March, 2013

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5 Reasons Why Your Inbound Marketing Isn’t Working

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

by Dayna Rothman Here is a scenario that resonates with many marketers using inbound marketing as part of their marketing mix. You create your blog, social accounts, maybe a couple of ebooks, and invest in marketing automation software. At first, things are going great! You see more blog subscribers, a huge increase in website traffic, and your social media followers are way up.

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The Human Touch – Important For Marketing Today and Tomorrow

Marketing Insider Group

In this Future of Marketing series, we have covered topics such as Agile Marketing , Big Data , Customer Experience , Thought Leadership , Culture , Content , and so much more. Despite all the change in the world and the impact of these changes on our marketing strategy, one thing has never changed. And that is the importance of relationships, and the ability to communicate with people.

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How to Sell More by Focusing On Less

Duct Tape Marketing

Today’s guest post is from Duct Tape Marketing Consultant Sean D’Souza. – Enjoy! Image Credit: Sean D’Souza. I rem ember flying to Pittsburgh in the year 2004. It was a 7am presentation in front of about 40 people who I didn’t know. And who didn’t know me, either. And by the time the presentation was done at 7:45am, I asked the crowd a simple question. “How many of you would like to buy this product?

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What Your Instagram Filter Says About You [Infographic]

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

by Jason Miller Are you one of the 100 million active users generating 40 million photos a day on Instagram? As a marketer, user generated content is a gold mine for insights and can be a nice complement to any content marketing strategy. Even better, applications such as Instagram are primed for taking that content mobile. Smart savvy marketers that are harnessing the power of visual content and the high engagement that it delivers are much more likely to be rewarded by leveraging Instagram as

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Why B2B Growth Needs a Co-Marketing Strategy

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Struggling to grow your B2B brand in an overcrowded market? Discover how partner marketing can transform your strategy, unlocking new opportunities for lead generation and ROI. What you'll gain: Craft collaborative campaigns that minimize conflicts and maximize ROI. Harness automation to streamline partner marketing efforts. Learn to gain and retain partner mind share with proven strategies.

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Best Practices for Marketing Automation from 11 Experts

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by Dayna Rothman Today’s guest post is from Sam Boush, President of Lead Lizard. He is an expert in marketing automation and lead management best practices. Everyone loves a good “Best Practices” list! In that spirit, we’ve asked some of the big brains on the marketing automation scene for tips, tricks and best practices that will help marketers make it rain with their next marketing automation program or campaign.

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The Truth about Social Media Leads

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by Jason Miller There are hundreds of differing opinions regarding the effectiveness of using social media for lead generation. This is my opinion and it comes from over two years of trial and error using what I consider to be the best tools available for the social media marketer. Social is an essential channel for the modern marketer to have a presence, but it can’t become the number one revenue driver all by itself.

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5 Ways to Get The Most Out of Vine In Your Content Marketing

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by Dayna Rothman So what is this Vine phenomenon? If you are a marketer (or anyone on social), you have most likely started to hear a ton of news centered around this cool app. Basically, you can create short, 6 second videos using the iPhone app Vine and then post to your Twitter and Facebook accounts. The cool part about Vine is not only can you do a regular video stream, but you can also create a stop motion video tying together split second clips.

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Marketing is Still Hard, Agencies Are Here to Stay

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by Amy Guarino At Marketo, we often say that we’ve made the technology easy, but marketing is still hard. Working with a strong agency partner, either by outsourcing the entire solution to them, or using their skills on the marketing side of things can significantly shorten the time for success and improve overall results. Agencies have evolved and are well versed in helping customers tackle many of the problems that modern marketers face today.

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5 Steps for a Most Excellent Google Hangout

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

by Jason Miller So you want to host a Google hangout? Before you get started researching and reading the countless number of eBooks and blogs that promise to tell you everything you need to know, let me save you a bunch of time. I have read the top posts out there and distilled all of the important stuff down to a simple five step process saving you time and frustration.

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How to Master Media Relations: Targeting, Tailoring, Timing

Speaker: Karen Swim, APR

Relevance is the currency of modern media relations—and personalization is how you earn it. In this new webinar with industry leader Karen Swim, APR, we'll explore proven strategies for precision targeting and crafting personalized pitches that resonate with journalists and build stronger relationships over time. You’ll also learn how to ensure your media lists are accurate and up to date, craft outreach that gets responses, and streamline your workflow without sacrificing quality.

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The Top Social Media Topics On the Minds of Real Marketers

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by Dayna Rothman In Marketo’s recent Social Marketing Rockstar Tour, we visited 15 cities to talk about implementing, executing, and measuring social strategy. We met marketing interns and CEOs and all levels in between; spoke to marketers from every industry; and networked with marketers from large companies with 10,000+ employees and small companies with fewer than 10.

