Inspired Marketing

To ensure his team was aware of the marketing tools available to them, John Pavlick, VP Eloqua Platform Manager for BlackRock, took an interesting approach. He streamlined the marketing operations team and better integrated them into the organization and built a strong foundation for marketing processes. Find out more about his journey in this episode!

Upgrading the way they "did marketing" led Jeanne Quinn, Senior Manager, and Kelsi Doran, Strategy and Operations Lead, to great success with the Omnichannel department of Cisco. Using an agile approach and starting with what was in front of them helped the team create a plan for an improved customer experience. Learn more about their efforts and some outstanding results!

What is lead scoring and why is it important to a company's success? Great question, one that Kris Gormley of Cognex had to help answer for her team. As the Senior Marketing Automation Program Manager, her efforts to implement a lead scoring system to help improve Sales' efficiency have lead to a nearly complete program with signs of long-term success. Learn more about her current journey!

Listeners, get ready for an exclusive sneak peek of a MCX19 presentation! Jeff Kohl, Marketing Operations Manager at Merrill Corporation, stopped by to talk about his experience with the Salesforce Integration App. After being inspired by a session at MCX17, his team implemented this application to help efficiently handle sales requests. Find out more and pencil in his upcoming presentation!

With a company over 80 years old, there are plenty of chances to improve and transform. When Marie Hattar joined Keysight Technologies as part of an acquisition, she saw an opportunity to apply modern strategies to a legacy brand. Her role as Chief Marketing Officer may be new, but her passion and ideas for a complete overhaul come from a well-seasoned past. You won't believe what her team achieve...

When Angela Vega joined HomeAway as a Senior Marketing Manager, one thing stuck out to her. With over 150 million emails being sent out month, yes  monthly , HomeAway was in need of a strong email strategy. That's when she began a program management approach, to help customers engage in relevant content and to help her team save time on campaign creation. 

We love it when Inspired Marketing guests return with new stories of modern marketing growth. Maria Wilson, Manager of Demand Creation at Lexmark, makes her second appearance to review her team's CRM migration process. She shares how transferring their CRM data fromSalesforce to Microsoft Dynamics saved them more than $10 million, and how they did it all within 10 months. That's inspiring!

More than two years ago, we sat down with Ryan Coats to talk about "running towards the fire" when it came to taking marketing risks at Optum. Fast forward to today and Ryan is now the Vice President of Digital Experiences and Demand Generation, leading a much larger team and working in a vastly different marketing environment. Thanks to a changing technology landscape, the organization has transf...

After nearly two years, Dana Olivas, the Marketing Operations Director at PTC, is celebrating major wins from an ambitious new campaign initiative. Implementing Vuforia AR technology allowed their marketing team to capture external activity data in Oracle Eloqua for meaningful sales touches. This effort has yielded a 78% unique open rate, with 23% of contacts becoming new opportunities. Interested...

When Lenovo's Sales team struggled with utilizing Oracle Eloqua Engage templates, Ashley Wylie and her team didn't give up. As the Outbound Marketing Manager and Database Manager for Lenovo DCG North America Marketing, Ashley used her decade worth of knowledge to take a marketing initiative gone awry and get it back on track. By implementing more Eloqua training, better data, and getting sales tea...

Achieving project perfection requires a solid strategy and finely tuned planning. Melissa Santos, Director of Strategic Services here at Relationship One, is no stranger to this process! Whether your marketing journey includes a fresh implementation or a new process using current technologies, her team is here to help every step of the way and at every level of involvement. Check out what Melissa...

As Director of Demand Gen and Database Marketing, Dart Bebel II was tasked with consolidating and scaling data for Turnkey Vacation Rentals. After a yearlong effort, his team took four disparate marketing automation platforms and created one organized Oracle Eloqua instance with micro-focused data for targeted customer outreach. Find out more about their journey toward fully understanding their au...

Brent Christensen is no stranger to customer experience. As Director of Digital Marketing for Overstock.com, his team has been working on a new project that will take them well into 2019 ... A robust plan that focuses on customer-driven, personalized content that renders in real time the moment the customer opens a product page - unreal, right? Learn more about his journey towards a custom online...

