Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

MARCH 26, 2013

by Jason Miller There are hundreds of differing opinions regarding the effectiveness of using social media for lead generation. This is my opinion and it comes from over two years of trial and error using what I consider to be the best tools available for the social media marketer. Social is an essential channel for the modern marketer to have a presence, but it can’t become the number one revenue driver all by itself.

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Marketing Insider Group

MARCH 27, 2013

In this Future of Marketing series, we have covered topics such as Agile Marketing , Big Data , Customer Experience , Thought Leadership , Culture , Content , and so much more. Despite all the change in the world and the impact of these changes on our marketing strategy, one thing has never changed. And that is the importance of relationships, and the ability to communicate with people.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 21, 2013

Today’s guest post is from Duct Tape Marketing Consultant Sean D’Souza. – Enjoy! Image Credit: Sean D’Souza. I rem ember flying to Pittsburgh in the year 2004. It was a 7am presentation in front of about 40 people who I didn’t know. And who didn’t know me, either. And by the time the presentation was done at 7:45am, I asked the crowd a simple question. “How many of you would like to buy this product?

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

MARCH 28, 2013

by Dayna Rothman Today’s marketers know that quality content is essential to marketing success. Content needs to educate, excite, and inspire prospects, customers, and partners alike. Unfortunately, today’s buyers are bombarded with multiple marketing messages. When your prospect’s inbox explodes with offers daily, how do you ensure your content stands out?

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Speaker: Neal Boornazian, President and Nancy Harhut, Co-Founder and Chief Creative Officer - HBT Marketing

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

MARCH 25, 2013

by Dayna Rothman So what is this Vine phenomenon? If you are a marketer (or anyone on social), you have most likely started to hear a ton of news centered around this cool app. Basically, you can create short, 6 second videos using the iPhone app Vine and then post to your Twitter and Facebook accounts. The cool part about Vine is not only can you do a regular video stream, but you can also create a stop motion video tying together split second clips.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

MARCH 22, 2013

by Dayna Rothman Here is a scenario that resonates with many marketers using inbound marketing as part of their marketing mix. You create your blog, social accounts, maybe a couple of ebooks, and invest in marketing automation software. At first, things are going great! You see more blog subscribers, a huge increase in website traffic, and your social media followers are way up.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

MARCH 19, 2013

by Jason Miller Are you one of the 100 million active users generating 40 million photos a day on Instagram? As a marketer, user generated content is a gold mine for insights and can be a nice complement to any content marketing strategy. Even better, applications such as Instagram are primed for taking that content mobile. Smart savvy marketers that are harnessing the power of visual content and the high engagement that it delivers are much more likely to be rewarded by leveraging Instagram as

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

MARCH 18, 2013

by Jason Miller So you want to host a Google hangout? Before you get started researching and reading the countless number of eBooks and blogs that promise to tell you everything you need to know, let me save you a bunch of time. I have read the top posts out there and distilled all of the important stuff down to a simple five step process saving you time and frustration.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

MARCH 15, 2013

by Dayna Rothman I am pleased to welcome Helen Nesterenko as today’s guest blogger. Helen is the founder of writtent.com. She enjoys helping businesses create content their customers and prospects will love. Can you believe that Facebook’s Timeline feature is nearly a year old? 12 months later, small businesses are still trying to figure out how to use the visually-driven and slightly complex design to its full advantage.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

MARCH 12, 2013

by Dayna Rothman In Marketo’s recent Social Marketing Rockstar Tour, we visited 15 cities to talk about implementing, executing, and measuring social strategy. We met marketing interns and CEOs and all levels in between; spoke to marketers from every industry; and networked with marketers from large companies with 10,000+ employees and small companies with fewer than 10.

