Feast or Famine in the Marketing Automation Space?
Feast or Famine in the Marketing Automation Space? The power of Marketing Automation can be mighty, which is why I was sorry to see the announcement that Adobe is purchasing Marketo. There are many advantages to the acquisition, as described by Trevor Parsell on LinkedIn. But it will require Enterprise customers to eat a full-course […]
Marketing Insanity
A quote widely attributed to Albert Einstein reads, “The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.” This is increasingly true in B2B Marketing, where the pace of change has accelerated exponentially in the last decade. Instead of thinking in terms of start-and-stop projects, we now recognize that data […]
FinTech Leaders Share Vision
This week leaders from the payments industry gathered in Atlanta for the Electronic Transactions Association’s TRANSACT Tech ATL. To start the day, panel discussions explored topics such as using technology and partnerships to expand market reach. If you’re a payments enthusiast and missed the event, here are some key takeaways: Payments has traditionally been about scale, […]
What’s a CMO to Do?
According to Scott Brinker at ChiefMarTec.com, the average enterprise today now uses over 1000 cloud services. MarTech presents the largest menu of vendor options. As of April 2018, over 7000 active MarTech solutions are available in 47 categories. That’s 700% growth in the last four years! Funding is stronger than ever, predicted consolidation has failed to […]
B2B Marketing’s Fault Lines
Ten years ago a seismic shift rocked the B2B Marketing community. Marketing Automation Systems (MAS) began cracking our foundations. Suddenly they were “on the radar” of every marketing executive, becoming required learning. Within a few years investments in MarTech were happening across corporate America. I would argue that another smaller shock wave has followed the […]
Content Contentment
What to Do If You’re Not Content With Your Content Growing companies accumulate a lot of content – good, bad and ugly. Marketing generates everything from short-form materials such as blogs, posts, and web copy to long-format content such as white papers and eBooks. And don’t forget all the collateral and presentations generated out of Sales. Content libraries need […]
Content Across the Ages
In his recent MarketingProfs article, “The Brand-Content Preferences of Different Age Groups,” Ayaz Nanji examines HubSpot survey data and concludes that every age segment has different content preferences. Seems we all consider videos “the most memorable type of brand content.” But other channels have more divided loyalties.The MarketingProfs and HubSpot articles point out age differences […]
Make Beautiful Music with Venn Marketing
Recently I spoke with the leader of PayPal’s Global Lifecycle Services (GLS) group, Matt Cammack. Last year he accepted the ambitious task of integrating PayPal’s global marketing teams in order to create more unified customer experiences. Once he described the plan – delivering best-in-class capabilities and operations across audience management, content management, customer decisioning, cross-channel […]
Marketing Megatrends for 2018 – A Lot to Digest
According to Matthew Sweezey’s 11/29/17 article in MarketingProfs, we can expect “Five Marketing Megatrends for 2018”. I’ve digested and summarized those megatrends below. But are these attainable for companies without mega-budgets? Let’s examine: Context Replaces Advertising as a Growth Lever Paraphrase: One-way, outbound advertising messages should be replaced with contextual conversations. Example: Airbnb successfully engaged […]
Game-Changing Payments Are Speeding Into View
Big changes are happening in payments these days. Two are game changers: Blockchain for B2B payments and the RTP network for P2P payments. Both involve newer, faster rails for money movement. For years the payment card ecosystem in the United States has been fine-tuning its technology so that consumers can quickly pay merchants, banks and […]