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. But when your prospects are moving more slowly throughout their buying journey, our marketing leaders advise their peers to prioritize full-funnel engagement. “We

Lead Ranking 165

Lead Ranking Privacy Marketing Automation Services Peer-to-peer 165

Martech

APRIL 12, 2024

As a supporter of the program perspective for initiatives, I recognize the value of managing related projects, products and activities as a unified entity. Let’s explore the essential role of programs in product management, project management and marketing operations, bridging technical details with business priorities.

Budget Programs 105

Budget Programs Work Management Allocation Product 105

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.

Zoominfo 100

Zoominfo CMO Marketing Analytics Tools Enterprise Management 100

Go Beyond SEO

MAY 14, 2022

Whether your marketing is directionless or you need more financial resources to invest in a solid strategy, here are four signs it’s time to consider a fractional chief marketing officer (CMO). Your Sales Team Is Creating Their Own Marketing Materials. Your sales team may be great or your sales team may be YOU.

CMO 78

CMO Planning Paid Search Agency Lock-In 78

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. Align sales and marketing with SLAs. sales teams more likely to grow. Neither is hesitation.

CMO 176

CMO SWOT Advertising Agencies Budget Programs 176

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?

CMO 98

CMO Paid Search Agency Marketing Budget Creation Marketing Budget 98

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.

CMO 109

CMO Relevance Enterprise Management Peer-to-peer 109

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.

CMO 100

CMO Marketing Attribution Multi-Touch Attribution Lead Scoring 100

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.

CMO 105

CMO PR Domain Network Marketing 105

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.

CMO 52

CMO Business Paid Search Agency Acquisitions 52

Lead Liaison

JANUARY 10, 2023

Determining ROI on events: Why are you operating blind? One of the biggest challenges event managers seem to have is determining the return on investment for the events they participate in. But, that doesn’t mean event managers and their teams don’t benefit from knowing what a customer or client is actually worth to the company.

Lead Liaison 98

Lead Liaison ROI Lead Capture Marketing Automation Services 98

Martech

MARCH 18, 2022

Brenner came to marketing from sales. “[M]ost I sold what was ‘in the sales bag.’” The CMO can be held accountable for the spend, but he must be able to speak to the CEO in terms they can understand. Marketing is about measuring customer engagement, not the repetition of a message, and showing how that drives sales.

ROI 124

ROI Paid Search Agency Advertising Agencies Planning 124

Martech

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Marketers must stop looking for a magic “predictable ROI” formula and embrace marketing’s complex realities, says Kathleen Schaub, an expert on modernizing marketing organizations. Schaub, a former tech CMO, led IDC’s CMO Advisory practice for nine years. “Investment portfolios [are] managed quite differently.

Conference 97

Conference ROI Terms and Conditions Planning 97

Marketing Insider Group

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

If you’re not sure how to respond, you should work on that relationship — especially if you’re the CMO. . Prove its ROI and show metrics that will measure its success. . CMOs need tangible support from engaged CEOs to continue to innovate and improve upon their marketing strategy. . The Conversation CMOs SHOULD Have With CEOs.

Marketing Agencies 2 341

Marketing Agencies 2 Paid Search Agency Advertising Agencies Enterprise Management 341

DiscoverOrg

APRIL 20, 2017

SiriusDecisions, a global B2B research and advisory firm, has historically identified data management proficiency in the following ways: Impact : Measures revenue, marketshare, and profit. Account-based sales intelligence includes a lot more than email lists. Bigger impact on sales enablement. Better demand generation.

ROI 269

ROI Top of Funnel Ideal Customer Profiles Marketing Management 269

Top Rank Marketing

OCTOBER 17, 2023

The panel included: Erik Newton , CMO at Hubilo Kathleen Abdeen , Director of Product and Field Marketing at Hubilo Laura Ramos – Vice President, Principal Analyst at Forrester Research It was great to see my longtime pal Laura Ramos from Forrester dive deep into the results of her research.

Webinar Metrics 109

Webinar Metrics Forrester Top of Funnel Research 109

Marketing Insider Group

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

That’s right, for just $8,000 per month, you can get a content marketing strategy , a year’s worth of content ideas , an SEO audit and keyword strategy , external link building, conversion funnel development, and paid promotion to reach all the new people you need to grow your business. Image: CMO Survey. billion in 2019.

Marketing Budget 294

Marketing Budget Paid Content Budget Programs Marketing Budget Creation 294

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….

Account Based Marketing 62

Account Based Marketing CMO ABM Peer-to-peer 62

Seismic

MAY 18, 2021

So, your company recently invested in a sales enablement solution. As is the case with any sales technology solution, once it’s up and running, my question as a CRO is, “Is it making my sellers more effective?” You’ll eventually need to measure and demonstrate its return on investment (ROI). CMO, Brand Management Company.

ROI 72

ROI Marketing Analytics Tools Sales Cycle Advertising Benchmark 72

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.

