Martech

MARCH 28, 2024

Is your marketing team tired of hearing about AI? It’s part of the hype cycle of any new technology. Marketing teams now find themselves surrounded by AI. There are now countless AI-powered tools available for marketers to help boost productivity, automate manual tasks, analyze data and more. That’s no surprise.

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The CMO Survey

AUGUST 28, 2019

These results are based on a sample of 341 top marketers at for-profit U.S. 1—Marketing Budgets: Marketing budgets are expected to grow by 8.7% Consistent with this, marketing budgets as a percentage of overall firm budgets match the highest level in history of The CMO Survey at 12%, which is also 9.8% Although 73.5%

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Martech

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Marketing leaders know that success today increasingly comes down to agility. When communications break down, it creates tremendous costs for marketing organizations by eroding engagement with customers and prospects, decreasing alignment around brand messaging and goals, and preventing productivity and growth.

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Martech

JUNE 4, 2024

So, how do marketing leaders make the case for expensive new tools while being pressured to produce profitable growth? Creating value from technology investments requires coordinating both martech and multichannel strategies. This is occurring at the moment that generative AI arrives, promising to boost marketer productivity.

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Marketing Insider Group

JULY 16, 2015

Back in August 2014 I penned a piece for Forbes titled “Integrated Marketing Remains the Holy Grail for Marketers and Consumers.”. Fast-forward to just a few weeks ago, when a paper I co-authored with The CMO Club—called the “CMO Solution Guide to Leveraging New Technology and Marketing Platforms”—was released.

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Hubspot Marketing

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Over at Masters in Marketing, Caroline, Laura, and I have interviewed some very bright minds from some very bold brands. Were talking Liquid Death, New Balance, Oatly. But we got to wondering: What happens when noted marketing masters get to ask each other the questions? What do the innovators want to know from each other?

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illumin

JANUARY 14, 2025

As we dive into 2025, the advertising landscape is undergoing a massive transformation driven by new technologies, evolving consumer behavior, and changing regulatory frameworks. In this article, well break down the top advertising trends for agencies, retail marketers, and the broader advertising industry.

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Marketing Insider Group

AUGUST 18, 2020

The question of why Sales and Marketing need to be in sync is a no-brainer. Studies have shown that companies with “good” sales-marketing alignment achieve. 34% more revenue from new customers. 108% more acceptance of Marketing Qualified Leads (MQLs). 36% increase in customer retention. Or so you think.).

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Hubspot Marketing

JUNE 3, 2024

How AI Can Level Up Your Marketing There are so many different ways that AI can improve your marketing, and the list could probably include more than 100 ways, but I’ll show you the 12 greatest. Speeding Up Content Writing 79% of marketers believe that AI improves the quality of the content they create. And I totally agree.

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Marketing Insider Group

JUNE 15, 2020

I first had the opportunity to first hear Scott Brinker, VP of Platform Ecosystem at HubSpot, speak at the ITSMA Marketing Vision event several years ago. I later saw him give the keynote address at the Boston MarTech Conference along with guest appearance on marketing-related webinars.

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Martech

MAY 22, 2024

In my previous articles we explored how artificial intelligence (AI) can provide a strong foundation for marketing teams to create stronger strategies and work better together. In this article, we are going to focus on the way AI can help improve marketing campaigns and initiatives while delivering measurable results.

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Martech

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

The content for the new product line needed revamping, and sales were carping about the lack of leads. She also knew her management wanted to reduce her staff by 20%. What could she do with the tools she had and the AI capabilities that were cropping up in new versions of those tools? Marketing and sales were two good examples.

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Martech

OCTOBER 12, 2021

MarTech’s daily brief features daily insights, news, tips, and essential bits of wisdom for today’s digital marketer. Good morning, Marketers, and how touchy-feely can B2B get? Cipriani-Espineira was last week promoted from VP Customer Success to Chief Customer Officer at B2B scheduling software vendor Chili Piper.

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Martech

JANUARY 13, 2022

Marketo is perhaps one of the best-known marketing automation platforms for marketers. Since then it has been integrated into San Jose, California-based Abobe’s suite of marketing software. Some of its biggest customers include CenturyLink, Charles Schwab, GE Panasonic, RingCentral and Roche. Click here to download!

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Martech

DECEMBER 15, 2021

While most marketers know crafting high-quality campaigns should be a top priority, many struggle to find that sweet spot between value and efficiency. But creating high-quality marketing campaigns goes beyond a polished digital presentation. This is particularly difficult for brands seeking to adapt to a digital-first world. “A

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Martech

JUNE 20, 2024

Implementing a marketing automation platform (MAP) like Adobe Marketo Engage requires a clear vision by the organization and alignment among its teams. Make sure marketing and sales teams are connected The most crucial part of implementing a MAP is ensuring alignment across all the stakeholders in the business who will use the new technology.

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Martech

OCTOBER 8, 2021

If marketers don’t take control of how customers perceive their brands, customers will. Perception is a major factor in marketing success. Building an always-on marketing machine. Making the case for marketing technology within your organization. Snapshot: Marketing automation.

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Marketing Trends 2025: Actionable Insights for Agencies & fCMOs written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing The marketing world never sits still, and as we approach 2025, the buzz of new possibilities is louder than ever. But theres more to it than just technology.

