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Moneyball for Marketers

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

The A’s General Manager, Billy Beane (played by Brad Pitt in the film), measured players using new, data-centric metrics that flew in the face of conventional wisdom. Before Moneyball, baseball scouts relied on popular but flawed Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) like RBIs (Runs Batted In) and a player’s appearance (aka “the gut”).

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Your Enterprise’s (Almost) Unfair Competitive Advantage

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

Author: Shyna Zhang As an enterprise product marketer at Marketo, I spend a lot of time talking to enterprise executives about marketing automation. Often, I encounter hesitance to embrace the new paradigm. After all, change is hard, and ignoring a problem is easy—in the short term. Have a clear 30-, 60-, and 90-day plan.

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Interns Don’t Manage 24% of the Marketing Budget

Hootsuite

In fact, 65% of companies have boosted their investments in digital media and search marketing, and social media spending is projected to skyrocket to a whopping 24.5% of the marketing budget by 2026. Get your senior social marketers involved with planning high-priority marketing campaigns, right from the start.

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How to create and use a marketing campaign plan template

Welcome Software

The building blocks of your marketing plan When developing your marketing campaign plan template, you should be able to apply it to multiple instances whenever you’re developing a new marketing campaign plan. Through targeted ads, they can remind potential customers of specific products, marketing activities, offers, etc.