If you have spent any time inside a B2B marketing automation platform that has been running for a year or more, you have probably encountered it: a campaign program that technically works but is nearly impossible to understand. The folder structure made sense to...
Not every marketing lead is a good lead. As long as some leads fall short – don’t meet ICP criteria, aren’t quite ready to talk to sales – a high-performing, well-executed nurture program will always be a vital part of the demand generation engine. An...
Marketing operations managers tend to come and go (average tenure mirrors other B2B marketing roles at 2-4 years, especially in tech) and that transitory nature means that it’s more difficult – and less common – for companies to adopt a strategic, long-term vision for...
Should you allow prospects to enter a personal email address when they fill out lead gen forms? B2B marketers seem divided on the question. In a recent LinkedIn poll, almost half of the respondents (46%) indicated they’d rather force prospects to enter...
A client asks: “We’ve been told that we should use a separate and unique domain for email that’s different from our main Web domain. Is this something you’d recommend?” The most common business case for using a separate email domain is that doing so can help...
A client asks: “Should we be hosting our campaign landing pages in Marketo? We’ve always hosted them on our main site and simply embedded Marketo forms. Is there a big advantage to hosting them separately?” This question comes up all the time in client...
