5 Best Practices for Social Media Engagement

Right now, hundreds of millions of people are using social media websites. No matter what industry you’re in, generating quality engagement in social media is vital.

But getting that engagement isn’t easy. After all, everyone else is trying to get it, too! If you want to make the most of your social media engagement, follow these 5 superhero-approved best practices.

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Making the Most Out of Marketo’s Best Reporting Tool

Last week, we talked about several of the Custom reports you can create in Marketo to get an even better look at your data. This week, we’re discussing one of our favorite features—Marketo’s Revenue Cycle Explorer (RCE).

If you purchased it, you’ve got the platform’s most advanced reporting tool. With it, you can dig deeper into your data and see things like the ROI relationship between your marketing and your opportunities, large pivot tables, and a more specific analysis of your sales funnel.

But if you want to take advantage of everything that RCE has to offer, you have to understand Channel Analytics Behavior.

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Create Custom Marketo Reports for Better Data Analysis

While Marketo Analytics has reports for email, landing page, and web page data, if you want to dig deeper into your data, you need to take advantage of Marketo’s customization tools.

The People Performance Report will allow you to build custom Marketo reports and answer questions like:

  • How many leads are coming from social media vs your website?
  • What Acquisition Program leads to the most opportunities?
  • Which Engagement Program do your new leads end up in?
  • How many leads are in Marketo from each lead source?
  • What lead sources are generating the most revenue?

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Marketing Automation & Account Based Marketing – The First 90 Days

Technology in today’s world is always changing. It seems like everyone was just buzzing about marketing automation, and now technology has given you the power to create Account Based Marketing (ABM) so that you can focus on sales development, customer success, and yes, plenty of marketing.

If you feel a little overwhelmed by all of these changes, you’re not alone.

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A Superhero’s Guide to Reducing Email Unsubscribes

Unsubscribe /ʌnsəbˈskrʌɪb/

Verb. 1. Cancel a subscription to an electronic mailing list or online service. 2. An email marketer’s worst nightmare.

We’ve all been there. You send out an email and then anxiously await as the unsubscribe count ticks up…and up…and up. While you can’t prevent leads from unsubscribing, there are steps you can take to reduce the number of people who unsubscribe from your list.

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Spelling out a Successful Content Marketing Strategy

In most companies, content marketing is either considered a blessing or a curse.

Organizations that have access to professionals who can strategize and create proper content know it’s a blessing because they’re establishing thought leadership, brand awareness, and relationships with prospects. But for the companies that don’t have a content strategy in place—or a specialist to actually carry it out—it can feel like you’re cursed to play second-fiddle to your competitors forever.

But what exactly is “proper” content? How do you create the right strategy?

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The Marketo Webinar Features You Should be Using, Like, Now

Our superheroes just hosted a great webinar on Marketo’s new Data Retention Policy, and we want to share some of our success strategies with you! Hosting a webinar can raise awareness for your business, help you develop trust with your target audience, and boost your email list. Luckily, Marketo makes it easy to set one up–-but are you using webinars to your full potential?

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Donating Blood – There are Lots of Reasons to Become Someone’s Superhero

In the time it takes you to read this sentence, someone in America will need blood. Whether it’s a car accident victim or a cancer patient who needs transfusions throughout his treatment, there is a very strong need for blood across the country.

Because of this need, our superheroes decided to take action. Our non-profit foundation, Mpact, will be a Community Partner at the Oakland A’s Blood Drive on August 26, 2018.

(Not in the Bay Area? Join our team of real-life superheroes by pledging your support to the online blood drive we’re hosting with the Red Cross, Sleeves Up.)

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