by Dave Hayward | Dec 5, 2024 | AI, Life and work, Marketing, Marketing technology, Performance marketing
14,106 martech products (27.8% growth YoY) are on the market in 2024. To be a knowledge worker, and especially a marketer, it helps to be wired to be a novelty seeker. For marketers, when it comes to martech, let alone productivity apps, we’re faced with an...
by Dave Hayward | Nov 30, 2024 | AI, Creativity, Productivity, Strategy
Imagine producing work that is 40% higher quality. In his visit to New Zealand earlier in the year, Section’s Greg Shove described the concept of “AI personas”: a way of thinking about how AI works and what kind of use cases it can be applied to....
by Dave Hayward | Nov 28, 2024 | Performance marketing, Brand, Digital marketing, Marketing, Product marketing, Sales, Strategy
Which metrics matter? “What metrics do we measure? How do we measure ROI?” These are two of the most common questions in initial client engagements. I do not answer each question or client the same way, but every answer I give includes the word “depends.” It’s easy to...
by Dave Hayward | Nov 20, 2024 | AI, Conference, product, Product marketing, Productivity, Public speaking
Some of the brightest brains in tech are not AI experts yet. I left Spark Accelerate last week with my head hurting from trying to retain all the information generated by the incredible speakers and content. One of the standouts was Edmundo Ortega’s keynote, “An...
by Dave Hayward | Nov 9, 2024 | AI, Content, Copywriting, Creativity, Strategy
Is it possible to write with AI and maintain an honest voice? Everywhere I look, I can see gluggy writing flooding every orifice of the internet. It’s instantly recognisable as produced and posted by unedited generative AI. Generative AI is amazingly good at writing,...
