4Thought Marketing Blog
Dirty Data: Zombies in the System
Check your customer contact database. If too many of your contacts are unusable for one reason or another, you have something of a zombie situation on your hands.
Avoiding Common AI Marketing Mistakes
Artificial intelligence has left an undeniable impact on the marketing landscape today. But just like any other tool, AI used incorrectly does more harm than good. Are you making any of these AI marketing mistakes?
Optimize Email Campaigns with Our 12-Point Checklist
It’s every marketer’s dream to maintain an impressive email marketing ROI. But what happens when your existing strategies are falling short? In that case, it’s time to consider how to optimize email campaigns for your audience.
Responsive Design: Why Marketers Need to Take Notice
Campaign strategies need to include optimizing emails, landing pages, and websites for various screen sizes and keeping visitors engaged. Responsive design provides the solution.
Creating a Tailored Training Program: A Success Story
A global technology company faced a pressing question: How could they ensure that new Eloqua users received the necessary training without distracting seasoned users from their own tasks? Here’s how we helped.
Leveraging AI in Marketing to Enhance Customer Experience
AI has firmly cemented itself into the marketing world. Everyone knows about it, and most people are excited to use it. But this raises a question: what exactly can AI do? And more importantly, what’s the best way to use it in your particular company?
Eloqua Merge Contacts Cloud App
Since 2015, thousands of Eloqua users have hoped for a straightforward way to merge contact records. Now, the Eloqua Merge Contacts Cloud App from 4Thought Marketing allows you to do just that.
Eloqua Office Hours August 2024
Oracle Eloqua tips and tricks and best practices. This month’s topics ranged from attribution to streamlining repetitive processes, unusual open rates due to spam and link checkers, and data privacy.
Marketing During Disasters: When Pausing is the Best Strategy
How a company handles a crisis can make a world of difference, and not all circumstances can be mitigated by using light-hearted humor. Sometimes, pausing a marketing campaign is the most appropriate response. Let’s look at a few examples of these circumstances.
Leaving Batch and Blast Behind: 11 Essential Steps
Simply knowing that personalized messages perform better is just the first step in effective marketing. The real challenge comes when making the transition from the low-performing but easy batch and blast strategy to more demanding personalized campaigns.
The Ultimate Guide to Oracle Eloqua Custom Objects
Eloqua custom objects allow you to store important data points to use in more precise segmentation and customer targeting. In this guide, we’ll explore what custom objects are, why they are crucial, and how you can maximize their potential to drive your marketing efforts.
Getting Started with Advanced Marketing Quality Assurance
Quality assurance doesn’t start when the email is finished. Effective QA begins along with the campaign design itself to catch any errors before they can cause trouble. Watch as Dharam Singh explains why these checks matter and how to take your QA to the next level in your future campaigns.