Marketing Budgets to Grow: 5 Datapoints from the CMO Survey for B2B Marketers
Marketers are relatively upbeat about the economy and growth prospects over the next 12 months or so. That’s according to the newest edition of The CMO Survey, a semiannual study spawned out of Duke University’s business school. It’s a survey... Read More
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Habits, Capabilities and Peer Reviews of the Modern CMO [UML]
“In areas where they are simply incompetent, smart executives don’t make decisions or take actions. They delegate. Everyone has such areas.” – Peter Drucker To say the role of the modern CMO is challenging is an understatement. The marketing landscape... Read More
We are All Forever Students of Marketing [UML]
We are all forever students. I’m pretty sure the first time I heard a variation phrase, it was many years ago, and by Brian Solis. It’s an elegant idea and a nice balance to a marketing world where today, many... Read More
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The Essential Characteristics of an Effective CMO [UML]
To say the role of the CMO has evolved is an understatement. In some ways, CMO often seem pulled in opposing directions. On one hand, a core competency in analytics and automation are a prerequisite. Yet on the other, businesses... Read More
Marketing without Authority is Marketing without Accountability
The Harvard Business Review (HBR) published a piece describing the modern challenge for CMOs and why these marketing leaders tend to not last but a few years in such roles. The authors say many CMOs are “limited mostly to marketing... Read More
The Interim CMO as Change Agent; Off Script #19: Sophie Shiatis
The word “interim” might conjure the idea of provisional, or temporary, or stopgap, but there’s one more way to think about it according to the Merriam-Webster definition: intervening. It’s especially relevant at critical moments in time – an interim to... Read More
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Internet Marketing Trends: What’s the Business Impact? [UML]
As the saying goes it takes three data points to make a trend, but the problem for marketers with this identification is that it’s often too late. It’s easy to identify a trend in hindsight – the web is littered... Read More
Missing in Action: Sheer Passion in Marketing Goes a Long Way
Surveys tell us there’s a shortage of digital talent in marketing. Digital skills are important because so much of our lives today is dependent on connectivity. But there’s a characteristic that often goes missing in marketing that counts for a lot... Read More
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Your Marketing Predecessor was Probably a Hot Mess [UML]
Six months into a year-long tour in 2007, the unit I was supporting in Iraq, was going home – but not before a short period of overlap with the replacements. That period lasted one or two weeks, providing for a... Read More
Top Marketer: The Art and Science of a CMO [UML]
IBM recently named Michelle Peluso as VP and CMO for the company. According to Adweek the title is brand new to IBM and signifies the growing importance of marketing in the company. The same article also reported, “Peluso will report... Read More
