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Marketing Automation with Eloqua

By : Ben Griffith
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Marketing Automation with Eloqua

By: Ben Griffith

Overview of this book

<p>Eloqua is a powerful platform that develops automated marketing and demand generation software and services for business-to-business marketers. It provides enough tools to start to centralize marketing operations and build holistic views of demand generation across multiple channels. This, in turn, gives marketers actionable results for their campaigns and the ability to centralize more of this data from one or a few systems. It helps ensure every component of marketing works harder and more efficiently to drive revenue.</p> <p>This practical guide will help you realize your full potential by demonstrating how your campaign vision can be translated into a digital campaign in Eloqua, and how to measure its success.It will walk you through building a practical campaign, and explains the powerful features of Eloqua on this journey. You'll also learn how to utilize these features in your campaign along with various tools that will enhance its marketing value.</p> <p>This concise, yet focused guide looks at the Eloqua platform and breaks down the powerful tools that can be used to build automated digital campaigns for the modern marketer.</p> <p>You will learn to build e-mails with personalized and reusable content.You'll learn how to build and manage your database, efficiently execute marketing campaigns, score and route leads to sales. You'll also learn how-to measure marketing's impact on your business. Gating of your high value marketing content will be explored, implemented using native features of Eloqua landing pages and forms. Contact management and segmentation will also be covered in depth.</p>
Table of Contents (16 chapters)

Tracking external sources to landing pages


A common requirement for campaigns that utilize Eloqua is to measure the source of those who engage in the campaigns. From the data that will automatically be captured in Eloqua, we'll know how many e-mails were sent, opened, and clicked, and we'll know how many people visited landing pages for our campaigns. Unless we plan ahead to identify the landing page visitors that come from advertisements and other sources, we would have little to analyze if we wanted to know which visits to the landing page were sourced from different places.

If we have multiple advertisements, for example sending people to landing page(s) for our campaign(s), there are several ways we can manage our campaign(s) to measure the sources. One approach would be to use one campaign and distinguish among visitors that come from the different advertisements. This can be accomplished in one of the two following ways:

  • Unique landing pages can be built for each different source. For...