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Marketing Smarter: Choosing Between a CDP and Data Warehouse

Choosing between a CDP and a data warehouse is key to building a scalable customer data strategy. This blog explores how composable CDPs, real-time personalization, and business intelligence work together to drive data-driven marketing, seamless marketing activation, and a future-proof customer data architecture that aligns with enterprise growth goals.

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Marketo Archiver App

The Marketo archiver app eliminates Marketo’s 24-month retention cap by automatically extracting specified campaign data and staging it in Amazon S3. This ensures uninterrupted access to multi-year insights, simplifies compliance, and integrates seamlessly with your BI platform—empowering teams to analyze decades of historic marketing performance without any manual CSV exports.

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Mastering Data Hygiene: The Foundation of Reliable Marketing Metrics

Every marketer wants clear ROI and measurable impact, but flawed data often undermines these goals. Data hygiene is the critical foundation ensuring your marketing metrics are truly reliable. Without clean data, efforts to refine your MOPS and align with corporate goals are built on shifting sand. It’s the key to confident reporting and strategic growth.

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Maximize Marketing Performance by Tackling Dirty Data

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MQL & SQL: Two Key Marketing Metrics to Watch

Concrete data in the form of key performance indicators, or KPIs, is compelling evidence that your marketing team’s efforts are getting results. While it may seem like a daunting task to find the right KPIs to prove this, it’s far from impossible.

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Optimize Email Campaigns with Our 12-Point Checklist

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Prove Marketing ROI using the Funnel Framework

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The Contact Feeder Cloud App helps you get leads into the hands of sales or your campaigns faster. Unlike Eloqua listeners, which run once every 24 hours, you can configure the app to check for matching contacts as often as every minute.

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