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5 tips for finding standout CMO candidates

Martech

While evaluating a short list of CMO candidates, I noticed something interesting. CMO candidates and selection committees don’t have it easy. CMOs have one of the most difficult jobs on an executive team. Companies must triangulate the changing business landscape, mixed CMO responsibilities and varied candidate pools.

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3 tips to maximize your martech stack’s value

Martech

Training and enablement on existing technology Many technology vendors will tell you that most of their customers use a very small percentage of the features and functionality of their tools. Dig deeper: In this economy CMOs need to spend more on training, not tech 3. Why is this? In your inbox.

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Marketers are only using one third of their stack’s capability

Martech

Dig deeper: Data analytics: Your stack’s past and limitations Colosante said the skills shortage is because no one — neither the vendors nor the marketing organizations — is teaching people how to use the new technology. You don’t learn it in school and a lot of those vendors don’t really have training programs to teach it to you.

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MarTechBot update: Personas, image generation and new prompts

Martech

When we initially went live in May of 2023, we weren’t sure if you’d get much value out of the first and only chatbot trained on MarTech.org. We’ve seen chats ranging from simple queries on how to buy marketing technology to folks asking for help evaluating vendors, creating marketing strategies and email copy — and so much more.

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3 steps to determine if AI is the answer to your problem

Martech

This is the same problem companies faced when CMOs started hiring data scientists a few years ago when the data scientists quickly discovered that the CMO had no idea what problems the models were solving, and the data itself needed herculean engineering before models could even be built. Ask the CEO/CMO why she wants you to use AI?

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5 reasons why the martech landscape will reach its peak in 2024

Martech

As a vendor, many of us have seen our clients’ marketing budgets slashed in 2023. For established vendors, servicing debt is getting very expensive. Watch for that to also have an impact on vendor financial viability in 2024. They’re also giving performance a hard look — and it isn’t pretty.

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Oxford University Press former CMO weighs in on martech challenges, trends, and predictions

ClickZ

It is essential for technology vendors to work closely with an organization during the first couple of months of implementation. Scollans encourages her clients to evaluate large platforms as well as best in breed vendors that have open API tools which can facilitate integration. Advice to martech vendors.