Blog Posts

Our goal is to educate and inspire our audiences to help prove - and improve - the value of marketing within their organizations.

  • Which AI Applications Provide the Quickest and Most Significant Impact on Marketing Operations?

    Which AI Applications Provide the Quickest and Most Significant Impact on Marketing Operations?

    This blog explores the AI applications that can deliver immediate results, enhance efficiency, and drive significant returns on investment (ROI) on marketing operations.

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  • What Are the Potential Returns on Investment (ROI) for Implementing AI in Marketing Operations?

    What Are the Potential Returns on Investment (ROI) for Implementing AI in Marketing Operations?

    This blog explores the potential ROI of implementing AI in marketing operations, focusing on key areas such as cost savings, customer engagement, personalized marketing, and campaign effectiveness.

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  • Future Trends in AI and Marketing Operations

    Future Trends in AI and Marketing Operations

    By staying ahead of these AI trends and embracing ethical AI practices, businesses can ensure that their marketing operations remain effective, adaptable, and customer-centric.

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  • Important Update: How Yahoo!’s Feedback Loop Changes Affect Your Oracle Eloqua Experience

    Important Update: How Yahoo!’s Feedback Loop Changes Affect Your Oracle Eloqua Experience

    Sojourn Marketing Automation Consultant Andrew Poole walks through how Yahoo!'s upcoming Feedback Loop changes might affect how Oracle Corporation North America uses Oracle Eloqua.

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  • How Citeline Rapidly Migrated to Eloqua from Salesforce Marketing Cloud

    How Citeline Rapidly Migrated to Eloqua from Salesforce Marketing Cloud

    Learn how Citeline's migration to Eloqua from Salesforce Marketing Cloud was successfully completed in 6 months - with an 88% savings in license costs - with help from partner Sojourn Solutions.

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  • MOPs Leadership Spotlight: Atanas Vasilev of Progress Software on Building a Great Team

    MOPs Leadership Spotlight: Atanas Vasilev of Progress Software on Building a Great Team

    Atanas Vasilev and the Progress MOPs team have partnered with Sojourn Solutions for over a decade to drive the continuous improvement of their marketing operations. Hear more from Atanas on it now...

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  • Martech is NOT Being Optimized: CMO Survey Key Findings and 5 Tips for Improvement

    Martech is NOT Being Optimized: CMO Survey Key Findings and 5 Tips for Improvement

    Chuck Leddy and Sojourn Solutions breakdown the latest CMO Survey results, offering some eye-opening revelations about the state of marketing operations - and more specifically, martech.

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  • Things Fall Apart: Entropy and Email

    Things Fall Apart: Entropy and Email

    In this blog post by Sojourn's Steve McConnell, he explains the importance of avoiding Spam Traps in your email marketing by removing inactive emails from your database to help improve performance.

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  • A StackTastic Project: How Thomson Reuters Transformed Its Martech Management and Performance

    A StackTastic Project: How Thomson Reuters Transformed Its Martech Management and Performance

    In 2023, Thomson Reuters and Sojourn Solutions began an ambitious project to optimize the Thomson Reuters martech stack, seeking to create an effective, efficient, and centralized operating model.

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  • How Citeline Reduced Martech Stack Complexity (While Personalizing 1.6M Emails Per Month)

    How Citeline Reduced Martech Stack Complexity (While Personalizing 1.6M Emails Per Month)

    Citeline partnered with Sojourn to migrate to a single Eloqua instance for sending its personalized emails to subscribers to reduce costs, maintain personalized insights, and increase engagement.

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  • Navigating the martech maze: A guide for CMOs in the digital landscape

    Navigating the martech maze: A guide for CMOs in the digital landscape

    This post addresses common Martech challenges that are increasingly demanding the CMO's attention. Key? Seamlessly aligning the customer journey and top use cases with overall business objectives.

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  • Maximizing ROI: The Top Benefits of Conducting a Martech Stack Audit

    Maximizing ROI: The Top Benefits of Conducting a Martech Stack Audit

    In this blog post, we'll delve into the top benefits of conducting a martech stack audit and how it can propel your marketing efforts to new heights.

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  • How Citeline automated campaign naming conventions in Eloqua (and improved results)

    How Citeline automated campaign naming conventions in Eloqua (and improved results)

    Citeline improved results by automating their marketing campaign naming conventions using Eloqua plus the Eloqua/SFDC integration for their marketing and sales teams.

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  • Spring Cleaning your Marketing Automation Platform: Tips for B2B Marketers

    Spring Cleaning your Marketing Automation Platform: Tips for B2B Marketers

    Following these spring cleaning tips can save you time, improve your deliverability score, your campaign results, and even the return on investment (ROI) for your marketing automation platform (MAP).

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  • Finding a Marketing Automation Platform: 7 tips to select and implement a MAP (post 2 of 2)

    Finding a Marketing Automation Platform: 7 tips to select and implement a MAP (post 2 of 2)

    Salesforce has released a guide to marketing automation platforms called "B2B Marketing Automation Platforms: A Marketer’s Guide." We’ll explore how to select and implement a map for you in this post.

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  • Finding a Marketing Automation Platform: MAP capabilities B2B Marketers need (post 1 of 2)

    Finding a Marketing Automation Platform: MAP capabilities B2B Marketers need (post 1 of 2)

    Salesforce has released a guide to marketing automation platforms, called (fittingly enough) B2B Marketing Automation Platforms: A Marketer’s Guide. We'll detail the findings in this blog series.

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  • The 7 biggest benefits of Marketing Automation

    The 7 biggest benefits of Marketing Automation

    What do marketers think are the most important benefits of automation? "The State of Marketing Automation 2022" report identified the top survey results, which we address in this blog post.

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  • 3 ways B2B marketers can improve customer data quality to improve results

    3 ways B2B marketers can improve customer data quality to improve results

    So where specifically are B2B marketers investing in their “data ecosystems,” and what steps are they taking to ensure their data quality? Answering that key question is the focus of this blog post.

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  • Tip: Use copy/paste to save time on your Oracle Eloqua Campaign Canvas

    Tip: Use copy/paste to save time on your Oracle Eloqua Campaign Canvas

    In our February Oracle Eloqua User Group meeting, Sojourn’s Kelly Newton shared a time-saving tip about using copy/paste on Eloqua's Campaign Canvas. This post features her tips and the active Q&A.

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  • 5 tips on using ChatGPT to create B2B marketing campaign content

    5 tips on using ChatGPT to create B2B marketing campaign content

    The tips detailed in this post should be used when deploying ChatGPT to create B2B marketing campaign content for emails, landing pages, or other formats. Note, a human should review all AI results.

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