Heinz Marketing

APRIL 14, 2022

CMO (Chief Marketing Officer) tenures have often shrunk to 2 years while B2B marketing has morphed away from a function responsible for events, creatives, and messaging that pushes product or service messages to drive awareness with prospects and customers. The CMO should partner closely with key functional peers. Customer Obsession.

CMO 111

CMO Relevance Enterprise Management Peer-to-peer 111

Martech

APRIL 12, 2024

As a supporter of the program perspective for initiatives, I recognize the value of managing related projects, products and activities as a unified entity. Let’s explore the essential role of programs in product management, project management and marketing operations, bridging technical details with business priorities.

Budget Programs 110

Budget Programs Work Management Allocation Product 110

LeanData

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Below, you’ll see how engagement analytics can not only measure your ABM effectiveness, but provide insight on how to continuously improve. . Metrics, Analytics & Insights. Metrics, analytics and insights are related terms, and they are often mistakenly used interchangeably. In fact, they are very different.

Account Based Marketing 98

Account Based Marketing ABM Top of Funnel Analytics 98

Vision Edge Marketing

MARCH 30, 2021

If you had a chance to read the recent Korn Ferry article The CMO is Forever Changed , perhaps the statement “linking marketing activities and business results hasn’t always been the strong suit of CMOs” rang familiar. More technology and data than ever sits within grasp of every CMO. How has this worked out for the CMO?

Enterprise Management 283

Enterprise Management Work Management CMO Marketing Management 283

Marketri

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Recently, I had the opportunity to attend the CMO Summit in San Francisco, a gathering that brought together marketing leaders to discuss the current and future landscape of our industry. Embracing the AI Revolution The CMO Summit exhibited several discussions around the ever-evolving topic of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in marketing.

CMO 62

CMO Marketing AI Ethics Storytelling 62

Martech

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

This shared approach to data can help demystify analytics and create a common language across teams. Dig deeper: KPIs that connect: 5 metrics for marketing, sales and product alignment Listening and evolving Implement a system for gathering and acting on feedback that allows for anonymous and attributed contributions. In your inbox.

CMO 104

CMO Peer-to-peer Work Management Fulfillment 104

DiscoverOrg

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

Fear isn’t a luxury the CMO can afford. Today’s CMO position – “ a minefield where many talented executives fail ” – requires the courage of conviction to survive. If you’re a first-time CMO, this goes double. Align sales and marketing with SLAs. sales teams more likely to grow. Neither is hesitation.

CMO 176

CMO SWOT Advertising Agencies Budget Programs 176

Martech

MAY 14, 2024

While advances in marketing analytics and technology have been made, a significant portion of businesses still report facing difficulties in calculating ROI. In the fall 2023 CMO survey , CMOs report Increased pressure from the CFO to properly report and improve marketing ROI. Marketing leaders need to put on two hats.

ROI 117

ROI Marketing Attribution Cost per Acquisition Work Management 117

Oktopost

MARCH 23, 2020

B2B marketing and sales professionals are fighting a daily battle to convert a finite number of leads. This is why automation of B2B marketing and sales activities appears inevitable. It’s clear that organizations looking to scale up embrace automation tools and solutions to boost their marketing and sales operations.

Marketing Automation Services 98

Marketing Automation Services Top of Funnel Marketing Automation Automation 98

Martech

MAY 3, 2024

Take a moment to search “CMO tenure” and you’ll find a wide variety of content discussing the short tenure of CMOs and how it’s among the shortest of roles in the C-suite. If you dive deeper, you’ll find that CEOs don’t seem to trust CMOs. 32% of CEOs trust their CMOs. 32% of CEOs trust their CMOs.

ROAS 117

ROAS CMO Trust Marketing Opinions 117

ANNUITAS

DECEMBER 11, 2023

But whether we are talking about well-thought-out ‘growth marketing’ programs or haphazard ‘inside-out,’ interruptive go-to-market tactics, random acts of marketing and sales are at a breaking point. Our ability to succeed through haphazard marketing and sales acquisition efforts is rapidly coming to an end.

Marketing Analytics Tools 130

Marketing Analytics Tools Paid Search Agency Planning Budget Programs 130

ANNUITAS

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

As we walked through the Demand Process approach we needed to take, one attendee from our client made mention of past attempts to “do things differently” and the resulting failure. Here are some of the most common obstacles that exist in organizations today that prevent organizations from improving Demand Process.

Process 100

Process B2B Thought Leadership Thought Leadership Demand Generation 100

B2B Digital Marketer

MAY 9, 2024

It sets the stage by highlighting the potential pitfalls of sticking to outdated sales and marketing approaches and the consequences this can have on the effectiveness of these functions. The core of this episode revolves around the need for collaboration and feedback loops between the sales and marketing departments.

