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Chris Koch

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We need a chief marketing analytics officer

Chris Koch

There’s lots of talk out there these days about the need for a technology guru within the B2B marketing department. Maybe I’m splitting hairs here, but I wonder about the long-term need for a marketing technologist. In the short term, I think marketing has a lot of catching up to do in terms of technology. What do you think?

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Four reasons to stop measuring marketing

Chris Koch

It’s time to declare marketing metrics a failure once and for all. It’s difficult to parse out the contribution that marketing makes to a sale and it’s even more difficult to get salespeople to spend the time figuring out/checking the box/giving credit in the quest to determine whether marketing played a role in making the sale.

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Four reasons to stop measuring marketing

Chris Koch

It’s time to declare marketing metrics a failure once and for all. It’s difficult to parse out the contribution that marketing makes to a sale and it’s even more difficult to get salespeople to spend the time figuring out/checking the box/giving credit in the quest to determine whether marketing played a role in making the sale.

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We need an app for that

Chris Koch

I’ve been working on a report for ITSMA clients this week about analytics and it got me thinking about the proverbial bigger picture of B2B marketing. We know from our research that we in marketing don’t do much with analytics—i.e., Even rarer is the ability to carry those analytics all the way through to a sale.

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We need an app for that

Chris Koch

I’ve been working on a report for ITSMA clients this week about analytics and it got me thinking about the proverbial bigger picture of B2B marketing. We know from our research that we in marketing don’t do much with analytics—i.e., Even rarer is the ability to carry those analytics all the way through to a sale.

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3 ways to link marketing to revenue without metrics

Chris Koch

In fact, our most recent thought leadership survey found that few marketers are measuring much besides consumption of their marketing content. At the other end of the spectrum are the brochures that masquerade as idea marketing by making the offering descriptions longer and the production values higher. But hold the beverages.

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Why the volume and quality of interactions with customers has to pass for social media ROI

Chris Koch

We track the marketing mix (including PR) over time against trends in sales. So if you buy that leap of logic, let’s say that blogs are another channel, like PR, in a marketing mix designed to familiarize customers and prospects with our companies and us. But you’re not going to like them. Jumping through ROI hoops.