Act-On

APRIL 26, 2024

As organizations tighten budgets and headcount, marketers tend to experience those downstream impacts as longer sales cycles and lower conversion rates. Even if they see the value and know how they can use your product, they’re postponing making a decision due to this overriding economic uncertainty.

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Martech

JANUARY 6, 2023

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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Hubspot

MAY 30, 2023

Like all disruption, generative AI in sales has the potential to completely change the way things are done. In this post, we’ll share the state of generative AI in sales today with three use cases for AI in sales. In this post, we’ll share the state of generative AI in sales today with three use cases for AI in sales.

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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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ViewPoint

MAY 5, 2017

At the Funnel Media Group we believe that AI is the future of sales and marketing operations. Because of this, CRM Radio and the sister program SLMA Radio, have been interviewing executives on the subjects of the marketing and sales uses of Artificial Intelligence. About InsideSales.com.

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Zoominfo

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Here are 10 of the strongest insights from the discussions, including the importance of effective go-to-market strategies across sales and marketing teams, and how the current wave of economic uncertainty is affecting companies’ ability to make the most of their market opportunities. Get a Demo 3.

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Marketing Craftmanship

JANUARY 8, 2021

In my experience, the sales team typically forgets to ask prospects how they’ve learned about the company or product. The Holy Grail of Sales and Marketing Alignment. Marketing and sales alignment must be the highest strategic goal for every marketer. Gain a firsthand understanding of the sales process.

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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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6sense

JANUARY 6, 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. . Certify on Company Story, Not Just Product.

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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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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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ABM in Action

JUNE 29, 2023

Traditionally, leads and accounts were treated as incompatible — but Jon Russo, CMO of sales and marketing performance firm B2B Fusion , explained that many practitioners have a lead motion and an account motion, and they exist as two separate entities. Why is it important practitioners unite their funnels?

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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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The Marketing Blender

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Having a full-time Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) or marketing manager in-house certainly provides a sense of comfort. That’s why outsourced CMO is something that many businesses are turning to. A fractional CMO can quickly become familiar with these aspects because they don’t spend months figuring out what to do.

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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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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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Martech

AUGUST 2, 2022

For the most part, online retailers have a physical process to manage, and the outcome of all this is inventory — the stuff they must keep lying around, waiting to be bought. Indeed, an important factor in taming unpredictability lies in aligning your sales and marketing efforts with your inventory. And operations?

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Heinz Marketing

APRIL 21, 2022

CMO Interim: nThrive + Linus Health; CMO Executive Advisor nThrive + Precisely. Do they have the time and resources to hire a full-time Chief Marketing Officer (CMO)? Hiring the right fractional CMO (also known as an outsourced CMO or interim CMO) can address the time element and leverage the company’s ongoing momentum.

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Marketing Insider Group

AUGUST 30, 2021

The problem with modern sales and marketing. I see with marketing (and sales) this: we get clinical and treat our customers as objects to convert rather than people who need help. I recently met with a group of sales and marketing influencers and we discussed trends and our projects. revenue, leads, opportunities, etc.).

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Martech

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Dig deeper: KPIs that connect: 5 metrics for marketing, sales and product alignment Listening and evolving Implement a system for gathering and acting on feedback that allows for anonymous and attributed contributions. Most crucially, it recognizes collaboration as a living process that must evolve with the organization.

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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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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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Engagio

JULY 20, 2023

Let’s face it, CMO’s are busy, and getting the right info to them at the right time can be daunting- especially when your CMO is prone to 11th hour requests for data! Get that to me next week, said no CMO EVER! CMO: High Intent Keywords in the last week: Why will your CMO care? First, let’s start with the reports.

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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. . Hands-on product experience (before they buy) .

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6sense

JANUARY 14, 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. . Salesloft CMO Sydney Sloan recently called it out.

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Heinz Marketing

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Guest post by Caroline Tien-Spalding CMO at Aptology. As of this writing, there are over 211,000 jobs on Indeed in the category of “product marketing.” How can it be that the need for marketing a product can be so much higher than pipeline creation and lead gen? . Create a collection of features misnamed “product”.

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seo.co

JUNE 28, 2020

What is an Outsourced CMO? When Do Businesses Hire Outsourced CMOs? + The Biggest Pros of Outsourcing a CMO. + The Biggest Cons of Outsourcing a CMO. + How to Find the Right Outsourced CMO. The tricky part is when you have to hire someone at a C-suite level, like a Chief Marketing Officer (CMO).

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Convince & Convert

MAY 19, 2016

I don’t mean to get personal here, but do you have a leaky sales funnel? Are you losing some customers somewhere along their journey from initial contact to final sale? Or is your sales funnel fully clogged, in need of middle-of-the-night emergency attention that’s costing you a fortune? Guaranteed. Feature Study.

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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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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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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. The Power of Product-Led Growth .

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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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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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B2B Marketing Directions

OCTOBER 3, 2021

The findings of the August 2021 edition of The CMO Survey were published last month. The CMO Survey is led by Dr. Christine Moorman and sponsored by Duke University's Fuqua School of Business, the American Marketing Association and Deloitte LLP. The CMO Survey is conducted semi-annually, and it provides a wealth of information.

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Velocity Partners

APRIL 9, 2024

At most B2B companies, the marketing/sales relationship has taken a wrong turn. You can see the results of this in the growing lack of trust between sales and marketing teams. You can see it in falling CMO tenure. 60-70% of your content is never used because Sales doesn’t see the relevance. It’s a profit windfall.

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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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Heinz Marketing

MAY 16, 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. how CMOs can avoid common pitfalls through innovation.

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