The Marketing Blender

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

The complexity of business-to-business sales and marketing can make it hard to find a marketing agency or Chief Marketing Officer with the right experience to help you hit your revenue targets. Here is our guide for how to select a fractional CMO agency if you run a B2B company.

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Marketing Insider Group

JULY 13, 2020

While in SAP Global Marketing we launched several thought leadership efforts, and one of the analyst partners I leveraged was IDC, and specifically their CMO Advisory Service. Kathleen recently retired from IDC after a long and distinguished career in marketing, including being a head of marketing and a CMO.

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ANNUITAS

MARCH 4, 2020

Yet ‘first generation’ Growth Marketing has hit a wall. It’s time for Next Generation Growth Marketing. 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.

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Marketing Craftmanship

JANUARY 8, 2021

Their compensation and tenure are often based on fuzzy or subjective factors, including the ability to generate earned media, maintain an effective website, produce relevant content for social media or score highly in brand awareness or customer satisfaction surveys. The Holy Grail of Sales and Marketing Alignment.

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Act-On

APRIL 26, 2024

Marketing leaders are facing an unprecedented time with unprecedented demands: Wring every drop of value from generative AI. As organizations tighten budgets and headcount, marketers tend to experience those downstream impacts as longer sales cycles and lower conversion rates. Navigate ever-changing email privacy regulations.

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Content Standard

APRIL 22, 2024

A Content Disrupted podcast with Tricia Nichols, CMO. In this episode of Content Disrupted, trailblazing CMO, Tricia Nichols shares her insights on fostering and tracking brand bonding, balancing short-term vs. long-term perspectives, and using data science to answer the right questions at the right time.

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Marketing Insider Group

JUNE 29, 2020

The following marketing quotes from todays leading CMOs and Marketing influencers describe their pandemic experiences and how they’ve adapted to this extreme culture shock. Four major marketing trends emerge from these CMO quotes: Communicating to connect (not promote). Perseverance. Giving back.

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Zoominfo

JUNE 12, 2023

Our session included go-to-market efficiency insights from ZoomInfo CEO Henry Schuck and CMO Bryan Law, as well as Bain Partner Mackenzie Bushy and Dell SVP of Global Sales Operations Prabha Ramakrishnan. As Schuck put it, there are really only three ways to drive sales efficiency.

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ANNUITAS

OCTOBER 9, 2023

The Westin Copley Place was the perfect venue, and we had a curated cross section of marketing, sales and commercial leaders to roll up their sleeves and discuss what it really means to build a Converged Growth go-to-market organization. Director of Revenue Operations at Riverside ; and Lee Zucker, VP Global Sales and Partnerships at Drift.

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Rev

JULY 12, 2023

Of course, this one-hour rule only really applies if your lead handoff process prioritizes highly-qualified leads that are, in fact, ready and able to buy. Low-quality leads make their way to sales, and some of the most qualified leads fall through the cracks. What is lead handoff between marketing and sales? Sound familiar?

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Martech

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Generative AI is revolutionizing digital marketing by altering how we create, analyze and optimize marketing strategies. The components of genAI First, let’s examine the components that constitute generative artificial intelligence. Generate This is of particular interest to marketers. Each system has its pros and cons.

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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.

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KoMarketing Associates

APRIL 7, 2021

A few B2B marketing strategies did particularly well in 2020, and demand generation was one of them. For the marketers who were able to pivot quickly, many B2B demand generation best practices helped to ease the pain of 2020. So B2B demand generation has gained influence thanks to the pandemic. The data bears this out.

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The Marketing Blender

MARCH 2, 2022

What is the fractional CMO scope of work? For a fractional CMO, scope of work is usually determined by a few different factors, including: The budget you have assigned to spend on marketing. Since there can be a great deal of variation, let’s begin with what a scope of work for your fractional CMO could include. Our Services.

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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.

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B2B Marketing Analytics

NOVEMBER 29, 2020

Among the most interesting trends shaping the modern marketing function is the rise of a new breed of the CMOs called the “Revenue CMO”. The role of the CMO has undergone a radical shift especially in B2B technology companies, which are driving the revolution of this new breed of the CMOs.

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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?

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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. You need to quickly prove you can generate demand. Align sales and marketing with SLAs.

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ViewPoint

APRIL 14, 2017

Last week I published a blog that provided five ways to avoid getting burned by outsourced B2B sales lead generation, qualification and nurturing. Sales/B2B Marketing execs feel intense need to do something, but are afraid to risk budget. The need for sales pressures the CMO to deliver leads fast.

