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what a marketing data hub does

What a marketing data hub really does for your business

Regular readers of this blog will understand how a marketing data hub can help you evade data quota issues, automate reporting, and even help prepare ...

performance marketing vs growth marketing

Performance marketing vs. growth marketing

The goal of every marketer is to, over time, leverage and increase their performance to drive sustainable growth for a business. Right? So, then, what...

what are data connectors

What are data connectors?

At Funnel, we talk a lot about data connectors. They are an essential building block of a marketing data hub’s functionality, and without them, compre...

marketing and sales alignment

How sales and marketing teams can work better together

Here you are, ready to bridge the gap between sales and marketing teams. They're two departments that sometimes feel worlds apart. It's a common and c...

marketing report template

7 free marketing report templates in Looker Studio

Ok, you want to build some fancy automated Looker Studio (formerly Google Data Studio) reports to easily analyze your daily, weekly, and monthly marke...

etl downsides

ETL limitations and ETL alternatives for marketers

A mind-boggling 328.77 million terabytes of data is created each day. However, all this information is meaningless unless you can pull data together f...

display ads vs. search ads

The showdown: display ads vs. search ads

Display and search ads are two of the most popular types of advertising available to marketers today. They can be quite diverse, low cost, and are com...

The critical skills every performance marketer needs

Back in the 1980s, the burger chain A&W wanted to beat McDonald’s and its famous quarter pounder burger. Their idea was quite simple: launch a big...

expert data governance

An expert’s view of data governance

We’re not afraid to admit that sometimes we’re wrong. Well, maybe not “wrong” as much as not fully informed. After all, we’re only humans — despite al...

12 types of display ads

The 12 types of display ads you need to know

Today, we are going to be digging through “the display dozen.” No, not the 1967 war film The Dirty Dozen that your parents have probably seen. These d...