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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)

Creating a form


To start creating a form, navigate to Assets | Forms. Before we select Create a Form from the Forms Launch pad, let's consider some different options for how our form will be integrated with actual website pages of our campaign.

The following are the two options for creating a new form:

  • Create a Form

  • Integrate an External Form

The first option will create a new form asset in Eloqua and will allow us to build the different components for it including its fields, its processing steps, and various settings. The second option will do the same; in addition to that, it will allow us to enter a URL of a web page that Eloqua will use to attempt to create the form fields automatically, saving us some time if we already have a form's HTML code ready and publicly accessible.

We can think of the Eloqua form as the backend component of a form that we use to collect information from website visitors. As such, the frontend component of a form may live outside Eloqua in your content management...