Evaluating an AI Feature in Marketing Software Without Falling for the Demo
Every marketing platform now has an AI feature in the pitch deck. Most demos are built around the one scenario where the feature actually works well.
Marketing Automation
Marketing automation, email marketing, customer engagement and lead generation software reviewed.
Every marketing platform now has an AI feature in the pitch deck. Most demos are built around the one scenario where the feature actually works well.
A browser extension here, a free analytics tool there. Shadow martech accumulates quietly until nobody can fully account for where customer data actually lives.
Every vendor advertises data export. Few explain that a raw CSV export leaves behind the logic, history, and structure that made your data useful in the first place.
A tool marketing purchased on a credit card months ago is now storing customer data, connected to five systems, and IT is finding out for the first time.
Evaluating marketing software on its free tier tells you almost nothing about the tool you'll actually be using once real usage pushes you into the paid plan.
Retargeting budgets keep growing well past the point where additional impressions add value, because the dashboard doesn't show you where that point was.