With nearly a decade of experience in marketing automation, Zach Monroe walked into a big challenge at Thomson Reuters. In his role as Senior Manager of Marketing Automation, he led his team to improve customer experience by merging multiple instances of Oracle Eloqua. Nearly 2 years later, he is ready to share his success story - listen in!

When a new executive team came to Progress Software, Carmen Gardiner, Marketing Operations Manager, was given a new challenge. Her new managers wanted to see digital attribution incorporated into their marketing process. After about a year of efforts, Progress now has digital attribution for about 80% of marketing efforts. Learn more about how Carmen and her team utilized utm parameters, referral...

How far would you go to double the revenue your team brings in? Güçlü Ozsayin, Head of Marketing Automation, CRM, and Data for Samsung Electronics France, was willing to push his marketing efforts farther than ever before. In this episode, Güçlü discusses some of his organization's challenges, and the fantastic results generated by their enterprise mobility campaign.  For the last three years of t...

While working as Senior Manager of Digital Marketing for Ingram Micro Cloud, Kyle Nakayama faced an immense challenge: training a team halfway around the world to use Oracle Eloqua. Ingram's previous agency-dependent model had caused major bottlenecks and disorganization, so Kyle began teaching a team in Mumbai, India, to do the work "in-house." In this episode, learn about the challenges and achi...

Rob Woods, Marketing Automation Enablement Manager, and Rashmi Nath, Marketing Automation Capabilities Manager sat down with us to talk Intel's marketing stack. About a year ago, they set out to figure out what was missing among their marketing strategies and platforms, and what holes were most important to fill. They stumbled upon account-based marketing and haven't looked back since. Hear more a...

This episode of Inspired Marketing is a very special one. Last week at MCX in Chicago, we got to sit down with not one, but three marketing leaders. Jennifer Gruninger of Dell, Zach Monroe of Thomson Reuters and Candice Willingham from Mouser all shared a wide variety of their modern marketing learnings with us. Listen in, and hang in there with us until the end to catch the live Q&A!

Cisco is up for 4 Markie awards this year! We sat down with Digital Marketing Manager, Amy Anderson, to get some insight on just one of the many projects that have given Cisco the success worthy of a Markie. Listen in and learn more about how Amy and her team were able to keep clean data in an Oracle Eloqua instance with over 22 million contacts.

In today's episode of Inspired Marketing, we sat down with Jace Brendle, Digital Marketing Manager at RSM. 3 years ago, RSM underwent a total rebrand, and Jace and his team decided to take the opportunity and build out a custom preference center. Jace's team saw a significant drop in their bounce rate, down to 1/3 of what it was previously. Catch more details of the ups and downs of this project!...

Our goal with this podcast has always been inspiration. Typically, we share inspiring marketing stories from you all. Today, however, we want to take some time to share a bit more about one of the events that inspires us most: Oracle's Modern Customer Experience . We are excited for all that comes with Modern CX; meeting up with clients, celebrating Markie winners, and learning tons during the ses...

Anna Poulakis, Director of Marketing Automation, and Jean Lee, Manager of Marketing Automation at PTC have set out to improve the complex project of interacting with the Digital Experience Optimization teams. They have found great success and plan to share their solutions with external partners and more at ModernCX in April. Be one of the first to hear about this exciting strategy, this is a podca...

As a Program Designer & Automation Strategist for Dell, Jennifer Gruninger has devoted a lot of time to nurturing customers in the most effective way possible. She and her team have been developing and building their nurture program for 5 years now and their hard work has really paid off. Learn more about the results they've seen and how they went about tackling such a huge project in this episode...

We wanted to kick off the year by hearing from our CEO at Relationship One, Ron Corbisier. If you've ever heard Ron speak you know he has a lot to share about modern marketing.  Listen up and learn how the marketing landscape may change in this coming year, and his advice for those who are implementing or have implemented the Oracle Marketing Cloud products.