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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 with forms


We've discussed how tracking external sources can be done with regards to landing page visits. If landing pages contain forms to capture data, you may want to attribute the form submission to one of many different campaigns as well.

In the scenario where a single campaign is used, the form submissions will be attributed to that campaign automatically and there is no need for additional configuration. In the event that you are using several campaigns and sharing assets among them, you will normally want to attribute a form submission to just one of those campaigns.

Let us consider again the example of having multiple advertisements driving people to a landing page. There is one single landing page and one single form shared across multiple campaigns, one for each advertisement. Utilizing elqCampaignId as a query string parameter, we will attribute the page visits to the campaign with the ID passed in the query string. If no further setup were to be done...