Remember When Marketing Automation Was a Thing?
Can you remember when you first heard about Marketing Automation Platforms (MAPs)? I believe it was 2008 when I first started hearing buzz about the emerging leaders: Eloqua, Marketo and Silverpop. Some due diligence opened my eyes to a new way of marketing. Fast forward just thirteen years and MAPs are ubiquitous, essential and mostly owned […]
ABM’s Silver Bullet Software
My last blog, entitled ABM’s Secret: It’s Not All About the Software, requires amendment in the face of the surprising announcement that Demandbase has acquired Engagio. My premise was that the thought leadership produced by the hundreds of ABM software vendors gives the impression that ABM is all about the software. In fact, companies that are […]
The One Thing Keeping Enterprise Marketing Organizations from Real Impact (and How to Address It)
In the last decade, Marketing Technology (MarTech) has proved to be a powerful integrating force within B2B enterprise marketing groups. But counteracting that strength is a powerful and persistent weakness. Since joining The Pedowitz Group, and in my own B2B marketing strategy consulting practice beforehand, I have rarely encountered a large organization that doesn’t have […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Dear Marketing Leaders, Use It or Lose It
As we near the end of 2017, many publicly-held companies will be examining budget usage against performance. At this time of year, Marketing leaders often become concerned that their unused budget will be pulled back to improve year-end financials – and not reallocated the following year. It’s “use it or lose it” time. Are there […]
The Marketing Forest, Trees, and Me
Advantages of enlisting a Marketing Integration Consultant to create your strategic marketing integration plan
The Story I’m Sticking To
Published on LinkedIn September 16, 2016 For years I’ve been drawing this “demand-gen engine” diagram on white boards across America’s FinTech companies. It always makes perfect sense to the viewers — they say, “Exactly, we should be doing that!” But I’ve rarely seen a company that does it all. Some are good at inbound content marketing, […]