Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JANUARY 13, 2010

I recently read a DMNews article published a while ago that had comments from two marketers about forward-to-a-friend links. One marketing expert supported the use of a forward-to-a friend link, saying 'pass along readership’ helped share the message and that personal endorsements are powerful. The other marketing expert said that forward-to-a-friend was a ‘gimmick’ that failed and at most causes people to hit their forward button that’s already built into their email software.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JANUARY 27, 2010

One thing you'll notice about most lead nurturing campaigns is the fact that they usually take place after prospects land on your site and enter your database. However, what happens when qualified prospects visit your site or social media sites anonymously where you don't necessarily have their names or e-mails? This is where seed nurturing comes into play.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JANUARY 5, 2010

Do you want your landing pages and emails to be shared in social media , but don’t know how to encourage your readers to do so? It is not as hard as you might think. A simple way to make your landing pages social media friendly is to use a plug-in like ShareThis or AddThis. These sites add a small bar to a blog post or web page that allows content to be distributed to hundreds of sites.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JANUARY 20, 2010

Marketers have changed the way they handle online demand generation by using thought leadership like white papers, surveys and videos to drive interest in their industry or solution. But for many companies, leads from these inbound methods don’t necessarily mean an increase in potential sales opportunities. Here are some tips to help you convert these inbound leads into customers. . 1.

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

Direct mail has consistently remained a powerful tool in the marketer's arsenal, but in an age of digital dominance, its effectiveness hinges on the strategic integration of behavioral science. 💡 When you incorporate powerful behavioral science principles into your direct mail marketing strategies, you can prompt the hardwired decision-making shortcuts your audience relies on — and that automatically unlocks new avenues for engagement, conversion, and brand loyalty.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JANUARY 11, 2010

When it comes to maximizing the ROI of B2B marketing efforts, knowledge is power. Learn to improve demand generation , amplify lead nurturing and more with help from these 7 can’t miss B2B marketing webinars. 1. Infuse Innovation Into Demand Generation This webinar from Marketo features a panel discussion with John Watton from ShipServ, David Woodhead from Astadia and Stan Woods from Velocity.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JANUARY 25, 2010

This next B2B Marketing Thought Leader Interview is with Bill Odell, vice president of marketing at Helpstream , a Social CRM solutions company. Bill is responsible for the company’s overall marketing and go-to-market strategies and oversees all product marketing, partner marketing and corporate marketing activities. Bill has 20 years of experience leading marketing for several innovative, category creating technology companies, including Sun Microsystems, Cisco, Compression Labs – the develop

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JANUARY 18, 2010

As part of our ongoing B2B sales and marketing thought leadership interviews , I spoke with Carlos Vidal, Principal at Sales Benchmark Index (SBI). SBI is a strategic advisory firm that helps executives understand how well their sales forces are performing relative to peer group and World-Class levels. SBI is differentiated through the use of empirical data -- a repository of over 11,200 companies, across 19 industries, 11 years of history and over 315 sales metrics.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JANUARY 12, 2010

The next interview in the B2B Marketing thought leader interview series is with Christine Crandell , one of the most innovative thinkers I've met on the topics of sales and marketing alignment and marketing accountability. Christine sits on several advisory boards including Coupa and SDForum, and has held senior marketing positions at Egenera, Ariba, and many others.

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