12 Tips for Keeping Your Marketing Automation System Clean

12 Tips for Keeping Your Marketing Automation System Clean

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 I Use a Separate Domain for Marketing Emails?

Should I Use a Separate Domain for Marketing Emails?

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...
18 Common Features of a Best-in-Class Lead Nurture Program

18 Common Features of a Best-in-Class Lead Nurture Program

It wasn’t that long ago, when marketing automation first burst on the scene, that the height of lead nurture sophistication was the simple, automated sending of multiple, sequential emails.  Today, advances in marketing technology make such “automation” seem laughably...
Hosted Landing Pages vs. Embedded Forms

Hosted Landing Pages vs. Embedded Forms

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...