April, 2013

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What Facebook Graph Search Means for Your Business

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

'by Kelly Jo Horton Anyone who is active on Facebook knows that search has never been one of Facebook’s strong points. You can find friends if you know how to spell their name. You can find company brand pages if you know what you’re looking for. But what if you want to find a list of all of your friends who are connected to a specific company, product or place?

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Are Social Employees The Future of Marketing?

Marketing Insider Group

As we think about social media, social business and social employees, how will great companies use their employees to get ahead in the Future of Marketing ? In our previous interviews, we’ve discussed the future of Digital Marketing , Personal Branding , Content Brands , Customer Brands , Creativity , Big Data , Customer Experience , Thought Leadership , the Future of Search , the Science of Marketing and many more….

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5 Ways to Make Your Advertising Extraordinarily Effective

Duct Tape Marketing

'Advertising is an important part of the lead generation puzzle. Some marketers suggest that you can do without the cost and low returns they attribute to advertising, but done right, advertising is a tremendous tool. photo credit: x-ray delta one via photopin cc. I advocate an approach that calls for a mix of lead generation tactics that includes advertising, public relations and a systematic approach to referral generation.

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Research: Why Behavior Matters in Lead Scoring

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

'by Jon Miller (@jonmiller) Marketo’s Definitive Guide to Lead Scoring defines lead scoring as a “shared sales and marketing methodology for ranking leads in order to determine their sales readiness.”. “A solid lead scoring approach not only helps to rank prospects against one another, but can smooth the lead flow and serve as the baseline for building a range of business rules that include ownership, role and activities. ” – SiriusDecisions, What’s the Score.

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How to Create a Community Your Members Can't Get Enough Of

Here’s Your Blueprint for Year-Round Member Engagement. Are you ready to transform your association into a thriving, 365-day community? Download GrowthZone’s ebook, How to Create a Community Your Members Can’t Get Enough Of , and learn strategies for leveling out the peaks and valleys of member engagement. This guide provides actionable strategies to create consistent networking opportunities, deliver value-packed content, and foster connections that your members won’t want to miss.

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Test for the Best in Your Email Marketing Campaigns

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

'by Heidi Bullock According to recent data from Marketing Sherpa, email is the top channel that marketers track. A full 63% of the marketers surveyed indicated they are currently tracking email marketing data. I first wondered about the other 37% and what they are doing… but then I got interested in exactly what email metrics marketers track. My sense is many are tracking open rates, click rates, and that some are also looking at relevant segments (geographies, personas, buying behavior,

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How to Design Emails to Reach the Inbox

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

'by Dayna Rothman When you send out an email blast you hope and pray that it reaches your intended recipients. You cross your fingers that it doesn’t get tripped up in spam filters or sent to junk, and let out an emphatic sigh of relief when you know your email made it through the gauntlet. Email deliverability and trust is important to your reputation as an email sender , but what are some best practices to maximize the probability that it reaches the intended inbox and differentiates you from

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The Top Takeaways from Marketo Summit to Bring Back to Your Office and Implement

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

'by Dayna Rothman Today we would like to welcome Mason Power as our guest blogger. Mason is CMO of iLevel Solutions in New York and markets a cloud-based software platform to private equity firms worldwide. The 2,800 of us attending last week’s Marketo Summit all came for various reasons and got the opportunity to attend different agenda tracks. As a CMO, I’m not necessarily hands-on with marketing automation, but I went to the Summit to optimize my plan for content marketing and sales and marke

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Marketing Illuminators Discuss The Future of Marketing

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

'by Dayna Rothman This year at Summit we had the privilege to speak with some of the brightest minds in marketing for a great discussion about the future of marketing. Leading the discussion were Marketo’s CEO Phil Fernandez and CMO Sanjay Dholakia. The thought leaders included: Chris Heuer , Internet Marketing Expert. Laura Ramos, VP and Principal Analyst, Forrester.

