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Designed by Clevertouch Marketing to showcase the latest research, thinking and pragmatic guidance in what is a frenzied and over-hyped industry. We have designed this site to enable ambitious advocates like you to ask questions, build a solid business case and a really coherent marketing technology strategy.
Since 2009, we've been helping marketers love martech, helping them get noted and promoted by doing the essential elements of martech really well. We hope this helps you love it more too.
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As part of our 'Showcase Your Value' campaign we take a look at the 3 types of reports that marketers need to build in order to demonstrate their value to the rest of the business.
of UK Marketers are showcasing their value through campaign ROI because of their Marketing Automation investment.
Marketing have more access to customer insight and behaviours than ever before. Yet 78% of marketers are not using the data available to them to drive better decisions.
Marketing don’t have any focus on building collateral for the Sales team
Marketing provide Sales with some of their sales collateral
Marketing enable Sales with most of their sales collateral
Marketing provide Sales with most of their sales collateral and use marketing technology to drive better results
Give your executive suite a holistic overview of marketing success, as well as your marketing team a detailed analysis of their campaigns and customer communications. Download our guide to Dashboard and Reporting success here.
of Marketers believe that Sales and Marketing are equally respected.
Just over 31% of respondents defined their Marketing department as equally respected to the Sales team, and 28% believe they are a change agent and driver of new thinking. 22% said they were only responsible for events or creative marketing material, and just 1 in 5 described themselves as source of sales leads. Controversially, 69% of Marketers said sales and marketing were not equally respected.
In many organisations, their marketing technology strategy is often driven by the marketing operations function. B2B Marketing put together a great infographic on what builds marketing operation excellence.
Marketing avoid data as the team aren’t that analytical and don’t understand data
Marketing analyse data to some extent but they don’t make decisions from it
Marketing are trying to drive a data-driven culture
Marketing make all significant decisions based on data analysis and operate in a data-driven culture
According to the Gartner CMO Spend Survey 2018-19, martech now accounts for a whopping 29% of total marketing expense budgets. This is more than they spend on staff (24%).
Many organisations have over implemented marketing technology to the point of internal chaos and confusion. Our CEO and Co-Founder, Adam Sharp, presents the 4 imperatives for marketers looking to implement and optimise marketing technology.
76% of marketers use a partner in varying levels of capacity to aid in their martech campaign delivery.
Majority of execution in-house, some outsourced
Majority of execution outsourced
All martech execution outsourced
All execution is in-house
% of marketers will change platform within a few years
Half of those in the US found having a single view of prospects to be their greatest improvement - for those in the UK this is only 33%. In enterprise businesses, over half said increased accountability was the driver behind improved Sales and Marketing collaboration.
The Decentralised Approach
The Centralised Approach
The use of Marketing Generalists
The State of Martech Report 2020
Campaigns are executed in a tactical fashion to meet immediate business needs
Campaigns are planned and executed on monthly or quarterly cycles. Contacts receive communication in line with these cycles
Campaigns are planned holistically as part of a campaign framework. Contacts receive content aligned to their segment and funnel stage
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