Are CMOs Wasting Their $25 Billion MarTech Investment?
[et_pb_section][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text”] A shiny new CRM with countless features … that’s used only to send automated confirmation emails. A social media...
View ArticleContent is Key to Great Customer Experience [Webinar]
Marketers have lots of questions about building and maintaining a Best-in-Class customer experience program. In fact, Aberdeen’s recent research reveals that adapting to the era of empowered buyers –...
View ArticleWhat Does a CEO Look for in a CMO?
Justin Talerico is CEO, CMO, and co-founder of ion interactive. The fact that Justin wears both mantles –CEO and CMO – I thought that he would be ideally well-positioned to answer a question with which...
View ArticleRethinking Your B2B Branding Strategy
It’s no secret that branding plays a critical role in the B2C marketplace. As consumers we are frequently swayed by our emotions and, thus, strongly influenced by branding. By contrast, branding in B2B...
View ArticleRight Audience, Right Platform, Right Message, Right Time
Ben Plummer is CMO at Host Analytics. When they got in touch with us about contributing to CFO Essentials, we had a chance to speak with Ben about his experiences in the chief marketing share. You...
View ArticleIs There a Future for Marketing?
I attended the Future M conference for the first time this year. [DISCLOSURE: The organizers were gracious enough to provide me with a “Media” pass. Thanks!] The theme of this annual conference is, as...
View ArticleDigital Transformation and the End(s) of Marketing
A few years back, I was working at a company whose French subsidiary ran a survey on “digital transformation.” The focus, as I recall, was on marketing departments and how “digital” they were or were...
View ArticleAre Brands the New Gods?
“Marketing must be much more mythical.” – Wolfgang Schaefer and JP Kuehlwein What purpose do brands serve? On the surface, a brand is merely a distinguishing mark that is supposed to set one product...
View ArticleThe CMO and the Sales Leader: A Match Made in Heaven
If you ever watched Married with Children, then you’re familiar with this Frank Sinatra classic: Love and marriage, love and marriage/They go together like a horse and carriage/This I tell you,...
View ArticleDo Design and Business Have Anything in Common?
When you get in a room full of design professionals, you will often hear them talk about “business people.” Traditionally, the conversation centers around the way that business people fail to...
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