May, 2013

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5 of the Most Innovative and Unique Marketing Campaigns So Far in 2013

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

'Author: Dayna Rothman What makes fantastic marketing? Emotional connection, relevancy, the “wow factor”. How do you take all of your marketing campaigns and make them pop? The greatest marketing campaigns are those that are memorable. They are the ones that resonate with your audience and really create an affinity between your customer, the messaging, and the product or service.

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Social Selling: A Day In The Life of A Social Sales Person

Marketing Insider Group

'Social selling is a hot buzzword being thrown around today. What is social selling and how do tomorrow’s top sales people use social selling to become top performers? Social selling is not just about starting the sales process with social tools like Linkedin, Facebook or Twitter. Social selling is about sales people building a strong personal brand.

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Mobile Copywriting Tips and Four Apps to Assist

Duct Tape Marketing

'Thursday is guest post day here at Duct Tape Marketing and today’s guest is Teddy Hunt – Enjoy! photo credit Via Flickr by FaceMePLS. With 79 percent of Americans working remotely at least part of the time, it seems the days of copywriters chained to cubicles are far behind us. However, leaving the desk behind can take some getting used to.

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Content Curation for Lead Nurturing

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

'Author: Jon Miller (@jonmiller) By now, many marketers are convinced of the value of lead nurturing – but they remain flummoxed by the task of creating content to fuel their programs. In this post, I’d like to propose that marketers can and should embrace content curation as an effective, easy way to nurture leads. The Content Challenge. Lead nurturing is the process of building relationships with qualified prospects regardless of their timing to buy, with the goal of earning their business whe

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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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What’s the Value of a Google Hangout for Marketers?

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

'Author: Jason Miller On June 5 Marketo kicks off Season 2 of the Marketing Happy Hour with Youtility Author Jay Baer. Jay will be discussing his new book ( available now for pre-order ), hot topics in the news, and there will even be a fun segment or two around marketing. Register for the Hangout here. Google is having one hell of a time proving the value of the “social layer” that ties all of Google’s platforms together, but those of us who have been listening are way ahead of the game.

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Beyond Lead Generation: How to Use Content for Sales Enablement, Lead Nurturing and Retention

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

'Author: Caroline Watts Many marketers consider content to be primarily used for top-of-funnel lead generation techniques. While it’s absolutely true that content can help you drive the right traffic to your site and introduce your business to prospective customers, it’s also effective at later stages of the funnel. By thinking of strategic ways you can incorporate your great thought leadership in other aspects of your marketing, you can extend the life of content and get much more use out

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The Benefits of Embracing Real-Time Marketing on Social Channels and Beyond

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

'Author: Julio Viskovich Real-time marketing is a process that enables marketers to capitalize on real-time events and deliver a relevant message to the right person at the right time. Ideas must be developed in minutes rather than days or weeks. And messaging centers around real-time feedback from customers or around current events that happen. The benefit of this type of marketing, is that you can capitalize on trending topics that your followers can relate to.

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Anatomy of a Blog Redesign – 10 Best Practices from Marketo

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

'Author: Jon Miller (@jonmiller) The Marketo Marketing Blog has long been one of Marketo’s most important and valuable marketing strategies. We started writing it in 2006 ( here’s the first post ) and have since published more than 950 articles. Our efforts have generated more than 27,000 inbound links plus 400,000 unique visitors and almost $2 million in directly attributed revenue each year (plus influence on much more).

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Using Visual Content to Promote Your Event

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

'by Dayna Rothman Visual content is an important part of creating engagement across social channels. It stands out from all the text promotion companies typically do, helps tell a story, and gives event attendees all the information they need in a short amount of time. Visual content for events can be a valuable tactic before, during, and afterwards, becoming a cornerstone of your event marketing strategy.

