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. How did you get into B2B marketing? I got into marketing quite by accident.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

I moved into marketing in May 1997 to become a product marketing manager at Microsoft. I didn’t have any formal marketing training, but I did have in-depth knowledge of the product, having been a pre-sales consultant at Microsoft. Marketing needs to match or better this. Brand matters.

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Martech

JULY 8, 2022

in web content & experience management (WCM) will remember an early entrant called RedDot. After middling growth RedDot was acquired by document management vendor Hummingbird before making its way to the content management retirement community known as OpenText. They managed your content and then served up your “website.”

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JULY 31, 2015

Author: Sesame Mish Let me ask you this: how big is your marketing team? Enter, marketing automation! Marketing automation is a powerful software tool that automates and syncs various efforts (think campaign management, customer segmentation, and data analysis, to name a few). Marketing automation is an all-around winner.

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Hubspot Marketing

APRIL 29, 2019

I think you'll agree with me when I say digital marketing -- and all its sub-categories, including SEO, social media, content creation, email, and more -- is critical for any company's growth in 2019. Ari Plaut, a Product Marketer at HubSpot, suggests: "Keep on top of the pulse of the customer, and hold yourself accountable to it.

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Marketing Insider Group

MAY 12, 2021

Did you know that over 80% of business-to-business (B2B) marketing teams have a content marketing strategy? But only 11% of those teams consider their content marketing strategy as an excellent one! But how do you create a strong content marketing program? Understanding Content Marketing. New customers?

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

OCTOBER 28, 2014

Author: Dayna Rothman Being a content marketer is hard. In my experience and in speaking to numerous content marketers over the years, here are some top content marketing productivity killers: 1. It takes time to manage a team of writers. I know that first hand! Too Much Guessing.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Marketing to a new vertical is no easy feat. Rather than dedicating all their resources into broad-based marketing, many organizations are adopting a vertical approach. Rather than dedicating all their resources into broad-based marketing, many organizations are adopting a vertical approach. Understand the Market.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

Panasonic was the #1 patent producer in 2013 with 2,000+ patents and is investing hundreds of millions of dollars in Tesla’s gigafactory to product the lithium-ion batteries for Tesla’s electric cars. We have about 464 products, are constantly innovating, and need to be marketed in Europe. A: How do you measure your success?

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

MARCH 30, 2018

But what about customer success marketing? How much do you know about it, and how does it affect us as marketers? In this blog, I’ll cover what customer success marketing is and how it fits into your marketing plan. What is Customer Success Marketing? How Does Customer Success Marketing Fit Into Your Org? .

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

MARCH 26, 2012

But if you fail to promote the right content to the right people, it could derail your entire content marketing strategy. There are four things all marketers must be doing in their content marketing strategy to ensure maximum results: Create interesting content. There is no market for content for content’s sake.

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Martech

JUNE 3, 2024

Software market growth: Taking a horizontal vs. vertical focus A vertical software company offers solutions tailored to specific markets, such as plumbers, auto dealerships or food distributors. Examples include ProCore, which sells software for construction management and AppFolio, which sells software for apartment management.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

APRIL 21, 2014

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. We’ve talked about Moneyball and marketing automation on the blog before , and the analogy still rings true. Don’t Buy Players, Buy Wins. Revenue per sales person.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

Okay, I guess we don’t have to truly adapt to the weather as marketers, but geography plays a factor! With Super Bowl 51 just around the corner, I decided to have some fun and draw some parallels between football and demand generation marketing. After hearing that line, can’t you relate as a marketer? Control and Optimize.

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Marketing Insider Group

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Managing customer relationships has always been super important to the success of a business. For many product and service companies, it is an evolution. It starts with defining product-market fit. Then we have to hire and scale sales and marketing pipeline to acquire new customers. We provide the roadmaps.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JANUARY 25, 2017

Social media marketing offers marketers a vast opportunity to engage with their buyers, across the entire customer lifecycle, on the platforms they actively tune in to for information. So, it’s critical that, as a marketer, you know how to leverage social media marketing to build your brand, drive demand, and engage your buyers.

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Animalz blog

OCTOBER 26, 2023

The first half of 2022 was an exciting period for SupportLogic , a support experience (SX) management platform. A new website, domain, and positioning set the stage for a strong, content-driven marketing push. Three Types of Product-Led SEO Content Product-led SEO content helps readers solve their problems with SupportLogic’s product.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

APRIL 25, 2018

The Fearless Marketer. When we selected this year’s theme for Marketing Nation Summit and launched The Fearless 50 program , we knew it would spark conversations and hoped it would inspire marketers from around the globe to share their stories. What does it take to be a fearless marketer? Jessica Kao. Edwards University.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Marketing responsibilities and methodologies have changed drastically in the past decade. . It’s no longer logical or affordable for brands to create 12-month marketing plans to be reviewed annually. Agile marketing is quickly gaining momentum, as 98% of organizations report experiencing success with agile projects. .

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Sprout Social

DECEMBER 6, 2023

There lies the magic of B2B influencer marketing. Influencer marketing has long been a staple for business-to-consumer (B2C) brands looking to cultivate more authentic connections with their audience. In this guide, we’re diving into the essentials of B2B influencer marketing. What is B2B influencer marketing?

