The following is a guest post by Luque Wang, a senior marketing manager of global strategy and operations at GE Digital. What is Marketing Operations? Ten years ago, marketing operations was still a very new role in org structures. The number of people with marketing operations as their job title were few and far between. […]
Martech-Enabled Marketing Operations: Invisible Roads and Bridges Read More »
As we’ve been slaving working away on the new 2018 edition of the Marketing Technology Landscape (“Martech 5000”) graphic — and that’s not the editorial “we,” but indeed a whole team of obsessively-compulsive martech lunatics dedicated industry advocates — it suddenly occurred to me this morning that we’ve been selfishly hoarding the fun. Seriously, you’ve
Announcing the build-your-own martech landscape kit, fun for the whole office Read More »
As the world’s largest, vendor-agnostic marketing technology conference, MarTech gives you real-world insights into the good, the bad, and even the ugly of procuring, implementing, and operating marketing technology solutions. Our 2-day program delivers candid, in-depth, and unbiased content that you won’t get anywhere else. MarTech is designed specifically for marketing operations executives who are
3 marketing technology myths we’ll debunk at the vendor-agnostic MarTech conference Read More »
Here’s another fun entry into The Stackies 2018: Marketing Tech Stack Awards that I thought I’d share from Alert Logic, a leading provider of information security solutions. There are four reasons why I wanted to call this one out: A great marketing stack illustration doesn’t necessarily need to invent a whole new way of organizing
Stackers gonna stack: a great marketing stack slide from Alert Logic Read More »
Yesterday, Mulesoft announced it was being acquired by Salesforce for $6.5 billion. That’s a pretty hefty premium — a 21.6X multiple — given that the company had less than $300 million in revenue for 2017. That’s a strategic bet. So what’s the strategy? Although I’ve sworn off the game of making predictions, I do feel
Salesforce to acquire Mulesoft because, hey, it’s a world of infinite cloud services Read More »
I can’t resist sharing another entry to The Stackies 2018: Marketing Tech Stack Awards, this one from global networking technology leader Juniper Networks. This clean and elegant design organizes their marketing and sales technologies according to the six clusters of the Martech 5000 marketing technology landscape — Relationships & Social, Content & Experience, Data, Management,
How Juniper Networks spans pre-sales to post-sales marketing in their martech stack Read More »
The following is a guest post by Danielle Sauvé, marketing director for the product identification platform for Danaher and editor of SimplifyMyPackaging.com. We talk about digitizing everything, but if you’re a marketer at a consumer goods company, you know there is a divide between digital marketing channels and product packaging. As evidence of this divide,
Brand packaging needs a marketing tech stack too, who knew? Read More »
For martech careers, there is a lot of really good news. But one thing that isn’t. First, thank you to the 884 professionals who participated in our 2018 Marketing Technology & Operations Salary Survey, a collaboration between myself and the team at MarTech Today. For our analysis, we filtered it down to only the n=432
Our martech salary survey delivers a lot of great news, but one disappointment Read More »
I love The Stackies. Seriously, this “contest” that invites marketers to send in a single slide that illustrates how they conceptualize their marketing technology stack is fascinating. It’s one of my favorite projects with the martech community. Forget the over-simplified pictures that you see from vendors, showing idealized marketing stacks as they might exist in
Morningstar shares their marketing stack in The Stackies Read More »
In reflecting on the “greatest hits” of chiefmartec.com over the past decade, it’s been exciting to see how many ideas that were once on the fringe of marketing have shifted into mainstream practice. For example: agile marketing, the adoption of agile management approaches from the software development profession in modern marketing. What do marketing and
Agile marketing reaches 37% adoption with a wide variety of techniques Read More »
