How to Conduct a Marketo Checkup
You send your car in for routine maintenance, you go to your physician for regular checkups, but have you ever thought about performing a ‘checkup’ of your Marketo instance? Sure, you might be...
Read Article
Maintain Your Relationships by Spurring Buyer Intent
Just because someone fills out a form, that doesn’t mean they intend to buy from you. There’s a big difference between someone who is showing buying behavior versus someone who is just kicking the...
Read Article
Marketo Is Changing How Email Data Will Be Retained
Overview On August 31, 2020, Marketo will be implementing a change on how sent and delivered email data is retained. With the change, these two activity types will be stored for 90 days, after...
Read Article
Marketing Prediction #2: The MarTech landscape will screech to a halt. Let’s talk about it.
For years, the MarTech landscape increased by 1500 applications per year. But not last year. Last year it only increased by a measly 240. So, what gives? Here are three top reasons the Martech...
Read Article
The 5 Marketo Settings You’re Overlooking
There are a lot of decisions, big and small, that go into making your Marketo instance fit for your organization. We have to think about program channels and tags, naming conventions and templates...
Read Article
Marketo Tip: Keeping Operational Campaigns Active
In case you aren’t aware, every quarter Marketo automatically deactivates all of your triggered campaigns that have had no activity in the last 6 months. Marketo does this to keep your instance...
Read Article
Up Your Skills With Our Marketo Learning Hub
It’s now late October if you haven’t seen Stranger Things by now I don’t know what you’ve been doing for the last few months…but don’t worry, this blog is spoiler-free. Sidenote: I absolutely...
Read Article
Auditing Your Marketo Instance – Start With the End in Mind
Read Article
Set Your Team Up for Success With Marketo Documentation
Whether you’re new to Marketing Automation or you’re a seasoned Marketo pro, my guess is you’re aware of the importance of documentation. So why is it that so many Marketing Automation users lack...
Read Article
Marketo’s Form Pre-Fill has Changed. Here’s How You Can Adapt.
Overview On April 24, 2019, Marketo changed how its form prefill works. From now on Marketo forms will only be pre-filled if a valid mkt_tok URL parameter is present. Generally, this is from a...
Read Article
The Art of Archiving: Clean up Your Marketo Instance
As the temperature rises and the days get longer, my spring cleaning instincts get triggered. Like many of us, I take advantage of a rainy spring afternoon by cleaning out my closets – moving out...
Read Article
3 Key Takeaways from attending the Marketing Nation Roadshow
Marketo hosted 200+ local Boston marketers at the first of their multiple city Marketing Nation Roadshows. It’s an event filled with Marketo community insights, high energy and deep thoughts. We...
Read Article
We Made Ourselves our Own Client – Here’s What We’ve Learned so Far
On our second day of the Demand Spring semi-annual business review in early 2019, the MarTech team breakout session was a whiteboarding masterpiece. We were challenged to find the ONE thing that...
Read Article
Reflections on 15 Years of Marketing Automation
A couple of weeks ago I attended Adobe Summit for the first time. I attended this impressive gathering of marketers because the company recently acquired Marketo –a long-time partner of Demand...
Read Article
A/B Testing: Where to Start (And Hopefully End)?
2018 was a great year for Revenue Marketers – and 2019 is only going to get better. As you ponder how your revamped email marketing strategy will bolster engagement and increase sales, Demand...
Read Article
Subscription Preference Centers: Up your game.
Subscription preference centers are often the unsung heroes of your marketing automation platform. It’s only fair that we give credit where credit is due, since many people overlook them. They...
Read Article
Marketing Automation: The intersection of engagement and technology
If I defined my relationship by the transactions I have with my husband on a daily basis, I think I might be in trouble. During the week, our interactions are often boiled down to the essentials —...
Read Article
Marketo Tip: The Email Template Hack
I’ve always loved the word “hacker”. Not in the negative way, but in the way Mark Zuckerberg defined it: “Hacking just means building something quickly or testing the boundaries of what can be...
Read Article
Marketo Tip: Using Interesting Moments – Best Practices
Marketo collects a lot of data on how your prospects, leads, and customers are engaging – or not engaging – with your marketing campaigns. Through activity feed, the magnitude of this data can...
Read Article