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5 tips for finding standout CMO candidates

Martech

While evaluating a short list of CMO candidates, I noticed something interesting. CMO candidates and selection committees don’t have it easy. CMOs have one of the most difficult jobs on an executive team. Companies must triangulate the changing business landscape, mixed CMO responsibilities and varied candidate pools.

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Marketers: Why Targeting Will be Your Differentiator in 2021

Metadata

You can now talk directly to a CMO and what they care about, vs. every person in the marketing department. Using data to target those prospects with a need that your company can fulfill will move your product or service from being ‘nice-to-have’ to ‘must-have’ in 2021. There’s no excuse for not knowing what your customers want.

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How to be indispensable: The CMO’s cheat sheet

B2BMarketing.net

The subject of the interview was captured in the title, “From CMO to CEO: Journey to Destination.” Didier was the perfect interlocutor ; that rara avis whose previous roles included being CMO of other global, med-tech companies, he was uniquely poised to speak about the famously fraught relationship between the CMO and CEO functions.

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Moving Mount Rushmore: How to convince your management of your brilliant idea

B2BMarketing.net

You are sure this is the direction to take to differentiate your business, gain customer loyalty and grow SOM. Our new positioning – our reason for being, our differentiation – will assume the high ground of leadership in the whole category. In fact, most CMO-led, strategic and business-based marketing initiatives do.

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Marketing in 2021: The impact of blockchain on CX

ClickZ

But according to the CMO Survey, only eight percent of firms believe the use of blockchain in marketing is important , with bad user experience, design, and lack of understanding posing as significant barriers to its widespread adoption.

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What Gong’s Chief Evangelist thinks the new B2B marketing playbook should look like

Velocity Partners

Why do we only talk about our product, case studies, benefits and differentiators if only 5% of our market is looking to buy right now? These are Three Tips For A CMO During Budget Season In 2024 Post Pandemic, Post Office Work Life. (We’ve explored the 95-5 rule more here ). It’s hyper relevant. How do you solve that problem?

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Renegade Marketing: 12 Steps to Building Unbeatable B2B Brands

Engagio

Being a B2B CMO today can really suck. No wonder a survey by Sitecore revealed that 49% of CMOs thought about quitting their jobs last year. So, after 450 CMO interviews and 4 years of torture testing, I’m thrilled to share my new book, Renegade Marketing: 12 Steps to Building Unbeatable B2B Brands. Way too much stuff.