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Marketing Operations Playbook

Marketing Operations Playbook

How to: Salesforce Flows to Populate UTM Campaign Member Fields

Overview This is a quick guide on how to build a Salesforce flow to populate custom ...
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Critical Checklist: 8 Must-Haves When Hiring a Marketing Operations Agency

Introduction In today’s economic landscape, folks are finding themselves facing the dual challenge of both optimizing ...
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Turning Constraints into Marketing Magic: The Art of Doing More with Less

Overview In today’s economic landscape, folks are finding themselves facing the dual challenge of both optimizing ...
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The Essential Guide to Marketing Operations Performance Reviews (with FREE scorecard template!)

Overview In today’s economic uncertainty, folks are finding themselves facing the dual challenge of both optimizing ...
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Spotlight on Mops-Apalooza 2023: Highlights from the Inaugural Event

Overview The inaugural Mops-Apalooza event, featuring the MOPsCON virtual track, brought together MOPs professionals from across ...
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A Comprehensive Guide to Marketo Engage Person Source Framework

Overview Person source architecture in Marketo Engage is a key foundational framework that allows your Marketing ...
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Tips and Tricks: Onboarding and Optimizing LeanData

Overview In today’s data-driven business landscape, companies are constantly seeking ways to optimize their operations and ...
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Simple Solutions to Complex MOPs Problems

Overview In today’s fast-paced marketing world, it’s easy to fall into the trap of relying on ...
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Scaling your Martech Stack & Team from Startup to Enterprise

Overview Within this blog, we’ll discuss the challenges and strategies for growing your marketing technology (martech) ...
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Preference Management Shouldn’t be a Full-time Job

Overview Have you found yourself dedicating more and more time to making lead preference changes across ...
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4 Tips to Improve Your Webinar Success

Overview Are you struggling to get attendees to your webinars? Do you know what you should ...
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ProTips for Your First 90 Days in a New Marketing Operations Role

Overview Starting a new role is exciting. We’re all ready to dive in and make the ...
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Your Guide to Marketo Field Cleanup

Overview We’ve all been there- you’re searching for a field in your smart lists and can’t ...
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How to Integrate Marketo with Salesforce

Overview Most businesses will operate out of a customer relationship management (CRM) platform such as Salesforce ...
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Lead Quality: Acceptance Rate Report

Lead Quality Acceptance Rate Report The Lead Quality Acceptance Rate (Known>MAL) Report shows the rate at ...
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The Top 3 In-Person Event Integration Services

Overview In today’s digital age, in-person events remain a valuable marketing strategy for businesses to connect ...
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How to Scale Campaign Volume with a PM Tool

Overview Today’s campaign operations professionals are under constant pressure to produce more and more campaigns, often ...
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Guide to Etumos’ Campaign Production Process

Overview If you’re a campaign operations professional (or you work with them often), then you know ...
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A/B Testing Best Practices: How to Set Up Successful A/B Tests in Marketo

Do you know why you send your marketing emails in the mornings, why your CTA buttons ...
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Best Ways to Scale Campaign Production with Asana

Overview There are a lot of moving parts involved in campaign production – people across teams ...
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How Highly Efficient Marketing Ops Teams Manage Centralized Campaign Production

Overview A single campaign build typically involves multiple people from different teams who have to find ...
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How to Optimize Each Stage of the Campaign Production Process

Overview When it comes to building campaigns within a marketing automation platform (MAP), there are several ...
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Managing Marketing Ops Stakeholders

Marketing technology touches many different parts of a business so it’s understandable that a marketing operations ...
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MOPs Basics: Three Forms You Need in Account Engagement

Overview Forms are effective tools in capturing information about your prospects as you attempt to convert ...
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How To Optimize Campaign ROI With Instance Organization

Everyone has heard the phrase spring cleaning, defined by Merriam-Webster as “the act or process of ...
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The Importance of Privacy Compliance in Highly Regulated Industries

Overview Privacy compliance is crucial, especially for highly regulated industries such as healthcare, finance, and government. ...
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How to Configure Your PM Tool to Support Marketing Operations

Overview Marketing operations (MOPs) teams are critical to the success of any large marketing department. Responsibilities ...
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Top Tips for Nurture Program Strategy

Overview Marketo Engage’s Engagement Programs allow you to create personalized nurture journeys for leads at scale. ...
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Best Ways To Improve Audience Targeting With Preference Center

