Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JANUARY 27, 2016

Author: Sean Zinsmeister It used to be that prospect management meant dolling out “ Glengarry Leads ” to add to your Rolodex, keeping a spreadsheet of top prospects, or most recently populating an empty CRM database with leads that seem to “look good.” This is one reason why some companies still rely on “spray and pray” marketing techniques.

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Martech

JULY 1, 2022

Mission-critical components of the martech stack were among the most replaced by marketing organizations over the last year. In the 2021 and 2022 surveys, we see something like one in five respondents saying they installed new marketing automation or CRM tools — a remarkable figure, given the likely complexity of such projects.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

AUGUST 14, 2014

Author: Courtney McAra When I first came to Marketo, I was SHOCKED by the size of our marketing operations team. In my previous role, I’d handled marketing operations and demand generation. What I failed to realize was that marketing operations (affectionately known as “MOPS” at Marketo) is at the core of a well-run marketing team.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

OCTOBER 7, 2015

Author: Shyna Zhang In my work, I have had the pleasure of speaking with numerous enterprise marketers from around the world. According to research from the Marketing Leadership Council, the formula for successful marketing automation deployment is comprised of: 50% of your success comes from organizational alignment.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

MAY 2, 2014

Author: Tania O''Connor I’d been a marketer for 17 years when I joined Marketo. In my previous job, as a marketing director at another company, I’d inherited Marketo’s marketing automation platform. Organize all of your marketing automation activity in folders, and follow a standard naming convention.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

MAY 2, 2013

Pierce leads Demand Generation at 360pi and runs a blog called Epic Marketing Fails. Buyers have changed forever, and marketers need to adapt. Executives are demanding that marketers prove ROI from their investments. As anyone who uses marketing automation knows, now more than ever it’s important to work smarter.

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Marketing Insider Group

JUNE 15, 2015

Calculating return on a marketing investment (ROMI) is something of an art form. Unlike capital investments, which have a fixed, upfront cost and clear results, marketing investments evolve over time and have both empirical and intangible results. But marketers are eager to “hack” the process. Practice Social Marketing.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JULY 8, 2015

Author: Veronica Holmes One of the biggest questions facing companies that are just starting out on their marketing automation journey is how to effectively prepare their business and teams for the changes ahead. While all marketers have the ability to use these tools effectively over time, every project has a beginning.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

APRIL 20, 2012

by Kelly Waffle What do football and B2B marketing have in common? Unfortunately, this “statistic free” scenario is happening in B2B marketing departments around the world—where up to 40 percent of them do no kind of marketing accountability for a variety of reasons. They both rely on analytics to drive success.

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Martech

JULY 23, 2021

MarTech’s daily brief features daily insights, news, tips, and essential bits of wisdom for today’s digital marketer. Good morning, Marketers, and are you ready for embracing change as the new constant? You’re going somewhere with this new marketing technology. Chris Wood, Editor.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

Author: Bradley Yeater According to the 2016 Edelman Trust Barometer, your employees are more trusted than your brand and represent a huge potential to reach new audiences. Because of this, employee advocacy is now an essential part of any comprehensive marketing strategy. How do we manage this? Who do we include?

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Martech

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Marketing automation isn’t just for enterprises with endless budgets. Marketing automation software for small business provides many of the same benefits as their enterprise counterparts. The big difference is that small business platforms are streamlined and more affordable.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

OCTOBER 3, 2016

Author: Joel York You might have heard about the rule that marketing managers should spend about 95% of their time thinking about marketing and 5% of their time thinking about management. However, marketing doesn’t live in isolation. However, marketing doesn’t live in isolation.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

DECEMBER 2, 2016

Author: Patrick Groover Marketers are always looking for the next best thing. So it’s no surprise that with the evolution of account-based marketing and technologies that enable it, B2B marketers are paying attention and trying to figure out how they can implement an account-centric approach.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

OCTOBER 31, 2016

Author: Patrick Groover This spooky Halloween tale is not for the faint of heart (in terms of marketing disasters, that is). Igor, who was newly promoted to VP of Marketing, was excited to have his first chance to lead the team in executing the renowned Halloween-a-thon campaign. This would be the perfect Halloween. They demanded more.

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Use Insider

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Take the example of retail: Although 66% of retail brands increased their digital marketing spend in 2022, one-in-five retail marketers said their martech didn’t do what they needed it to. Meanwhile, more than 60% of marketers said their martech stack was too complex. Too much internal resource is required to get up and running.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

Author: Jamie Lewis While it may seem like there is a new marketing channel available almost every day (I’m devising my smart fridge strategy as we speak), email marketing, when done right, is still one of the most profitable acquisition and lead retention channels available. Engagement. Share them in the comments below!

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

OCTOBER 29, 2018

When initially building a company or trying marketing automation tools for the first time, a company might select a solution that is just “good enough” and not too complex for their team. Typically, it is the result of having a marketing team that is just beginning to implement digital engagement strategies.

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Martech

JULY 22, 2021

Choosing the right vendor and technology for your marketing initiatives is one of the most critical decisions you can make in those early stages. For example, I’ve seen marketing teams select tools that couldn’t integrate with the rest of the stack, and IT teams select platforms with prohibitively bad usability for marketers.

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