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Martech

OCTOBER 28, 2021

“Basically, intent data allows marketing and sales teams to focus on the accounts that are in the market for a product or solution,” said Dan Tabaran, CMO of account-based advertising company N.Rich, in his recent MarTech presentation. 3 ways marketing and sales teams can generate buyer interest.

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The Marketing Blender

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

What is a fractional CMO? If you’re thinking about outsourcing some (or all) of your marketing responsibilities, you may have stumbled upon fractional CMO services. What is a fractional CMO, how are they different from a marketing agency, and how can they support your business? What is a fractional CMO?

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ViewPoint

JULY 19, 2017

a prospect asked me, following our discussion about PointClear’s lead generation, qualification and nurturing services. We had just finished talking about the importance of marketing and sales coming together to mutually define a lead prior to starting a lead generation program. “What could derail this project?” Just ask!

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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.

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Velocity Partners

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

You know, Marketo and Engagio founder and CMO at Demandbase (and, it just so happens, serial Velocity client). The excitement has turned to ashes for many B2B tech firms and CMO tenure is lower than ever. In the last decade, sales activation became the new religion. In the last decade, sales activation became the new religion.

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6sense

JANUARY 31, 2022

Editor’s Note: CMO Coffee Talk is an open space for more than 1,300 CMOs to come together weekly with their peers and discuss timely, crowd-sourced topics. Matt Heinz of Heinz Marketing co-hosts these dynamic, illuminating conversations with 6sense CMO Latané Conant. . Coming Up on CMO Coffee Talk… .

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Modern B2B

MAY 4, 2023

This distinguished gathering celebrated the launch of Modern’s Digital Connections 2023 report , delving into the concerns keeping B2B CMOs awake at night. These marketing leaders boast CMO roles at nine global businesses, from FinTech to consultancy and SaaS firms. Asks Nick Webb, CMO at CloudPay.

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 5, 2020

But what is the key to c-suite sales? The C-suite typically refers to the executive- level managers within a company. Think Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Chief Financial Officer (CFO), Chief Marketing Officer (CMO), etc. Think Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Chief Financial Officer (CFO), Chief Marketing Officer (CMO), etc.

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NetLine

JUNE 22, 2023

The pain B2B demand gen marketing pros experience whenever sales fails to act on leads or dismiss them prematurely can be quite painful. Sales, conversely, pulls its collective hair out whenever marketing overpromises and underdelivers on quality buyer-level information. That handover process between marketing and sales is crucial.

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6sense

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Editor’s Note: CMO Coffee Talk is an open space for more than 1,200 CMOs to come together weekly with their peers and discuss timely, crowd-sourced topics. Matt Heinz of Heinz Marketing co-hosts these dynamic, illuminating conversations with 6sense CMO Latané Conant. Coming Up on CMO Coffee Talk….

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Velocity Partners

APRIL 9, 2024

At most B2B companies, the marketing/sales relationship has taken a wrong turn. They’re emailing prospects, investing heavily in third-party intent platforms like 6Sense, and generally doing their own messaging and outreach. You can see the results of this in the growing lack of trust between sales and marketing teams.

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6sense

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Editor’s Note: CMO Coffee Talk is an open space for more than 1,200+ CMOs to come together weekly with their peers and discuss timely, crowd-sourced topics. Matt Heinz of Heinz Marketing co-hosts these dynamic, illuminating conversations with 6sense CMO Latané Conant. Insights from CMO Coffee Talk .

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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.

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Salesforce Marketing Cloud

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Veteran reps will tell you that sales isn’t as simple as prospect, pitch, and close. And it’s become more challenging: Two-thirds of sales professionals say sales is harder now than it was in previous years. One way to overcome the slog: finding inspiration in tactical and insightful sales motivational quotes.

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Salesforce Marketing Cloud

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

They’re more likely to use AI in product and service development, risk modeling, performance management, and more. Need help with your generative AI strategy? Each business function “spoke” (marketing, sales, service, etc.) This is a unique turning point,” said CMO Gabriel Authier. Humans would vet, edit, and publish.

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Pearl Digital Marketing

SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

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? A chief marketing officer (CMO) is not only a marketing manager but is also the leader of all marketing-related elements.

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Heinz Marketing

MARCH 21, 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. Changing the dynamic of prospecting and lead management strategies.

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Heinz Marketing

JUNE 14, 2021

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. You can even ask Alexa! Listen in now and/or read the full transcript below.

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