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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)

Contact-centric data model


Till now, we have been working a lot with the assets, such as e-mails, forms, and landing pages that make up our campaign. Now, we are going to look at the audience for our campaign in more detail. In Eloqua, this audience is the group of contacts we decide to add to our campaign.

Much of the automation that can be accomplished in Eloqua can be used to process groups of our database of contacts. Program builder, which is outside the scope of this book, and even our campaign can automate workflows performed on contacts within the system.

The data that is collected within Eloqua, including website activity, form activity, e-mail activity, and campaign activity is ultimately linked to the contacts, so that we can gain tremendous insight into their digital personas.

One of the ways in which we can use this data and any other data related to contacts in the Eloqua database is to segment contacts based on it. The following diagram illustrates various data as it relates...