Martech

AUGUST 21, 2024

Yet, many companies manage martech, salestech and support tech in isolation, resulting in fragmentation of that experience. The customer experience imperative: Moving beyond isolated tech solutions In many companies, the norm is to purchase and manage martech separately from other teams. Purpose: Digital Transformation 2.0

Customer

Martech

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

While IT and marketing departments have long implemented martech solutions with high expectations, proving their transformative impact remains challenging. Newsletter platforms : Deliverability , IP reputation management, bounce rate optimization and blacklist prevention.

Transform

Martech

DECEMBER 10, 2024

This transformation poses both challenges and opportunities for marketers. Brands that optimize their digital presence can influence up to 52% of the sources cited by generative models, per a recent study by Terakeet (disclosure: I serve as the companys CMO). Think of GEO as SEOs smarter sibling. At its core, GEO is about connection.

Transform

Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 22, 2024

Are You Ready to Be a Fractional CMO? written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing The Duct Tape Marketing Podcast with John Jantsch In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast, I do a solo show exploring the misconceptions surrounding the role of the Fractional CMO. What are the skills required?

CMO

Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 12, 2024

As a co-founder of TACK and author of B2B Influencer Marketing: Work With Creators to Generate Authentic and Effective Marketing , Bennett reveals the transformative power of authentic creator partnerships in today’s competitive business landscape. Like you bring to your CMO, we need to do influencer marketing in all sense.

Transform

Martech

AUGUST 8, 2024

CMOs and their marketing organizations face a Sisyphean task in managing their ever-expanding martech stack. Understanding this principle and how it applies to martech management will better equip you to identify the tools and strategies driving your marketing success. Are you getting the most from your stack?

Key Performance Indicator

Martech

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Let’s not forget Facebook, which is rolling out new tools via Meta’s Ads Manager. Carrie Mahon, CMO at Unanet, offers a broader view: “Embracing new AI tools early not only provides marketers with a strategic advantage in creativity and efficiency but also fosters a mindset shift that speeds up AI integration and unlocks greater benefits.

Transform

Martech

JANUARY 16, 2025

AI tools are transforming how marketers research, write and make decisions. If marketing executives dont act now to create a plan to manage AI, Hal could become your CMO in a few years. But this growing reliance on automation could come with serious risks.

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Orbit Media Studios

APRIL 30, 2025

By Andy Crestodina Each of us is on a transformational journey. We can all acquire new AI skills and guide our own transformational journeys. Youre ready for the next stage in your transformational journey. Nicole Leffer, CMO AI Advisor “The edit prompt button is the most under-rated button in AI. Or opportunity?

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Martech

JUNE 18, 2025

Three major surveys released between Fall 2024 and Spring 2025 offer distinct yet complementary views on martech and organizational readiness: The CMO Survey (Duke University). Despite differences in methodology and audience, a cross-analysis reveals troubling patterns in how organizations navigate technology transformation.

Transform

Martech

JULY 16, 2024

Enhancing CMO-CFO collaboration To foster better collaboration with finance, marketing should focus on communicating the financial impact of marketing activities in terms that resonate with the finance team. CMOs must ensure that their teams are skilled in using these tools and interpreting the data they generate.

Finance

Hubspot Marketing

JULY 11, 2024

Here are five practical tips to transform your audience into a loyal and engaged community, using the differentiated marketing tactics we’ve discussed and our Community Management Templates. Assess the current landscape. Determine where your audience engages , whether owned or unowned, and if they already identify as a community.

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Martech

DECEMBER 4, 2024

The risks of technology-led strategy The appeal of new technology lies in its promise of transformation. However, in my work with CMOs and marketing organizations, this promise is often unfulfilled if tools are implemented without a clear link to goals. Let’s explore how to cut through the noise and deliver quantifiable value.

Transform

Hubspot Marketing

JANUARY 17, 2025

In a recent Marketing Against the Grain episode , HubSpot VP of Marketing Emmy Jonassen and I share how we experimented with AI to transform our email performance. Something that had both meaningful influence on top-of-funnel metrics and practical usability across our marketing team. But what and how?

Transform

Martech

DECEMBER 26, 2024

There won’t be a clear winner when it comes to where or how people shop sales will be spread across physical retail, online stores, marketplaces and social media platforms, predicts Katie Moro, global director of managed services at commerce experience platform Productsup.

Customer

Hubspot Marketing

MARCH 27, 2025

That virtual EA can help you analyze meeting transcripts, manage action items, draft follow-up messages, and more. So, think of the steps below not as hard-and-fast rules but as a beginners guide: This is a quick and easy way to get started, but it only showcases a small portion of Claudes huge potential to transform how you work.

Transform

Martech

APRIL 15, 2025

As marketing complexity accelerates and the volume of data expands exponentially, the marketing analyst role is transforming into a hybrid strategist, technologist and translator between humans and machines. But transformation doesn’t happen in isolation. Email: Business email address Sign me up! Processing.

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Martech

JUNE 2, 2025

Investment in martech to improve personalization is the core of many CX and digital transformation strategies. Gartner’s 2025 CMO Spend Survey found that CMOs prioritizing personalization in marketing initiatives allocate more of their budget to marketing technology25.4%, in contrast to 21.8%

Transform

Martech

MAY 20, 2025

But then a new investor comes in and suddenly, there’s a shiny new VP or CMO above you. The experience, judgment and confidence to manage growth strategy and set boundaries come with time, but these environments rarely make space for learning, experimentation or safe failure. Many have never managed people or built full teams.

