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Marketers shouldn’t work in the dark. The science of online testing shines a light on your marketing, showing you what to optimize throughout the entire customer journey. The new Adobe guide, Finding Eureka, shows you how. Read the guide to learn: • Strategies and best practice approaches to online testing • Incremental steps to improving your online testing • The benefits of different test types including A/B, A/Bn, multivariate, and multichannel

Are you running into limitations with your current marketing automation solution? Perhaps your solution is missing core functionality for cross-channel marketing or reporting. Maybe you’ve found that even basic workflows are inflexible and cumbersome for your team to create or replicate. It’s also possible that you’re facing reliability or support issues that hinder your success. The fact is, if you don’t have key functionality, system reliability, or support resources, you simply won’t achieve the best results. Worse, you may be slowing down your entire business. If you don’t make the move to a robust, scalable platform, you’re in real danger of falling behind your industry peers and top competitors.

As a marketer, you know how critical it is to understand how your marketing efforts contribute to the bottom line. There’s a lot that goes on behind-the-scenes to generate sales pipeline and ultimately revenue. And by becoming a data-driven marketer that’s in tune with the right metrics, you can demonstrate marketing’s contribution to both. Metrics illustrate the impact that you and your team are driving in the organization, which is critical to ensure you have the budget and resources you need to deliver optimum business outcomes. Without metrics, it’s nearly impossible to measure the success of your activities and identify elements to optimize in future campaigns. And without them, there’s no way to determine your return on investment (ROI).

Read this complimentary copy of the SiriusView: Marketing Automation Platforms 2017 and learn more about Marketo’s key differentiators including its native multi-channel experience, live event management, and content recommendation functionalities. Marketo's powerful marketing automation capabilities and seamless CRM integrations are complemented by our LaunchPoint ecosystem featuring over 500 technology and service providers that offer best-of-breed solutions for today’s marketers. The full report includes: Market evaluation and analysis of 9 marketing automation platform vendors Insights for selecting a vendor based on your organization's requirements Opportunities and challenges faced when deploying marketing automation platforms

It’s an exciting, albeit challenging time for marketers—new channels, strategies, and technologies have empowered us to engage our buyers like never before. At the same time, due to the abundance of available information, buyer expectations have increased, leaving marketers to fight for their attention as we showcase our products and services. In response, organizations are implementing an account-based marketing (ABM) strategy. Account-based marketing offers organizations a significant return on investment (ROI) as they are faced with the need to acquire, retain, and grow high-value accounts. This comprehensive, 100+ page guide includes checklists, worksheets, examples, and advice from over 12 industry thought leaders to help marketers at any level, from beginners to experts, create and implement an effective account-based marketing strategy. Download The Definitive Guide to Account-Based Marketing to learn: • How to create a solid ABM strategy to meet your goals • What stakeholders to involve across the organization • How to identify, prioritize, and profile the right accounts • What content you need to support an ABM strategy • Which channels to leverage and how to coordinate them • How to measure the effectiveness of your ABM strategy

Across industries, marketing increasingly plays a critical role in company growth. After all, the top expectation of CEOs polled by Gartner, in the 2014 Gartner Executive Summary for CMO Leadership, Accountability, and Credibility within the C-suite, is that the CMO would not only improve, but also own the customer experience by 2016. Combine this with the fact that digital is quickly becoming the de facto medium for customer interactions, and it’s easy to see why it’s essential that CMOs build an effective, efficient, and scalable marketing technology (aka MarTech) stack. Today, according to Forrester’s 2015 research, “Don’t Let Muddled Messaging Compromise Customer Experience,” as much as 90% of a buyer’s journey is self directed. Your buyers have moved online and many of them (likely a majority of them) prefer to be reached through digital channels.

Email marketing is one of digital media’s most effective channels. Inside the inbox, marketers can capture the consumer’s undivided attention in a uniquely intimate environment, creating a perfect opportunity for meaningful brand engagement and driving new purchase transactions. However, with open rates for even the most effective brands hovering around 25%, there is huge opportunity for marketers to reach their customers with impactful formats on the open internet to successfully engage them across the marketing funnel. Download the free eBook “Beyond The Inbox: How To Transform Your Email Marketing Platform Into An Omnichannel Solution” to learn: • How to rapidly build an omni-channel solution for your clients • How AppNexus can help your platform reach your marketer’s customers most cost-effectively • How AppNexus ensures complete security for your client’s CRM data assets ?

How much is marketing contributing to revenue? Learn how to report intelligently to your CEO using marketing attribution.

With more than three decades in the hotel marketplace, Grupo Posadas operates more than 104 hotels and 19,042 rooms in 50 beach and city destinations in Mexico, Brazil, Argentina and Chile. It's brands include AQUA, Fiesta Americana Grand, Fiesta Americana, Lat 19°, Caesar Park and Caesar Business, making Posadas the leading Mexican hotel operator in Latin America. Posadas selected Neolane's enterprise marketing software to improve segmentation and deliver consistent, personalized customer communications across e-mail and direct mail channels, while streamlining campaign management within its loyalty programs.

Lifecycle marketing is changing the way companies interact with prospects and customers through the email channel. This white paper explores five common questions and some ideas on how to jumpstart your lifecycle marketing efforts.

