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 […]
Automating Repeatable Email Sends in Marketo
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 […]
How to Solve for Missing Data in Marketo
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 Included in Gartner’s 2020 Marketing Technology Vendor Guide
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 […]
Create Successful Marketing Automation Campaigns for Healthcare
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 […]
Quickly Leverage Marketo Engage
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. […]
The Secrets Behind Marketo and Salesforce’s Complicated Relationship
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 without Segmentation: The Power of Velocity Scripting
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 […]
Making Magic from Muggle Reports
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, […]
One Template to Rule Them All
Email is at the heart of Marketo. Marketing automation loses much of its appeal if there’s no means to communicate those marketing messages. In Marketo, behind every good email marketing communication is a strong email template. You may think that you need to spend days developing email templates in HTML for each email communication, but […]
Zombieland – A Guide to Waking the Dead
When it comes to establishing a successful marketing automation strategy, you have to know how to gain the most from the records you already have. Your lead data has the power to drive campaign initiatives, budgeting and resource allocation, personalization efforts, message relevancy and can directly impact retention and growth. The Challenge In the most […]
To Delete or Not to Delete
When it comes to your brands’ databases and handling deletions, we typically encounter fear of deleting. In our last virtual discussion, we reviewed the concept of deletions and how they lead to successfully creating an actionable and lean database. An actionable, lean database is where a majority of the database has recently engaged with you […]