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What Makes a Good Marketing Platform? Rules for Platformality

Customer Experience Matrix

Last month he goaded me into coming up with a framework for relating marketing technology to business strategy , which I''ll present at the MarTech conference in August. Lots of vendors have now taken to describing their systems as platforms – Oracle , Salesforce , IBM , Adobe , Marketo , HubSpot , InfusionSoft and even CallidusCloud.

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Knowledge is Power: 5 Ways to Build Sales and Marketing Superheroes

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

Take a lesson from Schoolhouse Rock and make the information you present digestible. You don’t need to present to them in sing-song (and I certainly wouldn’t recommend it), but remember that your rep has recently joined your company and is navigating new systems, rules of engagement, and people.

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Forget ‘The Bachelorette’: IT + Marketing is the New Romance

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

Let me give some examples from my own experience: Common scenario 1 : I need to access our wiki, intranet, Box, or some other internal site for critical document, and would happily give IT my lunch and all the money in my wallet to get in. For example, at Marketo we have a dedicated developer to help us with any website related projects.

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4 Ways Demand Generation Marketing Is Like Football

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

You get hit with a blow when you least expect it and need to dash to an opening that presents itself. Back to our quarterback, our VP of Marketing, Shannon uses a combination of tools, such as Marketo and Bizible , to track the various “plays” needed to get a prospect over the line. This is easier said than done.

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Let’s Get Social! 5 Ways to Build Your Employee Social Media Culture

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

To get your executive team on board consider presenting to them and including some of the following information: Illustrate competitors who are using employee social media contributions successfully. Make it easily available to all staff through your company Wiki, HR sites, or even develop your own social media microsite.

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Alterian Pushes Into Social Media Management with Techrigy Acquisition

Customer Experience Matrix

message boards/forums (such as LinkedIn discussions), wikis (such as Wikipedia ), video and photo sharing sites ( Flickr , YouTube ), and some mainstream media blogs ( The New York Times , Wall Street Journa l). Results can be streamed to an external viewer as an RSS feed or presented in standard reports.

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Top 60 B2B Marketing Posts and Hottest Topics November 2010

B2B Marketing Zone Posts

All blogs, wikis, forums, and social networks hosted or sponsored by Oracle (e.g., com , wiki. 10 Steps to More Scientific Social Media Marketing - Hubspot , November 2, 2010 I’ve spent nearly four years researching and analyzing social communications and contagious ideas for my Science of Social Media presentation.