June, 2013

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How Marketing Can Earn the Trust of the C-Suite

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

'Author: Jeff Ogden Everyone in marketing wants to become a trusted partner of the C-suite. But what’s the best way to do that? That’s what we’ll explore in this post – we want to help you gain greater respect and job security. In order to earn the trust of the C-Suite, you as marketers need to first truly understand the C-Suite and how they are measured.

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8 Questions To Help You Define Your Content Strategy

Marketing Insider Group

'According to the latest research from IDC , the amount of information we are all creating and sharing has grown 9 times in the last 5 years. The latest research from the Content Marketing Institute showed us that everyone is creating content and yet only about a third of us have a document content strategy. We’re struggling to rise above the marketplace noise and we need a plan to get there.

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Are You Prepared for the Google Reader Shutdown?

Duct Tape Marketing

'As has been widely reported, Google Reader is shutting down July 1, 2013. Now, in typical Google fashion, no one really knows what will actually happen on the that date, but as I it see you have about three choices if you are to continue to consistently consume blog content. Move to a new RSS reader. There are actually many options for moving your existing RSS subscriptions to another setup that can pretty much make the change a non event and may even turn up some enhancements.

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Marketo’s 1,000th Blog Post: Our Modern Marketing Definition Revisited

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

'Author: Jon Miller (@jonmiller) This is the 1,000th post to Marketo’s blog. It seems fitting to commemorate the occasion by revisiting our very first post, “ Modern B2B Marketing Defined ”, and commenting on what’s changed – and what hasn’t – since August 8, 2006. What Hasn’t Changed. The three core principles I outlined then are just as true today – in fact, even more so.

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State of AI in Sales & Marketing 2025

AI adoption is reshaping sales and marketing. But is it delivering real results? We surveyed 1,000+ GTM professionals to find out. The data is clear: AI users report 47% higher productivity and an average of 12 hours saved per week. But leaders say mainstream AI tools still fall short on accuracy and business impact. Download the full report today to see how AI is being used — and where go-to-market professionals think there are gaps and opportunities.

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How Social Media is Changing Leadership

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

'Author: Jamie Notter It is hardly breaking news to suggest that social media has changed the marketing landscape. We can no longer rely exclusively on broadcasting our message. We need to listen and build community and share things of value. We get it. The True Power of Social Media. But the true power of social media goes way beyond marketing. Social media is more than just a collection of tools for connecting, sharing and learning.

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How Classic Psychology Can Help You Understand Your Buyer

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

'Author: Megan Ziman As a freshly graduated Psychology major, now is the time to compile all the knowledge I have gained over the past four years and apply it to a relevant career. One thing I did learn after acquiring my Psychology credentials is that I don’t want to be a Psychologist. Nor do I want to spend another four to five years advancing the field with my brilliant ideas on the future of the discipline, or at least not yet.

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Get More out of your Marketing Automation with Interactive Content

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

'Author: Seth Lieberman You have seen the benefits of content marketing , but are your recent campaigns falling a bit flat? You have a marketing automation system in place, but are you getting the most out of it? By layering interactive content into your marketing efforts, you can drive more leads, enhance profile building and scoring, and improve nurturing.

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How Co-Marketing Can Expand Your Reach

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

'Author: Leo Dirr How do you meet your marketing goals with a small staff and a tight budget? It’s a crucial question almost every marketing team on the planet is struggling with right now. Easy answers are tough to find. We can tell you, though, what is working for us, so that you can grab an actionable insight or two. Our strategy boils down to one odd, little word: co-marketing.

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Topic of Interest Based Nurturing

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

'Author: Phillip Chen At Marketo, we are always testing to see how different lead nurture tracks work. This helps us optimize our processes and get creative with how we think about prospect engagement. At a certain point in nurturing, you reach a level where you have an abundance of content pieces that span a wide range of topics. Marketo’s nurturing tracks have content pieces that range from email marketing all the way to inbound marketing.

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7 Rules to Live By for Creating Legendary Webinars

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

'Author: Tania O''Connor Webinars, done well, can be an integral part of your event marketing mix. They are a chance to get to know your market, leverage the expertise that resides in your organization, and establish thought leadership. Better still, if you engage your listeners effectively enough, webinars can result in immediate opportunities for sales.

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Making the Moment: The Art of Creating Events That Drive Results

Speaker: Aja Bradley Kemp, Founder & Chief Experience Officer at Conversate Collective

In a world where every brand is vying for attention, how do you make your events stand out? ✨ From creative swag strategies to immersive brand experiences, the key lies in fostering real connections that inspire action and leave a lasting impression. Whether you're planning a large-scale conference or an exclusive executive gathering, this session will explore how to elevate event engagement, strengthen brand perception, and maximize ROI.

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Stop Whining about Edgerank and Do Something About it

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

'Author: Jason Miller It continues to happen each and every day. A self-proclaimed social media expert rails on Facebook’s Edgerank algorithm on a major social media website complaining that Facebook should change their ways. I get riled up when I see these types of posts as I believe it turns off businesses from going out there and trying new things– Facebook marketing being one of them.