Work Management 52

Work Management Marketing & Strategy B2B Sales Paid Search Agency 52

Engagio

JULY 20, 2023

Let’s face it, CMO’s are busy, and getting the right info to them at the right time can be daunting- especially when your CMO is prone to 11th hour requests for data! Get that to me next week, said no CMO EVER! CMO: High Intent Keywords in the last week: Why will your CMO care? First, let’s start with the reports.

DemandBase 62

DemandBase CMO Sales Qualified Opportunity Demand Generation 62

InsightSquared

OCTOBER 11, 2017

Last week, our CMO Joe Chernov explained why InsightSquared is going “all-in” at Dreamforce 2017. The sessions will offer sales and sales operations professionals with case studies, lessons learned and the tactical takeaways needed to become even more strategic within their organizations. – 12:10 p.m.,

SMB 166

SMB Case Study Case Studies CMO 166

Martech

FEBRUARY 19, 2022

More and more enterprise marketers are using call analytics platforms to collect, analyze and act upon the growing volume of caller data now being captured from the billions of inbound calls to businesses. Are we optimizing inbound phone calls as a sales or lead-generating channel? At what level in the organization will it be managed?

Enterprise Management 104

Enterprise Management Work Management Marketing Management Analytics 104

Vision Edge Marketing

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

Despite this statistic, every CMO we’ve worked with admits how important it is to be able to select the right metrics and to measure and report on Marketing’s value and contribution. Some data suggests that Marketers are increasing their budget on data and analytics by as much as 49%! Want to improve your performance management?

Analytics 188

Analytics Budget Programs Multi-Channel Case Studies 188

Top Rank Marketing

OCTOBER 17, 2023

The panel included: Erik Newton , CMO at Hubilo Kathleen Abdeen , Director of Product and Field Marketing at Hubilo Laura Ramos – Vice President, Principal Analyst at Forrester Research It was great to see my longtime pal Laura Ramos from Forrester dive deep into the results of her research.

Webinar Metrics 135

Webinar Metrics Forrester Top of Funnel Research 135

ANNUITAS

MARCH 4, 2020

Growth Marketing must evolve past optimizing individual tactics and become a discipline of orchestrating the entire marketing, sales and product ecosystem – driving and optimizing enterprise demand – and thus growth. This is how (tactical) growth hacking for a product evolves into (strategic) growth marketing for the enterprise.

Growth Marketing 247

Growth Marketing Top of Funnel Demand Enterprise Management 247

Golden Spiral

APRIL 1, 2022

The average tenure for a CMO has fallen further, to just 40 months , the shortest in the C-Suite. The tenure for a sales VP is much shorter, at around 19 months. Since the beginning of COVID, sales within tech companies has experienced massive attrition with an average tenure for all sales professionals at 21 months.

Top of Funnel 62

Top of Funnel Paid Search Agency Work Management Paid Content 62

Seismic

APRIL 11, 2019

The struggles behind how to attribute credit to marketing , high rates of turnover in the position, and difficulty creating proper expectations lead to the belief that being a CMO is a shaky ground to stand on. When I joined Seismic, I had never been the CMO before. Leveraging analytics through the entire buyer’s journey.

CMO 65

CMO Peer-to-peer Enterprise Management Work Management 65

Vision Edge Marketing

APRIL 9, 2024

Sales-centric strategies concentrate on closing deals. Anyone who has ever worked in a Sales-centric company can appreciate the internal chaos this approach can create. Ensure a Solid Technology and Process Foundation : Customer-centricity requires stellar operational processes and a robust technological infrastructure.

Design 225

Design Terms and Conditions Work Management Customer Satisfaction 225

ANNUITAS

MARCH 18, 2014

All of the usual suspects were in the room – head of marketing, head of sales, marketing automation power users, demand generation leads, content marketer … but also present were the head of their CRM install and the lead project manager of their website and web analytics team — both IT roles in this particular company.

Process 100

Process Planning Marketing Automation Services Demand Generation 100

Martech Advisor

NOVEMBER 29, 2019

There has been a shift in the CMO’s role – from being focused on external communications and new customer acquisitions traditionally, to owning the customer experience across all touchpoints today. This gives rise to a unique set of challenges for CMOs. What’s the CMO Role in 2020? How can this be achieved?

CMO 66

CMO Full Circle Insights Marketing Budget Creation Digital Marketing Funnels 66

Martech

DECEMBER 14, 2023

But what exactly does alignment involve, why is it essential and how can you, the CMO, make it happen? Inefficient processes. Without alignment, marketing efforts might not fit or work well with other departments like sales or customer service, causing process inefficiencies. Fragmented analytics tools.