This Executive White Paper, sponsored by Pitney Bowes Marketing Solutions, a provider of web-based marketing automation solutions, examines the competitive advantages offered by marketing automation portals and the potential impact of these types of portals on marketing campaigns deployed in complex, rapidly evolving markets.

See how the landscape of customer experience is being altered forever, as touchpoints continue to drive shifts in distribution, feedback and marketing channel control. In this whitepaper, you'll learn how making your touchpoints stronger, faster and smarter today will mean increased profits and stronger market positions tomorrow. (Plus 7 specific steps any company can take to improve customer experience today.)

Email marketing is one of the best performing marketing channels online. According to the DMA, for every dollar spent on email marketing, you can expect a return on investment of $43. But it's not as simple as sending an email to a list to get this sort of result.

Marketing must meet the needs of tech-savvy customers knowledgeable of brands and product information due to the rapid growth of connectivity, available information and expansion of channels. Before making a purchase decision, customers often consult more than 10 sources including social media, user reviews, online stores and brand comparisons. And, customers want to be recognized across all the platforms through which they interact with you – whether speaking to your employees on a mobile phone, tweeting at the brand or creating a shopping cart online. Similarly, you want to recognize every step of these journeys and understand the significance of each one.

In this report, results from well over 650 real-life cross-media marketing campaigns across 27 vertical markets are analyzed and compared to industry benchmarks for response rates of static direct mail campaigns, to provide a solid base of actual performance data and information.

Did you know... • 57% of marketers are changing their attribution model this year • Almost 40% of marketers spend a majority of their budgets on measurement alone • 69% of marketers are using dynamic email based on user behavior This report from AdRoll compiles survey results from 1,300 marketers about how they coordinate various different channels and technologies to achieve their goals, and how they're thinking about the latest performance strategies across every stage of the marketing funnel.

CMOs face a major dilemma: While 75% of CEOs want marketing to become more ROI-focused and attribute revenue to efforts, they’re also being tasked to innovate and lead their companies into the digital age. Read how the Oracle Marketing Cloud provides marketing leaders with data-driven solutions to unify marketing resources and empower Modern Marketing teams to deliver personalized customer experiences across each channel.

30 seconds or less. The average length of time that consumers spend reading or listening to online marketing communications . Marketers today are now equipped with the strategies and technologies to better capture consumer attention. To do this, they need to orchestrate individualized customer experiences across the digital channels. Read on for a statistical profile of today’s distracted consumer, followed by actionable tips for effectively communicating and converting this new type of consumer.

Learn the 20 key commerce metrics that you should be tracking to measure and optimize your commerce results. For each metric, you will learn what it means, why you should be tracking it, industry benchmarks. Download the eBook now.

Customer insights professionals face the challenging task of delivering contextually relevant experiences across the customer life cycle. They need to work with their business technology counterparts to integrate enterprise marketing technologies that manage customer data, provide real-time analytics and insights, and automate cross-channel interactions. Here is where Real-Time Interaction Management (RTIM) is critical, according to The Forrester Wave™: Real-Time Interaction Management, Q3 2015 report, which identified the 11 most significant technology providers in this space across 35 criteria. Forrester defines RTIM as “Enterprise marketing technology that delivers contextually relevant experiences, value, and utility at the appropriate moment in the customer life cycle via preferred customer touchpoints,” and identifies Pegasystems as one a leader in this very diversified pack. Download this Forrester Wave report to

Building an online marketing strategy to drive campaign effectiveness and business success. This paper highlights the ingredients involved in a successful MCM strategy and introduces how the next-generation online marketing platform can help achieve your MCM goals.

This paper highlights the advances in closed-loop marketing that enable measurement and optimization of digital marketing efforts. It also describes the challenges that CMOs face when pursuing digital marketing strategies and how next-generation WCM solutions help CMOs overcome those challenges.

In July 2013 Acxiom commissioned Forrester Consulting to evaluate how companies use the data they collect from their customers to make better decisions on their marketing campaigns by gauging their experiences and attitudes around their use of and future vision for using customer data across multiple marketing channels. In order to understand this topic, we conducted interviews with 11 executives representing a range of roles and perspectives, including consumer packaged goods companies, financial services organizations, and agencies.

One of the key objectives of Adobe’s current advertising campaign is to explode the myth that ‘managing websites is hell’. We believe that in this day and age, the idea that website management is a nightmare should be a thing of the past.

Customer insights professionals face the challenging task of delivering contextually relevant experiences across the customer life cycle. They need to work with their business technology counterparts to integrate enterprise marketing technologies that manage customer data, provide real-time analytics and insights, and automate cross-channel interactions. Here is where Real-Time Interaction Management (RTIM) is critical, according to The Forrester Wave™: Real-Time Interaction Management, Q3 2015 report, which identified the 11 most significant technology providers in this space across 35 criteria. Forrester defines RTIM as “Enterprise marketing technology that delivers contextually relevant experiences, value, and utility at the appropriate moment in the customer life cycle via preferred customer touchpoints,” and identifies Pegasystems as one a leader in this very diversified pack. Download this Forrester Wave report to discover how well each vendor fulfills Forrester’s criteria an