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Speaker: Carlos Hidalgo, Co-Founder & CEO of Digital Exhaust, Author, International Keynote & TEDx Speaker

Recent research shows that only 50% of B2B organizations state that they have good alignment between their marketing and sales teams. This lack of alignment tremendously impacts the ability to meet business goals, and is a limiting factor for building and maintaining customer relationships. While many B2B organizations continue to struggle with aligning their marketing and sales teams, they can take practical steps to unify both teams and simplify their overall approach.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

MARCH 27, 2013

by Dayna Rothman Today’s guest post is from Marlin Gilbert, Industry Head of Advertising and Sales at Google. Marlin manages a team responsible for B2B Technology clients nationally. He holds a BA from Stanford University and an MBA from Harvard Business School. Our advertising sales teams at Google meet with B2B advertisers on a daily basis to discuss how we can help our clients grow and best leverage the power of digital marketing.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

MARCH 8, 2013

by Dayna Rothman We’d like to welcome Justin Gray as a guest blogger in today’s post. He is the CEO and chief marketing evangelist at LeadMD. The company helps businesses generate and manage leads better through marketing automation processes and technologies. He can be reached at jgray@leadmd.com. Marketing metrics often go wrong, so what’s the right way to go?

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

MARCH 6, 2013

by Jason Miller “This Is Spinal Tap” is a 1984 rock and roll musical “mockumentary” directed by Rob Reiner about the fictional heavy metal music band Spinal Tap. The movie satirizes the wild behavior and musical pretensions of hard rock and heavy metal musicians. It’s filled with pitch-perfect one liners from the band and cast of characters as they tour America and prepare for the release of their comeback record.

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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. They are increasingly spending more dollars on technology to support these activities, and in the near future may even out pace CIOs on technology spend.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

MARCH 1, 2013

by Dayna Rothman Great public relations can help your company break through the noise that can sometimes dominate a busy event. Remember, you are competing with many different companies for share of voice, and a solid PR strategy helps you get heard by prospects, customers, as well as important media outlets. You’ll need a different PR strategy based on whether you are hosting or sponsoring an event, but for both you need to formulate a solid plan.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

MARCH 29, 2013

by Dayna Rothman Mani Iyer is CEO of Kwanzoo, a cloud-based platform for building and running rich media campaigns that accelerate & optimize demand across all online channels (email, website, social, display, re-targeting & mobile). Enterprise marketers today constantly seek new and creative ways to engage, qualify and convert prospects online.

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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). I had so many awesome answers from thought leaders, that I wanted to create a blog series that showcased their advice and opinions.

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Marketing Insider Group

MARCH 19, 2013

What is agile marketing? According to Sandra Zoratti, the VP of Marketing at Ricoh, agile marketing is all speed, collaboration and taking an iterative approach to marketing. Sandra is our honored guest in today’s Future of Marketing interview series where we have covered topics such as Creativity , Big Data , Customer Experience , Thought Leadership , Culture , Technology , and so much more.

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Marketing Insider Group

MARCH 21, 2013

In this Future of Marketing series, we have covered topics such as Agile Marketing , Big Data , Customer Experience , Thought Leadership , Culture , Content , and so much more. We also cannot forget the importance of getting back to the basics of marketing. We need to stay focused on the power of ideas and the creativity required to make a human connection between our brand and our customers.

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Marketing Insider Group

MARCH 25, 2013

Imagine the inevitable Future of Marketing with 50 billion connected devices! How will marketing change and what role will brands and consumer play? In our previous interviews on the future of marketing, we looked touched on topics such as Marketing Fundamentals , Personal Branding , Content Brands , Customer Brands , Creativity , Big Data , Customer Experience , Thought Leadership , the Future of Search , the Science of Marketing and many more… Today’s interview is with L

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Marketing Insider Group

MARCH 5, 2013

In our last Future of Marketing interview, Scott Brinker riffed off the Marketing and Big Data idea by asking if the future of marketing was all about “ Big Testing? ” Previous interviews covered customer experience , thought leadership , , creating a content culture , the roles of content and technology , the future of search , the science of marketing , the rise of Content Brands and we asked whether the customer or the content is king in the future of marketing.

