Get Technical Best Practices Never skip a beat. Get content to your inbox as soon as it’s hot off the presses. Thank you. We will send a confirmation shortly. By Justin Gray May 7, 2020 Sales Enablement Playbook: The Strategy and TechStack You Need to Support Your Inside Sales Team Blog Things have changed. If your tried and true motions were to engage customers via events, in-person meetings and over soup to nuts meals or on the course, you likely no longer have your most reliable tools at your disposal. Now, more than ever, the focus should be on engaging customers digitally, in new ways, and provide even more value to… Tactics, Technology | Demand Generation, Sales Development, Sales Enablement Read More > By Katelyn Fossen April 10, 2019 How to Create a PMO: Building a Business Case for Centralized PM Blog Introduction Moving big, organization-changing projects from vision to implementation, measurement and optimization is wrought with complexity. Even the most competent marketing and sales leaders with the best intentions need help coordinating all the moving parts to integrate the strategy with the day-to-day changes in people, process and technology. That type of project planning and execution is exactly the reason the… Planning, Technology | Agile Project Management, Center of Excellence, Employee Management, Objectives & KPIs, Organization Design, Project Management, Technology Integration Read More > By Andrea Lechner-Becker November 14, 2018 How to Use Marketo’s Web Personalization Tool to Generate Revenue Customer Results What is Marketo’s Web Personalization Tool? If you already know this, skip to the next main section. Marketo is a marketing automation tool. They’re attempting to brand themselves as an “engagement” tool (whatever that means) and with the recent Adobe acquisition, who knows what Marketo will end up looking like. But for now, Marketo is a place where marketers can… Technology | Marketing Operations, Marketo, Measurement, Partner Marketing, Talent & Culture Read More > By Justin Gray October 30, 2018 Bad CMOs Say These 3 Things Article The Technology Disconnect When LeadMD started (way back in 2009), the marketing automation world was fresh and dewy-eyed. The implementation of marketing automation platforms lacked structure or best practices; it was the wild west. Back then, the lack of understanding around the technology made sense. We didn’t label CMOs as “bad CMOs” due to their misunderstanding of technology, because they… Technology | Objectives & KPIs, Technology Integration Read More > By Justin Gray October 25, 2018 MarTech Mishaps: How to Actually Get Value from Your MarTech Investment Article Modern MarTech Fatigue In his article, originally published on MarTech.zone, our CEO, Justin Gray, provides solutions for organization dealing with MarTech fatigue. “We invested in {insert MarTech here}, but aren’t seeing the return we were expecting.” We hear it all time. Perhaps you’ve even said something like it. Justin explains the issue in the following way: Marketing was going to… Strategy, Tactics, Technology | B2B Marketing, Marketing Automation, Measurement, Objectives & KPIs, Thought Leadership Read More > By Andrea Lechner-Becker September 26, 2018 Adobe Acquires Marketo: A Collection of Expert Insights Thought Leadership Rumors and Lead Up Leading up to the official announcement that Adobe had acquired Marketo, speculation was like… With Dreamforce18 the following week, would Salesforce.com purchase the last great independent marketing automation firm? During LeadMD’s PR meeting the Tuesday before the announcement, we seriously considered releasing a speculative article about our bets on an acquirer. But, we weren’t fast enough,… Technology | Marketo Read More > By Justin Gray September 4, 2018 Driven & Co. Ep: 37 – Pioneering the Future in a World of XR Podcast This week on the Driven & Co. podcast, host Justin Gray welcomes Annie Eaton to the show. Annie is the founder and CEO of Futurus, an Atlanta-based future technologies company where she creates immersive, engaging and interactive experiences in virtual reality, augmented reality and 360 capture. In this episode, Justin and Annie discuss why she’s fascinated by the possibilities… Technology | Driven & Co. Read More > By Jamie Kirmess August 2, 2018 B2B Attribution Vendors: Differences Between Platforms Blog The Marketing Attribution Landscape Marketing attribution is the practice of collecting and measuring customer touchpoints across multiple channels and then attributing revenue to each of those touchpoints to better understand where your return on marketing investment is maximized. In the last five years, the marketing attribution category has grown significantly. And rightly so. According to Gartner, 67% of CMOs plan… Data & Business Intelligence, Technology | B2B Marketing, Data Driven Marketing, Measurement Read More > By Justin Gray May 25, 2018 GDPR is a Funny Four-Letter Word Blog A little humor to ease the pain… Happy GDPR Day! Email inboxes everywhere rejoice as “the silence of the spam” begins today (May 25, 2018) thanks to the new EU data privacy law, known by the acronym GDPR. Unless you’ve been living under a rock, it’s fair to say that the majority of us have been on the receiving end of a GDPR… Technology | Read More > By Justin Gray May 18, 2018 Marketing’s Vital Role in GDPR Compliance Blog As the deadline to become GDPR compliant approaches, forward-thinking marketers are taking steps to identify at-risk areas within their marketing operations and taking an offensive approach to compliance. However, the epicenter of this responsibility seems to be circled around the IT-arm of the business. Recognizing that data is the center of sales and marketing activities means that leadership across the sales and marketing… Technology | Read More > 1 2 3 … 5 Next » ELEVATE YOUR PROCESSES, TECH & TALENT Personalized Best Practice Hubs Select one of the resource tracks below to dive in head first into critical content at each stage of your journey. Strategy Resources Tactics Resources Planning Resources Tech Resources Talent Resources