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Marketing Insider Group

JULY 1, 2020

Content marketing, when you peel away all the layers of techniques, trends, and possibilities, is a business opportunity. Content marketing is the kind of marketing that delivers ROI you can measure. Unlike other methods of marketing, content marketing stands out because it is completely sustainable. And then some.

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Martech

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Marketing automation isn’t just for enterprises with endless budgets. Marketing automation software for small business provides many of the same benefits as their enterprise counterparts. Increasingly, marketing automation is a must-have for small business so they can carry out marketing functions with a limited staff and budget.

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Martech

APRIL 19, 2023

Over the last several years, I’ve written frequently about the lack of CMO engagement in technology strategy and management. This article explores why today’s CMOs should prioritize marketing technology strategy and create internal policies for using generative AI. This is changing, albeit slowly.

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Marketing Insider Group

OCTOBER 25, 2021

As we’re rapidly approaching the end of the year, it’s a great time to look ahead at where we’re going and the marketing trends we’re likely to see more of in 2022. I’ve already touched on how we can expect marketing to evolve strategically , and in this article, I’ll be looking in more detail at some of the specific trends to look out for.

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Martech

JULY 20, 2021

MarTech’s daily brief features daily insights, news, tips, and essential bits of wisdom for today’s digital marketer. Good morning, Marketers, and here’s a tip for you. But of course, it’s obvious what the problem is here, and it’s an interesting question whether it’s up to marketers to fix it.

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Martech

JANUARY 25, 2022

Customer relationship management (CRM) is the technology brands use to nurture relationships with their customers. These solutions are designed to help sales and service agents communicate with customers more effectively. In this piece, we’ll dive deep into CRM systems and their impact on marketing teams.

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Martech

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

After a rocky 18 months, 80% of small-to-midsize businesses (SMBs) say they’ve recovered from the impacts of COVID-19 – and nearly half (43%) say they plan to invest more money into developing marketing strategies over the next year. SMBs are big believers in the value of a marketing strategy. But that’s not all.

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Pam Didner

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

The biggest benefit of digital marketing is that everything is trackable. The biggest downfall of digital marketing is that everything is trackable. That’s not an easy feat as it requires to focus on the back-end and front-end, automation/workflows of customer journeys, and user-interface and creative design as a whole.

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Digital Marketer

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

The benefits of being a T-shaped marketer and utilizing expertise from different digital fields to stay on top of this rapidly changing marketing landscape is crucial. We are witnessing unprecedented levels of digital disruption in marketing. This is where T-shaped marketers come in. At least not anytime soon.

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Martech

JUNE 12, 2023

And so on… I’ve come to conclude that CDP technology initiatives frequently become “stalking horses” for the broader need for customer data ecosystem modernization and should therefore be treated as such. Shouldn’t we get our enterprise act together before we select any new technology? Of course, this feels backward.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 6, 2022

My Favorite Podcast Conversations From 2021 written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with John Jantsch. In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast , I’m doing a solo show on the top podcast episodes from this past year. 9:38] How To Create Marketing That Can’t Be Ignored. [10:31]

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Pam Didner

APRIL 16, 2021

What are the trends that we, as marketers, need to be aware of to proactively prepare for the post-Covid marketing era and the transition period? Here are the five trends that marketers need to be aware of to plan and adjust accordingly. If you are event marketers, just get ready!! So, what’s next? Content is still king.

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Martech

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

According to Craig Rosenberg at Gartner , RevOps teams are best defined as “the function that designs and manages and tracks non-product experiences across the entire lifecycle.” How Sony Interactive Entertainment built a winning marketing data strategy. There’s always friction between sales and marketing,” said Pogorzelski. “In

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Hubspot Marketing

MAY 16, 2023

While the technology isn’t new, AI can now create authentic content that’s usable in marketing. In this post, we’ll review what generative AI is, its benefits, limitations, use cases, and tools to add to your marketing stack. Generative AI can create marketing content. What is generative AI? Cybersecurity.

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Martech

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Ever since then, he’s helped big brands — Coca-Cola and Adidas among them — build their digital presence and journey orchestration. Q: How did you get into marketing? I think that’s what really introduced me to marketing. And not only marketing but also technology. Q: What did you learn from that experience?

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The Next CMO

MAY 4, 2022

CMO (Chief Marketing Officer) tenures have often shrunk to 2 years while B2B marketing has morphed away from a function responsible for events, creatives, and messaging that pushes product or service messages to drive awareness with prospects and customers. Action #2: Customer Obsession. Action #3: Content management.

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Rock Content

AUGUST 25, 2020

Customers were mere hostages to the few companies that offered products and services in the past. However, today they are central to all market practices , especially as part of Content Marketing strategies. What types of customization are there? How to apply personalization through Content Marketing?

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Digital Marketer

MAY 19, 2023

Let’s dive into the pool of reports that have been surfacing recently – those revolving around AI, the economy, and how this roller coaster of a world may impact your marketing agency, then we’ll shift gears and put your agency under a microscope. The next Google, Facebook, TikTok, etc. But fret not!

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Lusha

DECEMBER 9, 2024

But there’s a key question you need to answer: How big is your market? Getting this wrong can lead to missed chances or putting too much money into a smaller market than you thought. The answer lies in figuring out your Total Addressable Market (TAM). Understanding the Total Addressable Market What is TAM?

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