November 2017

GDPR and ePrivacy for Marketing

4 things marketers should do about GDPR now (other than panic)

The following is a guest post by Stella Goulet, CMO of Avanade. Working on a marketing contract recently made me realize how complicated GDPR can be. Marketers can’t afford to sit back; we need to understand the implications of the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and address them now. If you’re not sure […]

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Marketing Technology Budgets 2017-2018

Enterprise marketers spending 22% of their budget on martech

Gartner recently released their CMO Spend Survey 2017-2018. The headline of their report: Budgets Recede Amid Demand For Results. Let’s hear it for results! After three consecutive years of growth, average marketing budgets at enterprise companies (most of the companies Gartner surveyed have more than $1 billion in revenue) have slipped from 12.1% of company

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Channel Software Landscape

1 million software companies by 2027? We’re gonna need a bigger chart

I love the channel software landscape graphic below produced by Jay McBain of Forrester. It’s accompanied by a fantastic article, The Channel Software Stack – A Comprehensive (And Critical) Look At The Future Of The Industry that I highly recommend reading. There’s a whole cottage industry of technology landscapes with little logos out there. (And

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