At the start of the year, I predicted 2023 would be a chaotic year for martech — yet the start of a truly massive wave of growth for the industry. My inner critic argued that sounded a tad hyperbolic, which is not my usual schtick. But I assuaged my own skepticism by noting that such […]
Holy $#!&, two major martech disruptions just collided together: AI and composability Read More »
The first Tuesday in May is #MartechDay — a day to celebrate all the wonderful people working in the martech industry and the amazing practitioners who bring these capabilities to life in marketing organizations around the world. On last year’s #MartechDay, Frans Riemersma and I released the updated 2022 marketing technology landscape and hosted the
Join us for the new Best of Breed Marketing Summit for this year’s #MartechDay (May 2) Read More »
We’re busy working on the 2023 edition of the martech landscape (interactive version at martechmap.com) that will be released on #MartechDay, May 2. Spoiler alert: if you were betting this would be the year the martech supernova collapses into a black hole… well, you might think of hedging that bet. The number of weekly martech-related
The future of martech apps is happening in SMB and the mid-market. Here’s why. Read More »
Martech software companies — and SaaS vendors in general — have several different ways they can charge for their products. The classic SaaS subscription models have used seat-based and tier-based pricing. As a buyer, you pay for the number of people (“seats”) using the product in your company. Or, you pay for bundles of functionality
Composability and usage-based pricing go hand-in-hand for martech applications Read More »
15 years ago, sitting at a wobbly kitchenette table in our cramped apartment, on a frigid February morning outside Boston, I started this blog for marketing technologists. Of course, at the time, almost nobody knew what a marketing technologist was. It sounded like an oxymoron. While there were certainly people already working at the intersection
15 reflections on martech and more from 15 years of writing chiefmartec.com Read More »
Grab your favorite slide maker, martech pros. It’s time to show your stack. The 2023 Stackies: Martech Stack Awards are now accepting entries for the next 11 weeks — until midnight Pacific on Friday, April 21. There is no fee to enter. In fact, for each qualified entry, we — the awards hosts are myself from chiefmartec.com and Frans Riemersma
Entries now being accepted for The 2023 Stackies Awards — what’s in your stack? Read More »
In my previous post, I boldly predicted that we’re on the verge of a whole series of martech innovations: AI, composability, AR/VR, even, yes, “Web3”. While I agree with the pessimists that 2023 will be a challenging year for a lot of martech vendors, I believe this is more of a business cycle bump in
Tech layoffs? Great companies are actively hiring marketing technology talent Read More »
I’m going to start the year with a controversial prediction: we are at the beginning of a massive wave of growth in martech. The next 7 years of expansion in our industry and profession will dwarf the past 7 years. I assume that’s a controversial claim because most people think this is going to be
2023 will be a chaotic year for martech, yet the start of a massive wave of growth Read More »
