This week’s Champion Spotlight is Kara Pietrykowski Let’s get to know Kara a little bit better!
Company: Oliver Hume
Title: Marketing Automation Manager
Location: Melbourne, Australia
Hometown: Melbourne, Australia
What was your first job?
Supermarket Checkout
How and when did you get started with Marketo? What was your first role and initial reaction to the platform?
In 2013 I was working for Nintex and we decided to introduce a new CRM and Marketing Automation tool to scale our business and take our marketing/sales efforts to the next level. I was the Marketing Operations Manager and it was my role to evaluate Marketing automation tools and then I was the marketing lead on the implementation of Marketo alongside Salesforce. I have worked daily with Marketo ever since!
What is your favorite thing to do in Marketo and why?
To create actionable reporting on campaigns and enable data-driven marketing decisions to be made.
Through our your Marketo career, what are you most proud of?
I was accepted as a Marketo Champion in January 2017. It is an honour to have been recognised. It’s a good opportunity to be able to have my marketing skills represented. The best thing is the access to preview upcoming product features and being able to give exclusive feedback. To be able to understand what’s coming up is a great benefit and also feel I have the opportunity to share my opinion on being on the ground in Australia/APAC.
What piece of advice would you give to someone who is just starting a career with Marketo?
The main thing is to utilize the community, there’s a wealth of knowledge in there in term of the discussions and products. It’s very likely, that people have encountered the question you already have and the Marketo Champions are constantly sharing their experiences so you learn how others are using the product.
If you could go anywhere in the world, where would you go and why?
Turkey is on my travel list and has been for a long while now!
If you could have any animal as a pet in the world, what would it be and why?
Cavoodle (also known as Cavapoo) Dog
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