Inspired Marketing

It's no secret that modern marketers love Oracle Eloqua. Leslie Alore, Director of Global Marketing Operations & Automation for Iron Mountain, credits the growth of her career to this power marketing automation platform. She and her team have spent years building and scaling the marketing operations and automation aspect of the business on a global level. Learn how her career journey helped give her a solid foundation for company transformation.

Working with Oracle Eloqua for 8 years gives you plenty of time to play with data. Matt Feeney,  Senior Manager of Marketing Systems at DocuSign, helped his team discover new ways to ensure data health and quality. He discusses the steps he took to strategize the clean-up, how they tackled the challenge of standardizing across 7 systems, and what his team has planned next to make their process even more efficient.

"Do you even use your own products?" Jennifer Renaud, CMO of the Oracle Marketing Cloud, gets this question often. While OMC does utilize their own products, Jennifer discovered they may not be leveraging the power and capabilities as much as some of their customers. That's why during a company re-branding project, she and her team started diving into Oracle Content Marketing (OCM) to repurpose forgotten content. By doing so, the OMC team has been able to start designing their content roadmap to focus on more relevant topics for their customers. It may not be easy, but it is long overdue!  

With a track record of 5 years and 50% company growth each year, there is no denying that Mike Braund, Director of Marketing Operations at Tableau, understands the power of a good organizational structure. During the journey to a more centralized structure, Mike and his veterans had their struggles, but were able to overcome them and help Tableau become a well-oiled, much larger, machine.  

We were so happy to have Chris Block, Digital Engagement Leader at Cummins, share at our May Twin Cities OMC user group event. Now you get to hear him share his story in this episode of the Inspired Marketing podcast! With over 12 years of experience at Cummins, Chris has witnessed a reorganization that encouraged others outside of the marketing team to utilize marketing technologies. With a martech stack centered around the powers of Oracle Eloqua, he and his team have increased internal users ten-fold. Talk about a company full of modern marketers!

We always love to share the stories of modern marketing powerhouses, especially when they are one of our outstanding clients. AJ Sedlak, the Senior Marketing Automation Manager for Polycom, sat down with us at Modern Customer Experience to talk about all things Oracle Eloqua Campaign Canvas. AJ and his team created their own system utilizing a Key Master and Gate Keeper (yes, Ghostbusters reference), they have managed to skyrocket unique open rates throughout each and every nurture campaign. 

It's rare to find someone who sticks with a company for 30+ years, but when you do, you can be sure they understand the connection between teams better than anyone else. Liz Gertz of D&B has spent time in both Sales and Marketing roles, allowing her to help create a blurred line between the two. In her episode of Inspired Marketing, find out how Liz and her team reshaped lead retrieval, appending, and management all while taking advantage of the company's own tools.  A 36% increase in revenue after one year of the program proves the program's success.

With a decade in email marketing experience, Carrie Ugarte is no stranger to the evolution of marketing technology. Leading her team as the Digital Messaging Manager at Wiley Education Services, Carrie has helped transform lead management through a dynamic program that makes email messaging matter. Utilizing the integration between Salesforce and Wiley's Oracle Eloqua instance, you'll be truly amazed to see the time, and money, Carrie's team has saved.

When Certiport needed a Marketing Automation Manager to help bridge the gap between marketing efforts and sales wins, Brad Williams was the man for the job. His efforts helped transform his team from batch and blast and manual lead entry to a seamless integration between Salesforce and Oracle Eloqua. Certiport is a fully automated lead nurturing machine, including personalized touches to each individual. It's no wonder you'll find their name on the 2017 Markie nominee list.

Spoiler alert for Modern Marketing Experience 2017: Director of Global Marketing Operations at Avaya, Mike McKinnon, stops by to teach a few acronyms and a lot of lead management tips. Before you hear him speak at the conference, tune in and get the details on how Avaya went from a lead management program of zero to having nurture campaigns across all product levels. Find out how Mike raised the program from zero to a 9% Inquiry to qualified lead rate, 15-20% closed/won rate, and a 60-70% SAL to SQL rate.

You don't submit a Markie award unless you have a kick-butt marketing success story. Luckily, Alena Larson, Director of Demand Generation at Optum, has helped her team build one of the best lead management platforms out there. Throughout her 5 years at the company, Alena has seen the marketing team go from one CRM to six, has scaled down lead routing time from fifteen minutes to four minutes, and has welcomed a lead development team. You really want to hear what she has to share!

MongoDB has so much marketing automation insight, they stopped by Inspired Marketing again to share more inspiration! This time, Meg Goetsch, Director of Marketing Operations, walks us through a highlight reel of initiatives since her start six years ago as one of the original founders of the MongoDB marketing team. Listen in to learn about how Megan's team's core technologies: Oracle Eloqua, Bizible, Google Analytics and JIRA have revolutionized their approach to data-driven marketing.  

"Predictive" has become a more familiar term for marketing organizations, but what does it really mean in the context of the marketing function? Hear a real-world application on how Getty Images uses predictive marketing by way of Mintigo to discover, target, engage and convert customers more effectively through Oracle Eloqua. In this episode of Inspired Marketing, Senior Director of Demand Gen and Marketing Ops and dynamic interviewee Jason Widup enlightens us with specific use-cases for predictive, results and learnings from his experience thus far. Re-implementation of Oracle Eloqua bonus story included! 

Join the rest of us modern marketers as we learn how one Microsoft Excel junkie used data to transform a dated marketing strategy. In this episode, Mandy Allen, a digital marketing leader at Fluke, shares her story of overcoming legacy processes and mindsets to challenge Fluke to use data to make better marketing investment decisions.

Does your company operate in disparate or duplicate marketing automation platforms and CRMs? Good news! You're not alone. Better news! Others have gone through a consolidation process. That roster includes Kyle Johnson, Marketing Automation Lead for the Legal division at Thomson Reuters. Check out this episode of Inspired Marketing and learn how Thomson Reuters is working towards a single, global, and more effective instance of Oracle Eloqua. Plus, hear why Kyle's most excited about what comes after.

Chris Bondus knows how to nurture. As the Senior Manager of Demand Generation at Brightcove, he's using Eloqua to run 24/7 nurture streams that are continuously optimized to deliver a quality buying experience for prospects and quality prospects to sales. Chris stopped by the Inspired Marketing Podcast to share his testimony on the marriage of marketing opportunity with marketing automation. Tune in to learn more!

No marketer wants to air their dirty data laundry, but there’s freedom in putting it out there to do something about. In this episode of Inspired Marketing, Matt Calnan throws down the gauntlet on the all-too-familiar issue of “bad data in, bad data out.” Tune in to hear this Data Manager's impressive story highlighting how his team’s data inventory ultimately led Medtronic to a set of solid, actionable dashboards that will inspire any marketer.

Senior Manager of Content Marketing, Francesca Krihely, has transformed her team's content pipeline by leveraging one of her company's most valuable resources: MongoDB customers. Hear how her team uses Influitive and Oracle Eloqua to activate their user champions to be advocates in their community and ultimately, multiply MongoDB's marketing engine with small and large acts of advocacy.

Now an Oracle Eloqua veteran, Shane Sponagle has grown Experian's B2B marketing efforts from a single resource to a global demand operations center. In episode 12 of Inspired Marketing, hear Shane's story on how his team of Eloqua Masters came to be, how they've measured success, and what he would have done differently.

With over five years of experience in Oracle Eloqua, Maria Wilson of Lexmark shares inspiring stories highlighting technical execution details that us marketing geeks love. Hear her account on how an "experience audit" led her team to rethink their customers' journey with the Lexmark brand. She does the Eloqua community proud!