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BDR Cadence Tips: Drive Inbound Interest with a Strong BDR Cadence

A good BDR cadence is not a one-size-fits-all template. It is a strategic sequence that aligns to intent signals, campaign context and persona. Improving BDR cadences or sequences by a few percentage points can make a huge impact on your revenue generation! Let’s say a lead attended your webinar on pain points your product solves. […]

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Why Your BDR Outreach Should Mirror Your Marketing Campaigns

Marketing can spark interest, but if BDRs miss the mark in follow-up, the spark fizzles out. The middle and bottom of the funnel are where your deals either advance or disappear. Yet too often, BDR outreach operates in a vacuum. When a lead attends your webinar or downloads a high-intent asset, your BDRs need to […]

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Key Questions to Ask When You Join as a Marketing Operations Director

Starting a new Marketing Operations role? Your tech stack might look shiny. But, if the data or systems are broken, you’re starting in a hole. Here’s a MOps checklist to run through: Data Health How clean is the database? (Deliverability rates, bounce rates, invalid records) What percentage of the database is actually engaged? How often […]

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The Best Marketing Ops & RevOps Resources You Should Be Following

Marketing Operations isn’t for the faint of heart. One day, you’re fixing a Marketo-Salesforce sync issue; the next, you’re explaining (again) why attribution isn’t just “this lead came from LinkedIn.” It’s a constant balancing act between strategy, technology, data, and cross-functional collaboration. To stay ahead, you need resources that actually provide value—ones that go beyond […]

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Data-Driven Sales: Getting More Out of Your Marketing & Sales Efforts

One of the best pieces of advice I ever received during my days as a full-cycle salesperson came from a couple of great minds in sales and marketing: Jeffrey Gitomer and Perry Marshall. Gitomer, in his book Little Red Book of Sales, shared a simple yet game-changing tip: Take your last 10 wins. Take your […]

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How to Maintain Data Integrity in Your Marketo Database

The Cringe-Worthy Question Ask any Marketing Ops, Sales Ops, or Biz Ops person: “How clean is your data in your database?” This question often triggers a cringe. We all want clean data, and we set up our systems to achieve it. However, bad data is like bacteria—it’s everywhere. In this blog, I will share systems […]

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Marketo Forms: Customizing Your User’s Experience

Marketo Forms Marketo forms allow you to customize the journey of your users. First, you can choose what fields you are going to show. In the example below, I show how you can use hidden fields.  On the right side you will see that form prefill is enabled for the Is Customer? field. This means […]

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Marketo’s Opportunity Influence Analyzer

What is the Opportunity Influence Analyzer in Marketo? One of my favorite reporting tools in Marketo is the Opportunity Influence Analyzer. This amazingly cool analytics tool allows you show interactions of people associated with an account that has opportunities. This tool allows you to tell the story of an opportunity. How Do I Create an […]

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Marketo | How to Use the Import Program Function

Let’s say you have a fairly new Marketo instance or an instance that doesn’t have everything built out. You’re new. You have limited resources like most Marketing Operations teams. What can you do? You can hire a Marketo consultant. If you have the funds to do it, it’s always a good idea. Consultants can clean […]

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Your Marketo Nurture Program Isn’t Running: How to Troubleshoot

Ok, so you are creating nurture programs for your company in Marketo. You have created the engagement program. When you go back to check on it, it hasn’t run. What’s going on? How do you troubleshoot? Below are a few quick steps to check to troubleshoot the issue. Is the program on? This seems like […]