Steve Nakata

Chief Architect @ The Pedowitz Group. Marketing and Sales Automation Technologist and Innovator. Former rocket scientist. Travel enthusiast/foodie.

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One of the biggest threats to data integrity is having duplicate contacts in your database. To avoid wasting time, money, and energy trying to fix duplicate contacts and their repercussions across your organization, here are five apps to consider. https://t.co/geyJXUNU5S

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CabinetM has released new templates for visualizing and reporting on technology, making it simple to view architectures created with Stack Maps against different models (Sales Funnel, Customer Journey, etc.) or create a technology roadmap in minutes. https://t.co/cDFNUN2Z6X

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Register for a free virtual event on Oct 27 to learn two concepts that The Pedowitz Group used to help clients generate $25B in marketing-sourced revenue and how these concepts will help propel you into digital revenue generation.

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Customer engagement platform Braze announced new product and partnership updates to help brands future-proof their customer engagement strategies, by powering personalization at scale and prioritizing customer experiences built upon first-party data. https://t.co/Dny5keUoZ9

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Leaders are Adobe Marketo Engage, Oracle Eloqua, Salesforce Pardot, Creatio, and HubSpot Marketing Hub, while Microsoft Dynamics 365 Marketing and Act-On are challengers. CRMNEXT, Sugar CRM, Zoho CRM Plus, BSI Customer Suite and Freshworks are the niche. https://t.co/T3w3hXKYWb

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Most B2B marketers only need a limited number of martech apps: CRM (integrated with sales), analytics (Google is fine), a CMS to run their sites (WordPress is good) and some form of marketing automation (Marketo, Pardot, HubSpot etc). The rest is garnish. https://t.co/yTGDy3u8uT

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Unifier CMOs build robust partnerships throughout the C-suite and align their companies around the customer experience by breaking down cross-functional silos, linking technology, and empowering internal and external teams to collaborate efficiently. https://t.co/OmRbCZJ1Oa

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Agile marketing is a methodology for rapid response to external opportunities, dynamic internal collaboration and, most importantly, a way to deliver value quickly. https://t.co/6NpftyanXh

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Marketers must find a way to keep delivering personalized digital experiences in a world without browser cookies. Fortunately, a new approach to customer data can help them do it. Here are some tips to kick the cookie habit. https://t.co/H5GBLOn9oW

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Consumers are more willing to communicate with brands digitally, provided that the messages are personalized, properly targeted and intelligent. Forrester offers five tips on how to digitize customer service. https://t.co/hxKfEx3Ecy

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There's been an increase in the complexity of B2B marketing without a corresponding increase in effectiveness. Here are 12 steps to radically simplify the way B2B marketers approach their branding and marketing initiatives. https://t.co/KebcSwub5A

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Digital asset management solutions are essential if your company uses any kind of visual assets. They place your content in a central location, easily accessible by multiple teams and ready to provide a relevant and personalized digital experience. https://t.co/qC3nwKvqNz

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9 key features that distinguish marketing strategy from tactics are outlined, with examples that help show the difference between the two based on essential strategic activities. https://t.co/yCrQIHssvL

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With a concurrent email campaign and a digital ad campaign, one of the great benefits of this unified demand gen activity is that it's easy to devote more budget, because you can point to obtaining outcomes within your mandate. https://t.co/qN6NV1F4YT

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Building a strong relationship between the marketing and IT departments can help solve data management issues that are increasingly a factor in delivering dramatic improvements in business performance. https://t.co/v7op0owviG

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The rise of technology-driven marketing operations has created opportunities for sales and marketing to rekindle their relationship. But technology alone can't unite sales and marketing teams. It requires dedicated, cross-functional process engineering. https://t.co/9zwUnELWvB

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TPG's Dr. Debbie hosts 'Get Real with Revenue Marketing', where she explores topics such as what CMOs really do, what #revenuemarketing is, and how MOPs works, with high performing CMOs and leaders from IBM, SAP, Paycor and more!

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B2B and B2C survey respondents say their current martech stack are adequate, but they need the various technology solutions to more seamlessly plug into existing infrastructure and drive and support business objectives at scale. https://t.co/676us5gRxj

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As COVID-19 restrictions begin to lift and customers and companies alike start to navigate the "next normal", effective customer engagement strategies will continue to be an essential part of demonstrating the value brands provide to their customers. https://t.co/T3nBkEPyw0

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Search is still important, but the nature of search will increasingly move towards voice, visual and video search, supported by growing investments in text, audio and video content experiences designed to educate and engage throughout the customer journey. https://t.co/MY1VhREF2X