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Robert Scoble Opens Up About Big Data, Systems of the Future, and Facebook Graph Search

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

'Author: Jason Miller Robert Scoble is the startup liaison officer at Rackspace and author of the upcoming book “Age of Context.” Scoble recently stopped by the Marketo offices and was gracious enough to chat with us about what the future holds for marketers, Facebook vs Google+, Open Graph, and how Rackspace has open sourced the cloud. Marketo: Can you tell me about how the idea for your book came up?

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6 Tips for Effective Marketing with Twitter Lead Generation Cards

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

'Author: Dennis Bronnikov Looking for an easy way to capture lead information on Twitter? Good news! The Twitter Gods listened to marketers and added their “ Lead Generation Card ” to their suite of Twitter Cards. Read on to learn how you can get the biggest bang for your buck with this feature. What is a Lead Generation Card? The Lead Generation Card eliminates the need for users to complete a form on a landing page–instead, users can complete a form directly on an expanded tweet with a s

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Marketo’s Take on Salesforce.com’s ExactTarget Acquisition

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

'Author: Phil Fernandez Today, Salesforce.com announced plans to buy ExactTarget. Many of our customers, prospective customers and business partners may be wondering what this move means for Marketo, since we are a leader in the marketing software space and so many salesforce.com customers also choose Marketo as their marketing automation platform. Where marketing is going.

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The Intersection of AI and Sales: Personalization Without Compromise

Speaker: Jesse Hunter and Brynn Chadwick

Today’s buyers expect more than generic outreach–they want relevant, personalized interactions that address their specific needs. For sales teams managing hundreds or thousands of prospects, however, delivering this level of personalization without automation is nearly impossible. The key is integrating AI in a way that enhances customer engagement rather than making it feel robotic.

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Not All Content Marketing is Created Equal: Location, Size, and Scope

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

'Author: Megan Totka As marketers, we hear a lot about content marketing for all sized businesses. In the midst of the tips and how-to guides from industry experts, there’s a lot of white noise. A sound content marketing strategy is integral to a company’s online success, but a one-size-fits-all approach to content simply doesn’t fly.

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89% of Organizations Use Spreadsheets to Manage Budgets – Really?

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

'Author: Brian Glover According to a recent report from Aberdeen Group , 89% of organizations use spreadsheets in the planning, budgeting and forecasting processes. The report is based on a survey of over 200 organizations and goes on to say that despite the level of comfort that many employees have with spreadsheets, there are a lot of challenges that come from using spreadsheets to manage budgets.

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Webinar Winning: Secrets of a Weatherman

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

'Author: Fab Capodicasa Do Webinars Work? Webinars have the ability to attract new prospects to your website and help nurture existing prospects down the sales funnel. A recent study by ON24 reported that the average webinar captures 433 registrants and 42% of those will attend. However, industry standard webinar drop-off rates are quite high (10%), mainly due to poor audience engagement.

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No Lead Left Behind

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

'Author: Bill Binch Little did I know that when I started selling 20 years ago, I’d end up creating, managing, and espousing Service Level Agreements. While SLA’s were normally applied to the tech support world (i.e. priority 1 tickets get a response time in 60 minutes or less, priority 2 in four hours etc), they are a growing presence found in use between marketing and sales departments.

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Relevance, Reach, Revenue: How to Turn Marketing Trends From Hype to High-Impact

Speaker: Alexa Acosta, Director of Growth Marketing & B2B Marketing Leader

Marketing is evolving at breakneck speed—new tools, AI-driven automation, and changing buyer behaviors are rewriting the playbook. With so many trends competing for attention, how do you cut through the noise and focus on what truly moves the needle? In this webinar, industry expert Alexa Acosta will break down the most impactful marketing trends shaping the industry today and how to turn them into real, revenue-generating strategies.

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Are You in Spreadsheet Hell or Budgeting Bliss? [Infographic]

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

'Author: Dayna Rothman Have you ever found yourself stuck in spreadsheet hell? Waking up the morning that your budget is due and dreading the time you will spend stuck in spreadsheet hell as you are trying to track spend on all of your marketing programs? Do you feel like a zombie as you stay up all night trying to reconcile invoices from different members of your team?

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Driving Conversions Throughout the Customer Lifecycle

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

'Author: Stephen Frapart Conversions are part of everyday life. 45% of Stephen Curry’s 3-pointers are drained. Barack Obama won 62% of the electoral vote in last year’s election. Solar cells generally convert 15% of solar energy to electricity. A blackjack dealer will bust on 42% of the hands with a 6 showing. Why Conversions Are Important. Every business wrestles with the same challenge: how to increase revenue (or users / customers) most efficiently.

