Adobe Experience Cloud Blog
AUGUST 31, 2015
Author: Chris Gillespie When is the last time that you were cold called? Think back. OK, so how did you react to it? As a salesperson myself, I always think that I am steeled for someone calling me out of the blue and asking me for something. I always assume that it will go something like that pretty awesome scene from Boiler Room where Seth coaches the sales guy selling newspapers.
Marketing Insider Group
AUGUST 30, 2015
Google Chrome extensions offer some great tools to help with digital marketing. These extensions can do anything from speeding up your outreach efforts to checking for broken links. Following are my top four Chrome extensions for marketers. ( Note: This list was created in part by Margaret Hakobyan, CEO of MoversCorp.). 1. MOZBar. This tool helps you quickly view the power and authority of a website to determine if the site is worth reaching out to for partnership and/or advertising opportunitie
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Duct Tape Marketing
AUGUST 25, 2015
The Single Most Potent Marketing Tactic of All written by John Jantsch read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing. I get asked a simple, pointed question just about everywhere I go. What’s the number one thing I can do to grow my business right now. Yep, everyone wants one tactic they can employ to massively grow their business.
Traackr
AUGUST 27, 2015
What’s the key to find influencers for your brand? Conversations. Influencers are the people who your customers look to for information. They’re leading conversations about your industry, whether you are listening or not. Your job is to find the most important people for your brand, and work with them to become a part of the conversations your potential customers are participating in.
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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog
AUGUST 27, 2015
Author: Lizzy Funk The largest online marketing conference on the planet, with approximately 30,000 marketers from all over the globe is right at our doorstep! Join us , why don’t you!? In case you haven’t heard, let me be your insider guide to what you can expect at Marketing Nation Online 2015: Sit in on 25+ thought leadership sessions to hear the latest from industry movers & shakers (where is marketing heading?).
Adobe Experience Cloud Blog
AUGUST 28, 2015
Author: Chelsea Serrano This summer, I attended Marketo’s Seattle Block Party. For those of you who missed it, sorry but you missed a good one! We packed the Elysian Bar on 2 nd Avenue with over 100 people. The interior, brick walls and soft lighting, created a warm ambiance perfect for networking with B2B and consumer marketers and some of our awesome partners—LinkedIn, Bizible, and PFL (Print For Less).
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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog
AUGUST 25, 2015
Author: Aseem Badshah Don’t let the title fool you. I know what you’re probably thinking, “A construction site?! You mean messy, dirty, and disorganized?”. No. Not like that at all. First impression aside, a construction site and the construction team actually run like a well-oiled machine. And your marketing team and strategy should run the same way.
Adobe Experience Cloud Blog
AUGUST 24, 2015
Author: Sesame Mish Customers are the lifeblood of any business. Finding quality prospects is one of a marketer’s biggest challenges—how do you find leads that will convert into sales? In fact, 61% of B2B marketers cite generating high-quality leads as their No. 1 challenge. (I bet that even you consumer marketers out there experience this challenge, so stick with me, as I’m sure you’ll find value here, too).
Adobe Experience Cloud Blog
AUGUST 21, 2015
Author: Graham Gallivan Field marketers are significant assets to their organization (and I’m not just saying that because I am one!) Field marketing teams organize activities like tradeshows and networking events to drive brand awareness, attract prospects, and ultimately, help field sales teams cultivate pipeline. They get your company’s message outside the office walls and directly where it matters: in front of potential customers and industry heavy-weights.
Adobe Experience Cloud Blog
AUGUST 20, 2015
Author: Ellen Gomes As a marketer it’s easy to get caught up in the day-to-day: head into the office, put your head down, power through your work. It feels good to stick to what you know, check things off your list, and be good at your job. But in order to stay good at your job, you need to constantly improve. You need to push yourself forward on a consistent basis.
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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog
AUGUST 19, 2015
Author: Nikita Ovtchinikov As salespeople, we know that the discovery call (the initial call between a sales rep and a prospect) can make or break a sales cycle. Done well, a discovery call will allow salespeople to gather the intel they need to run an efficient sales cycle (and frankly, even if you’re not in sales you probably can still apply some of these tips in your role).
