Marketing Management

Happy anniversary, dear martech readers. Ten years ago, I started chiefmartec.com, with my first post in February 2008 announcing “a blog for marketing technologists.” It was shortly followed by a riff on martec being analogous to marcom, which is why my brand is chiefmartec.com — without the “h” at the end — instead of chiefmartech.com. In retrospect, that probably wasn’t one of my better ideas. “Martec” never caught on; “martech” did. But looking back over 10 …

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Whew! This is the final part 5 of a five-part series, providing an update on the 5 Disruptions to Marketing as 2018 marches forward. If you have not yet read Part 1: Digital Transformation, Part 2: Microservices & APIs, Part 3: Vertical Competition, or Part 4: Digital Everything, you might want to start there. 5. ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (2018 Update) A recent study by Resulticks found artificial intelligence to be the most over-hyped term in marketing …

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First: this is the last week to get the early bird rates for MarTech in San Jose, April 23-25. If you reserve your seat before this Saturday, February 10, you’ll save $500 on an all-access ticket. “Act now. Algorithmic agents are standing by.” But I’m more excited to share with you the news that we are launching a series of half-day workshops at MarTech that will offer you a deep-dive educational experience on these four …

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That is the burning question that we’re looking to answer with the 2018 Marketing Technology & Operations Salary Survey — and I’d love to have you participate. This is a completely anonymous survey. We won’t ask for your name or email address, the names of any of your employers, or any other personally identifiable information. We won’t collect your IP address. We won’t pixel you for retargeting. We mean completely anonymous — because we know …

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The following is a guest post by Anand Thaker, CEO of IntelliPhi and my co-collaborator on the marketing technology landscape since last year. He’ll be a keynote speaker at the upcoming MarTech West conference in San Jose, April 23-25. Even three years after Scott Brinker and Laura McLellan’s HBR article on The Rise of the Chief Marketing Technologist, the space continues to still see tremendous growth both in size and breadth. During the same time, …

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We’ve just unveiled the agenda for MarTech West, which is expanding this year to the San Jose Convention Center, April 23-25. I’m incredibly excited by how the program is shaping up and the topics we’ll be covering, from the state-of-the-art in AI to the state-of-the-world with GDPR. If you’re an executive or senior practitioner at the intersection of marketing, technology, and management, you’ll want to a check it out. For instance, here are some of …

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The Gartner hype cycle is one of the more brilliant insights ever uncovered in the history of technology. I rank it right up there with Moore’s Law and Christensen’s model of disruptive innovation from below. Gartner’s hype cycle describes a 5-stage pattern that almost all new technologies follow: A technology trigger introduces new possibilities — things like AI, chatbots, AR/VR, blockchain, etc. — which capture the imagination and create a rapid rise in expectations. (“Big …

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This is part 4 of a five-part series, providing an update on the 5 Disruptions to Marketing as we head into 2018. If you have not yet read Part 1: Digital Transformation (2018 Update), Part 2: Microservices & APIs (2018 Update), or Part 3: Vertical Competition (2018 Update), you might want to start there. 4. DIGITAL EVERYTHING (2018 Update) For the first half of the Internet revolution, “digital” meant the web. Email was there from …

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Happy New Year! I hope you had a wonderful holiday season. Ready to get to work? We interrupt our series on the 5 disruptions to marketing (2018) to bring you these three resolutions for getting the most out of your marketing technology stack in the year ahead — along with specific ideas for implementing them successfully. 1. Rationalize your martech stack. I love the term “rationalize” because the root of the word means to be …

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This is part 3 of a five-part series, providing an update on the 5 Disruptions to Marketing as we head into 2018. If you have not yet read Part 1: Digital Transformation (2018 Update) or Part 2: Microservices & APIs (2018 Update), you might want to start there. 3. VERTICAL COMPETITION (2018 Update) I have been writing about vertical competition in digital marketing for several years: how companies at different points along the pathway between …

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