Marketo at Enterprise Scale: Key Strategies to Build a Robust CRM Integration...
Running Marketo at Enterprise Scale, that is an instance with more than a million records, requires a much greater level of knowledge and careful design to keep the lead machine running smoothly. As we...
View ArticleList Size: It’s Quality, Not Quantity
Sometimes we’re in such a hurry to meet a deadline that we keep our messaging general in an attempt to appeal to as many people as possible. But if you send an email to tens or hundreds of thousands of...
View ArticleIf You Blog It, They Will Come: The Ultimate Cheat Sheet for Attracting the...
During this time of heavily reduced in-person meetings and tradeshows (and, in most cases, canceled altogether), rethinking how you bring in net-new leads should be at the top of your to-do list. With...
View ArticleUsing Salesforce.com to Track Demand Funnel Volume and Velocity
Let’s talk about the demand funnel. Are you getting the most out of having implemented a demand funnel in your organization, in terms of knowledge that adds value to your marketing efforts? If you’d...
View ArticleA Growing MarTech Landscape Provides Unparalleled Opportunity for Marketers
The MarTech landscape has grown tremendously over recent years. With so many solutions and tools to choose from, marketers now have thousands of options when it comes to building out their marketing...
View ArticleHow to Set Up Automation Rules for Determining Profile Fit in Pardot
If you’re a serious marketing guru, you know that lead scoring is the secret sauce that empowers marketing automation success. It’s more than “data in, data out” – it’s the science and the art of...
View ArticleInnovations in Direct Mail: Interview With PFL’s Daniel Gaugler
It sounds like a contradiction, but recent innovations in an old marketing standard—direct mail—have given this marketing activity new life, making it a valuable addition to any nurture campaign. How?...
View Article6 Ways to Take Advantage of Intent Data in Marketing and Sales
“Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.” Greek philosopher Plato is our oldest (albeit unintentional) B2B thought leader. Thousands of years later, human...
View ArticleMarketo at Enterprise Scale: Tips for High Performance When Working with...
As you probably know, Marketo is a pretty robust system. In smaller databases, marketers can get away with creating sloppy campaigns and inefficient programs with little impact on system performance....
View ArticleClient Expansion Series: 3 Absolute Must-Have Client Engagement Programs
Continuing the series on client expansion, in this post I’ll outline critical nurture engagement frameworks that build on the structure and best practices we established in the previous posts. As a...
View ArticleHealthy Partnerships Matter (Now More than Ever): 5 Ways to Be a Better...
It was just over a year ago that DemandGen was recognized as the 2019 Marketo Digital Services Partner of the Year. This week, we were humbled to be honored as Adobe’s 2020 Marketo Engage Digital...
View ArticleWhat’s Your Dirty Data Actually Costing You?
Data hygiene may not be the most exciting topic, but depending on how good a job your organization is doing on it, it can have exciting — or horrifying — impacts on your bottom line. A study by Demand...
View ArticleThe Marketing Solutionist: Keep a Swiss Army Knife in Your MarTech Toolbox
Most of us have heard the old adage, “Jack of all trades, master of none.” Not as many have heard the full version, which is a bit more complimentary: “Jack of all trades, master of none, but...
View ArticleMaking the Move to Agile: 3 Learnings from the Start of Our Journey
The Agile Manifesto is celebrating its twentieth anniversary this year. I guess you could say we’re not exactly early adopters here in BDO Digital’s Demand Gen Group, but we are taking the plunge this...
View Article7 Essential Marketing Technology Categories: How’s Your Stack Looking?
Creativity-driven marketing has been a central driving force behind brand marketing for years. Creative theory and concepts, I believe, categorize all marketing that is done without technology, data or...
View ArticleLook, New MarTech! 3 Steps to Avoid the Perils of Shiny Object Syndrome
Who doesn’t love a great Marketing conference? The energy, the excitement, the vast experience of admired leaders imparted to hungry marketers from the main stage… Let’s be honest, though. While most...
View ArticleOutsourcing Email Campaign Execution: Let Someone Else Do the Heavy Lifting
Whenever I ask marketers what their favorite thing about putting together an email campaign is, they always tell me it’s the steps involved in setting up the email in their marketing automation system....
View ArticleIs Your Data Codependent? Clean Up Your Marketo Database by Identifying and...
Is your Marketo platform drowning in unnecessary fields and assets? Have you tried to delete, hide, or archive the ones you no longer use or need, but found you couldn’t because of underlying...
View ArticleEloqua Gets a Facelift : Take a Look
It’s been a while since the introduction of Eloqua’s first major user interface update, “E10,” which was unveiled at the annual user conference a few years ago. That release, built on HTML 5, offered...
View Article10 Years Later: How Demand Generation Has Evolved Over the Years
I was recently onsite with a client when someone said, “I was hired to do demand gen. How did you get that name?” DemandGen was founded more than 10 years ago by our CEO, David Lewis. Back then,...
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