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MARKETING OPERATIONS NEWS

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Welcome to the latest edition of the Marketing Operation newsletter which includes the latest on best practices, knowledge sharing and system/process updates for our global and regional sales and marketing colleagues. If you have a learning or success to share with the community connect with us. Be the first to share and let others know what is working!

 

Previous editions of the newsletter can be found here on the Marketing Operations Toolbox.

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Marketing Operations Open Office Hours – Attend Next Session

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Join us for our next Open Office Hours session where we will be presenting Updated Email and Landing page templates. Join your fellow marketers on Wednesday April 5th as we cover the following:

 

·        Best Practice: Updated Email and Landing page templates

·        Ask a question - Pre-submit your questions here or ask during the call

·      Discuss how to best leverage our systems/process for effective marketing

 

Plan to attend the next Open Office Hours on April 5th @ 9am EST. Register here to receive the monthly invite.

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Simplified and Improved MQL Status Values in Salesforce

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To simplify and improve the outcome data from MQLs, in consultation with Sales and working with the CRM team, we have updated the MQL status picklist in Salesforce.

 

This enhancement has shortened the list of values and most significantly removed the ‘Completed’ option.

 

Sales will now have to make more results-oriented status selections like ‘Opportunity Created’ or ‘Not Interested’, providing improved outcome data to Marketers on their MQLs and Campaigns.

 

For more information on the MQL process, status updates and how to view reports please view our previous open office presentation.

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Updated Email and Landing Page Templates

 

As many of you heard on the latest M3 call, we are launching updated Eloqua email and landing page templates to replace the existing ones.

 

The templates are visually refreshed and align more closely to our website branding with Indigo backgrounds, charcoal copy, and blue CTAs. There are also a host of new BYO tools to help you create various types of banner and content imagery.

The templates are available to use now in master and sub brands, however updates to the Marketing Ops Toolbox and Brandworld are in process.

 

 

LinkedIn Ad MQL Forms Enhancement

 

We’re very happy to announce that you can now incorporate a free text field* into your LinkedIn Ad forms to support more effective MQL triage and follow up!  After much investigation, rather than waiting for LinkedIn and Oracle, we have been able to successfully build/test a technical solution to integrate the field data from LinkedIn to Eloqua to Salesforce.

 

We recommend this free text field to be like this: “Please provide us with more detail of your need”.  The response will map to the Additional Information field on the MQL Task in Salesforce, thus providing Sales more information to effectively engage with your customers

 

 

*Please note that this new feature can only be applied to new Campaigns.

 

 

Website: Rich Text Module Usage Guidance

 

Due to the newly expanded selection of pre-formatted website modules, the Rich Text Module is no longer required for the vast majority of web page builds. As a result, the Rich Text Module has been redefined as a “special request” module that is only to be used when no other existing module can provide the content experience required to drive the marketing story.

 

As a reminder you can explore and select other standard modules here and your Marketing Operations contact can also provide recommendations.

 

Going forward, if a Rich Text Module is deemed required by the marketer, it will involve an additional design review process which will increase the time it takes to approve and build the page. Brand review requests can be submitted here.

 

 

Increase Social Media Engagement

 

In addition to content that is interesting and educational, right sizing your social media posts can increase customer engagement. Clear and concise posts of ~100 characters are considered a best practice for Twitter and LinkedIn and typically achieve higher engagement with customers. In writing posts, also consider the character limitations below:

 

Twitter – 280-character limit per tweet – 13 characters for link and space included.

 

LinkedIn – 220 characters or 3 lines of text per post will display before truncating and requiring the reader to click on “…see more” to view the remainder of your post.   

 

You can read more on this here

 

 

March Open Office Hours: 2022 Top Performers

 

In the March Marketing Operations Open Office Hours, Kristen Powell presented the 2022 Marketing Performance Review.

 

If you missed the call and are interested in understanding what some of the best performing campaigns of last year were you can access the presentation here.

 

Plus, don’t forget that all previous Open Office Hour presentations can be found here.

 

 

Why do we call it LEAN for Sustainability?

 

Some might wonder how or even why LEAN and Sustainability connect. Because at the end of the day, everything we do and work on is a process, at home and at work. And Lean is all about continuously improving our processes. For example, you want to rethink how often and with which transports CRA’s (Clinical Research Associates) travel to sites? That’s a decision in the clinical trial process. Do you want to start including vegetarian or even vegan catering in face-to-face events? That’s a decision in the event organization process. Or you may want to challenge the use of paper in primary market research and instead digitalize tools. These are just a few ways that we can think of more environmentally sustainable processes at IQVIA. What about you? Visit this page if you would like to know more about this initiative.

 

 

Useful Links

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Below you will find several links for Marketing Automation tools, resources, and reports

 

 

Don’t forget to join in on the Marketing Operations office hours which is on the first Wednesday of the month at 9am EST if you have any questions! The next session is April 5th. You can register or pre-submit any questions/topic ideas through the Marketing Operations Toolbox.

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