The following is a guest post by Stella Goulet, CMO of Avanade. Working on a marketing contract recently made me realize how complicated GDPR can be. Marketers can’t afford to sit back; we need to understand the implications of the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and address them now. If you’re not sure

Gartner recently released their CMO Spend Survey 2017-2018. The headline of their report: Budgets Recede Amid Demand For Results. Let’s hear it for results! After three consecutive years of growth, average marketing budgets at enterprise companies (most of the companies Gartner surveyed have more than $1 billion in revenue) have slipped from 12.1% of company

Last month, we had an incredibly energetic audience of 1,600 professionals at the intersection of marketing, technology, and management at our MarTech East conference in Boston. It was so great to be back in Boston, where this all started just 3 years ago. If you weren’t able to attend, here’s your chance to catch the

At the MarTech conference in Boston earlier this month, we unveiled the winners of The Stackies: Org Edition. 12 companies contributed slides illustrating how they approach their martech-enabled organizations, including Allocadia, CA Technologies, Dun & Bradstreet, The New England Journal of Medicine Group, Reduxio, and Uberflip. But not everyone was comfortable publicly sharing how their

We kicked off MarTech East in Boston on Monday with an awards ceremony for The Stackies: Org Edition. While the previous versions of this awards program encouraged marketers to share visualizations of their marketing technology stacks, this one invited people to share ideas about how their marketing organizations are conceived. We wanted to shed light