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Marketing Insider Group

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Think you’re safe because you have a dedicated content marketing strategy? New platforms continue to emerge, giving content marketers a wealth of ways to get their messages out. Many times, this leads marketers to forget their strategy and run after one-off campaigns. Nowhere is that truer than in content marketing.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

APRIL 25, 2018

Imagine a world where sales and marketing can actually work together and, in fact, help one another instead of stepping on each others’ toes. Creating a strong partnership between sales and marketing teams has plagued companies since…well, forever. It’s easy to praise marketing when there’s a success at the top of the funnel.

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Martech

APRIL 12, 2022

The Digital Markets Act (DMA), a regulation the content of which was agreed among European Union officials last month, will most obviously impact tech giants — “gatekeepers,” as they are referred to — like Amazon, Apple, Google, Meta and Microsoft. Get the daily newsletter digital marketers rely on. Downstream effects.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

As marketers, it’s our job to make sure that our brand stays top of mind until they are ready. How To Boost Conversions With Personalized Remarketing was posted at Marketo Marketing Blog - Best Practices and Thought Leadership. | [link]. It’s just an unfortunate fact of life.

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Marketing Insider Group

JANUARY 2, 2013

As we look back on 2012, I think the award for biggest buzzword for the year should go to Content Marketing. Plus, content marketing has been around for a long time, especially in B2B high-tech marketing. 10 Steps to a Building a Successful Content Marketing Strategy. You want to be a thought leader?

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Martech

DECEMBER 12, 2022

The marketing organization is certainly not immune from their increasing pressure. One would think this focus signals good news for marketing technology budgets, but the C-suite doesn’t look so positively upon more investments in martech solutions. Marketers report only using 42% of their martech stack capabilities.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

AUGUST 4, 2016

Author: Pawan Deshpande Content marketers have a big challenge: continuously filling their content pipeline with fresh, insightful, and relevant information. Moreover, brand managers and product marketers depend on continuing information streams. But more than that, content marketing helps you build relationships.

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Content Marketing Institute

AUGUST 28, 2018

Some of the presenters at Content Marketing World offer their out-loud critiques of what could be done better in content marketing. Use their observations to gauge what you’re doing well and where your content marketing program has room for improvement. Alenka Bester , head of digital content marketing, Zavarovalnica Triglav.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

APRIL 18, 2017

Author: Anastasia Pavlova I joined Marketo three years ago, and my first day was at the Marketing Nation Summit 2014 in San Francisco. I still remember the incredible energy, passion, and enthusiasm shared by thousands of Marketo customers, partners, employees, and industry thought leaders to this day.

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Sprout Social

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Employee Advocacy by Sprout —an employee-driven advocacy hub built into your social media management platform—makes it possible to boost reach while cutting ad costs by turning your employees into brand advocates. In fact, Gartner predicts 90% of B2B social media marketing strategies will have scaled employee advocacy programs by 2023.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JANUARY 15, 2016

Author: Mike Stocker Digital marketing has undergone significant changes over the past two decades, and I have been lucky enough to have a front row seat. At Marketo, not only do we provide leading tools for marketers to be better marketers, we also use a lot of great technology ourselves. Predictive: Not new, but very hot.

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Content Marketing Institute

DECEMBER 5, 2017

Renasant Bank: Marketing strategy takes step above boring classes. It helped that those involved in the project and the marketing for the show came up with a well-thought-out multifaceted concept, explains Oxford. “We It’s a key market for us. You don’t hear about a lot of banks doing things like this,” says Oxford.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

AUGUST 10, 2017

Are There Certain Social Channels You Recommend B2B Marketers Focus on More Than Others? What Tips Can You Give B2B Marketers Trying to Build Their Twitter Following? What Are the Most Effective Ways for B2B Marketers to Increase Facebook Engagement? . How Can B2B Marketers Leverage LinkedIn for Engagement? .

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2017

You’ve given them all names and painstakingly vivid (and hopefully, useful and relevant) details, such as how large the team is that they manage, or how often they are on a plane. The answer lies in using technology to create segments, and tailor your marketing to each persona by assigning it a segment. Map Personas to Segments.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

APRIL 17, 2014

Author: Shyna Zhang As an enterprise product marketer at Marketo, I spend a lot of time talking to enterprise executives about marketing automation. When your enterprise adopts marketing automation , it unleashes the power of marketing. Step Two: Shuffle Your Marketing Team.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

MAY 31, 2017

Plenty has been written about bringing products or services to market. Practices have been developed to manage both direct and indirect sales channels. Literature has been written about product development models versus customer development models. Or, is this market saturated? Find The Right Partner.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

APRIL 25, 2017

Author: Ellen Gomes As 6500+ marketers descended on Moscone in San Francisco, it could only mean one thing. Marketing Nation Summit has arrived. We kicked off the 2017 Marketing Nation Summit on Sunday with an amazing Fun Run, Marketo University training, and our annual customer and partner awards gala, The Revvies.

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