Gord Hotchkiss has been one of my sources of professional inspiration for over a decade. One of the pioneers of the search marketing industry, Gord has always had a special talent for blending marketing savvy with broader social and scienfitic thinking in the face of disruptive technologies. He’s masterful at putting the quirks of modern […]
What can marketers learn from the sciences? Quite a lot Read More »
The following is a guest post by Tony Byrne, founder of Real Story Group, a research and advisory firm that covers marketing technology. The past several years have been exciting times for the digital marketing industry, with major marketplace expansion, ample M&A activity, and fresh understanding about how MarTech should work in the future. What’s
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The following is a guest post by Kevin Hanley of Delphic Digital. Delphic Digital was one of the five winners of the 2016 Stackies Awards at MarTech, and we invited them to share the rationale behind their marketing technology stack. Is there anything more exciting than the 2016 MarTech conference in San Francisco? Maybe, but
Matrixed marketing tech: Delphic Digital’s winning Stackie Read More »
A friend forwarded me a report, titled “Software Is Eating the CMO Suite,” that was shared by Morgan Stanley at the Ascendant Network event for digital marketers in New York earlier this month. The most striking piece of data in the report, at least to me, was the chart above. Out of the 88 participants
Did Morgan Stanley just kill the single-vendor marketing suite? Read More »
David Edelman is the global co-leader of McKinsey Digital, Marketing & Sales at McKinsey & Company and one of the world’s leading experts in digital transformation. I was thrilled that he was able to join us as a keynote speaker at MarTech last month. Here’s a video of his presentation, The Journey Wins, Not The
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The following is a guest post by Steve Rotter, CMO of Acrolinx. Acrolinx was one of the five winners of the 2016 Stackies Awards at MarTech, and we invited them to share the rationale behind their marketing technology stack. The 2016 MarTech conference was truly amazing, and we were honored — and pleasantly surprised —
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The following is a guest post by Sergio Maldonado, founder and CEO of Sweetspot Intelligence. Family storytelling die-hards may have heard of Bill Gordh, an award-winning, banjo-playing storyteller that has performed with the New York Philharmonic as well as at the White House Easter Egg Roll. He has also traveled extensively around the world. I
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The following is a guest post by Bertrand Hazard of TrustRadius, who attended MarTech last month. He and the TrustRadius research team interviewed a number of vendors exhibiting there about their perspective on “hot” categories within the marketing tech landscape. Account-based marketing (ABM) was one of the biggest topics at the MarTech conference. Nearly every
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The following is a guest post by Seth Ulinski, senior analyst at TBR, talking about the phenomenon of “dark martech” — all the marketing technology that companies build themselves internally. This is one of the first studies I’ve seen that has attempted to quantify it. There is no shortage of marketing technology (martech) solutions available
Dark martech: the great mass of homegrown marketing technology Read More »
It’s been two weeks since MarTech in San Francisco, and I’m just now catching up enough to write down my thoughts about the event. First and foremost, a heartfelt thank you to everyone who was a part of this conference — attendees, speakers, sponsors, moderators, staff, and the producers behind it all, Third Door Media.
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