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Five New Year’s Resolutions for the CMO

ANNUITAS

When he concluded his assessment, I asked, “What does your CMO (his boss) think of all of this?” Unfortunately, this sentiment isn’t limited to this isolated lunch conversation, but one that highlights the lack of effectiveness in many CMO offices today. The need for CMOs to step-up has never been greater than right now.

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Who is teaching the CMO how to sell?

ViewPoint

Her first book, " The Rise of the Revenue Marketer ® ," will be published in 2012. Who is teaching the CMO how to sell? ” Further, in companies in which marketing fully participates in the revenue cycle we see improved closed rates, lower cost of sale, and improved revenue results versus the competition.

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Key Takeaways from IDC’s 2012 CMO Advisory Service Best Practice Series: Realizing the Vision of the 21st Century Lead Management

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

by Dayna Rothman IDC recently released their 2012 CMO Advisory Service Best Practices Series: Realizing the Vision of the 21st Century Lead Management. Develop (nurture): promote prospects through the buying cycle by providing the right communication and engagement at each step. Productivity improvement.

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B2B Lead Generation: The Best of PowerViews

ViewPoint

Rich Vancil, IDC, talked about the need to focus on sales enablement as his advice to CMO’s for 2012: Click to start video at this point —In response to a CMO asking him for one area to focus on for the balance of 2012, Rich recommends sales enablement. Buying cycles are changing.

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32 Influential B2B Social Media Profiles (People) to Follow on Twitter

KoMarketing Associates

Research from Optify’s 2012 B2B Marketing Benchmark Report supports these statements. While the report reveals that, in 2012, social media as a whole brought in a smaller fraction (5%) of traffic and leads to B2B websites, it shows great potential. that advance the buying cycle: Founding member @savvy_b2b blog.”

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Average CMO Tenure Now 45 Months, Indicates Rise of the Digital Executive

Hubspot

According to an article published by The Wallstreet Journal , the average tenure of a CMO is now 45 months, nearly double the average tenure in 2006, when it was just 23.2 Sorofman describes these individuals as "digital CMOs," the folks who are leading corporate entities from their analog pasts to data-driven, cross-platform futures.

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50+ Statistics Designed to Influence B2B Marketing Budgets in the New Year

KoMarketing Associates

The CMO Survey” conducted by the Duke Fuqua School of Business found that marketers surveyed will spend 15.6 Duke University’s “CMO Survey,” indicated that CMOs plan to spend an average of 13.5 percent of their budgets on mobile marketing over the next three years. source ). percent within the next five years.