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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)

Building landing pages


We will begin building our landing pages by creating a base template that can be used as a starting point for each of them.

Creating a template

Navigate to Assets | Landing Pages, and click on Create a Landing Page. In the Template Chooser window, select Blank Landing Page, and click on Choose.

Editor overview

We are now presented with the landing page editor. It looks a lot like the e-mail editor, but there are some differences. The settings along the top of the editor include a Microsite drop-down menu and a Vanity URL field that can be entered after a microsite has been selected.

The two buttons, Save and a gear icon, allow you to save or access additional settings and actions for the landing page.

In the left panel of the editor, we see the tools available to us. Most of them were present in the left panel of the e-mail editor as well, but there are two additional tools: Form and Cloud Components.

Form will open the Form Browser window. From here, you may search for...