Marketing Technology vs. Marketing Strategy

Coming into the second annual All About Marketing Tech virtual conference, one question has come up again and again: Are you just buying marketing technology, or are you empowering a marketing strategy? We are in an age when marketing technology can let us do amazing things, as you've seen me and all the editors and writers here on Target Marketing discuss many times. But they're all tools, and even the best tool is only useful when you have a plan to use it. Kids at Santa's Workshop It's like when you were a little kid, and "Santa's Workshop" came to school. Did you have these? The school would bring in a vendor to sell Christmas presents for the kids to buy for their families? (Come to think of it, it does seem a bit exploitative now that I type it out ...) Anyway, I remember one time seeing a tool that I thought looked so cool, so I bought it for my dad. It was this handheld thingy with slim little nails and a plastic tube with a magnet. The nails would go in the tube, and you'd push the top down to drive them. It looked so cool! But I had no idea what it did. So I bought it for my dad anyway. He smiled and accepted it, and I don't think he used it once. In retrospect, it was probably for hanging wall paneling, which we never had. How to Empower a Marketing Strategy One of the things I've heard from multiple speakers heading into this show is that marketers sometimes buy technology a lot like I bought that nail thingamajig for my dad. They wind up with a cool looking tool, even when they don't have a plan for how to use it. And beyond the plan for how you're going to use it, you need to have plans for how to integrate it into your marketing processes, train personnel to use it and plug it into your existing tech stack. Tomorrow, All About Marketing Tech will introduce you to new marketing technologies — six of them, in fact — but also help you put together the marketing strategies that really determine what technology you should be investing in to begin with. Andy Markowitz will talk about why marketers win or lose in the age of AdTech and MarTech convergence. Jerry Bernhart will show you how to find the best marketing tech talent. Peter Gillett will lead an international panel of experts on how the EU's GDPR regulations will impact your tech stack. Beerud Sheth will show you how to build an AI chatbot that doesn't suck. PLUS: Mitch Joel of Mirum, Rob Pinkerton of Morningstar, Samuel Monnie of Campbell's Soup Company, Jonathan Levey of Flexjet and more! So, if you want to know more about cutting edge marketing technologies, how companies are building strategies to be empowered by technology, how to find the people who have the skill and vision to use those tools, how to avoid one of the biggest fines your company would ever see and more, be sure to register for All About Marketing Tech, happening live from 10 AM to 3 PM EST tomorrow. If marketing technology or strategy is a part of your job, or part of the job you want to have, you can't afford to miss it.

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