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Marketing Insider Group

MARCH 7, 2013

In our last interview, Paula Cusati suggested that we will need the ability to adapt and be creative in the rapidly changing world of Future of Marketing. Previous interviews covered Big Data Marketing and Big Testing , customer experience , thought leadership , , creating a content culture , the roles of content and technology , the future of search , the science of marketing , the rise of Content Brands and we asked whether the customer or the content is king in the future of mar

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Speaker: Jay Black, Senior Account Executive

Let's set the record straight: in-store retail isn't dead - it's evolving! Faced with the digital age and the demands of omnichannel shopping, some retailers are thriving while others are struggling to adapt. Join Jay Black in this exclusive session as he explores the strategies that set successful stores apart, including: Crafting unique and unforgettable in-store experiences 🛍️ Mastering the art of retail demands 🛒 Navigating inventory challenges in today's climate 📦 an

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 18, 2013

In all likelihood you’re familiar with the term “bucket list” made extremely popular from the 2007 Morgan Freeman, Jack Nicholson film by the same name. photo credit: peasap via photopin cc I hear this concept, making a list of all the things you want to do before you die, tossed around in entrepreneurial circles frequently and it occurred to me that there’s another kind of bucket list that actually might be more important in business.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 22, 2013

Enjoy this guest post from Duct Tape Marketing Consultant Joe Costantino. photo credit: seeveeaar via photopin cc. What separates the good from the great in any endeavor? What allows one athlete to compete at a consistently high level for many years, while another, who may appear on the surface to possess great talent isn’t able to achieve even close to the same level of success?

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 20, 2013

Marketing podcast with Jonathan Fields. A few weeks ago I started a series of posts I’m calling Recover You. The series is focused on practices and habits that I believe lead to a healthier mind, body and spirit, a healthier business and ultimately a healthier economy. You can catch the entire Recover You series here. The concept of work just doesn’t seem that fun.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 7, 2013

Thursday is guest post day here at Duct Tape Marketing and today’s guest is from Aaron Houghton – Enjoy! The term rainmaker is often used to describe highly productive members of sales teams. These individuals have a special talent for communicating the value a business’ products provide. What impact would adding a new rainmaker have on your team? What about one that only costs you a few bucks each month?

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 13, 2013

Marketing podcast with Bernadette Jiwa. Perhaps one of the most primary objectives of marketing is to get people talking about your business. Sure, you actually want them to buy from you, but when there’s buzz, when people think what you’re doing matters, there will be sales. photo credit: Kalexanderson via photopin cc To me there is no more important job than building your business in a way that allows you to stand out from everyone else.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 14, 2013

Thursday is guest post day here at Duct Tape Marketing and today’s guest is Gregg Schwartz. – Enjoy! And old saying in investing is “diversify, diversify, diversify” – you don’t want to put all your eggs in one basket by investing all of your money in one company’s stock. Instead, smart investors spread their investments around to a diverse portfolio of stocks, bonds, mutual funds, cash and other assets.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 6, 2013

Marketing podcast with Matthew Dixon. photo credit: Niccolò Caranti via photopin cc I’ve been spending some time writing about how the job of sales has changed dramatically over the last few years. In recent posts I outlined what I called the Disciplines of the New Sales Professional and followed that up with the Practices of the New Sales Professional.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 16, 2013

My weekend blog post routine includes posting links to a handful of tools or great content I ran across during the week. I don’t go into depth about the finds, but encourage you check them out if they sound interesting. The photo in the post is a favorite for the week from Flickr or one that I took out there on the road. Kind of an Old Man and the Sea shot taken during my travels to St.

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Speaker: Jeff Tarran, COO, Gunderson Direct & Margaret Pepe, Executive Director of Product Management, U.S. Postal Service

Learn the secrets to direct mail success for growth marketers! Industry veterans Jeff Tarran and Margaret Pepe are here to delve into how direct mail has completely evolved in recent years, and has rightfully earned a seat at the table alongside the email and digital marketing plans of SMBs, enterprise companies, and agencies as they look into strategy for 2024 and beyond.

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