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5 Techniques For Lead Management Success That You Probably Aren’t Using

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

'by Dayna Rothman Lead management is the ability to capture, respond, and manage incoming leads. When spending so much time and money on creating the perfect campaign, you want to make sure you have numerous best practices in place to manage your leads throughout the entire lifecycle. Unfortunately, many marketers don’t employ clearly defined lead management practices.

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The Who, What, When, How and Why of Lead Nurturing with Webinars and Videos

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

'by Dayna Rothman Today we would like to welcome Kathryn Kilner as our guest blogger. Kathryn is a senior marketing manager at BrightTALK , a webinar and video solution for professionals and their communities. You can find her presenting on the BrightTALK Academy and writing on the BrightTALK blog. Follow Kathryn on Twitter at @KKilner. The need to engage meaningfully with prospects and customers has skyrocketed as savvy professionals increasingly self-educate at every stage of the purchasing cy

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AI Strategies for Sales Managers: How to Cut Down on Tedious Admin Work

What if you could help your sellers stop wasting 72% of their day on non-selling activities and focus on bringing in revenue? Incorporating AI in your enablement workflows can help you cut down on busy work, get projects done faster, and let your team (and you!) focus on making a bigger impact. We put together this guide to show you how to use AI to cut time and costs for projects, including collateral creation, development of training videos, and automating tedious processes.

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Contagious Content: Facebook Posts That Get Shared Like Crazy

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

'by Dayna Rothman I am excited to introduce today’s guest blogger Brian Carter. Brian is the author of three social media books including “The Like Economy”, “LinkedIn For Business” and the bestselling “Facebook Marketing” He has appeared on Bloomberg TV and in The Wall Street Brian is a keynote speaker, stand up and improv comic and has an awesome dog named Brad Pitt.

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Marketing As The Social Business Spark

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

'by Dayna Rothman I am excited to announce today’s guest blogger, Amber Naslund. Amber is a coauthor of “The Now Revolution”, Co-Founder and President of SideraWorks, and a social media expert. The role of marketing in organizations has never been more critical. But probably not for the reasons you think. The obvious discussions are often centered around marketing as the new front line of engagement for organizations.

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An Editorial Calendar for Facebook? Absolutely.

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

by Jason Miller When I started at Marketo over a year ago, I came into a company that had a very solid social media presence. My job was to optimize and grow that presence with an emphasis on Facebook. The challenge was to keep the immediate audience engaged, add new fans, and create content that would fuel the conversation and make sharing a friction-less experience.

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Staple Yourself to a Lead

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

'by Amy Guarino Nine years ago, Harvard Business Review published an article called Staple Yourself to an Order. As companies became more customer-centric, the authors suggested that managers needed to staple themselves to an order to really understand the customer’s experience. The idea being that a manager should know exactly where an order is at all time—because traditionally, the details of an order are often invisible to managers.

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Evolving Beyond Intent: Create Customer Value with Signals

Speaker: Jam Khan, SVP, Product Marketing at ZoomInfo & guest speaker Amy Hawthorne, Principal Analyst from Forrester

Buying signals extend well beyond intent. They give go-to-market teams the chance to know everything about their customers. With buying signals, they can reach more customers and win more deals. Join Jam Khan, SVP, Product Marketing of ZoomInfo and guest speaker Amy Hawthorne, Principal Analyst from Forrester for this new webinar where you'll find out how marketing teams operate more efficiently and sales teams close more business when they act on buying signals, not just intent!

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How Much Does Marketing Automation Cost?

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

by Jon Miller (@jonmiller) You are ready for marketing automation and are excited to get started. But you have to convince your internal stakeholders first. When building a business case for marketing automation , in addition to estimating the revenue growth and cost saving benefits, you’ll also need to understand the investment required to develop the other side of the business case.

