There are more than 5,000 martech solutions available today, a nearly 40% increase in just a year (Chief Marketing Technologist Blog). Tomorrow, there will be more. The next day, more. For many chief marketing officers and CEOs alike, this constantly growing landscape can leave many feeling like they are behind, like they are missing out […]
As the martech landscape continues to explode, far too often, B2B organizations that invest in the next “big thing” are left with empty promises and sunk costs. While the reasons why may vary, in a vacuum, marketers are constantly looking for the next best solution to help identify and scale existing and emerging channels, engage […]
The rapid maturation of the marketing performance management space has led Bizible and Allocadia to create a joint go-to-market strategy that helps each other’s customers use their respective technologies in a more holistic way. Seattle, Wash.-based Bizible offers applications to automate the planning and attribution of marketing activities in B2B companies. Allocadia, based in Vancouver, […]
The executive leadership team of account-based marketing software firm Terminus says its acquisition of BrightFunnel will bring deeper analytics and multi-touch attribution to its combined base of B2B customers. Terminus, based in Atlanta, announced its purchase of San Francisco-based BrightFunnel — which makes a revenue intelligence suite among other offerings — on Wednesday. Financial terms of […]
I love me some Travis Wright, CMO/CTO at CCP Digital, especially when he keynotes (and blows my mind) at the MarTech Conference in Boston. Travis started by saying, “if you don’t use MarTech, you will get left behind,” and do what Wayne Gretzky says “go where the puck is headed.” With over 5,000 technologies just […]
Sangram Vajre, Co-Founder and CMO at Terminus, and Nate Hurst, Manager, ABM at Domo, had a whopping 20 minutes to talk about Account-Based Marketing (ABM), and share their case study at MarTech Conference. It was an educational crash course. ABM Review “The traditional funnel is ‘how to get skinny, fast’.” – Sangram Vajre Basically, […]
Today’s successful marketing programs are driven by technology, and the rate of change and speed of innovation is accelerating. To keep up, and stay ahead of the competition, you need talent that can help you make the most of data, move faster, and create engaging customer experience. But how do you know what skills gaps […]
Who better to ask about building the optimal technology stack for your B2B enterprise than executives who’ve done it themselves? One of the more popular sessions at day 2 of Revenue Summit 2017 featured Edison Partners CMO Kelly Ford moderating a panel discussion on building tech stacks, starring McKesson head of digital marketing and technologies […]
Welcome back to B2B Trending Conversations, our weekly collection of buzzworthy B2B tweets and social posts. This week, we’ll discuss whether buying LinkedIn followers is right for your company and which followers to avoid. We’ll explore how to increase sales using inbound marketing, learn how to avoid the “dip of disillusionment” in content marketing and […]
Trello, an app considered indispensable by many software developers, has joined the Atlassian family, announced last week, in a deal worth $425 million. As Wired said in its coverage, Trello was developed basically as a niche to-do list app for a specialized purpose and audience (software developers) that 95% of the population has never heard […]
2016 was a year less of personality-driven change, and more a year of big sea changes across industries. It was the year a lot of new B2B tech that has been hyped for years (analytics, B2B FinTech, MarTech) got real, the year big data got a little less big and the Internet of things exploded […]
Planning where to spend your conference budget next year? There may just be too many marketing conferences to attend all of them! Some of these require no introduction, but others may not even have been on your radar: Haste and Hustle Hosted by: Haste and Hustle Date: February 9-10 Location: Niagara Falls, ON A […]
With the recent and rumored announcements by B2B marketing and data analytics providers for cloud solutions that will build on top of Salesforce, Oracle and other SaaS platforms, the multi-relationship model of martech stack-building exists in high relief. And while vendors may be pushing a multi-relationship model, marketers may want to think carefully before pursuing […]
Except for PR people, marketing staffers get the least respect of any part of the B2B ecosystem. They’ve been at the mercy of IT, product development or engineering in many tech startups, and some larger organizations, to implement and operate their martech stacks. But now the velocity of B2B has increased, and marketing has to […]
Over the past decade, marketing responsibilities and tactics have changed dramatically, a prominent marketing technologist said. In today’s digital world, Scott Brinker likens the challenges of creating great marketing with those of creating great software. “They’re both juggling an explosion of digitally powered interactions in a tornado of constant change and innovation,” Brinker said. “They’re […]
Marketing to businesses is very different than marketing to consumers. As successful B2B marketers, we educate ourselves and apply marketing concepts to our own sectors of industry. We also learn from other B2B professionals. I had the pleasure to attend the B3 – Better B2B Marketer conference where I got to hear top marketers share […]
The 2016 Martech Landscape Supergraphic was released at the Martech Conference in San Francisco on March 21. Conference chair Scott Brinker released the annual update of the graphic during his keynote address. The Supergraphic captures the landscape across six categories. Here’s what you need to know: This year, the landscape has seen an 87% growth […]
Somewhere, between sarcasm and wonder, Martech came out of the cloud. The term has become associated with a plethora of catch phrases and even bigger budget spends. Now, Martech is likely to be described as an integrated enterprise marketing suite, or as a big-data-marketing-sales-retention cycle dashboard to end all dashboards. It is an idea everyone […]
Are you regularly testing your company website for optimization success? If not, Chris Goward would likely be wagging his finger at you. The CEO of Wider Funnel has built an entire company around the concept that testing offers the framework for successful experience optimization. He recently spoke at MarTech, a marketing conference taking place in […]
What’s the number one worry on the minds of CMOs in the digital age? Fear of losing ground, of falling behind in digital savviness, of becoming irrelevant. No marketing executive ever wants to hear anyone say, “Sorry, but what you’re offering just isn’t relevant anymore.” Social and mobile are the air we breathe these days. Brand […]