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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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Revenue Acceleration Through Content Marketing Is A New Opportunity For Marketing Service Providers

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

'Did you know that B2B buyers say that 70% of the content they read and study before making a purchase decision is actually found by – well, themselves? Just 15% (each) is collected from either the vendor’s marketing department or the sales contacts. In a Forrester report last year on content marketing being the new differentiation, I described the new interaction model of need-match-engage, where the buyers now initiate the interaction and spend a major part of their buyer journey doing their

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How to Survive as a Modern Marketer

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

'by Dayna Rothman Today we would like to welcome Pierce Ujjainwalla as today’s guest blogger. Pierce leads Demand Generation at 360pi and runs a blog called Epic Marketing Fails. Buyers have changed forever, and marketers need to adapt. Executives are demanding that marketers prove ROI from their investments. To reach and engage prospects and measure effectiveness, it’s critical that marketers leverage trends and new technology.

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How Facebook Graph Search Affects Your Privacy [Infographic]

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

'by Jason Miller Facebook Graph Search is being rolled out to the masses and it’s important to be aware of the searchable content you post. Public information will come up in search queries and may prove problematic if you have content on Facebook that you don’t want the world to see. Our previous post detailed what Graph Search is and what it means for your business.

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Agencies Anonymous: 6-Step Program to Overcoming Lead Nurturing Failures

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

'by Dayna Rothman We are excited to announce Anne Shaneen as today’s guest blogger. Anne wrangles words as a marketing content specialist for MarketStar. She posts on their blog and regularly rants @annetown. I’m Anne, and I’m a marketingaholic. Room chants back: Hi Anne. Now that I got that confession out of the way, let’s admit it: Lead nurturing is not easy.

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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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Marketers and Budget – Do you know the 3 V’s?

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

'Author: Heidi Bullock As a marketer, you know the drill. Your VP of Marketing drops by your desk. There is a board meeting next week and she needs your spending forecast for next quarter. Ideally, the forecast will be detailed, based on actuals, and *best of all* really accurate. You say, “Sure! Got it”, but in your mind you see images of late nights, lots of coffee, and going through endless spreadsheets — assuming you can find the right version on your hard drive.

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Be Where Your Prospects Are: Your Business Needs Complete Marketing

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

'Author: Fergus Gloster I am often asked in one-on-one conversations and group discussions whether Marketers should concentrate their resources on a single unique strategy, or spread their effort across many campaigns. Apart from the obvious argument that the “CMO should not put all their eggs in one basket”, there are real benefits to exploiting all options when developing marketing plans to deliver the demand generation needs of the business.

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Igniting Word of Mouth: How WOM Reduced Teen Smoking in South Carolina

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

'by Dayna Rothman I’d like to welcome Jeff Ogden as today’s guest blogger. Jeff is President of the sales lead generation company Find New Customers. He’s also the Creator and Host of the syndicated TV on the Web show, Marketing Made Simple TV. Follow Jeff on Twitter at @fearlesscomp. Word of mouth is generally considered to be the most powerful form of marketing available.

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Sales Intelligence with Google: Marrying What You Want to Say with What They Want to Hear

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

'We are excited to welcome Sam Richter as our guest blogger for today. Sam Richter is the founder of the Know More! business improvement program and author of the book “Take the Cold Out of Cold Calling”. For more information about Sam, his books/videos, and his presentations, please visit www.samrichter.com. If your company is like most, you’ve spent large amounts of time and money perfecting your message.

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B2B SEO vs. LMO: Whats the Difference and Why It Matters

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Brace yourself, B2B marketers. Your beloved SEO is getting a makeover, and its name is Language Model Optimization (LMO). What does that mean for your digital strategy? Join Jesse McFarland of SpearPoint Marketing on the next B2B Growth Show as we unravel the mystery and get you prepped for the next evolution in search. Here’s what you’ll walk away with: A clear breakdown of SEO vs.

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Interaction Analysis as a Leading Indicator of Funnel Conversions

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

'by Rajiv Kapoor Here’s a problem almost every marketer has faced. Let’s say you take a look at your conversions for the quarter and the results are not good. Conversions to marketing qualified leads are 10% below where they were last quarter. How do you know what the issue is? One cause of the problem could be that you did not have enough marketing activities.

