Martech

MARCH 17, 2025

Marketers love shiny new tools, platforms and tactics, each promising greater efficiency, deeper insights or a competitive edge. Every marketing leader needs to watch this challenge closely. Mid-market companies, with 501 to 2,500 employees, use an average of 255 apps, ChiefMartec found. Many of these apps are marketing-related.

Marketing 114

Marketing Marketers User-Generated Performance Marketing 114

Martech

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

It then targets those prospects with ads, events, email marketing, content syndication, BANT campaigns and more. Terminus is an account-based marketing (ABM) platform that helps B2B vendors and agencies reach prospects at target accounts with ads served across a wide range of platforms, including LinkedIn, connected TV and audio ads.

B2C 125

B2C User-Generated Marketing Marketers 125

Martech

MARCH 4, 2025

B2B tech marketing is shifting from a traditional, product-centric approach to a data-driven, AI-powered, customer-first model. But data is more than just a tool it’s redefining marketing itself. Marketing is no longer a support function but a strategic growth driver, influencing everything from brand to demand.

Transform 128

Transform CRM Analytics User-Generated 128

Martech

JANUARY 17, 2023

Did you know that most creative and marketing organizations still rely on organizational strategies, structures and management philosophies that date back to 1911? He did not intend them for creative or marketing services. Dig deeper: Driving marketing at scale: People, processes, platforms and programs. More on this shortly.

Performance Marketing 128

Performance Marketing Manufacturing Marketing Marketers 128

Martech

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

What if anyone on your marketing team whether theyre an analyst, a campaign manager or even an intern could simply ask a question about marketing performance and receive a detailed, data-backed analysis in seconds? This lag forces marketers to react rather than anticipate. How do you make this transition work?

Analytics 135

Analytics Marketing Marketers User-Generated 135

Martech

JANUARY 14, 2025

Marketing budgets are down 15% year-over-year. This sparked doom-and-gloom predictions about marketing’s diminishing role in 2025. While many CMOs are stressing over shrinking percentages, the smartest are rewriting how marketing delivers and proves value. Theyre redefining marketings role in driving revenue.

Transform 130

Transform CMO Marketing Marketers 130

Martech

JULY 17, 2024

As companies scale, marketing leaders face increasing pressure to deliver results with limited resources while adapting to evolving market dynamics. Marketing must drive the transition from problem-market fit to product-market fit. Here’s why it matters and how it can be done.

Product Marketing 104

Product Marketing Product Transform Marketing 104

Hubspot Marketing

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

When I graduated with a marketing degree over a decade ago, I hit the scene thinking that marketing would always be its own thing. Something like “holistic marketing” seemed unnecessary to me. Marketers had their swim lane; I’d stick to mine. That’s one of many benefits holistic marketing offers.

CMO 126

CMO Traditional Marketing Communications Marketing 126

The Marketing Operations Leader

JANUARY 20, 2025

The time to level up your marketing ops career is now—our workshop starts this week , and I don’t want you to miss out! This is your final reminder to join Lead with Confidence: A Practical Workshop for Marketing Ops Mastery. Why Act Now? 4 Live sessions focused on hands-on learning. 20% off MOps-Apalooza.

Marketing 130

Marketing Marketers Performance Marketing Management 130

Martech

JANUARY 14, 2025

How often have you seen ads promising a single tool or platform as the ultimate solution to all your marketing challenges guaranteeing quality leads and sales while saving you time and money? No one consumes media in a vacuum, so why limit your marketing to a single channel? If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is.

Customer Acquisition 125

Customer Acquisition Customer Journey Marketing Marketers 125

Martech

DECEMBER 12, 2024

About 65% of the worlds population use text messaging, so its no wonder SMS marketing is growing at a staggering rate. Likewise, your marketing efforts will have a greater chance of success with a one-two combination of SMS and email. As with email marketing, the more legitimate SMS subscribers you have, the better. Why do both?

Law 119

Law Marketing Marketers Email Marketing 119

Martech

JULY 30, 2024

Achieving success, especially when competing against large corporations, hinges on implementing effective marketing strategies that provide a competitive advantage. Transitioning marketing as the business grows As your business expands, your marketing strategies must keep pace. Every startup begins with the goal of growth.

