MarTech Podcast ™ // Marketing + Technology = Business Growth

Nicholas Thickett, Managing Partner at Alignd, chats with guest host Jordan Crawford, Co-Founder of Blueprint, about how to accelerate your sales pipeline. Social selling has the potential to earn your brand trust at scale and this trust can speed up the deals in your pipeline. But, if you’re doing it on the wrong platform, your social selling efforts could turn into trying to sell on social. Toda...

Nicholas Thickett, Managing Partner at Alignd, chats with guest host Jordan Crawford, Co-Founder of Blueprint, about how to accelerate your sales pipeline. Customers who trust your brand are more likely to recommend it to others. While many B2B brands understand the value of trust, they struggle to operationalize engagement strategies that grow their audience with the right connections. Today, Nic...

In our second episode with Kristina, we discuss the things that drive the most value out of marketing automation, the right communication to develop, and some of the best practices in assigning value to your marketing automation efforts. We also talked about the role of understanding multi-touch attribution in the overall scaling process.   Show Notes Connect With: Kristina Alexandra:&nb...

In this first episode with Kristina, we discuss the pitfalls of integrating sophisticated marketing tools, the value of having holistic marketing knowledge in the implementation, and understanding the trajectory of your business when choosing the right marketing toolset.  Show Notes Connect With: Kristina Alexandra:  Website  //   LinkedIn The MarTech Podcast :  Email &nbs...

Auren Hoffman, CEO at SafeGraph, discusses marketing success through differentiation. Ad tech generaly has two peices to consider, ads and tech. Over the last 20 years, if you just invested on the ad side, you’d have done okay, but if you invested in the tech side, you would've done incredibly well. Today, Auren talks about whether every tech company is an ad tech company. Show Notes Connect With:...

Auren Hoffman, CEO at SafeGraph, discusses marketing success through differentiation. In the next decade, data and privacy regulations are very likely to increase. Considering the fact that entities like the NSA have been hacked, it makes perfect sense that the focus going forward will not only be on data privacy, but data security. Today, Auren talks about the data ecosystem and accessibility pre...

Auren Hoffman, CEO at SafeGraph, discusses marketing success through differentiation. 10 years ago, even hundred billion dollar companies were unable to hire many great data engineers. Fast forward to 2022, and even the average company is able to hire plenty of good data engineers to analyze large amounts of data using the tools available. Today, Auren talks about data priority differentiations fo...

Will Haire, Founder and CEO of BellaVix, talks about how to use Amazon's DSP for higher ROI and increased sales. When you’re thinking about ways to drive additional traffic leads on Amazon, the answer usually lies in how much you’re willing to spend. Amazon's focus on sponsored placements has transformed the eCommerce giant, and if you want all eyes on you, you’ll need to pay to play. Today, Will...

Will Haire, Founder and CEO of BellaVix, talks about how to use Amazon's DSP for higher ROI and increased sales. When you’re selling higher-priced products, you must first build awareness and credibility before focusing on the bottom of the funnel. You’ll have to deal with a longer consideration time, and you’ll need an effective full-funnel advertising strategy. Today, Will discusses using Amazon...

In this second episode, we will discuss the importance of understanding your standards and knowing your audience from the perspective of intrinsic branding. We also talked about lead quality and why it is a commonly overlooked metric, how the brand and the business model inform each other as well as understanding the psychographic profile of your audiences.   Show Notes Connect With: Jus...

In our first episode with Justin and Emily of Root + River, we discussed how businesses execute spirituality in their branding efforts, differentiation around category design, and the impact of getting the language right first in your brand narrative. We also talked about the process of spiritual enlightenment from a business perspective and its connection with building confidence which is th...

Director of marketing and global messaging at Hubspot, Marwa Greaves ends Marketing Automation Week talking about how to internationalize marketing automation. It’s about more than just translating language for different regions. Your automations also need to be inclusive to the different nuances of each culture. Today, Marwa concludes the conversation on how to build an effective marketing fly tr...

