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The CMO Isn’t Dead: Mastering the Skills of the Modern Marketing Leader

Content Standard

So why the recent flurry of headlines pronouncing the death of the CMO? In reality, the CMO role is evolving, as it should , and companies are restructuring, as they do. Thankfully, I know very few CMOs who fit this description. Others, like Phil Wahba, in this Fortune article , predict that automation will render CMOs obsolete.

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Is Fractional CMO the right decision for SaaS start-ups?

Sage Marketing

The term “Fractional CMO” might initially suggest a reduced scope of responsibilities or a diminishment of the role’s importance within an organization, particularly for SaaS companies. Instead, a Fractional CMO brings a highly strategic, adaptable, and focused approach to leadership.

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Executive Marketing Dashboard for Board Presentations

SmartBug Media

Preparing for a marketing presentation for your Board of Directors is an important part of being a successful Chief Marketing Officer (CMO)—particularly in a year when, across multiple industries, marketing needs to showcase their return on investment. Confirm you have access to the right data. Tell a data story with the right visuals.

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Top 5 B2B CMO Actions to Strengthen Marketing Relevance

Heinz Marketing

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. HINT: If you are not measuring customer lifetime value, start Now!

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Predictive Marketing Vendors Look Beyond Lead Scores

Customer Experience Matrix

The past week brought three more announcements about predictive vendors expanding beyond lead scoring. In particular, its finding new market segments that clients might enter – something different from simply scoring leads that clients present to it or even from finding individual prospects that look like current customers.

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AI vs. Human Content: What Actually Gets You Results? [Research Report]

Marketing Insider Group

At Marketing Insider Group, we teamed up with Renegade.com and CMO Huddles for a groundbreaking study: ‘Man vs. Machine.’ Human-authored content outperforms AI and hybrid content in keyword rankings and web traffic. Human content still leads in terms of engagement and SEO performance.

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CMO of the Future: 5 Ways Marketing Leaders Are Stepping Up to Navigate Their New Destiny

Litmus

Businesses need CMOs more than ever before, but the role of the CMO itself has changed. It is now the business-critical link between multiple stakeholders within the company and is the key champion of the customer (present and future). The evolution of the CMO. 5 essential CMO pivots.

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