ON-DEMAND WEBINAR

From the Experts: How to Leverage Social Engagement Data in Marketo

36 minutes
3 speakers
Recorded July 15, 2020

Transcript

Who is speaking

Shanie Zimerman Jennifer Gutman Andy Mullings
Webinar overview

Oktopost’s Shanie Zimerman hosts Jennifer Gutman (Director of Social Strategy, Oktopost) and Andy Mullings (Co-Founder and Solutions Architect, BluprintX) for a practical look at leveraging social engagement data inside Marketo, covering what content to share, which social metrics matter, the technical steps to sync Oktopost with Marketo, and how sales and marketing can use that data for lead scoring, personalization, and attribution.

  • Measure social across three metric types: those that show business value (conversions, link clicks), those that spark meaningful engagement, and those that build credibility with leadership for budget conversations.
  • Most leads engage with multiple social touchpoints before converting, so social data needs to be synced into Marketo to get proper attribution credit rather than losing it to the last-touch channel.
  • Syncing Oktopost’s engagement data into Marketo enables lead scoring, segmentation, personalization, and “interesting moments” that alert sales when a prospect engages with key content.
  • The Oktopost-Marketo integration itself is straightforward; the main technical step is a DNS change to enable tracking links, best coordinated early with whoever manages your organization’s DNS.

Your speakers

Shanie Zimerman
Shanie Zimerman
Head of Strategic Partners, Oktopost

Shanie Zimerman is a Client Relationship Manager based in the New York City area, with over 10 years of experience in the high-tech and startup space. She takes a people-centric approach to customer and partner success, building relationships that create value across the organization.

Jennifer Gutman, Director of Customer and Product Marketing at Oktopost
Jennifer Gutman
Director of Customer Marketing, Oktopost

Jennifer Gutman is Director of Product and Customer Marketing at Oktopost, where she has spent the past decade building the company's social media and employee advocacy ecosystem — from the product itself to training customers on how to scale their programs. She hosts the "Radically Transparent" podcast, featuring marketing leaders from companies like Intel, Google, Adobe, WalkMe, and Microsoft, and leads workshops and the Oktopost Academy to help B2B social media managers grow into strategic leaders within their organizations.

Andy Mullings headshot
Andy Mullings
Solutions Architect, Bluprint X

Andy Mullings is Chief Customer Officer at JTF, based in London, with over 20 years of experience helping businesses modernize how they market, sell, and serve customers. He specializes in helping organizations maximize their investment in Adobe Workfront, Adobe Journey Optimizer B2B, Adobe Real-Time CDP B2B, AEM Assets, and Marketo Engage.

Frequently Asked Questions

A very high percentage of our social is paid — is Oktopost still a good fit?

Yes — Oktopost works well alongside paid social, though its measurement strength is on the organic side, so for paid you'd want to pair it with a best-in-class paid platform and have a deeper conversation about your specific setup.

If we didn't have a social strategy before, is now a good time to start?

Yes — start by deciding what you want to measure, whether that's brand awareness, business impact, or employee advocacy, and know that curated content is a low-effort way to begin building a presence while you develop your own original content.

How can we incorporate social engagement into our Marketo lead scoring model if it isn't included today?

Start offline by aligning marketing, sales, and social teams on what a meaningful lead score and set of criteria looks like, then build the model in Marketo using synced social engagement data, and revisit and adjust the scoring regularly as behavior changes.

We manage a large social team — can Oktopost help us take content from ideation to publishing across multiple campaigns?

Yes — mapping out a campaign matrix by content topic and type (curated vs. organic) and feeding those campaigns into Marketo lets even large, multi-region teams keep naming conventions and nurture streams aligned across campaigns.

What's the hardest part of integrating a platform like Oktopost with Marketo?

The integration itself is straightforward and well-documented — the main hurdle is a small DNS control panel change needed to enable tracking links, which usually requires looping in whoever manages your organization's DNS early in the process.