ANNUITAS

DECEMBER 11, 2023

The key drivers of this breaking point are performance issues and budget issues: Performance issues: Conversion rates in paid digital media and content syndication have been trending down for some time, and outbound email is at some of its worst performance levels. This is a similar trend reported in the 2022 report , as well.

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Zoominfo

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

We recently went through this process at ZoomInfo when Law came on board as the new CMO. The value of news and trends informing your plays is unmatched, because it shows your understanding of the challenges your customers are facing. We’ve done 15 acquisitions since 2015,” Schuck said.

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Vision Edge Marketing

JUNE 6, 2023

Along with the CSO and the Chief Marketing Officer (CMO), CGOs are tasked with identifying opportunities for growth. Now let’s compare and contrast the roles of CGOs and CMOs. In comparison to the CMO, the CGO has a broader focus. The CGO has a more operational focus, whereas the CSO has a more strategic focus.

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Marketing Insider Group

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

With new trends, customer behaviors, and technologies transforming the industry at top speed, there has never been a better time to be in marketing. CMOs need to develop a strategy that explicitly details how marketing plans to drive growth, target the company’s overall goals, and serve the customer’s needs to produce results.

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Vision Edge Marketing

APRIL 9, 2024

Market-centric strategies revolve around taking advantage of and drafting a hot trend. Why Customer-Centricity is Now THE Best Growth Strategy The changing dynamics of customer expectations have propelled customer-centricity to the forefront as the primary growth strategy. Today’s B2B buyer expectations have significantly changed.

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ANNUITAS

DECEMBER 20, 2018

Adobe announced that consumer demand for personalized content reached an all-time high in 2018, a theme that underscored some of the most prominent trends of the year. As we wrap up another busy year in marketing, I’d like to reflect on the major trends of the year and project how they’ll play out in 2019: #1: Account-Based Marketing.

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ClickZ

DECEMBER 10, 2019

The CDP, which merges CRM data with DMP data from platforms like Salesforce is one of the more interesting trends in martech. The rise of the customer data platform (CDP) : The CDP, which merges CRM data with DMP data from platforms like Salesforce is one of the more interesting trends in martech.

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Kabbage

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

In today’s blog I present the top five marketing trends for 2017, supported by key statistics from the report. Gartner’s “ 2016-2017 Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) Spend Survey ” further validates the trends, showing that marketing budgets have increased for the third consecutive year. Marketing Budgets are Increasing.

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Avitage

NOVEMBER 13, 2014

This must support ALL customer facing, content dependent groups, including sales, sales training, customer service, HR (talent acquisition), and the sales channel. This post will introduce perspectives […] The post Business Trends Indicate Need for Enterprise Content Strategy and Operations Management appeared first on Avitage.

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chiefmartech

JANUARY 18, 2021

Twilio provides a higher layer of API services for communications and email (and, with their recent acquisition of Segment, customer data routing). This was one of the key points of my 2014 e-book, A New Brand of Marketing : The 7 Meta-Trends of Modern Marketing as a Technology-Powered Discipline.). Marketing is a creative discipline.

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Pearl Digital Marketing

SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

That trend is continuing into the C-suite. For example, fractional CMOs or outsourced marketing executives. These for-hire experts include fractional chief marketing officers (CMOs), chief financial officers (CFOs), vice-presidents for human resources, and chief information officers (CIOs). What is a fractional CMO?

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Porch Group Media

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Marketing departments are certainly no exception and have been forced to balance between cutbacks in spend while still maintaining acquisition and retention strategies to thrive during these difficult times. One change CMOs are making due to these budget pressures is shifting outside agency work to in-house employees.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JUNE 14, 2016

Author: Charm Bianchini Last week, I had the pleasure of attending the Argyle CMO Forum in San Francisco. Jennifer Betka, CMO of StubHub, candidly explained how hard it is to get people off the couch and has launched a new campaign to encourage people to “ grab their ticket out.” One of the key topics of discussion?

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Valasys

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

SiriusDecisions will be acquired by Forrester for $245 million to aid in creating a robust platform that guides companies and Chief Marketing Officers (CMO) to drive business growth in this customer oriented era. This acquisition will give way to expansion opportunities across regions and industries. According to George F.

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Martech Advisor

AUGUST 20, 2019

Marketers are at a crossroads in their careers with the Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) position seemingly under threat. While some brands are doing away with the CMO position altogether, others are making strategic changes to their organization structures. have recently done away with the CMO position, reports AdAge.

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Martech

APRIL 12, 2024

Program managers can drive innovation and efficiency across the portfolio by leveraging shared technologies, customer insights, or market trends. As a CMO or marketing leader, it is important to recognize the strategic value of programs and champion their adoption across your organization.

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Hubspot

APRIL 23, 2020

Acquisition marketing campaigns are critical to bring in new customers and revenue. I wrote this post to share with you how we crafted our latest acquisition campaign to hit and exceed our acquisition targets. The beginning of our Q1 2020 Acquisition Campaign started with a blinking cursor. Establishing the Campaign.

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Vision Edge Marketing

JANUARY 28, 2020

Members of the business team know information such as the company’s annual revenues, profit, and losses, gross margin by product, most valuable customers , most significant competitors, key business priorities for the coming year or longer, and key industry and economic trends. ” The CMO didn’t know but promised to find out.

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GrowPowerful

MAY 17, 2023

Enter the Fractional Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) , a proven and battle-tested solution that offers the expertise, perspective, and flexibility required to unlock new avenues of growth. Fractional CMOs, with their extensive experience and diverse industry knowledge, bring a fresh set of eyes to the table.