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The Mathematics of Revenue Cycle Strategy

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

'Author: Rajiv Kapoor Change of focus. Once clients of mine get their marketing automation platform in place their entire focus changes. Up to this point, their lives were dominated by focusing on what the new technology is and how can they get it up and running. Now, let’s say you are the client. You are capable (obviously) and have setup key processes including lifecycle, scoring, marketing activities, and analytics.

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The Doctor Will See You Now: Lessons For Marketers From The Healthcare Technology Industry

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

'Author: Joe Sawyer In the world of marketing, healthcare has always been a bit like Luxembourg. Everyone knows that it exists and, occasionally, significant things take place there (a bank transaction, a diplomatic summit). But it’s far from a global power, never mind a hotbed of innovation. Why is marketing often somnolent in a giant industry that accounts for nearly 20% of our GDP?

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One Small Step for Marketo, One Giant Leap for the Marketing Nation

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

'Author: Phil Fernandez Today Marketo began trading as a public company on The NASDAQ Global Select Market under the symbol “MKTO”. You can read about it and see some pictures here. This milestone certainly marks an exciting moment in time for the company, but it also highlights exciting times for marketers everywhere. Large-scale trends, such as increasingly self-directed consumers and broad and instant availability of information online, are changing the role and responsibilities of the market

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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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Dr. Marketo’s Cabinet of Curiosity

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

'Author: Dayna Rothman At Marketo, we’re all about the science of marketing. Everyone thinks of marketing automation as a new field. But few people know about our rich heritage as marketing automation pioneers – a story that stretches back to the experiments of Dr. Gustav Marketo. More than any single individual, Dr. Marketo advanced the science of marketing through the use of mechanical, electrical and galvanic technologies.

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Big Data For Marketing? It’s All About The Questions

Marketing Insider Group

'Looking into a heavy topic today: Big Data for Marketing. “Heavy” because it’s sorta philosophical. I think Big Data for Marketing is more about the questions than the answers. More about the insights than the technology. The opportunity lies in defining how Big Data can help you better reach your customers with your messages in a way that gets them to act.

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The Art of Storytelling [Video]

Marketing Insider Group

'“Through the ages, technology and media…has dramatically influenced the way we communicate and tell stories.” This was one of the main points on “the art of storytelling” presented by Julie Roehm, Chief Storyteller at SAP at the Inbound Marketing Summit on April 3, 2013. Julie showed many visual and multimedia examples of how storytelling has been around for as long as humans have walked the earth.

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What Is A Social Business?

Marketing Insider Group

'In response to my post defining social selling , I realized that I needed to take a step back and define “What is a social business?”. There is a lot of talk about the social business and too often it involves a discussion of social tools and channels. In this article I’ll offer my own definition as well as plenty of links to other resources you can check out for more ideas on how to help your organization transform into a social business.

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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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Marketing And The Internet Of Things

Marketing Insider Group

'Talk about Big Data! Did you know there are already almost twice as many “things” connected on the internet than people? And that number is projected to rise to 50 Billion connected devices by 2020. This phenomenon is called the “internet of things,” “Machine-to-Machine” or “ M2M ,” communications. And it describes the world we live in now where our devices are connected to our homes, our cars, the products we buy and the things we do.

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The World Has Changed. Has Your Marketing?

Marketing Insider Group

'This week I am joining hundreds of B2B Marketing colleagues at the annual conference for the Business Marketing Association. Labeled “Blaze” this event is one of the largest global B2B Marketing event, bringing in more than 800 B2B Marketing professionals from 300+ companies and dozens of countries around the world. B2B marketing is changing at “blazing” speed due to the forces that shape our world today: the maturity of the digital landscape, social media connectivity, content mark

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Marketing Innovation Content Chat: It’s All About The Customer

Marketing Insider Group

'What is the future of Marketing Innovation? I think we’ll see more customer-centric CMO s. We’ll see more human brands , interacting with their customers in a more personal. Businesses will utilize Big Data Marketing and the power of all the digital information to create more personalized customer experiences. Earlier this week I joined a group of super-smart and passionate folks on # ContentChat.