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The Power of Peer-to-Peer Amplification for Marketers [Video Motion Graphic]

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

by Jason Miller Last week I saw a post on Facebook from C.C. Chapman about a small microphone that he uses for interviewing and dictating while on the road. The photo he posted drew my attention because it looked like a miniature microphone that Elvis would have sang into back in the 50’s, but it was a modern USB device. I happened to be looking for a solid mic to take with me on the road for interviewing marketing thought leaders for the Marketo blog and rock n roll bands for the music blog I w

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CRM Series: 3 Ways CRM Integration Creates Alignment and Drives Sales

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

'by Dayna Rothman We’d like to welcome Justin Gray as a guest blogger in today’s post. He is the CEO and chief marketing evangelist at LeadMD. The company helps businesses generate and manage leads better through marketing automation processes and technologies. He can be reached at jgray@leadmd.com. Integration is really kind of a dirty word in marketing – it scares a lot of execs to even say it.

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CRM Series: How Much CRM Experience Do You Need to Be Successful with Marketing Automation?

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

'by Dayna Rothman We are excited to introduce Michael Loop as today’s guest blogger. Michael Loop is the co-founder of Datarati , Asia Pacific’s Fastest Growing Data Driven Marketing Automation Agency. Michael has successfully delivered over 200 marketing automation and CRM implementations across the globe. “How much do we need to know about our CRM system to be good at this marketing automation stuff?

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Marketing Operations in 2025: A New Framework for Success

Speaker: Mike Rizzo, Founder & CEO, MarketingOps.com and Darrell Alfonso, Director of Marketing Strategy and Operations, Indeed.com

Though rarely in the spotlight, marketing operations are the backbone of the efficiency, scalability, and alignment that define top-performing marketing teams. In this exclusive webinar led by industry visionaries Mike Rizzo and Darrell Alfonso, we’re giving marketing operations the recognition they deserve! We will dive into the 7 P Model —a powerful framework designed to assess and optimize your marketing operations function.

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5 Email Marketing Strategies for Customer Retention

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

'by Dayna Rothman We are excited to introduce Jana Fung as today’s guest blogger. Jana is a marketing manager at MixRank. She is optimistic about the growth of online advertising and has a passion for helping online marketers execute campaigns. Connect with Jana on Twitter @jana_fung. So, you’ve just closed a huge deal for your product. Congratulations!

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It’s Fun to be a Marketer Again! – Introducing the Big Marketing Activity Coloring Book

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

'by Jason Miller. One of the biggest misconceptions in B2B marketing is that you have to be serious and not have any fun. I couldn’t disagree more. Social media and content marketing give marketers more freedom than ever before to showcase their personalities, put a human face on their brand, and spread their marketing messages much more effectively through storytelling.

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How Do You Find The Time For Social Media?

Marketing Insider Group

'How do you find the time for social media? This is the question I get asked probably more than any other. I have four lovely children, a demanding job, a wife with a successful career and more. So how do I find the time to tweet , blog, share, and comment? The answer is simple: I make the time for social media because I think it’s important. I believe that business people in general, and marketers especially , have an obligation to do more than just consume content or share other people&

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Digital Is Changing Marketing And Changing Business

Marketing Insider Group

'Last fall I attended an “unconference” in Greece called Stream that was hosted by some truly inspired folks at WPP. It was one of the most amazing professional experiences of my career. As I mention in my recap , the best part of the trip was the diversity of the points of view. The conference format and the people that attended made me think in new ways about bigger issues than I would have ever imagined.

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Accelerate Your Marketing with Automation: A Quickstart Guide

Ready to streamline your marketing efforts and achieve more with less? Our guide provides a step-by-step roadmap to: Build a Strong Foundation: Set up your automation infrastructure for success. Execute Proven Tactics: Implement effective strategies to nurture leads and drive conversions. Measure and Optimize: Track your results and make data-driven adjustments.

