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Marketing Automation Strategy – Measure & Improve

Marketing Automation Strategy – Measure & Improve Home Marketing Automation Strategy – Measure & Improve Marketing Automation Strategy – Measure & Improve So your Marketing Automation Plan is underway. Now what? Your Marketing Automation system is so powerful. It gives you so much insight into how you can improve your marketing strategy. However, you need […]

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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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Marketing’s Path to Data Minimization

Customers aren’t always willing to provide personal data, especially if there seems to be no good reason for them to share it. This kind of consumer behavior prompted marketers to adopt a new habit: data minimization.

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Marketo & Salesforce: The Essential Pairing

Anyone who has used Marketo or Salesforce knows that, like peanut butter and jelly, they work best together. That’s why you’ll want to pursue one critical plan: integration.

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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

Dirty data can derail even the most well-crafted marketing strategies. By optimizing your database, ensuring compliance, and creating a streamlined contact list, you can drive meaningful engagement. Here’s how 4Thought handles dirty data.

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Maximizing Holiday Marketing: Key Strategies to Drive Revenue This Season

As the holiday season kicks off in full force, marketers have a unique opportunity. Obviously everyone wants to meet their end-of-year goals. But beyond that, holiday marketing offers your team a chance to establish customer relationships that will last long after the new year.

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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

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.

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Prove Marketing ROI using the Funnel Framework

Prove Marketing ROI using the Funnel Framework Home Prove Marketing ROI using the Funnel Framework Prove Marketing ROI Using the Funnel Framework Home Products Are you having trouble proving the value of marketing? Do you pass leads to sales? Do you get the feeling that leads are moving slowly or falling through the cracks because […]

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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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