In the martech landscape, navigating success is like being a skilled dinosaur hunter. Marketers must blend practical data skills and a deep understanding of AI tools, much like a hunter using knowledge and tools to track and understand their prey. Attribution serves as a guide through the wilderness, where balancing tried-and-true methods with new territories is key.More
Category Archives: email
98: You Shall Not Pass: Google’s New Spam Guidelines and What it Means for Email Marketers
Google and Yahoo’s recent guidelines largely reaffirm established best practices in email marketing. However, a key new detail is the public disclosure of a 0.3% spam complaint rate threshold. While exceeding this rate in a single instance won’t immediately land you in the spam folder or get you blocked, it’s a clear signal of stricter enforcement ahead. Maintaining a consistently low complaint rate is crucial, as repeatedly crossing the 0.3% mark will now lead to more severe consequences than before. More
97: Lauren Aquilino: Alleviating Burnout and Recognizing the Specialized Skills in Marketing Ops
Lauren’s advice was not mere commentary but a call to action for marketing professionals to document their victories, engage with communities, and redefine the value of mops within their organizations, ensuring that the role is not just sustained but celebrated for its strategic importance.More
96: Natalie Miles: Building vs. Buying Martech, the Power of Generalists and Assembling a Composable CDP
Don’t underestimate the role of generalists in martech; they’re your go-to for system-level thinking and breaking down data silos. Building vs buying your tech stack? It’s not black and white; successful setups usually mix both, and including engineers in the decision process is non-negotiable.More
85: Arun Thulasidharan: Warehouse-native martech and an alternative pricing model
Arun clarifies ‘warehouse-native’, and addresses challenges in traditional martech, such as the disparity between customer base size and value derived. He presents Castled.io’s unique solutions like an alternative pricing model and immediate data access. More
83: Kate Nowrouzi: Mailgun’s VP of Deliverability on email subdomain strategies and inbox placement tools
Kate brilliantly dissected the complex realm of email marketing. Drawing upon her unique shift from fighting spam to aiding marketers, she highlights the critical need for strategic decision-making and a meticulous, step-by-step approach to restore domain reputation.More
81: Pini Yakuel: Self-optimizing campaigns, the cost of generalization and packaged Martech
Pini Yakuel sheds light on the era of hyper-personalized marketing campaigns, harmonizeing human creativity and AI precision, reshaping marketing strategies and introducing an innovative approach to email marketing metrics. Pini’s insights offer a valuable compass as you navigate the landscape of AI.More
72: Bobby Tichy: AI and the future of Martech, a deep dive from SFMC to Braze
Today we’re joined by Bobby Tichy, he’s Co-Founder and Chief Solutions Officer at Stitch. Bobby’s a highly respected Martech veteran having spent over a decade working in technical roles for some of the biggest names in martech. He spent a combined 6.5 years working on the Professional services teams at arguably 2 of the most well known companies in martech, Salesforce and Marketo.More
71: Find the top AI marketing tools and filter out the noise
The key to future proofing your marketing career with the ever changing AI landscape is to stay curious, get your hands dirty and experiment fearlessly: Fill out some forms, spin up free trials, get on wait lists, and give new AI tools a chance. It’s only by actually getting your hands dirty that you’ll discover which tools truly work for you and which are just part of the ever growing sea of gimmicky AI tools.More
70: Exploring new paths to future-proof your marketing career in the age of AI
Ask yourself if you should double down on additional areas like data and API services, getting closer to product and customers or starting to learn about ethics and data privacy. Today we’ll help you reflect on different options to investigate as you navigate through this future landscape and what job titles of the future might be in store for marketers.More