CRM 119

CRM Marketing Marketers Customer loyalty 119

The CMO Survey

APRIL 24, 2024

The 32 nd edition of The CMO Survey examines reoccurring questions related to marketing spending and performance, marketing leadership, and marketing jobs. In addition, managing marketing technology, generative AI, growth, and sustainability are special topics covered in this edition. Companies spend 19.9%

New Technology 289

New Technology CMO B2C Marketing 289

Martech

JULY 26, 2024

C-level executives must understand its potential as a dynamic, always-on marketing engine that drives engagement, nurtures leads and fuels business growth. Here’s how to transform your website into a powerful marketing engine using advanced martech solutions and smart operational strategies.

Transform 132

Transform Whitepaper Thought Leadership Customer Journey 132

Martech

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Digital marketers are under pressure to prove the impact of campaigns and show how strategies tie into bigger business goals. LinkedIns report, “The Future of B2B Marketing Measurement,” offers ways B2B marketers can improve their tracking and optimization of results.

Marketing 92

Marketing Marketers CRM Customer Journey 92

Martech

MARCH 12, 2025

Marketing budgets are doing two things right now tightening and transforming. With consumer spending power squeezed and C-suites scrutinizing every expense, businesses and the marketers who support them have come to a critical inflection point: adapt to inflation or watch your ROI evaporate. Simply cutting costs won’t cut it.

Transform 115

Transform Finance Marketing Marketers 115

SmartBrief - Marketing

JUNE 2, 2025

Is your marketing brain spinning? I recently put together a brief talk on five top B2B marketing trends for a SmartBrief B2B webinar , and during the couple of weeks or so I spent pulling the trends together, I had to adjust and/or add notes and nuances to nearly all of them. See Ad Age for details.) What does this mean?

Gen Z 72

Gen Z Market Trends Affiliate Marketing Marketing 72

Martech

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Market research is indispensable for businesses, guiding strategies and decisions with data-driven insights. This diminishes the research’s value and weakens marketing’s credibility. Market research combines science (i.e., Why is market research underutilized? The reason can be traced back to a few key issues.

Market Research 122

Market Research Analytics Marketing Marketers 122

Martech

JANUARY 17, 2025

When your prospects walk into a sales call with little to no research, they expect one thing from your marketing team: trust. The key to building that trust lies in how your marketing copy addresses their problems, presents solutions and offers insights they cant find elsewhere. Thats a significant opportunity.

Transform 131

Transform Manufacturing Copywriting Law 131

Martech

JUNE 4, 2025

In the first episode of Playbook Broken, Marc Sirkin, CEO of Third Door Media, dives into the fast-evolving world of marketing and why traditional playbooks no longer work. Molly shares insights from her career in media and marketing, including her personal journey of adapting to AI technology. Louis: A marketing unicorn.

PR 70

PR Marketing Marketers Performance Marketing 70

Martech

DECEMBER 16, 2024

As marketers, weve put a lot of work into fooling ourselves. We spend millions creating a marketing mix based on assumptions crafting buyer personas and guessing at customer problems. Its the marketing equivalent of I dont know where were going, but were making great time! We think we know what were doing. But its all a lie.

Marketing Strategy 109

Marketing Strategy Customer Transform Marketing Mix 109

Martech

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Here, we’ll explore actionable strategies to help marketers stay agile and thrive in the fast-changing DTC market. Where to begin Digital commerce offers a treasure trove of retail marketing data waiting to be harnessed and activated correctly. Model building is essential for gaining valuable insights from your data. Processing.

Transform 125

Transform Retail Manufacturing eCommerce 125

Martech

JANUARY 29, 2025

A field marketing leader told me about secretly hiring a consultant to analyze sales in a new way. Dig deeper: How to find innovative ideas to fuel your marketing decisions Disrupt equilibrium if you need the organization to change Organizations dont evolve voluntarily. Updated strategies followed that experience quickly. Processing.

CMO 128

CMO Marketing Marketers Management 128

Martech

JANUARY 31, 2025

Marketing isnt about tactics, tricks or tools its about having the right conversation with the right audience. Marketing without strategy is just noise Marketing is not advertising. Marketing is a conversation. Tactical marketing without a strategy is like a dog chasing its tail. ” This is a lie.

Customer Journey 103

Customer Journey Marketing Marketers SEO 103

Martech

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Marketing strategies must be verified and proven with metrics and analytics. In the past, marketers expected an average of eight to 10 touchpoints before a conversion. With more content and marketing materials competing for attention, marketers must work harder than ever to stay visible in fast-moving social media feeds.

