This document is a presentation on assembling a marketing technology (MarTech) stack. It discusses how marketers face challenges like growing technology options, rising customer expectations, and complexity. It provides a framework for designing a MarTech stack strategically. Key topics include the changing marketing landscape, trends in MarTech spending and categories, attributes of an effective stack, and product strategy considerations. The goal is to help attendees think holistically about technology and leave with perspectives on building their MarTech stack.
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Your Moderator
Scott Brinker
Editor, ChiefMartec
@ChiefMartec
Kevin Souers
CPO, Aprimo
#AprimoAdvantage
Ed Breault
VP of Marketing, Aprimo
@edbreault
Your Panelists
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External challenges facing companies that need Marketing Productivity
Channel Complexity: the number of channels has exploded. Every campaign needs to be managed in multiple channels
Content Explosion: Consumers expect to get the right content at the click of a button. They expect consistency in messaging and brand. Content needs to be relevant, consistent and timely
Limited Resources: Even with all the demands on marketing teams resources continue to be cut or remain flat. Marketers are expected to do more with less.
Globalization: As technology continues to advance the world gets smaller. But not really! Marketing departments need to run global campaigns at a localized level. Orchestration becomes a bigger challenge than ever
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The expectations for a marketing teams are increasing exponentially
More Channels, Customer is leading
Higher expectations of getting the right content at the right time
– more touchpoints and higher expectations than ever before.
– but our resources have stayed flat.
This creates a marketing operations gap and a customer experience gap.
Driving the feeling of never being above water, is digital. Just a few years ago we had 4 channels – phone, fax, mail/merge and call center, now we have a minimum of 20 channels over paid, owned and earned media types to market and advertise (social, mobile, digital, TV, search, web, apps, ecommerce, in-store, free standing inserts, magazines, radio, newspaper, coupons ). This need to have your content on the proliferation of channels is causing an operations GAP due to finite resources (money, people, process). Heads of marketing need Aprimo to provide the agility and visibility to manage this level of complexity inclusive of agencies and compliance officers.
THERE ARE 4 KEY THEMES IN PLAY:
1. CHANNEL PROLIFERATION PRESENTS RISK BECAUSE IT’S IMPOSSIBLE FOR MARKETING ORGANIZATIONS TO EXECUTE, CONTROL AND MEASURE KEY ACTIVITIES
2. VELOCITY WILL ONLY CONTINUE, MORE ACTIVITIES AND MORE FRAGMENTATION IN THE FUTURE – NEED TO ACT NOW
3. RESOURCES ARE FINITE
4. AUTOMATION IS THE ONLY PATH FORWARD
Alignment — how well-aligned is your stack with your business
Concept — how insightful is the conceptual organization of your stack
Clarity — how easy is it for a reader to understand your stack
Design — the aesthetics of your slide and its visual appeal
Detail — more detail is generally better, within reason for a single slide
Digital Transformation
Microservices and APIs
Vertical Competition
Digital Everything
Artificial Intelligence