Digital Experience Platform 119

Digital Experience Platform Marketing & Strategy Business CMO 119

Martech

APRIL 18, 2024

Understanding key events in GA4 On March 21, I got an email from a former student who said he’d logged into Google Analytics 4 (GA4) that morning and saw, “Analytics conversions have been renamed key events.” Key events are created and reported like previous conversions in Google Analytics.” Words matter.

Merchandising 114

Merchandising Marketing Analytics Tools Conversion Lead Ranking 114

Martech

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

It’s often used as a top-of-the-funnel tactic to attract prospects and turn them into leads or customers. The consumer buying cycle is an increasingly self-serve process scattered across multiple touchpoints. a sale, new customer, conversion, etc.). a sale, new customer, conversion, etc.).

Digital Asset Management 135

Digital Asset Management Paid Content Work Management Marketing Management 135

Litmus

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Businesses need CMOs more than ever before, but the role of the CMO itself has changed. Being a CMO is no longer simply about being great at marketing strategy: The CMO is now a direct influence on business growth and a critical driver of transformation. The evolution of the CMO. 5 essential CMO pivots.

CMO 99

CMO Lead Ranking Planning Advertising Agencies 99

Pam Didner

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

The difference between winning and losing is your ability to demonstrate your impact on sales using digital data. In essence, digital marketing is a lot of work, as is demand generation and working with sales. As a marketer, the way to support your sales team depends heavily on your job scope. VP of Marketing or CMO.

Sales Management 103

Sales Management Paid Search Agency Top of Funnel Account Based Marketing 103

Martech

MARCH 21, 2024

In this first article of our four-part series, we’ll outline the fundamental steps for incorporating AI into MOps, paving the way for the subsequent articles to delve deeper into planning AI integration with people, process, data and platforms. Sales and marketing alignment. Calculated risk management. ROI measurement.

Marketing AI 119

Marketing AI Contingency Planning Work Management Digital Transformation 119

Crimson Marketing

NOVEMBER 10, 2014

As Lance Walter, CMO of financial intelligence technology company Host Analytics suggests, there is a better way. Lance Walter is Chief Marketing Officer for Host Analytics and leads the company’s global marketing efforts. Your company conducts quarterly budget reviews to determine how well projections aligned with performance.

Budget Programs 100

Budget Programs Enterprise Management CMO Planning 100

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. The end goal of marketing remains consistent even if the processes are continually evolving – generate leads, boost conversion rates, and increase sales pipelines in the shortest time and most cost-effective manner. .

Cost per Lead 258

Cost per Lead ROMI CPL Churn Rate 258

Unbounce

JULY 5, 2023

Specifically, AI analytics. And that’s the point: AI’s ability to process so much data at incredible speeds makes a lot of today’s digital experiences possible. The never-ending evolution of AI-driven analytics is revolutionizing how marketers (like you!) There’s a lot to cover here, so let’s dive right in: What is AI analytics?

Marketing AI 98

Marketing AI Analytics Marketing Analytics Tools Planning 98

Strategic-IC

APRIL 6, 2022

This is the challenge of Dark Social and the Dark Funnel [more on which is which later]. But, just because Dark Social and the Dark Funnel exist in the shadows, you simply cannot ignore it. What is the ‘Dark Funnel’? They travel through the sales funnel, untracked. What impact does the Dark Funnel have on ABM? ‘If

Top of Funnel 62

Top of Funnel Peer-to-peer Account Based Marketing Paid Search Agency 62

Heinz Marketing

JANUARY 29, 2019

I recently hosted our latest invite-only CMO Roundtable in Seattle. We partnered with Allocadia and our topic focused on Finance and Marketing Alignment with the CFO and CMO. Chris Pick , CMO from Apptio and Samantha Bannister , VP of Finance and Operations from Allocadia were the panelists who provided valuable insights.

CMO 65

CMO Marketing Attribution Work Management Marketing Budget 65

LeanData

JULY 13, 2020

Gone are the days when the chief marketing officer (CMO) merely brainstormed ad campaigns or greenlit copy. Today’s CMO is a thought leader who touches just about every aspect of their company—and whose influence affects the bottom line. How do CMOs view revenue operations as a strategy? How is the CMO role changing?

CMO 52

CMO Enterprise Management Paid Search Agency Marketing Management 52

Heinz Marketing

MAY 2, 2022

If you’re not already subscribed to Sales Pipeline Radio , or listening live every Thursday at 11:30 a.m The show is less than 30 minutes, fast-paced and full of actionable advice, best practices and more for B2B sales & marketing professionals. how to infuse the buyer’s journey into a sales enablement system/program.

CMS Development 96

CMS Development Marketing Automation Services Lead Ranking Ideal Customer Profiles 96