Scott Brinker

B2B Customer Data Index

THE HACKIES: A customer-centric approach to building marketing and sales stacks

This article is a guest post by Raviv Turner of CaliberMind. It was entered into The Hackies essay contest for the upcoming MarTech conference. Like it? You can register your vote in the contest by sharing it on social media, especially LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter. A lot has changed in the B2B buying process over […]

THE HACKIES: A customer-centric approach to building marketing and sales stacks Read More »

Martech Interview Guide

32 questions you should ask when you interview a martech leader

This guest post by Erica Seidel is part of a regular column she writes, Ask the Martech Recruiter. Erica runs The Connective Good, a retained executive recruiting firm that helps companies land leaders in martech, marketing, digital strategy, analytics, and market research. Dear Erica, I’m interviewing a candidate for our brand-new head of marketing technology

32 questions you should ask when you interview a martech leader Read More »

Microsoft Marketing Technology Stack

Microsoft shares their marketing stack in the Stackies, and it’s awesome

I am enormously grateful to every company that participates in the annual Stackies Awards, sharing a single slide illustration of their “marketing stack” — the collection of software that powers their marketing organization. The best ones do more than just namecheck tools they use. They visually explain the strategic thinking and organizing principles behind their

Microsoft shares their marketing stack in the Stackies, and it’s awesome Read More »

Blockchains as Brand Equity

Blockchains as a new kind of quantifiable brand equity?

The following is a follow-up guest post by Jeremy Epstein, CEO of Never Stop Marketing, to his previous articles on blockchain marketing, blockchain brand promises, and blockchain brand “logos”. Jeremy currently works with several of the leading companies in the blockchain and decentralization space. How do you measure “brand equity” today? Perhaps some analysis of awareness, recall,

Blockchains as a new kind of quantifiable brand equity? Read More »

MarTech Conference

Mastering modern marketing technology leadership over 2 intense days

We’re only 7 weeks away from the MarTech conference in San Francisco, May 9-11. This will be the biggest and best one yet, with 70+ sessions, 100+ speakers, 100+ exhibitors and sponsors, and 2,500+ marketing and marketing technology leaders gathering together to meet, learn, and be inspired by each other. If you’re working the intersection

Mastering modern marketing technology leadership over 2 intense days Read More »

The Marketing Data Lake

The rise of the marketing data lake

The following is a guest post by Doug Kessler, co-founder and creative director of the B2B marketing agency Velocity. They worked closely with Informatica, one of their clients, to produce educational content on marketing data lakes, including a book by Franz Aman and Anish Jariwala. It’s some of the best writing on the topic that

The rise of the marketing data lake Read More »