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How to Hire Right: When It Comes to Your Team’s Success, Chemistry Is Everything
In November of 1984, production began on what would become one of the most beloved movies of all time. Years had been spent developing the script, shopping it to studios, and meticulously selecting...
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Two Simple Tools for Building and Improving Relationships in a Remote World...
Are you a good listener? Do you consider yourself a kind person? What’s the connection between these two questions? Listening and kindness have always been important to building successful...
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5 Tips to Accelerate Lead Response Times
Picture this: You’re in the market for a new car, so you do a little research online and browse some dealership websites and fill out a few interest forms online. You find two comparable cars you like...
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BRB I Have to Text My Clients: Oracle Eloqua Introduces SMS Functionality in...
Over the past year and a half, almost every demographic has relied even more heavily on technology to remain in touch with family and friends. Even those who were reluctant to fully embrace digital...
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Lead Gen vs. Demand Gen: What’s the Difference and Why Should You Care
Prospects, pipelines, and demand funnels, oh my! Marketing lingo continues to evolve, often causing confusion among marketers — even within the same company! Alignment around terminology is essential...
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Top 6 KPIs Marketing Teams Should Track — and Why
For many of us, key performance indicators (KPIs) can be intimidating. We associate them with performance reviews, quarterly business reviews, and board meetings, and they shed light on how well...
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The D3 Methodology: A Breakdown of the Planetary Gear System Visual Metaphor
You may have heard about the D3 Methodology, a framework for managing the complexity of high-performance demand generation and building a perpetual revenue engine. Why is this so critical for success...
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How to Maximize the Value of Agile Methodology in MarTech Project Delivery
In today’s world, the economic outlook isn’t necessarily optimistic. On the other hand, it’s not entirely pessimistic either. Regardless of what happens with the economy, one thing is clear. Due in...
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3 Helpful Tips for Managing Creative Marketing Projects That Result in More...
There has been an exponential increase in digital marketing projects and digital transformation initiatives in recent years, especially as many organizations were forced to make the switch to remote...
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6 Daily Rituals to Keep Your Marketo Instance in Tip-Top Shape
We hear it from doctors, veterinarians, and mechanics: simple preventive measures we take now can help prevent more serious issues in the future. The same principle holds true for your Marketo...
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Key Takeaways from the 10-Step Playbook to Digital Transformation
Modern organizations are digitally transforming workflows, processes, products, and services at an unprecedented rate. IDC predicts that direct investments in digital transformation will reach $6.8...
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6 Best Practices for Hosting Successful Demand Generation Webinars
Webinars have been an effective marketing tool for many years — and during the pandemic, they were one of the only ways to connect with prospects and customers. As a result, their popularity is...
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5 of the Best Project Management Software and Tools in 2022
I’m a very organized person. I love staying on top of my tasks and projects, and I’m fortunate that I found my passion for project management very early in my career. As a result, I’ve had the...
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Why Segmentation Is Critical to Personalization and Engagement
Consumers are bombarded with marketing messages – some relevant, most not. Whether a consumer reacts to seeing an ad, email, social post or marketing deliverable really depends on whether the content...
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Beneath the Surface of Marketing Automation App Development
Back in 2009, Apple trademarked the phrase “There’s an app for that,” spurring a running joke that there’s a mobile phone application for anything a person might possibly need. If the joke was true...
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6 Steps to to Fixing a Broken Marketing or Sales Operations Process
I’m a problem solver. While I’m currently a solutions architect at BDO Digital today, I was once a marketing and sales operations manager. It was my job to help my organization get to the root of...
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Demand Expansion: The Unsung Hero of Revenue Growth
I’ve spent over 15 years helping companies transform their marketing strategies to better connect with their customers. In that time, I’ve found that marketing is a lot of things: invigorating,...
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The Case for Creating Duplicate Leads in Eloqua and Salesforce
The benefits of aligning marketing and sales teams are well known at this point. One of the elements of a strong marketing-sales relationship is having a seamless integration between their tech tools,...
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Marketing During a Recession – Counterintuitive and Critical
Businesses are still feeling the pandemic’s impact where it hurts the most – their budgets. And unfortunately, an economic recession is likely. Growth is projected to slow from 6.1% last year to 3.2%...
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Demand Expansion: Marketing Beyond the First Purchase
Every existing customer in your business is also a potential future customer. In fact, they are arguably your most important potential customers — listen and learn from them, nurture and delight them....
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How to Scale Your Marketing Operations: 3 Essential Strategies
Marketing Operations is a function that’s relatively new to the corporate world. It was created to address the increasing complexity of running a marketing department, which now depends on effective...
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5 Key Takeaways from “How Optimize Your MarTech Stack to Drive Cost Savings”
If you are tasked with doing more for your company with fewer resources, taking a close look at your marketing technology (MarTech) stack is a must. A stack assessment will help you identify...
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How Digital Transformation Helps Marketers Meet Their Goals and Grow
Digital Transformation is no longer a buzzword – it’s the way of business today. Catalyzed by the pandemic, the hybrid workplace and the ever-increasing importance of delivering an exceptional and...
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Create a Competitive Advantage by Becoming a CX ‘A-Team’
On a scale of one to 10, most people rate themselves at a seven or better. The phenomenon, known as “illusory superiority,” has been studied for years by David Dunning, a psychologist at Cornell. This...
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Five Critical Project Management Tips That Boost the Client Experience
Have you ever worked with a project manager who not only kept your project on track, but also made the experience a positive one? While some may think of project managers as the taskmaster who keeps...
