
Rent, buy or train? How to accelerate strategic marketing operations
What makes this so challenging is finding the right people with the right skill sets to build a strategic MO function. In this column,...

The future of TV advertising in today’s digital world
If you’ve followed industry chatter on the state of the TV landscape, then you’ve heard more than a few times that the TV advertising era...

How to create, operationalize and maintain a target account list
One of the biggest misconceptions people have about Account-Based Marketing (ABM) is that it takes a lot of work to get an ABM program...

Martech + Ad tech, Part 1: The tools to transform insight into action
Every marketer knows how important it is to collect data and use it to inform strategies and analyze performance. But the collection and...

Is your customer the unifying thread? How to do martech right
In 2011, I worked with a large tech firm on their martech stack. This was years before marketing operations (MO) was cool or the term...

Answers to email marketers’ niggling questions about GDPR
GDPR), goes into effect at the end of this week (May 25, 2018). Under the regulation, all businesses that handle personal data about EU...

Becoming customer-centric: A tale of a NextGen MO organization
In last month’s article, I introduced an updated marketing operations (MO) maturity model defining the five stages of maturity: Unaware,...

Human-computer interaction and digital advertising
Consumer interaction with content used to be a straightforward process. There was a simple set of delivery vehicles — print, radio,...

3 steps to mastering account-based measurement
The good news is that we have the ability to measure everything. The bad news is that we have the ability to measure everything. Whether...

Why your media decisions matter for campaign location attribution
Marketers using location data to gauge the effectiveness of their campaigns need to be able to trust their location attribution...

Unlocking higher marketing ROI with unified measurement: A step-by-step approach
Marketers, facing an increasingly fragmented world of consumer attention and media channels, are starting to rely more on tools that...

Managing martech relationships: Partnerships and agility in marketing
martech space explode in size, from just 150 solutions in 2011 to more than 6,800 as of this year. In this next phase of martech’s...

Augmented reality games: Will this summer’s releases be booms or busts?
This summer could be either a boom or bust for augmented reality (AR) games and brick-and-mortar businesses. Four major AR games are...

6 ways ABM turns classical lead scoring on its head
And while ABM can benefit from many of the tools in your total martech stack, to get the most out of what you have at your disposal, it’s...

How to seamlessly augment the retail experience
But retailers still have a lot to gain by investing in the in-store experience, especially when it comes to brand exposure and collecting...

Identity is having its moment, but most martech isn’t ready
Have you noticed anything different about the LUMAscape lately? Recently, the imposing cluster of logos representing the marketing...

You vs. data: Where people fit in modern retail marketing strategy
E-commerce site performance. In-store performance. Product feed. Demographics. Search. Social. Mobile. CRM. Shopping behavior. Geography....

How the C-suite benefits from a strategic marketing operations function
The charter for a regular marketing operations group is to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of marketing in people, processes,...

How GDPR may help drive blockchain usage for content
The application of blockchain to content authentication has been gaining traction, and it may get an extra push from the zeitgeist...
