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6 Reasons Why Your Company’s Facebook Page is Unattractive

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by Dayna Rothman I am pleased to welcome Helen Nesterenko as today’s guest blogger. Helen is the founder of writtent.com. She enjoys helping businesses create content their customers and prospects will love. Can you believe that Facebook’s Timeline feature is nearly a year old? 12 months later, small businesses are still trying to figure out how to use the visually-driven and slightly complex design to its full advantage.

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Make Way For The Agency of the Future [Infographic]

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

by Dayna Rothman The digital revolution has transformed marketing. With the changing buyer, budget pressures, new social channels, and content, marketers have to do more with less. And marketing automation has become the new must-have technology to help marketers increase their reach. Now marketers can nurture leads until they are ready to buy, send only the hottest leads to sales, and deliver results to the executive team.

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The 5 Key Marketing Metrics You Should Be Watching

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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. Marketing metrics often go wrong, so what’s the right way to go?

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AI In The Aisles: The Executives Guide To Better In-Store Experiences

Speaker: Steve Worthy, MBA

The rapid rise of AI-powered displays, touchless technology, and sensory marketing is reshaping the future of in-store engagement. Yet for many retail executives, the real challenge is not identifying new tools - it is knowing which signals to trust, which inputs to prioritize, and how to architect decisions that elevate in-store leadership rather than dilute it.

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How to Create Marketing People Love with Marketing Automation

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

by Jon Miller (@jonmiller) Modern marketing in the digital age is not just about numbers and processes. Buyers, (even those empowered by easy access to information) are still humans – which means they make decisions based on emotional connections , stored memories, images and feelings more than rational evaluations. This is about your brand in general, but there is also a strong connection to how you market your company.

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5 Marketing Lessons from Spinal Tap

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by Jason Miller “This Is Spinal Tap” is a 1984 rock and roll musical “mockumentary” directed by Rob Reiner about the fictional heavy metal music band Spinal Tap. The movie satirizes the wild behavior and musical pretensions of hard rock and heavy metal musicians. It’s filled with pitch-perfect one liners from the band and cast of characters as they tour America and prepare for the release of their comeback record.

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Think Creatively About Your Search Ads With These Top Questions

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by Dayna Rothman Today’s guest post is from Marlin Gilbert, Industry Head of Advertising and Sales at Google. Marlin manages a team responsible for B2B Technology clients nationally. He holds a BA from Stanford University and an MBA from Harvard Business School. Our advertising sales teams at Google meet with B2B advertisers on a daily basis to discuss how we can help our clients grow and best leverage the power of digital marketing.

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Three Key Job Roles to Make Your Marketing Automation Rock

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by Heidi Bullock Marketing automation is a great solution to help drive your business. Marketers need to be more accountable, engage with customers and potential buyers, and also scale their activities. They are increasingly spending more dollars on technology to support these activities, and in the near future may even out pace CIOs on technology spend.

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Engage Better, Gift Smarter, Win Big: Events That Deliver ROI

Speaker: Hanan Polinovski, Events Manager and David Brown, Sr. Marketing & Events Lead

Are your events living up to expectations? Are you getting quality leads from your sponsorships? Have you ever wondered if that branded notebook actually makes an impact? Get ready to transform your event strategy! Join event marketing pros Hanan Polinovski from Printfection and David Brown from Bonusly for a fast-paced webinar about turning your event efforts into serious ROI.

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Dominate Your Next Event With a Great Public Relations Strategy

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by Dayna Rothman Great public relations can help your company break through the noise that can sometimes dominate a busy event. Remember, you are competing with many different companies for share of voice, and a solid PR strategy helps you get heard by prospects, customers, as well as important media outlets. You’ll need a different PR strategy based on whether you are hosting or sponsoring an event, but for both you need to formulate a solid plan.

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Accelerate Demand using Rich Media

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by Dayna Rothman Mani Iyer is CEO of Kwanzoo, a cloud-based platform for building and running rich media campaigns that accelerate & optimize demand across all online channels (email, website, social, display, re-targeting & mobile). Enterprise marketers today constantly seek new and creative ways to engage, qualify and convert prospects online.

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The Magic Behind the Curtain: Marketing Automation Makes it All Happen [Infographic]

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

by Dayna Rothman There are so many moving parts to today’s marketing landscape. Whether it’s thinking about how to build relationships with buyers, how to leverage the newest social media tool, or how to tie marketing effort to revenue , the modern marketer has a lot on her mind. How does she juggle the complex buyer journey with delivering results to the C-suite?