A preference center is a valuable tool for improving audience targeting in marketing automation platforms such ...
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Marketing Operations Role after Campaign Launch

Overview 3…2…1….takeoff! Your email campaign has successfully launched, so what comes next? Although hitting the launch ...
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How to Track Web Activity with HubSpot

Overview Tracking your website’s engagement is critical in today’s landscape. Being able to see what your ...
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Automate HubSpot Marketing Hub to Measure Lead Velocity

Overview When I think of metrics that every company should be tracking to understand how they ...
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Best Ways To Optimize Lead Conversion With Lead Scoring

Overview Lead conversion is a direct indicator of how successful your business is as it defines ...
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Using Program Templates in Marketo Engage to Optimize Campaign Consistency

Overview When it comes to Marketo Engage Program Templates there are a lot of questions on ...
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How the Top Marketing Automation Platforms Track Web Visits

Overview One of the funnest parts of being a marketing operations professional is having a behind ...
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Using Prospect Grading & Scoring in Account Engagement to Maximize Conversion

Grading and Scoring in Account Engagement As a marketing operations professional one of the questions I ...
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SLAs Explained: Why Mature Marketing Ops Team Require Longer Lead Times

Overview To say that mature Marketing Operations (MOPs) teams require longer lead times than less experienced ...
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Managing Roles and Permissions in Marketo

 Join Etumos’ own Alysha Khan as we review Roles and Permissions in Marketo and how ...
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How to Develop a Higher Education Lead Lifecycle in Marketo Engage

Overview Higher education institutions may have a deeper relationship with their constituents, but they can still ...
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Best Ways To Optimize Lead Volume With Lead Scoring

Overview Lead volumes can be hard to predict or control, sometimes flooding your sales team, and ...
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Do More with Marketo Engage to Optimize for Messaging Compliance

What is Messaging Compliance? Messaging compliance relates to the established laws that govern how companies can ...
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Direct Mail Integration Services

Overview With the rise of technology usage, marketers have taken advantage of this shift by using ...
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Best Ways To Optimize Lead Velocity With Lead Scoring

Overview What do you do when your leads are constantly being disqualified, nurtured, or stuck? Time ...
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How to Manage Marketing Operations Campaign Request Intake

Overview Implementing a campaign production process is the first step a company can take in reaching ...
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How to Consolidate Marketo Instances: Managing Acquisitions & Tech Debt

Overview So your company just acquired another company! While the excitement stirs throughout the org and ...
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How to Manage Marketo Lead Data in Highly Regulated Industries

Overview Companies in highly regulated industries have to be extra vigilant and protective to ensure compliance. ...
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How to Track Web Activity with Account Engagement

Overview Many organizations use a web analytics tool to understand visitor behavior and optimize website content ...
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The Top 3 HubSpot Integrated Services for B2B Companies

Overview While HubSpot is a powerful Marketing Automation tool with lots of capabilities, there are some ...
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The Top 3 Virtual Meeting Integration Services

Overview Ever since the craziness of 2020, virtual meeting services have become more important than ever ...
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Top 10 Ways to Optimize Lead Scoring

Overview What if I told you, you could increase your conversion rates, make the sales team ...
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Using Conditional Groups in Completion Actions in Account Engagement

What are conditional groups in completion actions? As you may or may not know, completion actions ...
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Why Project Management is Critical for Efficient Marketing Operations

Overview In today’s competitive business environment, effective marketing communications are crucial for the success of any ...
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Your Global Marketing Must Have: HubSpot Marketing Hub Privacy Compliance

Overview At Etumos, we think of Privacy Compliance as the operational workflows that orchestrate and govern ...
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Lead Scoring Basics: Calculating Lead Scores in HubSpot

Overview HubSpot loves making standard marketing automation processes easy to set up Day 1. Lead scoring ...
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Best Ways to Optimize Lead Conversion with Lifecycle Processing

Overview Lead conversion, the process of turning a lead or prospective customer, into an actual customer, ...
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How to Manage User Permissions, Permission Sets and Teams in HubSpot

Overview Managing user permissions in any tool can be a burden. From a lack of clarity ...
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How to integrate HubSpot with Salesforce

Overview If you’re using HubSpot as your marketing automation platform and Salesforce as your CRM system, ...
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Marketing Operations Build Times by Campaign Type

