I was with a group of CMOs last week, all of whom were knee-deep in developing their marketing budgets for 2012. The group was divided down the middle with half...
I was with a group of CMOs last week, all of whom were knee-deep in developing their marketing budgets for 2012. The group was divided down the middle with half energized by the process and half dreading it as much as a root canal. I used to be a member of the “dread it” crowd. But now I look forward to the marketing budget process. I have the data to support how and where I spend my money. I know what works and what doesn’t. The CEO has set the revenue targets for next...
I was with a group of CMOs last week, all of whom were knee-deep in developing their marketing budgets for 2012. The group was divided down the middle with half energized by the process and...
Friends, family, memories – they all cross the mind as things we’re thankful for around Thanksgiving. But for b2b marketers, there are probably some...
Friends, family, memories – they all cross the mind as things we’re thankful for around Thanksgiving. But for b2b marketers, there are probably some technologies they should be thankful for as well. So as you get ready to carve the turkey and pass the mashed potatoes, we outline 8 technologies marketers are grateful to have in their arsenal. 1. Customer Relationship Management (CRM) Systems Imagine everyone you have a personal or professional relationship with sitting down at...
Friends, family, memories – they all cross the mind as things we’re thankful for around Thanksgiving. But for b2b marketers, there are probably some technologies they should be thankful for as well....
Mobile should be on everyone's agenda, whether it be for marketing to mobile devices, designing a product for mobile, or even drop-testing an iPhone 4S and a...
Mobile should be on everyone's agenda, whether it be for marketing to mobile devices, designing a product for mobile, or even drop-testing an iPhone 4S and a Galaxy S2 to determine which phone to buy. OK, that shouldn't be on everyone's agenda, I'd rather just watch the video. You don't have to take our word for it. We searched through publications by Comscore and Return Path to validate that the growth we are seeing is network wide. Mobile's share of both website traffic...
Mobile should be on everyone's agenda, whether it be for marketing to mobile devices, designing a product for mobile, or even drop-testing an iPhone 4S and a Galaxy S2 to determine which phone to buy....
Today’s guest post comes courtesy of Marilyn Cox, Manager of Marketing Operations and Information Engineering at Cincom Systems. Marilyn is an Eloqua client and...
Today’s guest post comes courtesy of Marilyn Cox, Manager of Marketing Operations and Information Engineering at Cincom Systems. Marilyn is an Eloqua client and attended the 2011 Eloqua Experience conference last week. We asked her to share some of her post-event action items and she generously obliges below. How do you cram three days worth of content heavy conference information into digestible and communicable action items? You tweet of course! Instead of writing out pages...
Today’s guest post comes courtesy of Marilyn Cox, Manager of Marketing Operations and Information Engineering at Cincom Systems. Marilyn is an Eloqua client and attended the 2011 Eloqua...
Eloqua Experience 2011 is a big event. Does of track sessions, graduations, best practices. But don't forget the keynotes. A lot of people have been buzzing...
Eloqua Experience 2011 is a big event. Does of track sessions, graduations, best practices. But don't forget the keynotes. A lot of people have been buzzing about the event all week. We're live blogging here so follow along. 8:32AM: Eloqua's CEO Joe Payne takes the stage. "I'm not wearing a crazy costume because we have content, folks." 8:36AM: Eloqua CMO, Brian Kardon, on stage. Marketing automation continues to grow, but penetration is still only between 8-10%. The people...
Eloqua Experience 2011 is a big event. Does of track sessions, graduations, best practices. But don't forget the keynotes. A lot of people have been buzzing about the event all week. We're...
Benchmarking is a tool we should all use for understanding how and where we can improve. We most often think of benchmarking ourselves against others in our...
Benchmarking is a tool we should all use for understanding how and where we can improve. We most often think of benchmarking ourselves against others in our own industry; but, with metrics as ubiquitous as email marketing performance it often makes sense to compare email intentions. Whether a manufacturing company or a biotech firm, a newsletter is still a newsletter and will behave differently than, say an invitation to a customer event. We looked at the open rates of...
Benchmarking is a tool we should all use for understanding how and where we can improve. We most often think of benchmarking ourselves against others in our own industry; but, with metrics as...
What's in a name? When it comes to email marketing, a lot. We were discussing subject line personalization this week, and to settle the debate, we looked at 202...
What's in a name? When it comes to email marketing, a lot. We were discussing subject line personalization this week, and to settle the debate, we looked at 202 Million emails sent in January 2011. It turns out that personalizing your subject line can help – if you do it right. Emails with someone’s name have open rates about 4.7% over the average. Subject lines that use the recipient's company name have a lower average rate by 2.6%. Nothing beats putting in timely and...
What's in a name? When it comes to email marketing, a lot. We were discussing subject line personalization this week, and to settle the debate, we looked at 202 Million emails sent in January 2011. It...
When's the best day of the week to send out email? Well, if the 30 million hits Rebecca Black has earned on YouTube is any indication, you might think you...
When's the best day of the week to send out email? Well, if the 30 million hits Rebecca Black has earned on YouTube is any indication, you might think you "gotta get down on Friday." But we crunched the numbers on 1.5 billion email sent in the first half of this year, and even though 13% of emails get sent on a Friday, most people are working for the weekend at that point. Friday’s emails are clicked about 0.07% less on average and Wednesday's are even worse (in fact, the...
When's the best day of the week to send out email? Well, if the 30 million hits Rebecca Black has earned on YouTube is any indication, you might think you "gotta get down on Friday." But we crunched...
I finally broke down and bought an iPhone. My hesitation over typing with a touch screen gave way to my curiosity about the world of apps. I’ll never go back....
I finally broke down and bought an iPhone. My hesitation over typing with a touch screen gave way to my curiosity about the world of apps. I’ll never go back. In one 20-minute cab ride, I paid my dry cleaning bill, uploaded a new pic to Match.com, logged into Foursquare and started looking for new cars on the Auto-trader app. I was blown away by the convenience and simplicity of it all. But as a marketer what’s even more fascinating is that a business can learn I am single,...
I finally broke down and bought an iPhone. My hesitation over typing with a touch screen gave way to my curiosity about the world of apps. I’ll never go back. In one 20-minute cab ride, I paid my dry...