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John McTigue On The Intersection of Content and Marketing Automation

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by Dayna Rothman For our recent Definitive Guide to Marketing Automation launch, I interviewed several marketing automation experts to get their input on key questions such as the future of marketing automation and it’s key benefits over an Email Service Provider (ESP). I had so many awesome answers from thought leaders, that I wanted to create a blog series that showcased their advice and opinions.

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A Data Revolution: Why Your AMS/CRM Needs a Native Data Warehouse

Unlock the Power of Historical Data A Data Revolution: Why Your AMS/CRM Needs a Native Data Warehouse Today’s association leaders need more than real-time snapshots—they need the full story. MemberSuite: A Data Revolution reveals how a native data warehouse transforms your AMS into a strategic decision-making engine. In this free eBook, you’ll discover: The difference between a database and a data warehouse—and why it matters How to gain historical visibility into membership, engagement, events,

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Listen. Ask. Share. It’s Time For Agile Marketing

Marketing Insider Group

What is agile marketing? According to Sandra Zoratti, the VP of Marketing at Ricoh, agile marketing is all speed, collaboration and taking an iterative approach to marketing. Sandra is our honored guest in today’s Future of Marketing interview series where we have covered topics such as Creativity , Big Data , Customer Experience , Thought Leadership , Culture , Technology , and so much more.

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Is Personal Branding The Future Of Marketing?

Marketing Insider Group

I am truly honored and amazed at all the provocative, interesting and insightful points of views we have seen thus far on the Future of Marketing. In our last interview, Drew Davis offered guidance on how to move from branded content to a content brand. Previous interviews covered the Customer’s brand , Marketing Creativity , Big Data , Big Testing , Customer Experience , Thought Leadership , creating a Content Culture , the roles of Content and Technology , the Future of Search

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Move From Branded Content To A Content Brand

Marketing Insider Group

Our most recent Future of Marketing interview explained Nick Kellet’s suggestion that we focus more on our Customer’s Brand than on our own. Previous interviews covered Marketing Creativity , Big Data , Big Testing , Customer Experience , Thought Leadership , creating a Content Culture , the roles of Content and Technology , the Future of Search , the Science of Marketing , the rise of Content Brands and we asked whether the customer or the Content is King.

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Getting Back to Basics In The Future of Marketing

Marketing Insider Group

In this Future of Marketing series, we have covered topics such as Agile Marketing , Big Data , Customer Experience , Thought Leadership , Culture , Content , and so much more. We also cannot forget the importance of getting back to the basics of marketing. We need to stay focused on the power of ideas and the creativity required to make a human connection between our brand and our customers.

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From Curiosity to Competitive Edge: How Mid-Market CEOs Are Using AI to Scale Smarter

Speaker: Lee Andrews, Founder at LJA New Media & Tony Karrer, Founder and CTO at Aggregage

This session will walk you through how one CEO used generative AI, workflow automation, and sales personalization to transform an entire security company—then built the Zero to Strategy framework that other mid-market leaders are now using to unlock 3.5x ROI. As a business executive, you’ll learn how to assess AI opportunities in your business, drive adoption across teams, and overcome internal resource constraints—without hiring a single data scientist.

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How Will 50 Billion Connected Devices Affect The Future of Marketing?

Marketing Insider Group

Imagine the inevitable Future of Marketing with 50 billion connected devices! How will marketing change and what role will brands and consumer play? In our previous interviews on the future of marketing, we looked touched on topics such as Marketing Fundamentals , Personal Branding , Content Brands , Customer Brands , Creativity , Big Data , Customer Experience , Thought Leadership , the Future of Search , the Science of Marketing and many more… Today’s interview is with L

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The Future of Marketing – Adapt And Be Creative!

Marketing Insider Group

In our last Future of Marketing interview, Scott Brinker riffed off the Marketing and Big Data idea by asking if the future of marketing was all about “ Big Testing? ” Previous interviews covered customer experience , thought leadership , , creating a content culture , the roles of content and technology , the future of search , the science of marketing , the rise of Content Brands and we asked whether the customer or the content is king in the future of marketing.

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Focus On Your Customer’s Brand In The Future of Marketing

Marketing Insider Group

In our last interview, Paula Cusati suggested that we will need the ability to adapt and be creative in the rapidly changing world of Future of Marketing. Previous interviews covered Big Data Marketing and Big Testing , customer experience , thought leadership , , creating a content culture , the roles of content and technology , the future of search , the science of marketing , the rise of Content Brands and we asked whether the customer or the content is king in the future of mar