Inspired Marketing

In this episode of Inspired Marketing we had the pleasure of learning from Richard Flaherty, Global Director of Marketing Services at PerkinElmer. Richard took on the challenge of doing a data clean up and creating a more efficient MarTech stack. He shares with us his process, challenges and what he learns about SalesForce. Listen and find out how you can implement some of the same changes in your...

Dave Schneider is Chief Marketing Officer at Red Wing Shoes, where he has brought digital marketing to bring the Red Wing brand to life. In this episode of Inspired Marketing, hear about his latest brand initiatives, and how he's using technology to better understand his customer base. Find out how Dave believes in what makes marketing successful and how you can bring brand equity and sales togeth...

In the business of quartz, customer experience and satisfaction are everything. J.J. Thoele, the Interactive Marketing Manager at Cambria, recognized the importance of a personalized shopping experience and jumped on it. His team is hyper-focused on making customers feel like a part of the Cambria family from day one, and it pays off big time. Learn more about how J.J. applies marketing automation...

Field Marketing stretches far beyond the conferences and other events you attend, just ask Demandbase. Beth Tiltges and Stephanie Thomas, both members of the marketing team at Demandbase, have discovered that this tactic gives you the freedom to pursue other worthwhile initiatives. These women launched the Summer of ABM program, one initiative of many, in an effort to add to their pipeline during...

ABM flipped the funnel, but Nick Panayi managed to flip it again with his new marketing strategy he has coined "Pursuit Marketing". As VP of Brand Demand and Digital Marketing at DXC technologies Nick's goal is to prove the value of marketing to the rest of the organization and he's doing just that. Hear how Pursuit Marketing is helping his team and organization in this episode of Inspired Marketi...

Marilyn Cox is the Vice President of Marketing and CRM at The Second City. What could this impromptu theater group possibly have to do with marketing automation? You will be surprised. When Marilyn saw an opportunity to fix her team's infrastructure and utilize Oracle Eloqua in a new way, the results were quite dramatic. Hear what she has to say about digital marketing leading to the success in he...

Jennifer Pockell Dimas, VP of Marketing and Business Operations at Plex, has spent much of her career in account-based marketing. She brought her learnings to Plex and spent the beginning stages creating an integrated system between sales and marketing - something she highly recommends. Years of trial and error has led Jennifer to a smart and efficient strategy that has proven results. No matter w...

Executing a marketing strategy with marketing automation proves to yield big results in a short period of time. When Candice Willingham, current Director of Marketing Automation for Mouser Electronics, started her position almost 5 years ago she noticed a major marketing automation opportunity that was being missed. After gaining an internal executive advocate, she began the journey to implement O...

Jeb Dasteel is the Chief Customer Officer at Oracle, a well-earned title for someone who has dedicated themselves to customer success. During his time at Oracle he has perfected what it means to place customers first. Listen to find out how Jeb's expertise can help you make customer success a central part of your strategy. 

Paul Dunay is the Financial Services & U.S. Brexit Marketing Leader at PwC. His unique role has pushed him to explore the question many Sales people ask - what is happening with my accounts? With the help of his team, Paul was able to create an insight report that gave them a deeper look into important accounts. It's possible for your team too, with help from Oracle Eloqua. Listen up!

Digital Marketing Director, Niles Randolph, was recently brought on to build a better lead generation system for Carlson Wagonlit Travel (CWT), a global company that manages business travel and company events. Recognizing that the B2B space is "marketing automation gold", Niles was determined to connect his team's CRM to their Oracle Eloqua instance in order to optimize the platform. Understanding...

As Senior Vice President and General Manager of Oracle Marketing Cloud, Laura Ipsen is at the center of innovation. She stopped by the Relationship One office, and opened up about how her career path has shaped her role at OMC. Spending her whole career in the high-tech sector, Laura is constantly inspired by change and transformation. It's no surprise then, that her team has some exciting changes...

It's no secret that modern marketers love Oracle Eloqua. Leslie Alore, Director of Global Marketing Operations & Automation for Iron Mountain, credits the growth of her career to this power marketing automation platform. She and her team have spent years building and scaling the marketing operations and automation aspect of the business on a global level. Learn how her career journey helped give h...

