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MarTech Plot Lines for 2021

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Deep State conspiracy theories are out of bounds but you’re welcome to speculate on the actual author(s) of the works attributed to “ Scott Brinker ”. walled gardens (Facebook, Google, Amazon) face increasing competition from walled flower pots – that is, businesses with less data but a similar approach. remote work is here to stay.

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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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Companies Scramble to Report on COVID-19 Business Impact

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More surprising but prescient, given Amazon's labor troubles : just 42% felt confident that Amazon could get their online orders delivered on time. PR agency Global Results Communications just launched a COVID-19 Job Board to help people find work. Really, no free shipping?)

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2017 Retrospective: Things I Didn't Predict

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In no particular order, things I didn’t quite expect this year include: - pushback against the walled garden vendors (Facebook, Google, Amazon, Apple, etc.) Did you know that Amazon accounted for more than half of all Black Friday sales last week?) Of course, that's only positive if the agents actually work in consumers’ interest.

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The Personal Network Effect Makes Walled Gardens Stronger, But There's Still Hope

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I’m still chewing over the role of “walled garden” vendors including Google, Amazon, and Facebook, and in particular how most observers – especially in the general media – fail to grasp how those firms differ from traditional monopolists. It starts with Amazon in 1994, intercepting buyers before they can reach a physical retailer.

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Purpose-Driven Marketing Comes to Town

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The best of those workers have many employment options and want to work at firms that agree with their values. But employee protests at Google , Amazon and Microsoft tell a similar story. Again, the problem is most severe for Facebook, whose own employees are increasingly concerned that it is doing more harm than good.

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Openprise Gives Marketers Easy(ish) Tool to Manage Their Data

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Openprise also integrates today with Google Apps and the Amazon Redshift database. Openprise works by connecting data sources, which are typically lists but sometimes API feeds, to “pipelines” that contain a sequence of if/then rules. Integrations with Oracle Eloqua , HubSpot and Salesforce Pardot are planned by end of this year.