Author: Jack Corrao iii

5 Tips to Improve Your Email Marketing

Despite what many bloggers may say, we can confirm here at Corrao Group that email marketing, in fact, is not dead- it’s actually growing. According to the The Radicati Group, worldwide will top 3 billion users by 2020. Not only is email marketing growing, but also it delivers the highest ROI over SEO, SEM, and content marketing (Econsultancy)

This just means it is going to get harder and harder to grab ahold of your audience’s attention. This means your email marketing strategy is going to become a critical key in how you run build your marketing campaigns. Let’s take a look at what email strategies you can start implementing today:

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New ’17 Pardot Summer Releases: Engagement Studio

Pardot summer releases

Summer is here! That means Pardot recently announced their new ‘17 summer updates. Just in case you missed it, they are making improvements to Engagement Studio.

For you long time users who may be familiar with Drip Programs, Engagement Studios are a new way to nurture prospects, customers, employees and more. Pardot is continuing to add new-and-improved functionality to Engagement Studio to improve how you can nurture and market to your audience.

Let’s take a look how these new 2017 Pardot summer releases can help effectively manage your nurturing programs:

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Pardot Webinar: How Corrao Group Boosted Sales by 40.3% for Avalon Shutters

Pardot Webinar | Avalon Shutters

pardot webinar

Corrao Group invites you to join us for our free Pardot webinar hosted by our CEO Jack Corrao on May 22nd 11am PST. For this webinar, we have put together an in-depth case study examining one of our manufacturing clients, Avalon Shutters, and the process behind how we helped them optimize Pardot to achieve the following results:

  • increased email CTR’s to 30.7%
  • aligned internal Sales, Marketing, and Operational teams
  • uncovered and implemented a new revenue source
  • set up email automation for long-term success

This 1 hour presentation will reveal how we generate success for our clients every day while maintaining the professionalism of being a Salesforce Silver Certified Partner. Enroll Today!

4 Reasons To Go Professional with Pardot

With paid technology such as Pardot comes the need for ROI in order to continue using the tool. Pardot has three different editions: Standard, Professional, and Ultimate. Whether you’ve already purchased Pardot Standard edition, or are looking for insight into which edition to purchase, look no further. Pardot Professional edition has 4 very convincing features that your team can use to optimize your ROI.

1. Pardot Advanced Dynamic Content

By capturing important data points inside of Pardot, you can personalize your content to your prospects. According to Aberdeen, personalized email messages improve click-through rates by an average of 14% and conversions by 10%. Using Pardot’s advanced dynamic content, you can put the right content in front of the right prospects based on what information you’ve already collected about them. You can also use dynamic content on your website to personalize your prospects entire web experience with custom landing pages and forms.

Benefits:

  • Personalized content sent based on your defined prospect segments
  • Reduces time spent and manual errors when drafting/creating emails

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What Salesforce Workflows Can Do for Your Business

After learning how you can boost your ROI 1000%, you can now see how powerful optimizing your CRM is and how important it can be for your business processes. Whether you are a new, existing, or a power Salesforce user, there are always ways to expand and optimize your current system in order to get the most out of it. With a lot of different moving components in your business process, it is challenging to monitor everyone’s progress. One of the ways to stay on track is through utilizing automated Salesforce workflows.

So what is workflow automation exactly? Workflow automation is a simple way to manage and drive your daily business processes through setting up automated actions and events without spending the extra dollars on additional systems or manpower. It provides you and your team the freedom and the time to be more efficient and not bogged down with day-to-day tasks. Many people get discouraged when talking about workflows, but don’t worry, workflows do not require any technical coding to be built. Before we talk about how workflows rules can be put in place to optimize your Salesforce, lets breakdown the 3 components:

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Boost ROI by 1,281% with a Business Process-Driven CRM

Yes, that number is actually 1,281%, and what’s even more shocking might be how this leading B2B telemarketing agency accomplished this ROI boost in just three months¹.

Studies predict that 70% of successful digital business models will be structured on unstable processes that should be shifting with the needs of their customers². The goal is to be in the 30% of businesses that are predicted to have stable processes and in order to do that, we must adapt to our customers’ needs.

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Migration Guide: Making the Transition from HubSpot to Pardot

Marketing Automation Software has seen explosive growth in the past few years; showing a 451% increase in qualified leads, 14.5% increase in Sales productivity, and a 12.2% decrease in Marketing overhead (MarketingProfs). For Salesforce users, the best Marketing Automation Software is Pardot. Investing time and money in solutions that do not allow for seamless integration, smooth usability, and more holistic reporting of a customer’s experience will hinder your ability to outperform your competition, and for many, that means transitioning from Hubspot to Pardot.  Pardot has the premier integration with Salesforce, the CRM leader (G2 Crowd), which allows for optimal performance, scalability, and reporting.

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Pardot’s New Versioning and Program Locking Features

New Features Added to Pardot’s Engagement Studio

Just before Halloween, Pardot announced two new features for Engagement Studio. Engagement Studio is an interactive and aesthetically pleasing way to nurture prospects, partners, legacy customers and more. According to Pardot, these two new features “come highly requested by Pardot users.” Let’s dive deeper into these exciting new features.

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6 “Best of Breed” Platforms To Draw Visitors To Your Pardot Marketing Funnel

For your marketing funnel, Pardot is a powerful B2B marketing automation machine that works 24-7-365 to increase the velocity of your funnel with incredible synergy with Salesforce. The software is attractive to organizations everywhere because of its ability to engage better than anything else, but there are ways for users to really ramp up their results using supplementary marketing programs.

If you combine Pardot with these six top of the funnel (Awareness Phase) tools, you can save time and see a substantial boost to your marketing efforts!

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