
Consolidation, convergence and the collective: Three Cs will drive B2B marketing in 2017
The lull between Christmas and New Year’s is traditionally a time for looking back at the best practices (and missteps) of the year gone...

Zapier launches Digest, so its apps can send their messages where you want
Workflow automator Zapier allows a user to link applications, so that, for instance, an email signup in one application gets...

A six-pack of predictions for martech
In 1908, Hamptons Magazine made a bold prediction: “When the expectations of wireless experts are realized, everyone will have his own...

CRM, data science and website design skills are the most important for over half of marketing techno
You hear a lot these days about machine learning in marketing tools. But a new report — from digital marketing agency SapientNitro, in...

Tackling the martech integration challenge
The number one B2B challenge for marketers is the inability to successfully integrate disparate technologies into a unified platform,...

ABM brings the right guests to the party; marketing automation keeps them engaged
Party planning is a great way to think about account-based marketing (ABM). When you invite people to a party, no matter the size, you...

Brand X: Why customer experience is a cloud marketing must-have
It’s self-evident that designing and delivering a product or service that your customers want to use is the best route to business...

Marketing Automation Matrix: A visual buyer’s guide
Using a matrix, this white paper from Bridgeline presents a visual buyer’s guide ranking the top vendors in the marketing automation...

Digital demand and supply: The psychology of self-development for digital careers
The digital talent war continues as demand for data-driven marketing professionals soars to new heights. Wired announced the war for...

WP Engine: Top WordPress plug-ins and themes generated more than a quarter of a billion dollars sinc
The popular website content management system WordPress — which powers more than a quarter of all websites — has given birth to a...

Just launched: Marketing Land’s new MarTech Today website!
We’re growing! Marketing Land has a new sibling with today’s launch of our new editorial website, MarTech Today. As you can gather, this...

Marketing automation made easy
Marketing automation, the experts say, is complex. It involves getting segmentation correct, maintaining a clean database and building...

Marketing automation tools compared: GetResponse, Marketo and HubSpot
marketing automation tools can be incredibly helpful to modern-day businesses. By managing and streamlining data across multiple...

Getting the most from the Forrester Wave and Gartner Magic Quadrant
Periodically, Forrester and Gartner identify a handful of vendors as leaders in their industry, but the biggest mistake a marketer can...

Salesforce opens up Lightning Bolt portal templates for specific business needs
Salesforce has added bolts to its Lightning. Last year, the company released generalized self-service portal templates using...

Local SEO in 2017 and beyond: managed strategy vs. automation
Over the past five-plus years, the digital marketing world has seen an influx of Local Search SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) platforms...

How to launch your employee advocacy program
Marketers know that employees are an incredibly valuable asset to a brand, and there is an opportunity to partner with them to drive...

Hitting blind spots on the way to gold? Olympics ads remind marketers to sweat the data details
lazyllama / Shutterstock.com If you tuned into the recent Rio Olympics, you saw many inspiring acts of athletic transcendence — and...

The wonderful, horrible world of creating a new product category
Years ago at Adobe, we tried to create a category called “Network Publishing.” It was a great idea. That nobody else got. Without any...
