Working with Oracle Eloqua for 8 years gives you plenty of time to play with data. Matt Feeney,  Senior Manager of Marketing Systems at DocuSign, helped his team discover new ways to ensure data health and quality. He discusses the steps he took to strategize the clean-up, how they tackled the challenge of standardizing across 7 systems, and what his team has planned next to make their process eve...

"Do you even use your own products?" Jennifer Renaud, CMO of the Oracle Marketing Cloud, gets this question often. While OMC does utilize their own products, Jennifer discovered they may not be leveraging the power and capabilities as much as some of their customers. That's why during a company re-branding project, she and her team started diving into Oracle Content Marketing (OCM) to repurpose fo...

With a track record of 5 years and 50% company growth each year, there is no denying that Mike Braund, Director of Marketing Operations at Tableau, understands the power of a good organizational structure. During the journey to a more centralized structure, Mike and his veterans had their struggles, but were able to overcome them and help Tableau become a well-oiled, much larger, machine.  

We were so happy to have Chris Block, Digital Engagement Leader at Cummins, share at our May Twin Cities OMC user group event. Now you get to hear him share his story in this episode of the Inspired Marketing podcast! With over 12 years of experience at Cummins, Chris has witnessed a reorganization that encouraged others outside of the marketing team to utilize marketing technologies. With a marte...

We always love to share the stories of modern marketing powerhouses, especially when they are one of our outstanding clients. AJ Sedlak, the Senior Marketing Automation Manager for Polycom, sat down with us at Modern Customer Experience to talk about all things Oracle Eloqua Campaign Canvas. AJ and his team created their own system utilizing a Key Master and Gate Keeper (yes, Ghostbusters referenc...

It's rare to find someone who sticks with a company for 30+ years, but when you do, you can be sure they understand the connection between teams better than anyone else. Liz Gertz of D&B has spent time in both Sales and Marketing roles, allowing her to help create a blurred line between the two. In her episode of Inspired Marketing, find out how Liz and her team reshaped lead retrieval, appending,...

With a decade in email marketing experience, Carrie Ugarte is no stranger to the evolution of marketing technology. Leading her team as the Digital Messaging Manager at Wiley Education Services, Carrie has helped transform lead management through a dynamic program that makes email messaging matter. Utilizing the integration between Salesforce and Wiley's Oracle Eloqua instance, you'll be truly ama...

When Certiport needed a Marketing Automation Manager to help bridge the gap between marketing efforts and sales wins, Brad Williams was the man for the job. His efforts helped transform his team from batch and blast and manual lead entry to a seamless integration between Salesforce and Oracle Eloqua. Certiport is a fully automated lead nurturing machine, including personalized touches to each indi...

Spoiler alert for Modern Marketing Experience 2017: Director of Global Marketing Operations at Avaya, Mike McKinnon, stops by to teach a few acronyms and a lot of lead management tips. Before you hear him speak at the conference, tune in and get the details on how Avaya went from a lead management program of zero to having nurture campaigns across all product levels. Find out how Mike raised the p...

You don't submit a Markie award unless you have a kick-butt marketing success story. Luckily, Alena Larson, Director of Demand Generation at Optum, has helped her team build one of the best lead management platforms out there. Throughout her 5 years at the company, Alena has seen the marketing team go from one CRM to six, has scaled down lead routing time from fifteen minutes to four minutes, and...

MongoDB has so much marketing automation insight, they stopped by Inspired Marketing again to share more inspiration! This time, Meg Goetsch, Director of Marketing Operations, walks us through a highlight reel of initiatives since her start six years ago as one of the original founders of the MongoDB marketing team. Listen in to learn about how Megan's team's core technologies: Oracle Eloqua, Bizi...

"Predictive" has become a more familiar term for marketing organizations, but what does it really mean in the context of the marketing function? Hear a real-world application on how Getty Images uses predictive marketing by way of Mintigo to discover, target, engage and convert customers more effectively through Oracle Eloqua. In this episode of Inspired Marketing, Senior Director of Demand Gen an...