As seen through the lens of a “supergraphic” created and popularized by Scott Brinker on his blog ChiefMartec.com, which covers marketing as a technology-powered discipline, today’s marketing technology landscape of vendors, platforms and solutions is depicted as a chaotic rainbow of cleverly designed, colorful corporate logos.
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.
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.