Sales Management 79

Sales Management Top of Funnel B2B Lead Ranking 79

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.

Top of Funnel 94

Top of Funnel Webinar Metrics Marketing Funnels Content 94

The Marketing Blender

MAY 4, 2021

The how and why of marketing ROI. You’ve probably heard the term thrown around a lot: ROI. It’s not always easy to calculate but getting an accurate read on your revenue ratios is the best path to understanding your marketing ROI. Average sale per customer. Number of sales needed. Sales & marketing alignment.

ROI 97

ROI Marketing Qualified Leads Sales Qualified Leads Lead Ranking 97

ViewPoint

MARCH 1, 2016

This is Part One of a two-part blog about how organizations with a complex sales process can improve accuracy in lead/revenue projections. Most ROI calculators I see published are flawed. In fact, buyers perceive value in interacting with sales at every stage of the buying process—even the early stages.

ROI 159

ROI Lead Ranking Marketing Qualified Leads MQL 159

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.

Validation 97

Validation Sales Qualified Leads Marketing Automation Services High Quality Lead 97

6sense

DECEMBER 1, 2021

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. . The CMO discussion revealed a few best practices: .

CMO 62

CMO Peer-to-peer Budget Programs Organization 62

Seismic

APRIL 11, 2019

The struggles behind how to attribute credit to marketing , high rates of turnover in the position, and difficulty creating proper expectations lead to the belief that being a CMO is a shaky ground to stand on. When I joined Seismic, I had never been the CMO before. Here is why: Getting your hands dirty.

CMO 61

CMO Peer-to-peer Enterprise Management Work Management 61

Vision Edge Marketing

JUNE 6, 2023

Along with the CSO and the Chief Marketing Officer (CMO), CGOs are tasked with identifying opportunities for growth. Now let’s compare and contrast the roles of CGOs and CMOs. In comparison to the CMO, the CGO has a broader focus. Customer-Centric Process Design : Businesses run on processes.

Touchpoints 184

Touchpoints CMO Work Management Cross-Selling 184

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.

CMO 75

CMO Enterprise Management Work Management Marketing Management 75

Modern B2B

JANUARY 30, 2024

Strategy first, tech second As a starting point, CMOs are adopting the underlying principle that the business strategy and processes should dictate the technology and not the other way around. Metrics can aid the decision-making process as outlined by one CMO.

Work Management 80

Work Management Marketing AI Marketing Management B2B 80

Parse.ly

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Last week, we brought together marketing executives Jary Carter , CRO of WordPressVIP , Lindsey Tishgart , CMO of InsightSquared , and Dave Cardiel , VP of Growth Marketing for WordPressVIP and Parse.ly , to learn how they budget for content. . How can we use content to remove friction from our customers’ buying process?

Top of Funnel 90

Top of Funnel Budget Programs Webinar Metrics ROI 90

6sense

FEBRUARY 17, 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… . Or some vino.

ROAS 62

ROAS CMO Peer-to-peer Allocation 62

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.

Top of Funnel 62

Top of Funnel Paid Search Agency Work Management Paid Content 62

Launch Marketing

DECEMBER 6, 2023

B2B marketing has never been more personalized and to continue to be effective, it must incorporate many trending and emerging tactics moving forward. Each article dives deep into specific product launches, best practices used and actionable tactics all marketing leaders can implement in their product launches.

Resources 136

Resources B2B Marketing Planning B2B 136

Heinz Marketing

JANUARY 29, 2019

I recently hosted our latest invite-only CMO Roundtable in Seattle. We partnered with Allocadia and our topic focused on Finance and Marketing Alignment with the CFO and CMO. Chris Pick , CMO from Apptio and Samantha Bannister , VP of Finance and Operations from Allocadia were the panelists who provided valuable insights.

CMO 67

CMO Marketing Attribution Work Management Marketing Budget 67

Content Standard

JUNE 28, 2019

Here’s what was missing from the 2014 conversation: an awareness of the pressure we marketers felt to prove content marketing ROI in our own departments by year’s end. “The results for both sales and retention have been huge for us.” Here are just a few of their strategies. Live and In-Person Events.

Top of Funnel 102

Top of Funnel ROI Sales Management Webinar Metrics 102

Golden Spiral

DECEMBER 22, 2021

How well are you measuring and reporting on the Return on Investment (ROI) from all of your digital marketing efforts? If you’re a CMO or key stakeholder for your company and you’re confused by the SEO or organic elements of digital marketing, keep reading. Reports will not offer just numbers, but also insight into your funnel.

ROI 62

ROI Paid Search Agency SEO Cost Per Thousand 62

Martech

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

It’s often used as a top-of-the-funnel tactic to attract prospects and turn them into leads or customers. The consumer buying cycle is an increasingly self-serve process scattered across multiple touchpoints. Content marketers are increasingly focused on other measures like engagement, conversion rates and ROI.

Digital Asset Management 132

Digital Asset Management Paid Content Work Management Marketing Management 132