Marwa Greaves, director of marketing and global messaging at Hubspot continues the discussion on how to build an effective marketing fly trap. Having a bot on your website is just the first step. You also need to ensure that your prospects don’t just get led to a dead end. Today, Marwa talks about how to automate the marketing and sales hand-off.  Show Notes Connect With: Marwa Greaves: ...

Marwa Greaves is the director of marketing and global messaging at Hubspot. For marketing automation week, she discusses how you can build a more efficient marketing fly trap. It’s critical for your visitors to quickly locate information on your website and bots come in very handy for this. Today, Marwa explains how you can get started with bot marketing automation.  Show Notes Connect With:...

Marwa Greaves, the director of marketing and global messaging at Hubspot, stops by for Marketing Automation Week. For this week, we’re looking at ways to build a more efficient marketing fly trap. Email is one of the most popular marketing channels to automate. Today, Marwa shares some best practices for email marketing automation.  Show Notes Connect With: Marwa Greaves:  Website  ...

Marwa Greaves, the director of marketing and global messaging at Hubspot, talks about how to build a more efficient marketing fly trap. There are many moving parts to consider when thinking about automation. So what should be your approach to this process? Today, Marwa sheds some light on how to figure out what to automate.  Show Notes Connect With: Marwa Greaves:  Website  // ...

In this second episode with Nelson, we talked about the benefits of having a human behind the chatbox 24/7 for B2B business and how it builds relationships during the early phase. We also discussed the costs associated in staffing and what’s the process for dealing with site visitors who ask highly technical questions.  Show Notes Connect With: Nelson Bruton:  Website  //  Link...

In our first episode with Nelson, we talked about the early challenges of digital marketing and how social media changed the whole dynamic of B2B partnership programs. We also discussed what the next evolution of B2B marketing is, are the fundamentals still the same, and why the software alone isn’t the only solution for higher ROI.  Show Notes Connect With: Nelson Bruton:  Website &nbsp...

Derrick Jenkins, Head of Marketing, discusses the importance of digital personalization in B2B marketing. Your data is only as good as its expiration date and the case is no different for competitive intelligence. How will you be able to anticipate your competitor’s next move and the data you have on them is out of date? Today, Derrick talks about using sales intelligence to surpass the competitio...

Derrick Jenkins, Head of Marketing, discusses the importance of digital personalization in B2B marketing. There’s hardly ever just one stakeholder involved in a B2B purchasing decision. Rather than relying on traditional digital campaigns, marketers have started to use account-based marketing solutions to personalize marketing messages for all decision-makers within high-value accounts. Today, Der...

Derrick Jenkins, Head of Marketing, discusses the importance of digital personalization in B2B marketing. When marketing and sales teams are aligned, sales knows exactly where a prospects is on their customer journey, and marketing is supporting sales to sales close the deal and be more effective at their jobs. But, this is only possible if sales and marketing teams are working towards the goal of...

Joyann Boyce, Founder of Arima & Co, talks about the importance of inclusive marketing. As the TikTok generation grows older and audiences become more diverse, inclusive marketing will need to be part of your marketing arsenal. While it’s easy for us as marketers to default to stereotypes, thinking about how we can get our campaigns to touch as many people as possible, is where the magic...

Joyann Boyce, Founder of Arima & Co, talks about the importance of inclusive marketing. Brands are paying closer attention to how they portray inclusivity in their messaging to truly reflect the diversity in the audiences they serve. Afterall, younger generations believe companies should address diversity and are only willing to support brands stepping up the inclusion plate with their marketi...

In part two of talking to Jon, we talked about the benefits of having a human dynamic in the ABM strategy, what are the types of personalization proven effective based on having a tiered process, why the top tier of ABM should be human intensive, and when to integrate a technology to support the ABM strategy.   Show Notes Connect With: Jon Miller:    Website  //  Link...

n part one of our episode with Jon Miller, we talked about how ABM is different than just great targeting as it takes personalization on a next level, and why it’s important to know that it is a strategy, a way of doing business and not just a campaign. Why CMOs should be with the First Team influencing corporate decisions and why technology should be an enabler of a strategy and not the other way...