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B2B Vendor, Customer Perspectives Differ on "Affinity"

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The CMO Council recently released a major study entitled Profitability from Customer Affinity , on the difficulty faced by vendors in establishing customer-centric business practices. To learn more, download the CMO study here. If you sell through a channel, your partners are your face to the customer.

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Print Magazines Are Dying, but Their Brands Aren't

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The fact it's been one year since one of my favorite print pubs, the award-winning CMO Magazine , ceased publishing got me reflecting on the state of print magazines. What killed CMO? and CDs (downloads).

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Ziff Davis Sells Off Magazines

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I've addressed this phenomenon previously here in bemoaning the demise of CMO magazine. The sale includes print titles eWeek, CIO and Baseline magazine , as well as web properties eweek.com , webbuyersguide.com , cioinsight.com , baselinemag.com , Microsoft-watch.com , channelinsider.com and deviceforge.com. Magazine brands have value.

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Marketing Sherpa Moment of Fame

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The campaign was named a finalist or winner for four different awards, including the CMO Council / Yahoo! More than 30% of recipients viewed the CD; 6% entered into active sales cycles, and a third of those became clients, producing more than $500,000 in revenue. Big Idea Chair award. Lessons learned (a.k.a.

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More Blogs Worth Checking Out

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Chris shares his knowledge and thoughts on email-related topics such as database marketing, list building, and *spam*.

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Best of 2007: Miscellaneous Marketing Stuff

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Quoting Tim Mapes, CMO of Delta Airlines, Estrin notes that such approaches do entail risk: "big ideas often require big failures. If you have 10 big ideas, eight of them are probably going to be absolute failures.

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How to Start in a New Marketing Role – RAPIMMR

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To quote Kelly Vizzini, CMO at application virtualization company DataSynapse , from Marketing Sherpa's case study on the firm: “When marketers go to new jobs, some say `Here's my plan I'm going to do all these things.' Ask about marketing programs, key messages, competition, and objectives. Who has great ideas?