Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

MARCH 23, 2012

by Jason Miller It’s been called the most important development for business in social media this year and it’s just a week away from rolling out universally. In this infographic we explore the anatomy of a timeline page for business while detailing the important new features B2B marketing professionals need to know about. Have you switched your business’s Facebook page over to the new timeline yet?

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MARCH 15, 2012

There is an observation in social media called “ Participation Inequality “ or the “ 1% rule “ that says that 1% of us create content, 9% of us share content and 90% of us are pure consumers of the content created. As a marketer, I feel like it is our role to at least be in the 9%, and ideally in the the 1% of active social users creating or sharing content.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 21, 2012

How to Discover Your Perfect Target Customer in 5 Steps This content from: Duct Tape Marketing. One of the most important elements of a marketing strategy is the development of an ideal target customer profile. Effectively understand who makes an ideal customer allows you to build your entire business, message, product, services, sales and support around attracting and serving this narrowly defined customer group.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

MARCH 22, 2012

by Jason Miller Inbound marketing is a highly effective strategy, but in isolation it will fail for most companies. To be successful and maximize the impact of your inbound marketing efforts, you need to combine it with other elements in your overall marketing mix. With help from our friends over at Column Five Media we have taken a visual approach to this challenge.

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MARCH 21, 2012

by Jason Miller One of my favorite sessions from SXSW Interactive last week was Gartner analyst Mark McDonald’s session discussing his book The Social Organization. McDonald discussed building a cross-functional collaborative environment within an organization using social media as the catalyst. In order to do so successfully, a company needs to understand the energy, potential, and innovation that’s possible through social collaboration.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

MARCH 19, 2012

by Jon Miller What if you could climb into the mind of a genius, take a look around, and discover just how they achieve such exceptional results? Taryn Voget, Co-founder and CMO at the Everyday Genius Institute, does just that. Her latest report Patterns of Marketing Genius looks at how top chief marketing officers generate innovative ideas that get big results.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

MARCH 28, 2012

by Jason Miller Facebook timeline cover photos for business are all the rage this week, but what about the marketers behind these businesses? We thought it would be fun to create custom Facebook cover photos for all the marketers out there who love what they do and want to show the world. Here are 10 ready made cover photos to choose from that will surely jazz up your Facebook profile.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

MARCH 1, 2012

by Jon Miller Are you using the right metrics to measure and demonstrate the success of your inbound marketing efforts? There are hundreds of possible inbound marketing metrics to choose from, and almost all of them measure something of some kind of value. These include SEO rankings, inbound links, articles published, content downloads, reach (e.g.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

MARCH 29, 2012

by Phil Fernandez So how big is big data? And why is it important to all of us involved with deploying marketing automation and Revenue Performance Management (RPM) to drive profitable, sustainable growth? On the bigness question, consider this: Cisco has forecast that by 2013, the amount of traffic flowing over the internet annually will reach 667 exabytes.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

MARCH 14, 2012

by Seth Resler On March 5th, the non-profit organization Invisible Children posted a video online called “Kony 2012.” The 30-minute, slickly produced video narrated by Jason Russell explains the atrocities of Joseph Kony, leader of the Lord’s Resistance Army in Africa, who many consider to be the most brutal criminal in the entire world.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

MARCH 2, 2012

by Jason Miller The announcement of Facebook timelines for business pages is all the rage this week and users are clamoring for details on what the changes mean for their strategy on the world’s largest social media platform. The brilliant PR folks at Facebook are trickling out new bits of information daily and maintaining a constant buzz across all media.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

MARCH 20, 2012

by Madhu Gulati. What entices you to open any email? More than anything else, the decision making factor is the subject line. Many marketers keep it short- typically around 50 characters. Why? Because a subject line of an email should be compelling and concise enough to convince the recipient to open the email and take the necessary call to action.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

MARCH 5, 2012

by Seth Resler. Brian Carroll, author of Lead Generation for the Complex Sale , writes: It is not accurate to say that generating more sales leads is the key to hitting revenue targets. As a matter of fact, most companies need to do a better job of managing leads they already have. Read that sentence again. I’ll wait. It is not accurate to say that generating more sales leads is the key to hitting revenue targets.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

MARCH 13, 2012

by Fergus Gloster Marketing automation solutions bring significant benefits in terms of demand generation to a wide range of companies. It’s very clear that marketers can now generate, score and nurture leads to a level that was not possible just a few years ago. However many companies fail to convert this breakthrough into success as measured in terms of pipeline created.

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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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MARCH 1, 2012

Last year I announced that change was coming to B2B Marketing and urged marketers to get ready… Earlier this week I wrote about the decline of trust in traditional news media, CEOs and government officials and the corresponding rise of the employee-brand. I argued that now is the time to build your personal brand to help build our businesses… While the signs that the traditional marketing playbook is dead are all around us and the large majority of marketing sucks , even I was

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

MARCH 15, 2012

by Phil Fernandez An oft discussed subject here at Marketo and throughout the broader Revenue Performance Management (RPM) sector is sales and marketing alignment. Collaboration surely is not just about having a “kumbaya” moment with your colleagues over in marketing and sales – or, for that matter, in IT, product development, finance, or customer support.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

MARCH 28, 2012

by Seth Resler It’s 10 o’clock in the morning…do you know where your leads are? On March 6th, Brian Caroll, author of Lead Generation for the Complex Sale , shared his marketing wisdom in a webinar. Some of the statistics he’s uncovered about lead generation and lead nurturing may shock and awe you – and could lead to fisticuffs between you and your sales team!

