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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)

E-mail deliverability and testing


Now that our e-mails are built, we can run some tests and send these e-mails to ourselves to see how they are actually delivered.

It's a good idea to test e-mails by going through the following stages before adding them to a campaign:

  1. Use the built-in Eloqua e-mail checker to check for broken links and general bad practices you may have employed while creating your e-mails

  2. Run a general deliverability test for new e-mails (especially if you are using a new template). Note that there are a limited number of these tests that can be performed per month. This number will depend on your contract with Eloqua.

  3. Run an inbox preview and spam content check for new e-mails. Note that there are a limited number of these tests that can be run per month as well, again depending on your contract with Eloqua.

To run the e-mail checker, first open one of the e-mails we have just created. Click on the gear icon drop-down menu in the top right of the editor, and select Test Content...