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Early stage B2B tech startups don’t invest enough in marketing [peer-reviewed study]

Sword and the Script | B2B

Those companies that are in the early stages of a startup building a product stand to gain “the greatest” valuation benefit from marketing About half (45%) of all B2B technology startups make no effort to market their products. That’s according to a new paper published in a peer-reviewed journal by two academics Gary L.

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Executive Insights: A Marketing Transformation Conversation with CMO Advisor Kathleen Schaub

Marketing Insider Group

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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3 marketing motions successful B2B software companies do differently than peers

Sword and the Script | B2B

The results suggest there are three marketing motions successful B2B software companies do differently than their peers: they experiment with marketing often, they think about marketing measurement more and they do more marketing in-house. >>> Sword and the Script Media can help with B2B marketing, PR and social media.

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Radical Candor: The CMO’s Guide to Fearless Feedback

Drew Neisser

At the heart of transformative leadership lies a powerful concept: Radical Candor. For B2B CMOs, adopting Radical Candor can be a game-changer. In this episode, Kim Scott herself applies the principles of Radical Candor to the unique challenges of the CMO role. Interested in being part of the conversation?

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An Essential Guide to B2B Marketing Metrics That Matter

Marketing Insider Group

What is the measure of your B2B marketing campaign’s success? As a CMO or director of digital marketing, you can use a handful of B2B marketing metrics to answer them. Quick Takeaways: If you’re not tracking B2B marketing metrics, you are playing a guessing game, with a likelihood of more losses than hits.

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CMO Coffee Talk ‘Aha! Moment’: 5 Words Driving 2022 Event Strategy for Leading B2B CMOs

6sense

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. . Word #1: Small . Word #3: Brand .

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If content is king, why is treated like a pauper?

B2BMarketing.net

Whilst B2B marketers know that content is important to their strategy, the truth is that pressure from above, the internal perception of marketing’s role, complexity around global campaigns, and lack of investment are all leading to content that lacks the focus and impact that is needed to clearly and demonstrably drive growth.