Transform

Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 20, 2024

AI-Driven Marketing Orchestration AI will become the central nervous system of campaign management. Small and mid-sized businesses often lack the resources for a full-time CMO, but they do need someone who can build strategy, orchestrate teams, and navigate new technologies. MLaaS fills that gap. All it takes is the right strategy.

Market Trends

Hubspot Marketing

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

In a B2B selling process, youre managing more user needs and touch points. For instance, managing content teams usually means managing a bunch of hyperlinks and floating deadlines. You need a few different appeals to reach buyers, living the pain, managing the pain, and deciding on spending money to solve the pain.

Transform

Martech

JANUARY 14, 2025

AI is transforming the creative process, with consumers split on its impact some embracing it, others spotting flaws, said Julie Clark, SVP, media and entertainment at TransUnion. We see this getting easier to manage in 2025, and ultimately the best partners from the demand side will emerge as publishers glean insights.

Advertisers

Martech

JUNE 2, 2025

However, implementing effective AI requires organizational transformation, serious resource investment and cross-functional alignment, which many companies aren’t prepared for. The talent reality Customer care transformation experts found widespread skills gaps blocking the move to AI-enabled services. The missing link?

Transform

Martech

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

Digital marketing and martech are transforming businesses, but getting leadership to invest can be difficult. Marketing teams often struggle with doubts about past results, tight budgets or a fear of change, making it hard to win support. Below are strategies to help you gain leadership support for digital marketing investments.

Digital Marketing

Martech

DECEMBER 11, 2024

We had earlier met with Mitel CMO Eric Hanson. ” Generative AI, says Domingos, has transformed everything. We spoke with Rob King, IT and facilities manager, based at Healthspan’s headquarters in Guernsey, one of the U.K. Domingos is CTO at Mitel, a half century-old Canadian communications business. Channel Islands.

Customer

Martech

MARCH 18, 2025

Dig deeper: AI is transforming GTM teams into fiduciary powerhouses Proof-based GTM will replace persuasion-based GTM The most significant shift ahead is the move from persuasion to proof. The B2B GTM organization will unify under a chief commercial officer and the CMO role will significantly decrease.

CMO

Sprout Social

JANUARY 30, 2025

Leslie Berland, CMO, Verizon Leslie Berland is the CMO of Verizon, an iconic telecommunications company earning a reputation for best-in-class organic engagement on social. Nathan Jun Poekert, CMO, General Idea Nathan Jun Poekert has built a name for himself on LinkedIn.

CMO

Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 18, 2024

This episode uncovers how a marketing system combined with leadership can transform small businesses into scalable, successful enterprises. John Jantsch (02:27.416) that's probably going to be very focused on execution, hire full-time marketing leader, maybe a CMO or fractional CMO, maybe pretty expensive. Hire an agency.

CMO

Martech

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

You’ve got campaign managers who can’t access customer data, analysts who don’t understand marketing strategy and strategists who can’t measure their impact. Your campaign managers should understand attribution modeling, not just email templates. This transformation creates fear. The hard truth?

Finance

Martech

JULY 11, 2025

Use AI to streamline pre-event planning and content strategy Ruth Favela is the AI marketing manager at weather intelligence company Tomorrow.io. A single win, like cutting video turnaround time or boosting social engagement, can be incredibly persuasive for your CMO or head of marketing.

Event Marketing

Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Consult with Ease: Personalize Your Customer Stragtegy Using AI written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing The Duct Tape Marketing Podcast with David Edelman In this episode of the Duck Tape Marketing Podcast, I had the pleasure of interviewing David Edelman , a seasoned digital transformation and marketing expert.

Customer

Sprout Social

APRIL 29, 2025

Over the next decade, we expanded, evolved and reimagined our platform to go far beyond basic scheduling and message management. Fueled by a world-class product and newly international team, Sprout went public in 2019a truly transformative moment in our company history. 15 years in, weve only scratched the surface of whats possible.

Transform

SocialPilot

JANUARY 27, 2025

Unlike B2C (business-to-consumer) strategies, which often focus on driving emotional purchases, B2B strategies prioritize building long-term relationships, establishing authority, and generating leads from decision-makers like CEOs, managers, and teams. Are they founders, managers, or directors? What are their business goals?

Thought Leadership

Hubspot Marketing

MAY 13, 2025

An AI project assistant can help you manage a wide range of projects across a wide range of business environments. Broadly speaking, an AI project assistant uses a generative AI platform like ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini to manage a specific project within your organization. It can dramatically boost your productivity and efficiency.

Product

Search Engine Land

JULY 24, 2024

Monika Kisielewska , SEO content manager at Cognism, confirmed that they’re continuing to heavily lean into this integrated direction. “Since AI Overviews pulls results from different sources, including paid ads, YouTube, etc. My job as an SEO content manager in 2024 and beyond is to answer more nuanced questions the target audience has.

SEO

Sales Force: CMO

MARCH 17, 2025

Your marketing teams can finally shift their focus from complex technology integrations and data management to what truly matters: creating meaningful content and campaigns. Ensure marketing teams understand how to effectively work with and manage AI agents. Welcome to the age of agentic customer engagement. Invest in training.

Customer

Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 9, 2025

Goal: I want to become a fractional CMO with a few high-ticket clients. Choose the Right Marketing Certification for Long-Term Growth As a marketing agency owner or fractional CMO, you know the importance of staying ahead not just in tactics, but in how you run and grow your marketing business.

CMO