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Be That Leader!
Elmer Boutin Sr. Mgr. Search Strategy - Rockfish
www.crossingmarketingandit.com [email protected] Twitter: @rehor LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/elmerboutin
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About Elmer …
Marketing Technologist for over 15 years, 12 in an in-house setting.
Now doing agency work with Rockfish.
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Gartner predicts by 2017 marketing will spend more on tech than IT. Chart from “The hot new CxO: Chief Marketing Technology Officer? [infographic]” http://venturebeat.com/2012/08/23/the-hot-new-cxo-chief-marketing-technology-officer-infographic/
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Who’s going to train old-school IT and Marketing people how these new technologies fit into your organization?
CEO
CIO CMO
IT Marketing
?
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How about you? Are you ready to join the ranks of the Marketing Technologists?
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Check out Scott Brinker’s “Chief Marketing Technologist” blog:
www.chiefmartec.com
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Elmer’s Leadership Lesson Here’s where you get a direct return on the tax dollars you (or your parents) spent supporting me during my decade+ in the Army ...
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Whether you have all in-house team or outsource, you need to … • Be more tech • Know more tech • Do more tech Marketers must harness and be responsible for the tech they use!
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Be, Know & Do
“Not because it’s my job, but because that’s what I am.”
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Know More Tech
Resources: www.crossingmarketingandit.com/resources
No one expects you to code your own stuff, but it would help if you knew enough to talk about it.
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Communication
I started “The Crossing” so I could communicate with colleagues in other departments.
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Practice Your Art Running a web site helps you communicate consistently. It also gives you a place to practice.
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Know The Lingo It’s not enough just to have the head knowledge, you have to speak the language, too
Vernacular? That’s a doiby!
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Know Yourself & Seek Self Improvement
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You don’t know everything, be willing to pay for your continuing education • Share what you learn • Find good resources and learn from them …. always
Invest in Yourself
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Be A Leader of People
If you’re going to lead a team, even a coalition, you need to develop your leadership skills.
Resources: www.crossingmarketingandit.com/category/leadership-2/
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Leadership is not for the timid
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Be strong, but don’t lead like Steve
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Leadership is not for the timid
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Seek responsibility & take responsibility for your actions
Don’t wait around for someone to appoint you.
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Own It! Someone has to own Marketing Tech … if not you, then who?
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Selfless Service & Servant Leadership
Leadership is about investing yourself into the success of … … your team … the organization
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• Communicate vision • Communicate goals • Set them up for success • Failure is OK, so long as lessons are learned
Build Your Team Out & Up
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Elmer’s Leadership Lesson
Lead, follow … or get out of the way!
• Be, Know and Do Tech • Be The Leader • Communicate! • Know Yourself & Seek Self-Improvement • Own It! • Build Your Team Up
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Thank You
Elmer Boutin …
www.crossingmarketingandit.com [email protected] Twitter: @rehor LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/elmerboutin