Posts Tagged ‘marketing automation’

Marketers are no strangers to change. Part of the role means adapting to consumers’ preferences, which are constantly evolving. Furthermore, marketers have gone through a lot of abrupt upheaval in marketing activities this past year, including the cancellation of in-person events. As returning to all in-person events remain up in the air, there are emerging […]

In marketing automation, the basic goal is to nurture current and prospective customers with appropriate content at the right time, to help drive them toward buying. Nurturing is all about systematically driving engagement through communications tailored to your prospect’s journey and their interests. A strong nurture strategy and supporting architecture are critical to orchestrating and […]

Personally, I hate running long distances. I like to think I’m a pretty athletic person,  but the idea of running more than 5k or even 10k races just makes me cringe. So, last year, I ran a virtual marathon for the first time ever to challenge myself. I created a schedule based on how many […]

Having the right marketing automation technology in place can make or break your business. At the same time, once you have the right technology in place, not all team members will be proficient users. For our Marketo Engage clients, we have created an intake form that allows non-Marketo users to have full access to creating […]

Often, customers may come to your site, browse around, and add items to their cart. Rather than purchasing, they may leave the site before completing their purchase. How do you connect back with those prospective customers to bring them through their buying journey to purchase? You need a sophisticated system that can take that buyer’s […]

So you’ve purchased Marketo Engage to improve your marketing-to-sales relationship and are eager to start implementing the system, but your missing key data points, like email addresses. How do you solve for this missing data and still reap the benefits of your Marketo system? Often, you will need a custom data architecture or solution to […]

Perficient was recently included as a marketing technology integrator in Gartner’s Marketing Technology Vendor Guide, 2020. This inclusion marks the second time Perficient has been listed as a sample martech integrator in the report. The Marketing Technology Vendor Guide helps marketing leaders traverse the current martech vendor landscape, identify the right marketing technology solutions to […]

When most people think about marketing automation, they think about sending emails to contacts. But, what can you really do with the right marketing automation tool? You can send personalized emails, text alerts, nurture customers, save internal time and resources, and create an overall better experience between your brand and your customer. With that being […]

Adobe’s Marketo Engage marketing automation tool is powerful in creating a cohesive relationship between marketing and sales and driving sales through your pipeline. Even though you may have purchased Marketo Engage for email marketing, lead generation, or a variety of other reasons, you may be missing out on optimizing the platform to its full potential. […]

It is no secret that the key to marketing and sales alignment is a solid technical foundation and internal understanding of how your systems will communicate. In fact, a Forbes article noted, “According to Salesforce (registration required), 67% of marketing leaders rely on marketing automation and 21% plan to implement a new marketing automation platform in the year […]

Personalization drives success within marketing campaigns. The use of personalized content allows marketers to transition from batch and blast emails to more highly targeted one-to-one email communications. Traditional personalization within Marketo requires the use of Dynamic Content. Marketo’s Dynamic Content leverages Marketo Segmentations and Segments. This makes a lot of sense for a lot of […]

Creating reports to showcase the ROI of your marketing automation platform is imperative, yet many people struggle to report accurately. ‘Out-of-the-box’ reporting in Marketo can be really useful if configured properly, but many people are unsure how to take the standard Marketo reports and customize them to get meaningful data. In our recent virtual discussion, […]