Marketing Management

Canceling the MarTech Conference scheduled for next month and sharing our updated plans ahead

Hey, I hope you’re doing okay. A crazy and surreal time we’re in. The photo above is my new “office” in the basement of my house. Yeah, I’ve got a green screen set up. I’d like to claim it’s to support seamless virtual backgrounds in the continuous stream of video meetings that now occupy my day. But truthfully, it’s mostly just to hide the massive piles of clutter that our basement gravitationally accumulates. My wife …

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Martech in the Basement

Only 3 days left for the best price on awe-inspiring, mind-expanding, career-accelerating MarTech tickets

With a headline like that, who can doubt that I’ve got marketing in my DNA? Seriously though, as you can see from the at-a-glance editorial agenda above — which doesn’t even include the couple dozen additional vendor-led sessions we’ll also have in our Solutions Tracks and on our MarTech Theater stage — this next MarTech Conference, April 15-17 in San Jose, is going to be jam-packed with deep educational content on marketing technology and marketing …

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MarTech West 2020 Agenda

Dr. Martech and Mr. Hype: A Transformational Webinar

I spend a lot of time debating dichotomies with myself: The classic: is martech consolidating or expanding? Should you centralize or decentralize marketing, automate or humanize it? Should you practice agile or waterfall approaches to martech product adoption? Should you buy more martech tools or better use the ones you have? The martech triumvirate: suite or best-of-breed, software or services, build or buy? What’s hype or actual technological advancement? So as I find myself contemplating …

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Dr. Martech and Mr. Hype

Don’t miss the MarTech Conference in San Jose, April 15-17

It might be the dead of winter right now, but spring is only a couple of months away — as is the next MarTech Conference, April 15-17 at the San Jose Convention Center. As you can see from even the partial snapshot of sessions above, it’s going to be an amazing event. The agenda is 95% complete — a few surprise additions are in the works. But as you browse through it, you’ll see that …

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MarTech West 2020 Preliminary Agenda

Thank you, Clay Christensen, for everything you taught me about disruptive innovation and more

As you probably have heard by now, Clayton Christensen — renown author, professor, and consultant on the topic of disruptive innovation — passed away late last week. I didn’t know him personally, but I had the privilege of meeting him on several occasions. And the ideas he shared in his writing and presentations have had a significant impact on my life. My first encounter with Clay’s concept of disruptive innovation was in 1994. At the …

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Clayton Christensen

What’s the current state of marketing technology and operations careers?

Actually, I’m asking you. What is the current state of marketing technology and operations careers? This is my one-time-a-year pleading on my knees request to the martech community to participate in our survey of professionals in the field. In exchange for 5 minutes of your time, you’ll help all of us better understand the work we do and the mobility of positions in this space. In which department do you report? What are your job …

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The many splendid varieties of marketing technologists in 2020: martech roles and archetypes

At the beginning of the 2010’s, I wrote a post about the rise of the marketing technologist. It was the early days of a new, hybrid professional emerging: rare “unicorns” who combined IT skills with marketing domain expertise and a genuine passion for harnessing the blossoming marketing technology landscape. Fast-forward to the start of 2020’s. Marketing technologists aren’t rare anymore. They’ve been fruitful and multiplied and are now an integral part of modern marketing organizations. …

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Marketing Technologist Roles

A marketing stack organized according to The Periodic Table of Martech

Happy New Year! To kick off 2020, I’m excited to share one of the first entries into The Stackies 2020: Marketing Stack Awards from Nexthink, an enterprise platform that help IT departments deliver great digital employee experiences. Jon Blumenfeld, Nexthink’s director of digital marketing, created their entry around the concept of a “Periodic Table of Martech,” a riff on the periodic table of elements. Each “element” represents a different martech tool — Jon narrowed them …

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Nexthink's Marketing Stack and The Periodic Table of Martech

The explosion of code — and “no code” — in marketing and martech, presented at TEDx Boca Raton

I love TED Talks. They have such a great format for packing a really interesting phenomenon, observation, or story into ~15 minutes of focused narrative. Giving one myself — even an independent TEDx Talk — has long been something I’ve aspired to. And so I was thrilled to have the opportunity to do so at TEDx Boca Raton earlier this fall with a presentation on how Everyone is a Software Developer now. Here’s my attempt …

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Scott Brinker's Martech Talk at TEDx Boca Raton

Martech collaboration between marketing and IT, and the real impediments to martech success

Last month, I declared that the 10-years war between marketing and IT was over. This was in response to Gartner’s CMO Spend Survey 2019-2020 that showed a remarkable reversal in the relationship: IT went from being one of the “top inhibitors” to marketing’s vision and strategy to being a “top supporter.” Actually, IT vaulted into first place as now the very top supporter of marketing. This week, Gartner shared their new Marketing Technology Survey 2019 …

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Martech Management Between Marketing and IT

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