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MarTech Plot Lines for 2021

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walled gardens (Facebook, Google, Amazon) face increasing competition from walled flower pots – that is, businesses with less data but a similar approach. None of these has the data depth or scale of Facebook, Google, or Amazon but their audiences are big enough to be interesting. shoppable video is growing rapidly.

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Send in the Clouds: Martech Moves to Cloud Platforms

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The immediate question is whether it can retain its position as a primary platform for customer data and customer-facing applications, or that role will be taken over by cloud platform vendors like Google Cloud, Amazon Web Services, and Microsoft Azure and cloud database specialists like Snowflake and Databricks. I don’t know the answer.

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BadTech Is the Next New Thing

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I’m referring to is the backlash against big tech firms – Google, Amazon, Apple, and above all Facebook – that have relentlessly expanded their influence on everyday life. Here – this is not a joke – a university is putting school-controlled Amazon Echo listening devices in every dorm room The press continues to get it wrong.

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Amazon Buys Whole Foods: It's Not About Groceries

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Most of the comments I’ve seen about Amazon ’s acquisition of Whole Foods have described it as Amazon (a) expanding into a new industry (b) continuing to disrupt conventional retail and (c) moving more commerce from offline to online channels. This has nothing to do with Amazon being evil. Owning the Pipes.

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StrongView Moves Beyond Email to Real-Time, Contextual Marketing

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Rotating banners on the company Web site position StrongView as a “product platform” and “marketing cloud” as well as mentioning “cross-channel lifecycle marketing”, “present tense marketing”, “true one-to-one communication” and “the first customer insight solution supporting unlimited cross-channel interaction data”.

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The Marketing Funnel Is Dead. Let's Have Dessert.

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This is exactly the same as offering customers the products they are most likely to buy (think Amazon book recommendation or Netflix ’s movie suggestions) and it can be based on similar advanced predictive modeling technology. Today, sequential campaigns are the gold standard and complex branching structure are the mark of sophistication.

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Book Review: Adam Needles' Balancing the Demand Equation

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Adam Needles’ new book Balancing the Demand Equation (available here from Amazon ) closes the gap. Business marketers can find plenty of books on broad strategies and plenty of other books on specific tactics. But a framework for connecting tactics to strategic goals has been missing.