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

MARCH 27, 2012

by Liz Smyth Fast forward to 2012, and the global economy is not faring much better. While bailouts and austerity measures have helped most European countries to keep their heads above water (if only just, in some cases), those same austerity measures, coupled with the threat of a complete or partial collapse of the Eurozone, have dampened spending both by consumers and by businesses.

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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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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

MARCH 8, 2012

by Phil Fernandez. Fundamentally I believe that we need to live in a world of facts — a real world where there’s good news and sometimes not so good news. All too often people, particularly in the revenue function, spend time trying to focus on what they wish were true. This is where real trouble happens. In this video, I’ll explain the importance of being able to leverage marketing automation to provide hard facts to make good decisions throughout the revenue cycle.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

MARCH 16, 2012

by Kelly Waffle Years ago when I started embracing marketing automation it was because we were generating a lot of demand from trade shows, emails, seminars, webinars, search engine marketing, and of course, our website. We were not having any problems collecting names of interested parties but I was tired of “throwing everything over the fence” to our sales team without some level of qualification.

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Marketing Insider Group

MARCH 22, 2012

Last week I wrote about the biggest reasons people don’t do social media. The majority of respondents to my highly unscientific poll stated lack of time, uncertainty of the value and not being sure what to say. Now I’ve written before about the business value of blogging and how marketers need to get social , find the time for blogging , twitter and other social tools.

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Marketing Insider Group

MARCH 20, 2012

Sales and Marketing alignment continues to be a major issue for both sides. Marketing often seeks to drive long term while also helping sales has to hit their quarterly numbers. But the balance can be delicate at times, to say the least. At some point, we need to sit down and have a conversation about how we are going to help each other sell more stuff, to more buyers, at a higher price in a way that helps our customers.

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MARCH 27, 2012

B2B Marketers have always been doing content marketing. And the reason is simple: the decision making process in B2B is a bit more complicated than buying a pack of gum. There are colleagues to convince, bosses to educate, accountants to please and more. Because of this we have a history of producing static spec sheets, overview presentations, data sheets, brochures, feature lists, user manuals and. zzzzzzzzzz (snore).

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

MARCH 30, 2012

by Jason Miller We decided to do something a bit different during our first year at SXSW Interactive. We invited over a dozen industry thought leaders from the B2B Marketing and social media world to stop by our booth in the expo hall and chat with us about everything, from their favorite part of SXSW, to their focus in 2012, and their individual thoughts on the biggest buzzed about social platform, Pinterest.

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Marketing Insider Group

MARCH 29, 2012

“Social Media” is so 91 days and 42 seconds ago…. Content Strategy and Content Marketing may be the marketing buzz words of 2012 but their meaning is still debated by the best consultants in the field, in the halls (or conference calls) of large organizations and on the trade show floors of today’s hottest marketing conferences. To me, content strategy is all about focusing on the needs of our audience.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

MARCH 22, 2012

by Phil Fernandez. As I said in my last post, collaboration has become a cornerstone for business strategy and innovation. Today’s buyer expects unprecedented service, an increased understanding of the problems they face and impeccable interactions. Customers deserve that level of engagement. This video discusses how companies that collaborate are benefiting by providing a seamless, integrated experience for the buyer and how those who do not collaborate are at risk of damaging customer relat

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MARCH 6, 2012

Recently I read an article called “ Godless Barbarians at The Gates of IT ” by Ryan Skinner from a UK-based agency called Velocity Partners. In the article, Ryan talks about how consumerization, the cloud and the real-time needs of startups are creating such a high rate of new technology adoption that it is out-pacing our ability as marketers to react and respond, let alone get ahead with effective strategies.

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Marketing Insider Group

MARCH 13, 2012

Last night I had the pleasure of being a guest on the 85th # MarketerMonday chat or # MMChat – hosted by @ JeffAshcroft aka @ TheSocialCMO. Our topic was “ The Leadership Gap in Marketing ” where we discussed the changes taking place in marketing today and the leadership crisis these conditions are creating. We addressed the current digital skills gap, the opportunity for marketing to take a leading role in our businesses and the new kinds of leaders that are emerging in light

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 12, 2012

The Hierarchy of Getting The Important Stuff Done This content from: Duct Tape Marketing. There is always more that you want to do than you can humanly or otherwise actually do. That’s just the nature of owning a business and the minute you let up it comes right back at you. The key is to find a way to focus on the right things and let the other things, no matter how loud and shiny, go.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 5, 2012

5 Tricks that Every Marketer Needs to Know to Exploit the New Facebook Page Design This content from: Duct Tape Marketing. Come March 30 th 2012 every active Facebook Fan Page will be flipped over to the new design called The Timeline. Personal Profiles have been using a similar design for some time now. (Pages can choose to push the new design live before that date, but you might want to read the rest of this post before you do so.).

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