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Marketing Must Be Integrated Into The Whole Business

Marketing Insider Group

'One of the biggest questions in marketing is ‘what is the role of marketing in the future of business?’ So as we start to wind down the Future of Marketing interview series, I am happy to be addressing that question here. In case you are just catching up, previous interviews have discussed Social Employees , Digital Marketing , Personal Branding , Content Brands , Customer Brands , Creativity , Big Data , Customer Experience , Thought Leadership , the Future of Search ,

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5 Mindset Shifts Marketing Leaders Must Make

Marketing Insider Group

'We all know that real change starts with a shift in thinking. And so we are winding down the Future of Marketing series (for now) with this post on the 5 mindset shifts marketing leaders need to make. Previous interviews covered Social Business , Creativity , Big Data , Customer Experience , Thought Leadership , Content Culture , the Future of Search , the Science of Marketing , Content Brands and much more.

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8 Steps To Build A Content Hub That Converts [Slides]

Marketing Insider Group

'Today’s B2B buyer is overwhelmed with more information than they could ever consume. The last thing they want is to read your product-centric content. Instead, you need to build a content hub that helps your buyers. I have been asked by the good folks behind the B2B Content 2 Conversion Conference to deliver my view on how to build a content marketing hub.

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Marketing Is In The Throes of A Buyer Revolution

Marketing Insider Group

'The first step in effective marketing is listening, research and a solid understanding of your buyers. A few years ago I found Tony Zambito online and we became instant friends despite the fact that we have never spoken live or met in person. And so today, I would like to bring in Tony’s perspective to our Future of Marketing series. We have already covered related topics such as the customer experience , focusing on your customer’s brand , listening and agile marketing.

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The Best Times of Day to Contact Leads

Ensure you are contacting leads on their schedule with this report! In our study of over 754,000 leads, we looked at what time of day people are most likely to respond, as well as response rates and qualification rates during business hours and after-hours. Download now to learn more.

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The Future of Marketing [Slides] – From SAP CMO Jonathan Becher

Marketing Insider Group

'“Innovation and inspiration aren’t just nice words for a conference – they’re an imperative.”. Those are the words SAP Chief Marketing Officer Jonathan Becher (@ jbecher ) used to open his keynote presentation to the CMO Club during their recent summit meeting in New York City on April 11-12. The event included more than 100 Chief Marketing Officers from some of the world’s leading brands.

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Marketing Transformation: 3 Leadership Skills You Need To Succeed

Marketing Insider Group

'Has the rise of digital, social and mobile technologies affected your marketing organization? In response to these rapid changes in the way everyone on the planet gets and processes information, governments, businesses and individuals are all facing the challenges of adapting to continuous change. As organizations seek to differentiate themselves, Marketing has taken on a more prominent role in many organizations.

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Here’s How to Get Your Super-Awesome Marketing Agency Jet Pack [Video]

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

'by Dayna Rothman Did you know that as a marketing agency of the future, you will fly around using a rocket pack in a post-Jetson era world saving the day by helping marketers manage their leads better? And did you know that your side-kick would be a trusted marketing automation robot? Well, if you didn’t then get with the program! OK, seriously folks, maybe the marketing agency of the future isn’t flying around with rocket packs on their backs (I know, that would be cool though), but they will

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Why Marketing Is Your Most Important System

Duct Tape Marketing

'Today’s guest post comes from Duct Tape Marketing Consultant Nicole Crozier. photo credit: noodlepie via photopin cc. Without the same budget, resources and in-house expertise of larger companies, small businesses are at a disadvantage when it comes to marketing. By default, responsibility for marketing often falls to the business owner, who usually isn’t a marketing expert and is already strapped for time.

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The Power of Community: Why a Branded Community is a Must-Have for Every Association

Ever wonder why brands like Apple, LEGO, and Sephora are going all-in on branded communities? It’s because online community building is the secret sauce to connecting with audiences in ways that ads and emails simply can’t. But here's the best part—it’s not just for big corporations. Associations can create thriving online communities too. GrowthZone’s eBook, "The Power of Community," breaks down exactly why a branded online community can be a game-changer for your association.