Inspired Marketing

David Cardiel is the Head of North American Demand Gen at Cision. On today’s episode, David shares how he was able to scale the demand generation operations and create a smooth transition between the sales and marketing teams. He also shares how they were able to organize their lead database as well as their lead attribution and nurture process.

Sarah Smith is the Marketing Operations Manager at Thomson Reuters. Sarah shares how she cleaned up their lead management system so that their sales reps can now focus more on selling their products to qualified customers vs. prospecting a potential customer. Find out more on this week’s episode!

She's back! When Jen Renaud made her transition to Vertiv as VP of Marketing, she had some major transformation in mind. In an effort to better align Sales and Marketing, Jen clarified roles and reorganized teams. Balancing a major cultural shift and rethinking how the organization handled day-to-day activities has had an inspiring impact. Learn more!

To ensure his team was aware of the marketing tools available to them, John Pavlick, VP Eloqua Platform Manager for BlackRock, took an interesting approach. He streamlined the marketing operations team and better integrated them into the organization and built a strong foundation for marketing processes. Find out more about his journey in this episode!

Upgrading the way they "did marketing" led Jeanne Quinn, Senior Manager, and Kelsi Doran, Strategy and Operations Lead, to great success with the Omnichannel department of Cisco. Using an agile approach and starting with what was in front of them helped the team create a plan for an improved customer experience. Learn more about their efforts and some outstanding results!

What is lead scoring and why is it important to a company's success? Great question, one that Kris Gormley of Cognex had to help answer for her team. As the Senior Marketing Automation Program Manager, her efforts to implement a lead scoring system to help improve Sales' efficiency have lead to a nearly complete program with signs of long-term success. Learn more about her current journey!

Listeners, get ready for an exclusive sneak peek of a MCX19 presentation! Jeff Kohl, Marketing Operations Manager at Merrill Corporation, stopped by to talk about his experience with the Salesforce Integration App. After being inspired by a session at MCX17, his team implemented this application to help efficiently handle sales requests. Find out more and pencil in his upcoming presentation!

With a company over 80 years old, there are plenty of chances to improve and transform. When Marie Hattar joined Keysight Technologies as part of an acquisition, she saw an opportunity to apply modern strategies to a legacy brand. Her role as Chief Marketing Officer may be new, but her passion and ideas for a complete overhaul come from a well-seasoned past. You won't believe what her team achieved!

When Angela Vega joined HomeAway as a Senior Marketing Manager, one thing stuck out to her. With over 150 million emails being sent out month, yes monthly, HomeAway was in need of a strong email strategy. That's when she began a program management approach, to help customers engage in relevant content and to help her team save time on campaign creation. 

We love it when Inspired Marketing guests return with new stories of modern marketing growth. Maria Wilson, Manager of Demand Creation at Lexmark, makes her second appearance to review her team's CRM migration process. She shares how transferring their CRM data fromSalesforce to Microsoft Dynamics saved them more than $10 million, and how they did it all within 10 months. That's inspiring!

More than two years ago, we sat down with Ryan Coats to talk about "running towards the fire" when it came to taking marketing risks at Optum. Fast forward to today and Ryan is now the Vice President of Digital Experiences and Demand Generation, leading a much larger team and working in a vastly different marketing environment. Thanks to a changing technology landscape, the organization has transformed to focus on all things digital, and has dedicated its efforts to an attribution model that proves "marketing actually makes a difference". You're going to be amazed with this story of transformation.

After nearly two years, Dana Olivas, the Marketing Operations Director at PTC, is celebrating major wins from an ambitious new campaign initiative. Implementing Vuforia AR technology allowed their marketing team to capture external activity data in Oracle Eloqua for meaningful sales touches. This effort has yielded a 78% unique open rate, with 23% of contacts becoming new opportunities. Interested, aren't you?

When Lenovo's Sales team struggled with utilizing Oracle Eloqua Engage templates, Ashley Wylie and her team didn't give up. As the Outbound Marketing Manager and Database Manager for Lenovo DCG North America Marketing, Ashley used her decade worth of knowledge to take a marketing initiative gone awry and get it back on track. By implementing more Eloqua training, better data, and getting sales team evangelists on board, Oracle Eloqua Engage templates are now being used for more customized content sharing. 

Achieving project perfection requires a solid strategy and finely tuned planning. Melissa Santos, Director of Strategic Services here at Relationship One, is no stranger to this process! Whether your marketing journey includes a fresh implementation or a new process using current technologies, her team is here to help every step of the way and at every level of involvement. Check out what Melissa has to share about planning, executing and reporting around a new project.

As Director of Demand Gen and Database Marketing, Dart Bebel II was tasked with consolidating and scaling data for Turnkey Vacation Rentals. After a yearlong effort, his team took four disparate marketing automation platforms and created one organized Oracle Eloqua instance with micro-focused data for targeted customer outreach. Find out more about their journey toward fully understanding their audience and finding clarity in their marketing efforts.

Brent Christensen is no stranger to customer experience. As Director of Digital Marketing for Overstock.com, his team has been working on a new project that will take them well into 2019 ... A robust plan that focuses on customer-driven, personalized content that renders in real time the moment the customer opens a product page - unreal, right? Learn more about his journey towards a custom online shopping experience in this episode!

With nearly a decade of experience in marketing automation, Zach Monroe walked into a big challenge at Thomson Reuters. In his role as Senior Manager of Marketing Automation, he led his team to improve customer experience by merging multiple instances of Oracle Eloqua. Nearly 2 years later, he is ready to share his success story - listen in!

When a new executive team came to Progress Software, Carmen Gardiner, Marketing Operations Manager, was given a new challenge. Her new managers wanted to see digital attribution incorporated into their marketing process. After about a year of efforts, Progress now has digital attribution for about 80% of marketing efforts. Learn more about how Carmen and her team utilized utm parameters, referral data, and cookies to track journeys. 

How far would you go to double the revenue your team brings in? Güçlü Ozsayin, Head of Marketing Automation, CRM, and Data for Samsung Electronics France, was willing to push his marketing efforts farther than ever before. In this episode, Güçlü discusses some of his organization's challenges, and the fantastic results generated by their enterprise mobility campaign.  For the last three years of the campaign, Samsung's digital marketing division has doubled its revenue every year. This is a story you don't want to miss!

While working as Senior Manager of Digital Marketing for Ingram Micro Cloud, Kyle Nakayama faced an immense challenge: training a team halfway around the world to use Oracle Eloqua. Ingram's previous agency-dependent model had caused major bottlenecks and disorganization, so Kyle began teaching a team in Mumbai, India, to do the work "in-house." In this episode, learn about the challenges and achievements Kyle experienced while educating his team on all things Ingram Micro and Oracle Eloqua.