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Now versus Then: The Evolution of Marketing Metrics
Every marketer knows that measuring the results of their marketing efforts is key to success. If you don’t examine and analyze the performance of your email or ad campaign, industry event, website...
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18 Simple Strategies to Create Email Marketing Campaigns That Stand Out
In today’s world, companies of all sizes are tightening their belts and paying close attention to how and where they spend their money. As a result, it’s becoming more important to stand out from the...
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Tips for Cleansing Your Account Engagement (Pardot) Database
If you had to guess, how much clutter would you say is currently in your Account Engagement (formerly Pardot) database? Would you say you’re always at or above your prospect limit? Do you sometimes...
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Marketing In A Tough Economy: How to Make Every Dollar Count
It’s a tough economy, and many businesses are pulling back on their marketing investments. Traditionally, marketing has been regarded by executive staff as more of a cost center than a revenue...
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4 Common Email Rendering Issues in Microsoft Outlook and How to Fix Them
In my last article, I provided some tips on how to build a better email newsletter. But what if, after spending all that time designing your beautiful newsletter, Microsoft Outlook doesn’t render it...
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Understand Marketing’s Impact by Optimizing Adobe Marketo Measure
In today’s world, every business is keeping a close watch on budgets and productivity. Marketing departments are no exception to this rule. In fact, marketers may be feeling even more pressure now...
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Mental Health and the Modern Marketer: 3 Strategies to Help You Cope When...
If we take anything away from the Great Resignation, it should be this: employees have reached a breaking point where “just a job” just isn’t enough. Years of pandemic-induced isolation, skyrocketing...
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How To Extract Leads From Marketo Using Python
The world of marketing is an endless sea of opportunities to automate tedious and repetitive tasks with programming. These days, much of the required automation can be done natively within MAP and CRM...
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What Is Engagement Marketing?
Did you check your social channels today? I’m guessing you did. How many advertisements for products and services did you see? Did any of them catch your eye? Did you click through to learn more? Did...
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User Stories: Keeping End Users at the Center of Agile Development
As a business analyst at BDO Digital, my job involves managing Agile project development to help our teams and clients work in harmony toward a common goal. When working with a client to develop a new...
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How to Report on Your Pardot Engagement Studios in Salesforce
If you run lead nurturing campaigns or complex automations in Pardot’s Engagement Studio, you may have noticed that the standard, out-of-the-box reporting capabilities leave a little to be desired....
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Content Marketing Trends and Strategies in 2022
The evolution of content creation and delivery in digital marketing never sleeps. As we head deeper into 2022, changes in consumer habits and new digital marketing strategies will continue to emerge....
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A/B Testing: What, Why, and How
Marketers frequently talk about A/B testing. Although it sounds like a fancy marketing term, it’s a very straightforward method of honing your message and developing a better understanding of your...
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Four Best Practices for Accessibility in Email
Let’s talk about accessibility in email. Email accessibility seems to be one of those topics that companies either don’t consider, don’t think it applies to email or assume they are already...
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Making the Move to Marketo
Practical Advice for a Seamless Migration You’ve decided to make the move to Marketo. Congratulations on making a great decision on your journey to marketing maturity. While Marketo is built for speed...
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7 Tips To Keep in Mind When Using Content for Lead Generation
There’s a reason why they say content is king — it’s more than just words on a page; it’s a powerful marketing tactic. The right content marketing strategy can do amazing things for your business. It...
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5 Best Practices for Designing Winning Email Templates
Sending emails is a tried-and-true marketing tactic – and they deliver massive ROI. According to Hubspot, email marketing generates $42 for every $1 spent. That’s why 4 out of 5 marketers would rather...
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Boost Your Campaign Confidence With Engagement Marketing
I used to flinch when I was asked to show marketing ROI. “That’s not how marketing works!” I’d say to anyone who would listen. “You don’t show return on investment. You can’t measure awareness....
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4 Handy Tricks for Working With the MCAE (Pardot) Landing Page Builder
If you’re like me, you were excited about the drag-and-drop landing page builder released for the Marketing Cloud Account Engagement (the platform formerly known as Pardot) and the Lightning App in...
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How Project Management Can Help Marketing Minimize Layoffs and Ensure Continuity
Nearly every other post on LinkedIn these days seems to be about an unfortunate mass layoff. From smaller companies to Fortune 500 mainstays, the economic downturn has affected people’s job security...
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Bracing Your Marketing Team for the Great Resignation
If your workplace hasn’t been hit yet (or hit hard) by the Great Resignation, count yourself extremely lucky. Then, brace yourself — and your team — because it’s not over yet. Record numbers of...
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Integration is the Future: Why Adobe’s Marketo, Target, and Adobe Experience...
With technology maturing faster than ever before, companies are exploring different avenues to get ahead of the curve. According to McKinsey, roughly 65% of executives are increasing their investments...
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4 Pitfalls to Avoid in Adapting the Agile Process to Project Management
Agile has become a big buzzword in the project management space in recent years. While the Agile methodology has been around for a while in the software space, it’s becoming the go-to framework for...
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It’s Time to Go with the Flow: Salesforce Is Retiring Workflow Rules and...
Last fall, Salesforce announced at Dreamforce that they’re planning to retire Workflow Rules and Process Builder. For those of you not familiar with these two powerhouse tools, they make it easy for...
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If You Can’t Measure It, You Can’t Improve It: A Quick Overview of Marketo...
Do you know which marketing programs and channels are driving the most engagement with your prospects and customers? Unless you’re already using a multi-touch attribution tool, this can be hard to do...
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