Consider the following scenario:

A Marketing Automation Architect is perusing the marketing calendar and looking at emails scheduled to go out for the day. She spots an email marked as “operational,” meaning it will send to unsubscribed leads and will not include an unsubscribe footer. Upon further inspection, it seems this email should definitely …

Creating your next newsletter should only take minutes, not hours. The best program templates allow you to implement tokens and easily create more scalable, dynamic content.

This is the Etumos approach to Program Templates and the tokens that make them work.

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The backbone of a marketing automation platform is a prospect’s progression from original visitation and creation into a system all the way through becoming an active customer—driving that flow is how a prospect is treated within the system both operationally (behind-the-scenes data cleanliness) and effectively (choosing nurture communications, targeting tracks, and sales tasks).

Lifecycle Processing …

Today, digital marketers should always be looking for ways to continually improve their efforts. The goal is to provide ways to give readers the most engaging and relevant content possible. Unsurprisingly, the quest for dynamic content has grown quite popular. This is …

One of the biggest areas for marketing improvement is better utilization of remarketing campaigns for known leads: how to offer content more effectively that individuals should be receiving and how to tailor that content more appropriately. In this week’s whiteboard session, multi-channel marketing takes center stage as one of the best practices that can revitalize your …

Many marketing technologists are looking ahead to 2015 and questioning the current structure of their marketing operations team—as well they should be. Today, the makeup of a marketing operations (or, “marketing ops”) team can largely determine a company’s success.

As you finalize your 2015 plans, consider the most efficient and effective ways in which marketing technology …

There has been a recent surge in the number of people employed as Marketing Technologists: or, people who can confidently and creatively navigate the ever-expanding marketing technology landscape. This demand for more technical-minded marketers has been rapidly rising, and having a background in just digital marketing or just advertising is no longer a …

Marketing technologists are constantly searching for better tools to properly gauge buyer readiness. How can you determine which content is most applicable to which prospect? And at what stage in the buyer cycle does it matter most?

Content marketing’s goal is to offer more targeted content in places that will have the most impact. Stop randomly creating content, and instead, use buyer …

What are Profiling Programs?

Profiling programs can be set up in your marketing automation platform to help categorize your website visitors into more insightful segments tailored to your business and marketing needs. Profiling programs consist of competing scores for each of the appropriate segments, and known visitors within your marketing automation database accrue scores putting them more …

Intelligent lead nurturing has evolved from drip email marketing—and is rapidly replacing it. Drip email campaigns are static, blind to prospect behavioral signals, and are one-size-fits-all. Intelligent lead nurturing listens to prospect signals and responds appropriately, uses dynamic logic, and gives personalized suggestions. It takes into account buyer personas, buyer stages, and buyer product interest …