AMA/Aquent: The Rise of the Marketing Technologist

Marketing has become a technology-powered discipline. Though not everyone needs to become a technologist, technical professionals now have key roles to play in the marketing team.

In this webcast, you will learn why marketing teams need technologists outside of IT, who they are, and where to find them.

The Rise of the MarketingTechnologist

Rise of the Marketing TechnologistScott Brinker@chiefmartec

Co-founder & CTOSoftware and servicesfor marketing apps.

Author & EditorBlog on the entwining of marketing & technology.

Program ChairMarketing techconference.

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Senior Java Developer

Enterprise Architect

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Technology Marketing

Everything digital is

controlled by software.

“Software is eating the

world.”

Why Software is Eating the World, Marc Andreessen, The Wall Street Journal, August 20, 2011

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And this is not comprehensive!

Software is how marketing “sees” and “touches” customers

in a digital world.

Analytics software affects our perceptions.

Marketing automation software affects our processes.

Social media software affects our engagement strategy.

Marketing apps software affects our touchpoints.

CRM software, by definition, affects our relationships.

Marketer Marketing Software

Web Services

Client Software Customer

marketing = digital = software

The distance between communicationsand customer experience has collapsedto a click.

ZMOT: Winning the Zero Moment of Truth by Jim Lecinski

An explosion of customer experience

touchpoints.

The Extended Product

Product Price

Place Promotion

Marketing Mix

ExtendedProduct Price

Place Promotion

Marketing Mix

Source: Econsultancy, Skills of the Modern Marketer

70% of marketers increasing digital marketing technology spending in 2014

Only 2% are decreasing

Increasing technology expensesand capital investments; cross-charges from IT and external agencies

Digital marketing funded by rearranging existing budgets — but not just marketing’s

According to a recent Gartner study, CEOs believe that the most important technology-enabled investment over the next 5 yearsis digital marketing

Source: Gartner, April 2014

“I feel more like a CIO than a CMO! I have marketing automation, CRM, listening platforms—I’m up to my eyeballs in technology.”

Damn it, Jim — I’m a marketer, not a systems administrator!

Damn it, Jim — I’m a marketer, not a systems administrator!

CMO:I’m ready to take over our IT spend!

CIO: Why me?

By 2017 the CMO will spend more on IT than the CIO. – Gartner

“He who controls the spice, controls

the universe.”

“He (or she) who controls the software, controls the marketing.”

TheKing Solomon approach to

dividing marketing

technology.

The CIOgets the

technology half.

The CMO gets the

marketing half.

NOT GOOD

TheKing Solomon approach to

dividing marketing

technology.

The baby does much better as a

whole.

Marketing is not ERP.

We don’t control the environment.

We don’t control the customer.

We want to be differentiated.

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81% of large firms now have achief marketing technologist role

There’s too damn many new roles!

Where do you find these people?

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Not everyone in marketing

needs to be a technologist.

Just as not everyonein marketing

needed to be acreative.

Design

Technology

Storytelling

Analytics

Technology must become a part of marketing’s DNA.

21% of CEOs think technical expertise is a top 3 CMO skill.

Only 13% think agency experience is.

“…the key meta-trends that will definehow all marketing is done in a world of

technology enablement...”– Terence Kawaja, CEO

LUMA Partners

“…helps the reader to understand how technology can be used for both successful

marketing strategy and execution.”– Jonathan Becher, CMO

SAP

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