Checklist for Success: Chart Your Course to Meaningful Attribution Reporting
Within the last few years, marketing attribution reporting vendors have seemingly popped up everywhere. The barriers to entry in this market have become significantly lowered thanks to increased...
View ArticleCollective Interest Literally Adds Up: 3 Considerations When Implementing...
Today, fewer purchases go through a one-budget, one-decision maker process. Any purchase of size goes through a buying committee to ensure a potential solution meets the needs of all parts of the...
View ArticleWhat Is Engagement Marketing?
Did you check your social channels today? I’m guessing you did. How many advertisements for products and services did you see? Did any of them catch your eye? Did you click through to learn more? Did...
View Article3 Things from 2020 That Are Here to Stay (and 1 That Should Just Go Away)
No amount of machine learning, artificial intelligence, predictive modeling, or TV psychics could have predicted the events of 2020. A global pandemic. Closed borders. Stay-at-home orders. Not to...
View ArticleUser Stories: Keeping End Users at the Center of Agile Development
As a business analyst at BDO Digital, my job involves managing Agile project development to help our teams and clients work in harmony toward a common goal. When working with a client to develop a new...
View ArticleMarketing during a Time of Disruption: 8 Steps to Help Keep Your Revenue...
For marketers, disruption isn’t anything new. Whether it’s undergoing digital transformation within your organization, managing shifting goals and budgets, pivoting to counter a new or existing...
View Article10 Tips for Mastering the PowerPoint Deck
Whether we enjoy it or not, at many points in our marketing careers, we’ll have to stand up and make a presentation. PowerPoint is rather a necessary evil in business today, but, used well, it can...
View ArticleYou Should Be Using an SLA for Your Marketing Campaigns (If You’re Not Already)
“Why is it going to take 3 days to send out this simple email to my prospect list?” Most campaign managers and specialists have experienced pushback on the amount of time it takes to produce an email...
View ArticleMarketo at Enterprise Scale: 7 Deadly Sins of Marketo Disorganization (Part 3)
The concept of Marketo at Enterprise Scale is a focus on streamlining the system to perform at the highest possible level with a database of more than 1 million records. In the first two installments...
View ArticleTwo New Marketo Features That Will Save Your Emails and Forms from Bot Attacks
Last year, bad bots make up just over 25 percent of all website traffic. These bots can wreak havoc on your marketing automation system, from skewing activity tracking and reporting to generating...
View ArticleDocumentation 101: Writing Documentation That Anyone Can Use
It is time for that dreaded topic: documentation. Everyone needs it at some point, but most people hate creating it. Often, it’s because they lack the time, tools, references, or knowledge to do it...
View ArticleHow to Report on Your Pardot Engagement Studios in Salesforce
If you run lead nurturing campaigns or complex automations in Pardot’s Engagement Studio, you may have noticed that the standard, out-of-the-box reporting capabilities leave a little to be desired....
View ArticleContent Marketing Trends and Strategies in 2022
The evolution of content creation and delivery in digital marketing never sleeps. As we head deeper into 2022, changes in consumer habits and new digital marketing strategies will continue to emerge....
View ArticleWhen Good Isn’t Good Enough: How to Build Continuous Improvement into Your...
By creating a scalable and measurable process for generating demand, building a solid Demand Factory can yield significant results. What happens after you’ve put those core functions in place,...
View Article3 Tips for Streamlining Your Marketo 2.0 Email Templates
I love Marketo Email Editor 2.0. The editor lets you easily drag and drop different sections into the email builder, as well as move sections around and delete or duplicate sections with ease. I wish...
View ArticleMore Than Just a Form: 3 Tips to Realizing the Value of Progressive Profiling
When it comes to progressive profiling, marketers usually fall in one of two camps: we need it, or we’ve tried it with little success. Those who “need it” have undoubtedly heard about its benefits —...
View Article12 Point Checklist to Keep Your Marketing Automation System Running Smoothly
Time for a Tune-Up? To keep your car engine running smoothly, you know to change your oil every 3 months. To keep your body’s engine running smoothly, you know to visit your doctor for a check-up once...
View ArticleLook to the Sky: 5 Marketo Sky Features to Get Excited About
As a longtime Marketo user — 12 years and counting — I have had my share of if only and I wish I could moments using the system. And as part of the Marketo community, I know I am not alone. To...
View ArticleIs Your Email Preference Center Getting the Job Done?
We’ve all been there. Our inboxes are overflowing, and we can’t keep up. Sometimes we delete the emails that don’t interest us, sometimes we simply ignore them, and sometimes we unsubscribe...
View ArticleA/B Testing: What, Why, and How
Marketers frequently talk about A/B testing. Although it sounds like a fancy marketing term, it’s a very straightforward method of honing your message and developing a better understanding of your...
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