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Marketing Insider Group

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

As a CMO or director of digital marketing, you can use a handful of B2B marketing metrics to answer them. Customer Acquisition Cost (CAC). Use this formula to calculate CAC: Customer Acquisition Cost = Sales and Marketing Cost / New Customers. Leaders are looking beyond engagement numbers and qualified leads.

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Content Marketing Institute

JANUARY 1, 2019

Each and every year we cover some of the broader content marketing trends for the upcoming 12 months. In looking toward 2018, Joe offered that the trends pointed upward, highlighting the growth in acquisitions, the increase in budgets, and even the idea of marketing as a profit center (which is the focus of our book Killing Marketing ).

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KoMarketing Associates

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

Gartner recently released its “CMO Spend Survey 2017-2018: Budgets Recede Amid Demand for Results” report, providing a deep analysis how CMOs intend to utilize their budgets. The research showed that by a ratio of 2-to-1, they intend to focus on existing customers rather than customer acquisition.

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Martech

MAY 31, 2023

by Latané Conant An excellent book about B2B and account-based marketing, it is the foundation of 6sense’s product certification program, which makes sense as Conant is the CMO there. This podcast typically covers hot and emerging trends like generative AI, the metaverse and social media. No Cold Calls.’ Get MarTech!

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Martech

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

For me, stepping into the shoes of a CMO without a previous background in marketing was like a roller-coaster ride. Let’s go to the formula: Customer acquisition cost (CAC) This metric reveals the cost to gain a new customer and is crucial for evaluating marketing efficiency and optimizing outreach for better ROI. What can you do?

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ClickZ

NOVEMBER 28, 2019

We will continue to see a lot of discussion and insights around trust, and it will be one of the major trends for 2020. ClickZ spoke with the company’s first ever CMO Norman Guadagno, to get an understanding of what Acoustic is and what is its vision for the martech space going forward. “Acoustic is the science of sound.

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Vision Edge Marketing

DECEMBER 15, 2020

This trend has certainly added more twists and turns to the buying process. We live in a peer-bound world,” says Chandar Pattabhiram, CMO for Coupa. The increase in this trend is particularly significant as the perception and role of the salesperson in the B2B purchase process evolves. Consider these questions: ?

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Oktopost

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Erik was also the Chief Marketing Officer for AWeber Email Marketing Software for five years, leading the brand’s initiatives on growth via acquisition & retention campaigns. Follow Oktopost on LinkedIn , for meaningful discussion and insight on current social media trends and best practices.

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Engagio

AUGUST 1, 2018

Megan is the CMO of Zenoss , a software company that works with the world’s largest organizations to ensure their IT services and applications are always on. Additionally, traditional Marketing programs can be strengthened by taking this same approach and observing trends within accounts, contacts, titles, etc. on the ABM side.

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SmartBug Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Trends constantly come and go, but some have staying power. Is the trend just another distraction? To strike a balance between the two, regularly evaluate your strategies against industry trends and customer feedback. Effective business strategies aren’t immune to being threatened by new tools, tactics, and best practices.

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Liveintent

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Successful marketers keep a close eye on consumer trends and the social, economic, and political factors that influence them. CMO of Bombas, Kate Huyett, recently shared with LiveIntent her first-hand experience responding to social and political unrest. 1) Stay nimble and evaluate your strategy often.

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Marketri

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Using A/B testing is a great way to continually optimize conversions and keep that rate trending up. Customer Acquisition Cost (CAC) It’s not enough to attract new customers. That’s why it’s essential to measure your Customer Acquisition Cost (CAC). You also want to attract them cost-efficiently.

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Tomorrow People

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Earlier this year, before the world experienced mass disruption, we were putting the finishing touches on a series of eBooks looking at some of the most interesting trends we saw in content, marketing, and business strategy. Customer Acquisition Cost (CAC). saying it will be customers’ top priority. " – The CMO Survey.

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Martech

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

What I have observed over the past two years is that, while cutbacks in marketing may reduce customer acquisition cost, they can also deliver a considerable hit to annual contract value — as much as a 45% fall-off. “We We live in a peer-bound world,” says Chandar Pattabhiram, CMO for business spend management platform Coupa.

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B2B Marketing Directions

FEBRUARY 2, 2019

The Salesforce survey identified four major trends in marketing. This finding is nearly identical with the August 2018 edition of The CMO Survey , in which 45.7% I suspect that the new Digital Trends Survey by Econsultancy will address some of the same issues, and it will be interesting to compare the findings of these two studies.

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Marketing Insider Group

APRIL 26, 2021

Here are some emerging trends we’re seeing this year and expect to see more of in the future: Businesses are more boldly standing for or against political and social issues publicly. location data or online traffic patterns) to increase engagement and customer acquisition. The importance of marketing has increased for most businesses.

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Unbounce

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Patricia Fernández Carrelo, CMO, allWomen. Community building works much better for us than just typical marketing acquisition strategies. Patricia Fernández Carrelo, CMO, allWomen. Patricia Fernández Carrelo, CMO, allWomen. Patricia Fernández Carrelo, CMO, allWomen. Patricia Fernández Carrelo, CMO, allWomen.

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KoMarketing Associates

DECEMBER 5, 2017

Samantha Stone , Author, Founder & CMO, The Marketing Advisory Network. Our biggest consideration for marketing budgets in 2018 is identifying opportunities to reduce overall customer acquisition cost (CAC) for our clients – not just lead cost, but actual customer cost.

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