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 […]
Where to Begin After a Marketo Audit
At Adobe (virtual) Summit, Karan Hari — GlobalLogic India Limited hosted a session on the importance of regular maintenance and audits of your Marketo instance [The Audit Doctor: How to Keep Your Marketo Engage Instance Healthy]. He covered the many benefits of performing an audit and the pitfalls of not maintaining your Marketo instance regularly. […]
Strength on Strength: Marketo and the Adobe Experience Platform
Today’s customer demands completely seamless omni-channel experiences, and such customer demands are forcing Marketers to pursue advanced analytics and first-party data strategies at an unprecedented rate. However, according to a recent report by eMarketer, nearly 50% of all Marketers say their Customer Experience strategy is “ad-hoc” or “limited in scope”. Even worse, more than half […]
What Does The Future of Marketing Automation Hold For Marketers? [Interactive eBook]
As the marketing automation industry continues to mature, experts are forecasting a dynamic future. Marketing leaders are laser-focused on data and advancing reliable marketing automation processes. We asked Perficient Digital experts for their thoughts on the future of the marketing automation and put their insights in this interactive eBook, The Marketing Leader’s Guide to the […]
Is Your Marketing Attribution Strategy Suffering From Weak Executive Buy-In?
This is the final post in a 5-part series on hidden attribution flaws marketers should watch out for in their marketing strategy. As we noted in earlier posts in the series, marketing attribution can be a challenge if you have flaws hiding in your marketing strategy. The last flaw in our hidden attribution series is […]
Is Your Marketing Attribution Strategy Missing The Most Relevant Account Connections?
This is the fourth post in a 5-part series on hidden attribution flaws marketers should watch out for in their marketing strategy. Marketing attribution can be a challenge if you have flaws hiding in your marketing strategy. The fourth hidden flaw in our marketing attribution series is missing the most relevant account connections. This flaw […]