Good morning, Marketers, and are one-on-one meetings back?

I wrote yesterday about the palpable trepidation surrounding Salesforce’s brave attempt to hold a one-day conference at New York’s Javits Center this week (at time of writing, it’s still scheduled). But dealing with one-on-one or two-on-one meetings seems a lot simpler.

Of course, it does mean a degree of trust about vaccination; I haven’t — yet — been in a meeting where proof is demanded. Courtesy leads to everyone mumbling, “Of course, I’m vaccinated,” and “Me too.”

Those small scale meetings are starting to happen. For the first article below, I sat down over coffee in Manhattan with InMobi’s Marketing Cloud CEO. I recently had an in-person meeting scheduled with the founder of a major CDP (he had to cancel). This week I’m meeting with a noted CMO at her Manhattan office.

No, we’re not back to normal. But glimmers of normalcy are welcome.

Kim Davis
Editorial Director

Performance marketing

InMobi CEO bullish about prospects for independents in the advertising space

Abhay Singhal sees "do not track" and the exit of third-party cookies as creating opportunities for innovation.

Marketing management

9 questions to ask marketing work management vendors during the demo

Make sure to ask vendor reps about supported project methodologies, permissions, reporting, onboarding and support before moving on to the negotiations stage.

How to align your tech stack with your organization

Aligning your tech stack with your organization is essential. As an operations expert, you know that acquiring technology that isn’t a good fit for your use case or the people who need it is a recipe for shelfware nobody uses. And low adoption rates lead to low return on investment (ROI). And the low ROI leads to uncomfortable questions when budget leaders ask why your team is spending so much on software no one uses or isn’t creating value for the business.

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Marketing operations (MOps)

How to build a successful marketing technology roadmap

Courtney Trudeau of Merkle shows how marketers can adopt new technologies without disrupting their organizations.

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Customer data platform (CDP)

Lytics adds cloud data connection feature to improve ad targeting

Marketers will be able to create create custom audiences for many advertising platforms.

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Performance marketing

AppsFlyer announces new Privacy Cloud

Emerging technology allows data to be computed while remaining encrypted end-to-end.

Shorts

  • The future of work: Global consultancy Publicis Sapient moves towards global remote working with “Work Your World,” a new policy that allows employees to work in any country where the group is present. Initially it allows this only up to six weeks per year. But are we headed towards nomadic workforces?
  • Quote of the day. “Marketing technology ≠ marketing strategy. Marketing technology can only scale marketing strategy. Trash in, trash out; if your campaign is crappy, it will just be crappy on a larger scale.” Sara McNamara, Senior Manager, Marketing Operations, Slack

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