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Think the martech landscape is big? Here’s the size of the software industry overall

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. “What is it about marketing that spawns so many software apps? ” To which software review site G2 responds in this article, “Hold my beer.” Marc Andreessen called it “software eating the world.” Software is everywhere (and, increasingly, everything is software).

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Activate Acquires Green Leads

Smashmouth Marketing

Back in 2007, Linda and I had no idea we would have built a global pipeline generation company that the Fortune 1000 and some of the biggest tech firms in the industry would trust to generate their sale pipeline from high level Ideal Customer Profile leads (ICPs) to booked and confirmed Sales Qualified Leads (SQLs, or appointments).

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How To Use the Hero’s Journey for Content Marketing: A Good Story Goes A Long Way

Marketing Insider Group

But facts alone do not persuade companies to pay big money for software, consulting services, or other high-value items. Here is a real-life illustration from content marketing, which I mentioned at the top of this article: Content marketers (hero) are discovering the world of AI-generated content (journey).

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Your B2B Marketing Budget Playbook for 2021 Success [Research]

Marketing Insider Group

Neglecting customer retention to focus on lead generation. The digital marketing landscape looks totally different than it did in 2008 during the last crash. Marketers have so many more tools and pieces of technology with advanced capabilities at their disposal – like artificial intelligence and account-based marketing software.

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Tech layoffs? Great companies are actively hiring marketing technology talent

chiefmartech

15 years ago, when I started this blog, most marketing roles and most technology roles — IT, software engineering — were on opposite ends of the career spectrum. For my inaugural post in 2008 , I did a Google search for the phrase “director of marketing technology” It turned up 7,520 matches. Maybe not bad. Maybe not bad.

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Demand Generation Implementation Survey - Background Results

Customer Experience Matrix

I've been having a dandy time analyzing the results of my Demand Generation Implementation Survey. There was actually another dated 6/01/2208, which I treated as 2008. Responses are still coming in but I thought I'd at least post some preliminary results to whet your appetite. the system itself 0.67

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Choosing an Email Marketing Software « The Effective Marketer

The Effective Marketer

The Effective Marketer Effectiveness is a discipline and it can be learned Home About the Effective Marketer Books Speaking Choosing an Email Marketing Software Who’s the best email marketing company/software? Slides can be seen below. Good question! You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0