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The CMO’s guide to aligning martech and business strategy

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If you subscribe to Gartner’s opinions, you’re probably spending most of your time building an AI-enabled marketing team for 2024. An underutilized Digital Experience Platform (DXP). An inefficient customer relationship management (CRM) platform. Fragmented analytics tools.

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Commerce is the latest (renewed) frontier in martech, putting the revenue in RevOps

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Asked about major martech tools that organizations plan to add to their marketing stacks in the next 12 months, the #1 answer — by 9 points more than the next most popular choice — was digital commerce platforms at 43%. Third was marketing analytics and attribution platforms at 30%.

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Why we care about B2C marketing: A guide for marketers

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Amazon rakes in an enormous amount of data (who their customers are, how old they are, what they buy and when, and so on), using analytics to deliver customized shopping experiences that translate into sales. But perhaps the most important trend is the continued use of data analytics in digital marketing strategies.

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MarTech’s CDP experts to follow

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The CDP Institute defines a customer data platform as “packaged software that creates a persistent, unified customer database that is accessible to other systems.” He has also been a frequent contributor on CDPs to the Gartner Blog Network. That’s a great place to start, but the CDP space is constantly evolving.

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The CMO’s practical guide to personalization

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The modern challenges of personalization Up to 60% of marketing leaders anticipate challenges in balancing customer data collection with privacy concerns, according to Gartner. The company used the platform’s analytics tool to redesign the buying process, making it more customer-focused. Skill assessment. Legal compliance.

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Reinventing the digital experience platform

Martech

Over the past couple of years, research firms Gartner, Forrester, and others have heralded the arrival of digital experience platforms (DXPs); the future is now and all that (for a DXP primer, you might enjoy Pamela Parker’s article ). ” Digital experience platform evolution.

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Content marketing: What it is and why marketers should care

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For example, customer journey analytics tools, such as Qualtrics, monitor every customer interaction with a company and analyze how each piece of the journey contributes to action, like a sale, conversion, or request for information. Of course, there are tech tools that help with this. a sale, new customer, conversion, etc.).