Overview We are living in a time of automation and when you have AI completing tasks ...
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Everything in its Place: Using Folders to Organize Account Engagement

Overview Organizational structure, with folders and naming conventions, is the basis for scalability. If you begin ...
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Things You Need to Know As a New Pardot User

New Account Engagement User MiniGuide Welcome! Maybe you’re here because you just purchased Marketing Cloud Account ...
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Increasing Prospect Quality within Marketing Cloud Account Engagement

Improve Prospect Quality in Account Engagement I’m a big fan of the Creed movies. Nevermind the ...
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How to Create Custom User Roles & Permissions in Account Engagement

Overview Marketing Cloud Account Engagement1, the B2B marketing automation platform in the Salesforce ecosystem, is most ...
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Marketing Operations Certifications Explained: HubSpot, Account Engagement & Marketo

Overview While there are many similarities between Marketing Automation Platforms, each has unique capabilities, functionality, and ...
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Why Your PM Tool is Critical for Marketing Operations

Overview Business processes have adapted to a remote work culture. Even if your organization has shifted ...
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When to Migrate from Marketing Cloud Account Engagement (Pardot) to Marketo

Overview So you’re currently using Salesforce Marketing Cloud Account Engagement (Pardot) and you’re starting to reach ...
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What You Need to Know: 2023 Marketo Engage Roadmap

Overview This year’s 2023 Adobe Summit was an exciting one, for many reasons. After a 3 ...
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Tips for Implementing Marketo Engage

Overview How would you get started if you were handed the keys to a brand new ...
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Optimizing your Campaign Costs with Marketo Engage

An important function of marketing operations is monitoring campaign costs because sadly, money does not grow ...
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Marketo vs. HubSpot Benefits Comparison

Overview Whether you are implementing a marketing automation platform for the very first time or you ...
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How to Optimize Marketing Operations Campaign Build Times

Overview We may all have the same 24-hour day, but most people don’t go spending it ...
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How to Implement Direct Mail in Marketo

Overview Want to show your prospects and customers you care? Interested in incentivizing individuals to attend ...
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How Minimum Valuable Requirements Create More Efficient Marketing Ops Teams

Overview A successful intake process has everything you need right out of the gate. As you ...
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How to Implement a Marketing Operations QA Process

Overview What is a campaign QA process? Why is it a mission critical process? When should ...
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How to Create Custom User Roles & Permissions in Marketo

Whether you have a small team of Marketo users or many users to manage, Marketo makes ...
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Email Best Practices: There’s a Checklist for That

Overview Lost with the plethora of information out there telling you how to manage your email ...
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Do More with Marketo Engage to Increase Lead Velocity

Overview Forecasting revenue is challenging for many companies. Lead velocity is one sales metric that can ...
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Breaking it Down: Understanding Custom Objects, Custom Activities and Custom Fields in Marketo

Overview Adobe Marketo Engage comes with a pre-built data schema featuring standard objects, fields and activities. ...
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Battle Royale: Audience Selection in Marketo Engage

Overview If there is anything that Marketo Engage is famous for, it’s that you have a ...
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Automate Marketo Engage to Maximize Lead Quality

Overview Lead Quality is a goal for any organization in order to maximize return on investment. ...
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How to Win With Dirty Data, Building Marketo Engage Segmentations

Org-Level Segmentations Drive Marketing Our inboxes are filled with hundreds of emails daily and marketing teams ...
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SPF and DKIM Records Explained

Overview Businesses worry about whether or not their emails ever reach their intended recipients – subscribers, ...
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The Most Valuable Audience Segmentations for Enabling Automated Marketing

Overview Setting up segmentations in Marketo Engage is essential to ensure your business’s success by knowing ...
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The Importance of Personas: Audience Targeting 101

Overview Segmenting your audience and turning it into personas is a process that involves dividing a ...
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Marketing Automation Basics: Stopping Data Quality Issues Before They Start

Overview Marketing automation and Customer Relationship Management systems have seen numerous advancements in automation, but there ...
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A Crash Course in Using Marketo Engage Segmentations for Dynamic Content

Marketo Dynamic Content in Segmentations Sales teams and content creators understand how critical personalization is for ...
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Architect Marketo Engage to Drive Brand Consistency

