“Given the modern marketing ecosystem, the single most important factor is to…”

Train marketing teams on technical skills. In the work that we do with both large and small clients, traditional marketing teams still rely heavily on IT and Business Technology teams. It ends up affecting all marketing activity since every single marketing process is driven by technology these days. Whether you are doing lead nurturing, social media marketing, content marketing, website optimization, or customer segmentation – if the marketing team doesn’t have the right technical tools and skills, none of the processes will be efficient. Same is true for data analytics, which is also traditionally a CIO responsibility, but never efficiently used if marketing teams don’t know how to work with data.

Modern marketing teams need to acquire these skills if they want to streamline processes and stay ahead of the competition.

via How to Streamline Marketing Processes: Tips from 60 Experts – Docurated.