Adobe Experience Cloud Blog
AUGUST 18, 2015
Author: Aseem Badshah We’re more than halfway through 2015. (It snuck up on us, too!) Right now, many marketers (you?) may already start looking towards the future by brainstorming ideas to execute in 2016. A word of advice: Wait! There’s still 4+ months remaining in 2015, so don’t waste it. It’s time for you to turn up the heat! We’ve seen some big changes and trends in the marketing space since the beginning of the year: mobile took off, social media restrictions were lifted, and
Adobe Experience Cloud Blog
AUGUST 17, 2015
Author: Johnny Cheng I hear this question from email marketers all the time: Does the size of my email send affect the performance? To answer this question, we’re going to play MythBusters! Email Myth #1. “The larger your email sends, the higher your unsubscribe rate” Hypothesis: This one seems reasonable. I feel like if you’re doing huge email size sends, your messaging is probably going to seem “spammy”, and so a larger percentage of recipients will unsubscribe due to irrelevance.
Adobe Experience Cloud Blog
AUGUST 13, 2015
Author: Marcus Taylor The marketing automation industry has snowballed over the past few years, and yet it’s only just getting started. According to Marketing Automation Insider, in the past five years alone, we’ve seen over $5.5B worth of acquisitions made, and an aggregate vendor revenues increase from $225M to $1.65B! At the current rate of adoption and innovation, you may be wondering where marketing automation is headed, which trends are emerging, and how it will all benefit your business.
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!
Adobe Experience Cloud Blog
AUGUST 12, 2015
Author: David Lizerbram Podcasting has become big business. For those of you who aren’t up on the medium, a podcast is simply a recorded audio show that you can download or stream and play any time you like. Top podcasters like John Lee Dumas of Entrepreneur on Fire are generating hundreds of thousands of dollars a month. Businesses are jumping into the podcast world as a hot new marketing channel —and as a new source of direct revenue.
Adobe Experience Cloud Blog
AUGUST 11, 2015
Author: Becky Hirsch Do you hear that? It’s getting louder. It’s the sound of millions of emails, targeted ads, and personalized web experiences fighting for relevance. Despite the noise, B2B and B2C brands succeed at delivering relevant information to their target audiences. According to Direct Marketing Association, for every $1 spent on email marketing , the average return-on-investment is $40.56.
Adobe Experience Cloud Blog
AUGUST 5, 2015
Author: Yoav Vilner In this fast-paced digital age, reaching out to the desires and needs of consumers is more important than ever, particularly when your business is online and easily accessible. In today’s business landscape, competitors are only a few clicks away. And just around the corner is social media, which provides an uncensored soapbox where customers can voice their dissatisfaction to legions of friends and followers.
Adobe Experience Cloud Blog
AUGUST 6, 2015
Author: Rachel Yarnold Roadshows. What are they and why are they so important? Roadshows, in a nutshell, are the ultimate field event: just think of them as field events on steroids. The purpose of roadshows is to take your company’s message and brand—you guessed it—on the road. Roadshows are often done in sequence and occur in a handful of cities in an effort to increase brand awareness and product knowledge.
Speaker: Mike Rizzo, Founder & CEO, MarketingOps.com and Darrell Alfonso, Director of Marketing Strategy and Operations, Indeed.com
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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog
AUGUST 4, 2015
Author: Russell Rothstein When I’m looking to make an important purchase, the first thing I do is check out product reviews on the internet. Whether it’s Yelp for restaurants, TripAdvisor for hotels, or Amazon for knick-knacks, reading product reviews help me make better buying decisions. Business technology purchases are no less important. Research from Google demonstrates that 60% percent of B2B technology buyers read product reviews before making a purchase.
