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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 analysis


After a campaign has been activated, you will want to monitor how it is performing. A report that gives you a nice overview of measurable metrics for the campaign is called the Campaign Analysis by Campaign report in Eloqua.

To view this report, select the options drop-down button in the top right corner from the campaign and navigate to Insight Reports | Campaign Analysis. This will open the analysis report for this campaign in Insight, Eloqua's reporting engine.

Let's review what the reported metrics represent:

  • Total External Activities: This represents the number of activities that have been created as the result of list uploads to external assets for the given campaign(s).

  • Total Sends: This is the number of e-mails that have been sent from the campaign workflow.

  • Total Delivered: This is the number of e-mails that have been delivered out of the e-mails that were sent.

  • Total Opens: This is the number of times e-mails that belong to the campaign(s) have been opened. This...