Optimism Back to Pre-Pandemic Levels Among Marketing Leaders: 5 Statistics from a Survey of CMOs
CMOs say strategies performed well during the pandemic, both prestige and budgets have grown; inclusive decision-making is a blind spot “Marketers’ overall economic optimism has rebounded beyond mid-pandemic and even pre-pandemic levels,” according to a new survey. The CMO Survey,...Read More
Want the Fastest Growth in Business? Take Care of Your Employees First, Study Says
Brands that emphasize employee experience (EX) and customer experience (CX) achieve business growth nearly 2x faster If you take care of your employees, they’ll take care of your customers, and everything else will fall in place. That was one CEO’s...Read More
Marketing Salary Survey Shows the Pandemic is Changing Hiring Trends
Annual marketing salary survey shows remote interviews and shorter hiring process have become the norm as a consequence of the pandemic The was a cartoon going around the business world a few weeks ago that asked “who led the digital...Read More
Marketing Content: A Decision Matrix for Reviews and Approvals Done
Here are some ideas for developing guidelines for the timely approvals of marketing content so you can drive business results A few years back, a client of mine was having trouble getting content published. The industry was regulated, so a...Read More
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3 Alternate Viewpoints You Should Read on the Death of the CMO [UML]
Over the course of the summer, a few changes to the CMO role at high profile companies have caused some to conclude the role is on its way out. It’s a trend, they say. The biggest proponents of this view...Read More
All Marketing is NOT Content Marketing
Content marketing could quite possibly be the most misunderstood concept in marketing today. Most confuse content marketing as synonymous with content, which is a solid way to make sure your content marketing program underperforms, or worse, fails. Even experienced marketers...Read More
Should Marketing Be Held to a Higher Standard? Off Script No. 38: Lacey Ford of insightsoftware
Revenue Driver. Pipeline builder. Marketing with a quota. Those are the words and phrases Lacey Ford uses to describe marketing today. She got her start as an entry-level marketing associate for SBC Communications, which is now AT&T. There she had...Read More
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3 Landmark Studies that Sum Up the State of Creativity for the CMO [UML]
The pendulum of marketing can only swing in one direction at a time, but at some point, the forces of gravity slow the swing and eventually take it back in the other direction. I sense we are reaching that point...Read More
The Competition and Industry Gets a Vote on Your Marketing
Situational awareness is a concept I first learned in the military. It’s the idea that most environments that warrant a military presence are fluid and dynamic. You can’t get so focused on what you’re trying to do – that you...Read More
How PR Prepared Her for Inbound Marketing and a Role as a Martech CMO; Off Script No. 31: Nicole Wojno of UserIQ
Many years ago, I had a mentor that suggested the first 10 years of a career should be spent moving around and collecting skills. That’s one of the side benefits of growing up in tech PR – you are exposed...Read More