Thought Leadership 94

Thought Leadership Customer Journey Customer loyalty Marketing 94

Martech

APRIL 3, 2025

Marketings obsession with short-term wins has created a dangerous cycle. To escape, we dont just need a better media mix we need more innovative marketing measurement. Marketers are caught in a trap optimizing for clicks, conversions and return on ad spend (ROAS) in the near term while undermining long-term brand health.

Customer Acquisition 93

Customer Acquisition Transform Customer Journey Finance 93

Backlinko

DECEMBER 6, 2024

A marketing funnel is a way to think about your customer journey. The better your marketing funnel, the more sales you can capture. In this guide, you’ll learn: How a marketing funnel works Different types of marketing funnels Step-by-step process to build your first funnel Let’s start with the basics.

Customer Journey 85

Customer Journey User-Generated Marketing Marketers 85

Martech

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Many of these platforms include content libraries for marketing materials like flysheets or thought leadership pieces, but marketings involvement often stops there. While sales teams primarily use these tools, heres how integrating marketing into their execution unlocks even greater impact. Should this tool connect to your CRM?

Thought Leadership 89

Thought Leadership CRM Customer Acquisition Marketing Automation Platform 89

Sprout Social

JANUARY 30, 2025

According to The 2025 Sprout Social Index , around three-quarters of marketing leaders say organic and paid social media marketing are top priorities for their organization. To be a marketing leader who fully understands socials potential, you need trusted inspiration and guidance.

CMO 97

CMO Gen Z Thought Leadership Entertainment 97

Martech

JANUARY 2, 2025

There continues to be a lot of buzz around marketing performance optimization and testing. I do a lot of performance testing with my clients, and I always follow scientific method. This approach allows you to ground you working in marketing testing in evidence, rather than assumptions. Justifiably so.

Performance Marketing 117

Performance Marketing Promotion Product Branding 117

Martech

MARCH 18, 2025

By 2028, traditional B2B marketing and sales tactics from demand generation to outbound prospecting will be nearly unrecognizable or extinct. A hard truth for GTM professionals After many years in technology marketing, I love to write about GTM. At one end, are marketers excited about how AI can shape marketing content and delivery.

CMO 120

CMO Transform Price Education 120

Martech

APRIL 15, 2025

Marketers are angry at Google for sending emails to small business owners urging them to oppose California legislation strengthening consumer privacy protections in digital advertising. The dispute highlights growing tensions between digital ad platforms’ desire for data and marketers who want to build consumer trust. Processing.

Non-Profit 76

Non-Profit Law User-Generated Marketing 76

Martech

JANUARY 29, 2025

Google on Wednesday officially launched Meridian, its open-source marketing mix model (MMM) designed to help marketers allocate budgets more effectively in a dynamic digital landscape. Gain access to core MMM data for Google media, including new dimensions like Google Query volume, for deeper insights into paid search performance.

Marketing Mix 96

Marketing Mix Traditional Marketing Marketing Marketers 96

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

OCTOBER 16, 2020

Marketing has changed. The breed of new marketers is under 40, successful and experienced – they’ve worked for big corporations and small businesses, and now they’re running their own mini-agencies. One thing connects them all: they believe marketing is not about selling. New marketers don’t work like this.

New Markets 174

New Markets Thought Leadership Marketing Marketers 174

Martech

AUGUST 1, 2024

Dig deeper: Marketers plan to up RMN spend RMN solution. Create audiences: Helps enrich first-party data using Experian Marketing Data or Experian’s Partner Audiences network. RMNs need a way to measure and optimize ad performance to prove their value to marketers,” Frank said. Proving RMN value.

Retail 121

Retail Shoppers Advertising Advertisers 121

Martech

MAY 2, 2025

The marketing qualified lead (MQL) is one of the most widely used metrics in marketing but it’s increasingly under fire. MQL marks the border between marketing and sales silos The MQL was born a couple of decades ago when sales management realized customers increasingly use digital media to make buying decisions.

Non-Profit 89

Non-Profit Customer Journey Energy Customer loyalty 89

Hubspot Marketing

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

I talked to a half dozen experts in the field, including both technical and content specialists, to tease out the difference between B2B newsletter marketing and other types of emails, guide you through best practices, and uncover some takeaways from indie newsletters that you can apply to your own brand.

Promotion 93

Promotion Branding Thought Leadership Marketing 93