mean when we say that Marketo is the “best in class engagement marketing platform”. MORE

If you are a practitioner or follower of Marketing Automation, you’ve probably read a few recent articles about Marketo’s challenges with rolling out “Orion” to their install base. If Marketo’s customer communication plan for the Project Orion rollout is any indication of your future engagements with them, then I suggest you weigh your options. To help, we’re offering a switch-and-save program for all existing Marketo customers. MORE

Today, Marketo announced the winners of a variety of Revvie Awards that will be presented at The Marketing Nation Summit next week in San Francisco. Each of the awards aims to highlight a partner that uses Marketo […]. Conferences Marketing #MktgNation14 insideview marketing marketo Marketo Marketing Nation Summit While we can’t speak for the other award winners, we’re thrilled to have won for both of the categories we submitted. MORE

Marketo held its annual Marketing Nation Summit this week, hosting 4,000+ clients and partners. The event seemed relatively subdued for Marketo – I didn’t spot one costumed character – but the over-all atmosphere was positive. The company made two major product announcements, expanding the reach of Marketo campaigns into mobile apps and display ad retargeting. Marketo has attracted a respectable array of partners who extend its capabilities. MORE

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. I wasn’t at the conference but Marketo briefed me on their plans.) MORE

Last week I attended (and was a presenter at) the Seattle edition of Marketo’s 2012 Social Marketing Rockstar Tour , a roving conference/seminar series being held this summer in cities nationwide. MORE

This week was my eighth consecutive Marketo Summit, all of them as a sponsor/exhibitor. Marketo has their mojo back. It’s been a tumultuous year for Marketo since being acquired by Vista Equity Partners in late 2016. MORE

Once again, Marketo Summit was a smashing success! Bravo to Marketo for an awesome event, we are already looking forward to next year! Check out the photo slideshow for more event highlights: Marketo Summit 2016 from Captora. ToFu Marketo Summit martech SaaS MORE

I often cite marketing automation vendor Marketo as a shining example of a company that gives away great information as a way to promote its business. Marketo recently contacted several B2B social media marketing pros to get their tips on how to generate leads with social platforms. MORE

Marketo Summit is upon us yet again, and we’re geared up for a fantastic week of networking, learning, and connecting with thousands of data-driven marketers about the power that predictive can have on their businesses. MORE

But even if you’ve set up a great marketing automation platform like Marketo and a solid CRM system like Salesforce, there’s still work to be done. Marketo) and the CRM (e.g. See how to implement multi-touch attribution into your Marketo organization.). MORE

Advanced marketing automation systems like Marketo offer some form of attribution but it can be difficult to understand exactly how it compares to other attribution solutions like Bizible. Marketo RCA)? Marketo Revenue Cycle Analytics (RCA) Reporting Capabilities. MORE

Marketo today announced the launch of Spark , a new brand aimed at small and mid-size business. Functionally, Spark is pretty much identical to the standard Marketo system. Most of these aren’t of interest to small business, and several involve additional charges even for Marketo’s regular packages. Spark starts at $750 per month with no annual contract, compared with Marketo’s $2,000 per month minimum and annual contract for its full-featured Professional Edition. MORE

For the first time, we are making it possible for marketers to engage their customers on any channel–-email, web, social media, digital advertising, and more—all from Marketo. When you pair powerful technology and insights from Marketo with ad tech, marketing magic happens. MORE

Marketo categorizes their sessions based on topic and we can see that Marketing Trends is a major focus. Marketo Summit attendees can expect to learn about the latest technologies and strategies used in today’s B2B marketing departments. Who Marketo Summit Is For. MORE

ANNUITAS Named Finalist for Marketo Revvie Award. ANNUITAS ®, a demand generation strategy and change management firm, has been named a finalist for a Marketo Revvie Award in the Digital Services Partner of the Year Category. Presented by Marketo, the leading marketing software and solutions provider, the Revvie Awards program recognizes companies that effectively use Marketo to attract and engage customers. Press Releases Marketo Parter of the Year Revvie MORE

The Marketo User Summit in San Francisco has expanded from the original 2 days to 3 days plus and the event is so jam-packed that it’s important to have a game plan to get the most out of it. If you have a year of experience in Marketo, study up, and take the exam. MORE

As one of the world’s leading marketing software companies, Marketo’s sales and marketing teams are among the best in the business. Marketo’s challenges in this regard will sound familiar to any rapidly-growing, large Mid-Market or Enterprise company. MORE

For example, Marketo customers don’t simply want to learn how to use our platform for the sake of being certified Marketo users. As you can tell, education is something we are passionate about at Marketo. MORE

Author: Sanjay Dholakia Ten years ago this month, Phil Fernandez, David Morandi, and Jon Miller founded Marketo with one idea: to create a new kind of enterprise software company, one dedicated solely to the needs and mission of today’s marketing professional. MORE

So in this fourth blog in the Marketo Institute series, we’re going to look at the next two channel pipeline metrics: win rate and velocity. This image shows win rate across all channels (all Marketo customers). This image shows velocity across all channels (all Marketo customers). MORE

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. MORE

We’re excited to share that Infer Scores are now integrated with Marketo Sales Insights to give more reps visibility into their best-fit prospects so they can close deals faster. How to Use Infer Scores in Marketo Sales Insights. MORE

When I heard word of Marketo’s $50 million round, my immediate response was, “Good for them; better for the industry,” predictable though it may sound. I fully expect this round – which, according to industry observers, brings Marketo’s total raise to $107 million – to brighten the spotlight that’s already shining on marketing automation and related categories like revenue performance management. Marketo recently launched a low-cost product that competes directly against HubSpot. MORE

I have just returned from the Marketo Marketing Summit in San Francisco this week where I joined 7,000 other registered attendees from what I believe is now one of the premier B2B (and B2C) marketing events of the year. In the opening keynote by Phil Fernandez and throughout the conference, Marketo made mention of their study with The Economist where marketers ranked their top three priorities, which were. MORE

Account-Based Marketo Activity Profiles. We’re deepening our integration with Marketo to extend users the ability to build data-rich, account-based profiles using their Marketo Activity behavioral data. MORE

Today, Marketo announced that they’re standing up for the next generation of marketers. Partnering with Cal Poly’s Orfalea College of Business , Marketo will be helping to prepare undergrads for this new world of marketing. Author: Jesse Finn Good marketers are hard to find. MORE

I’m sitting in the Keynote here at the Marketo Summit , waiting for Sal Khan from Khan Academy to come on stage … CEO of a company dedicated to helping people learn and develop new skills. Blog education Kahn Academy marketing skills Marketo MORE