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5 Creative Ways Cloud Software Companies Can Market Throughout The Customer Lifecycle

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

'Author: Celia Brown Cloud technology has revolutionized the way we develop, deploy, and buy software. As a result, consumers and businesses alike have revised their expectations of software providers and demand a different customer experience- calling for significant changes in R&D, but also in Sales and Marketing. As tech marketers, the Cloud presents us with the opportunity to take our customer relationships to a new level and better understand and respond to their experiences as they in

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Shredded Wheat or Cap’n Crunch: Making Tough Decisions In Allocating Online Ad Spend

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

'Author: Patrick Chen When it comes to deciding where to spend your online ad budget these days, do you ever feel overwhelmed with choices? Just take a look at the latest LUMAscapes for Social , Search , or Display. It’s like you’re walking down the cereal aisle of a supermarket — from healthy bran flakes to sugary, frosted, fruity loops, there’s such a vast and varied array of options, it can make your head spin.

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How to Build a Winning B2B Video Strategy in 2025

Speaker: Speakers:

Think creating impactful B2B video is intimidating, boring, or requires a Hollywood-level budget? Think again. Join our "B2B Growth Show" to uncover the secrets of building video strategies that drive ROI, captivate your audience, and leave your competition in the dust. What you’ll learn: Why video is non-negotiable for B2B in 2025 Storytelling tips to engage your target audience and keep them coming back Case studies from printing companies to telecom giants with jaw-dropping results Practical

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The Problems With Using Spreadsheets to Manage Your Marketing Budget

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

'Author: Gary Damiano For as long as I have been involved in marketing, the marketing budget process has revolved primarily around the use of a spreadsheet to allocate, track, consolidate and report budgets. Spreadsheets have been a staple of business since their inception in early 1980s, and while they have grown in sophistication and versatility, they have not steered away from the basic manual entry of rows and columns of data.

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Don’t Get Left Behind: The Rise of Digital Marketing in Financial Services

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

'Author: Fab Capodicasa Every business is different. In today’s rapidly changing financial services industry, it’s more critical than ever that marketers understand the trends affecting their industry. As a Solutions Consultant here at Marketo, I speak to financial services companies on a regular basis. I wanted to take a moment explore the key marketing trends and the resulting opportunities that can provide real value.

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How Every Marketer Can Change Their Dirty Data Culture

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

'Author: Evan Liang Just like a hiker drinking untreated and unfiltered water from a dirty creek, putting raw, untreated and unfiltered data into your marketing automation and CRM will make these systems perform at a suboptimal level. And that’s putting it politely! Unfortunately, many marketers see dirty data as too costly, too time consuming or, and let’s be honest, too unexciting of a problem to solve.

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The Changing Role of the CIO and Aligning Organizational Priorities

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

'Author: Greg Higham Because digital business is so omnipresent in how companies operate today, many of the traditional C-level roles have begun to overlap. Since technology and infrastructure investment have become a central focus, the CIO’s role is becoming more integrated into business process than ever before. In the past, it was the IT department that controlled technology and infrastructure purchase decisions.

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2025 Association Survey Results Report

GrowthZone’s 11th annual survey highlights trends, challenges, and strategies shaping the membership industry through insights from U.S. and Canadian association professionals. Get your copy of the 2025 Association Survey Results Report to see how your organization measures up: The biggest challenges associations are facing Membership retention trends and non-renewal insights Strategies for automatic renewals and reinstatements Shifts in member engagement tactics Why members are joining (and sta

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9 Internet Trends Charts You Need To See

Marketing Insider Group

'I have covered Mary Meeker’s Internet Trends charts for a couple of years, starting in 2010 when she talked about the commercial impact of the developing world getting on the internet. Mary claimed that Mobile accessibility was driving rapid changes in the way we advertise, sell and innovate. In 2011 , Mary updated her views on the above but also covered Content Marketing.

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8 Steps To Effective Content For Social Media [Slides]

Marketing Insider Group

'For the third week in a row, I find myself at another amazing marketing conference. This time, it’s the Social Media Strategies Summit (#SMSsummit) in New York City where hundreds of social-minded digital marketers are looking to learn top tips and tricks for how to be more effective with social media marketing. My talk will present some ideas for how to develop a content strategy for your social efforts.

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The Expanding Role Of B2B Marketing

Marketing Insider Group

'Two years ago I wrote that Change is Coming To B2B Marketing. I predicted that changes brought on by digital, social and mobile technologies had placed the customer firmly at the center of marketing strategy. And it was straining traditional marketing strategy. Along the way since then, studies indicated that Marketing leaders felt unprepared for the changes that had come.

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Does Your Organization Need A Chief Content Officer? [Video]

Marketing Insider Group

'Traditional forms of B2B Marketing are no longer enough in today’s digital world. Our customers are looking for valuable and helpful information , not hype. Many B2B Marketers are becoming publishers and using the fine art of storytelling to attract and retain customers. While the move to content marketing is a hot topic in B2B Marketing, many organizations are struggling to figure it out.

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The GTM Intelligence Era: ZoomInfo 2025 Customer Impact Report

ZoomInfo customers aren’t just selling — they’re winning. Revenue teams using our Go-To-Market Intelligence platform grew pipeline by 32%, increased deal sizes by 40%, and booked 55% more meetings. Download this report to see what 11,000+ customers say about our Go-To-Market Intelligence platform and how it impacts their bottom line. The data speaks for itself!