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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)

Campaign components


Let's start by creating a new campaign. Navigate to Campaigns, select Create a Campaign, and double-click on Blank Campaign.

We are now in the campaign builder and in the left panel of the window are the different items that can be added to the campaign canvas. There are four different categories of items that can be added to our campaign:

  • AUDIENCE

  • ASSETS

  • DECISIONS

  • ACTIONS

AUDIENCE components

AUDIENCE includes the item Segment Members. This allows us to add a segment of contacts which can be comprised of uploads of contacts, contact filters, shared lists, or a combination of all three. This item is typically used as the feeder to our campaign. It can be configured to pull the contacts that belong to the segment one-time, when the campaign is activated. Alternatively, it can be configured to draw contacts belonging to the segment every hour for the duration of the campaign.

ASSETS components

ASSETS includes Email, Form (reporting only), and Landing Page (reporting only...