Adobe Experience Cloud Blog
AUGUST 3, 2015
Author: Johnny Cheng I’m baaaack! It’s me, Johnny, with your next blog from the Marketo Institute! This time around, we’re going to take a look at conversion rate. Conversion rate is one of the most important marketing metrics. It’s a metric that lead generation marketers—from practitioners all the way up to CMOs—are measured on. And that’s because today marketing owns just as much of the pipeline as sales does, and conversion rate is a great indicator of pipeline health—starting fro
Adobe Experience Cloud Blog
AUGUST 7, 2015
Author: Julie Wingerter From Demand Gen Report to Marketing Profs to Content Marketing Institute, leaders in the content marketing field are touting the benefits of incorporating interactive content—content that encourages prospects to engage and respond—into the modern marketing mix. Through interactive assessments, calculators, infographics, benchmarking tests, or a combination of all the above, marketers can expand their brand, generate leads, build better prospect profiles and enhance lead s
Marketing Insider Group
AUGUST 17, 2015
Increase in brand awareness, or the extent to which consumers are familiar with your brand, is one of the most common content marketing business cases. Another way to think of this, is how many early-stage prospects are finding their way to your brand’s website? We can measure brand awareness a few different ways: Paid vs. Organic Search Traffic: Search traffic your site receives from paid search advertisements versus traffic due to a high organic search ranking.
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Marketing Insider Group
AUGUST 31, 2015
Perhaps the most valued business case for content marketing is driving conversions. When done properly, content marketing attracts prospects at the top of the funnel and guides them through the buyer journey until they convert to become customers. Therefore, content marketing conversions are the prospects who became customers because of either helpful, useful and/or entertaining content your brand provided them.
Marketing Insider Group
AUGUST 22, 2015
I’ve noticed a content marketing backlash, recently, with a particular vitriol directed toward business storytelling. For example, four weeks ago, the author of The Art of Storytelling in the Age of Content Marketing lashed out at brand journalism. “Former journalists,” he said, “who once gave voice to the downtrodden and spoke truth to power, have latched on to this trend with good paying jobs as content marketers.”.
Marketing Insider Group
AUGUST 3, 2015
Are you overwhelmed with the complexity of creating B2B marketing content that generates leads? A focus on two things can help it all fall in place. The way people buy has changed dramatically. Studies show that 60% of the B2B sales cycle is over before a prospect first talks to a salesperson ( Corporate Executive Board ). Most every other study pegs that percentage even higher.
Marketing Insider Group
AUGUST 27, 2015
According to the latest B2B Buyer research published by DemandGen Report, the world of B2B marketing is continuing the get more complex and our buyers more sophisticated. Some of the results from the 2015 B2B Buyers Survey Report , are as follows: 53% of buyers say their time to purchase has increased with 80% of those saying they are taking more time to research and 82% saying they are viewing more sources. 43% stated there is an increase in the number of people who are part of the buying commi
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Marketing Insider Group
AUGUST 6, 2015
Ranking high for SEO keywords is a core objective of most content marketing programs, and rightly so. According to Eyetools Inc : Organic search is responsible for 64% of all web traffic. 2% of users travel to the 2 nd page of Google. 18% of users click on the first organic listing. Essentially, if your brand is not ranking as a top organic result, your prospects probably aren’t going to find you. .
Marketing Insider Group
AUGUST 17, 2015
Do you want to generate more leads from buyers shopping only on price –OR– from prospects looking for your help? If it’s the latter, here’s how. It’s no secret that the nature of lead generation and sales is changing. For a long time, salespeople could generate a lot of their own leads and then guide prospects through the buyer’s journey before closing the sale.
Marketing Insider Group
AUGUST 4, 2015
I came across a story on The Guardian of a man with the strangest condition I have ever heard of. I wasn’t expecting this, but after I read his story, I realized that his story reveals something you might be concerned about: why your content marketing isn’t working. I’ll explain what I mean in a second, but first you’ve got to hear this man’s shocking story… Living in a Right-Sided World.
Marketing Insider Group
AUGUST 3, 2015
If you’re in marketing or advertising, it’s no news that millennials are a big and extremely lucrative market, representing one fourth of the entire US population and over $200 billion in spending power. The bad news is that it’s hard to get millennials’ attention, and traditional advertising no longer works on this generation. The good news is that content marketing is the key to unlocking the door to millennial eyeballs.
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