Sales Lead Management Today

Cartoon for the weekend: Let's Change the Way We Think

 

 

  This cartoon is one of many that appear in Stu Heinecke'snew book, "How to Get a Meeting with Anyone."

Changing the way we think is marketing's number one challenge as the tumultuous field of marketing roars into 2016 with the pace of new marketing tools accelerating exponentially.  For instance see

From Scott Brinker: 2016 Marketing Technology Landscape Supergraphic

Scott Brinker delivered his new 2016 Marketing Technology Landscape Supergraphic at the recent 2016 MarTech USA Conference.   I am not going to clutter up this entry with my own opinions as I want you to click right here to read what Scott has to say about the explosion of technology in marketing. 

He talks about the 3874 companies in the field (only 150 identified in 2011).   He further gives us a breakdown of the number of solutions in 49 categories.    He covers the top five categories by solution count:

• Sales Automation, Enablement & Intelligence (220)
• Social media Marketing and Monitoring (186)
• Display & Programmatic Advertising (180) 
• Marketing automation & Campaign/Lead Management (161)
• Content Marketing (160)