Brand Consistency and Marketo Brand consistency is vital to providing a great customer experience and achieving ...
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How to Prevent Data Quality Issues from Impacting Privacy Compliance

Let’s talk about some of the impacts on your email operations and marketability when your data ...
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Marketing and Sales Data Standardization: Best Practices for Scrubbing Your Database and Lists

Data standardization is a bit of a buzzword in the MOPs industry, but what is it ...
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Where do I Start Taking Over an Existing Hubspot Instance: Audit to Roadmap in 6 weeks

Anyone who’s worked in Marketing Operations knows that Marketing Automation is the name of the game. ...
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5 Tips to Getting Started with Email Deliverability

Five tips (alphabetically): Apply best practices: avoid trigger words in your subject lines and email content, ...
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Lead Scoring Basics: Calculating Person Scores in Adobe Marketo Engage

Overview Lead scoring is a shared sales and marketing methodology for ranking and prioritizing leads for ...
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Where Marketing Automation Platforms Fail at Privacy Compliance

Overview Over the past several years, data privacy has bubbled to the forefront – but many ...
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4 Ways to Get the Most Out of LeanData

If you have recently added LeanData to your tech stack to handle lead routing and account ...
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What to Do When Spam Bots Are Filling Out Your Forms

What Are Spam Bots? Spam bots are machine-run services that perform unwanted, automated data-mining actions on ...
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How to Scale Your Marketing Technology: Service Bus & Big Data in Marketing Operations

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How to Scale Your Marketing Technology: Service Bus & Big Data in Marketing Operations

Etumos’ clients run the gamut of small to large businesses and across the marketing operations maturity ...
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How to Scale Your Campaign Operations Team Through Specialization

Campaign Operations is scaling faster than ever throughout B2B marketing teams and it’s about time. With ...
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Streamline Privacy & Compliance Using a Centralized Data Enrichment Service

(Part 3 of our series) As we discussed in previous posts in this series, creating a ...
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Centralized Data Enrichment – Start Your MarTech Evolution

(Part 1 of our series) Most marketing organizations start with data enrichment innocently enough. “We just ...
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Maximize Your Lead-to-SQL Conversion with Regression-Backed Lead Scoring

Traditionally, most marketers have taken a “finger in the wind” approach to behavior scoring. That is ...
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Aligning Marketing and Sales Operations

Over the years, marketing has increasingly had more responsibility for revenue generation. Because of this, being ...
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Blog: How to Build a High-Powered MOPs Team

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How to Build a High-Powered Marketing Operations Team

Edward Unthank offers a template for building a sustainable, high-performing marketing operations team (MOPs) and his ...
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Facing a Marketing Automation Upgrade? These 6 Factors Will Ensure it Goes Smoothly

Facing a marketing automation upgrade can be overwhelming with the endless universe of tools available for ...
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Scaling Your Marketing Team for Operational Success

Consider the following scenario: A Marketing Automation Architect is perusing the marketing calendar and looking at ...
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A Marketo Content Program Template for Every Type of Content

The primary building block for any marketing initiative is content. We, marketers, thrive on content—but this ...
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How to Use Lifecycle Processing to Guide and Structure Your Marketing

The backbone of a marketing automation platform is a prospect’s progression from original visitation and creation ...
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Robust and Scalable: How to Build Your Ideal Marketing Technology Framework

Today, digital marketers should always be looking for ways to continually improve their efforts. The goal ...
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Multi-Channel Nurture to Guide Your Remarketing Campaigns

One of the biggest areas for marketing improvement is a better utilization of remarketing campaigns for ...
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How to Build Your Marketing Operations Team

Marketing technologists are always questioning the current structure of their marketing operations team—as well they should be. ...
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The 3 Skills of the New Technical Marketer

There has been a recent surge in the number of people employed as Marketing Technologists: or, ...
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3 Types of Profiling Programs to Guide Your Marketing Efforts

What are Profiling Programs? Profiling programs can be set up in your marketing automation platform to ...
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How to Do Intelligent Lead Nurturing

Intelligent lead nurturing has evolved from drip email marketing—and is rapidly replacing it. Drip email campaigns ...
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The B2B Marketing Revolution: Remarketing Campaigns Assigned by Marketing Automation

Setting Dynamic Remarketing Campaigns with Marketing Automation This is absolutely revolutionary for B2B marketing. This combines ...
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