Time to get Eloqua user up to speed in Marketo?

[Anonymous]

Hi team - hope you can help. We're looking to hire a lead nurturing expert to work with our Marketo system and we've received some interesting CVs - but they have Eloqua experience rather than Marketo. Anyone have any insight on how big the jump is and how quickly we could get a bright person up to speed with using Marketo from an Eloqua background? And not just the basics, but a super user that can set up some advanced engagement programs. Any insight appreciated! Happy to share the job spec if there's anyone on here interested also...

[Anonymous]

I was an Eloqua user and transitioned the bulk of our functionality to Marketo in a couple of weeks.  We didn't have existing nurture programs in Eloqua and creating them in Marketo took several weeks - mostly researching how to do it and testing, but depending on how sophisticated your business requirements for nurturing are, the new Engagement program should make setting up nurturing much faster.

[Anonymous]

I learned on Eloqua first and graudally learned Marketo. They will find Marketo much more easier to manage and enjoy much more.

[Anonymous]

Thanks for your great responses Elliott and Sierra - from what you're saying I think that we can take an Eloqua trained person so long as they tick all of the other boxes and they're a fast learner.

All the same, I would love to have someone from the Marketo community join us, and so to that end I've posted the full job spec here in case anyone is interested: http://community.marketo.com/MarketoDiscussionDetail?id=90650000000PgflAAC

Thanks for your help!