Anita Brearton: A look at martech investment and innovation

This is what it’s like to be an older woman in Silicon Valley

Anita Brearton and Sheryl Schultz have advice for other post-50 female entrepreneurs: Don’t give up, no matter how many ridiculous, insulting things are said to you by the mostly male venture capitalists you will inevitably encounter.

The two businesswomen, both entrepreneurs and both in their late 50s, should know. For the past year, as they looked for investors for their latest venture, Brearton and Schultz heard all kinds of unhelpful suggestions. 

10 Myths Martech Vendors Tell and the Real Story

Marketing technology (martech) users in B2B often have to ask themselves if they fully understand the solutions the martech vendors sell them. Seemingly, these tech goodies perform every conceivable operation under the sun. It turns out that many martech tools remain more myth than fact.

First Look: Golden Seeds Vets Launch Marketing Tools Finder CabinetM

Anita Brearton and Sheryl Schultz—known, among other things, for together heading up the Boston chapter of angel group Golden Seeds from 2009-2011—have now teamed up again, in a bid to make the marketing tech universe less overwhelming. Their Boston startup is CabinetM, which just launched a site for discovering new marketing software and quickly digesting what you need to know.

Why Marketers Love to Hate MarTech

Co-founder of CabinetM answers the pressing question: what is the right “MarTech” meal for your team’s taste?

To help marketers deliver ROI in the form of revenue, reduced cost of acquisition, and/or customer lifetime value, the industry has created an abundance of tools that can be used to find, target, influence, and track customer activity and engagement.

 

Anita Brearton: Challenges Marketers Must Face in 2017

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CabinetM CEO: 2020 Is Around the Corner. Marketers, Are You Ready?

CabinetM debuts new martech management offering

CabinetM, which produces a discovery and management platform for marketing technology strategy and digital transformation, has released its new Enterprise Cabinet offering.

The subscription-based product is targeted at marketing teams and agencies and designed to help streamline workflow management between staff around planning, researching and management marketing technology strategy, acquisition and implementation.

There are five key components: collaboration architecture, a marketing stack framework, contract tracking system, messaging and reporting functionality that are permission-based, and an enterprise ‘SkillStack’environment to manage internal technology proficiency.

CabinetM CEO, Anita Brearton, said a lack of coordination and oversight is leading to escalating costs, security risk, inconsistent results and a ton of frustration around digital transformation.