article thumbnail

Everyone Is Miserable. Nobody Cares. And Why That Matters To Your Business

Marketing Insider Group

Quick Take: Empathy in the workplace has a direct, positive correlation with engagement and business outcomes. But while cause marketing or purpose marketing is decidedly working, CMOs and business leaders are still reluctant to show empathy, take a stand, and speak out on controversial societal issues.

Business 348
article thumbnail

Romi Mahajan leaves Microsoft to Join Metavana as CMO

Buzz Marketing for Technology

Long time friend and well respected CMO buddy of mine Romi Mahajan is leaving Microsoft to join Metavana. My new role as CMO of Metavana, a soon to be launched social-sentiment engine, has all the elements of my dream job – People, Impact, Autonomy and direct correlation to both the Consumer and Enterprise spaces.

ROMI 100
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

How to be indispensable: The CMO’s cheat sheet

B2BMarketing.net

The subject of the interview was captured in the title, “From CMO to CEO: Journey to Destination.” Didier was the perfect interlocutor ; that rara avis whose previous roles included being CMO of other global, med-tech companies, he was uniquely poised to speak about the famously fraught relationship between the CMO and CEO functions.

article thumbnail

Renegade Marketing: 12 Steps to Building Unbeatable B2B Brands

Engagio

Being a B2B CMO today can really suck. No wonder a survey by Sitecore revealed that 49% of CMOs thought about quitting their jobs last year. So, after 450 CMO interviews and 4 years of torture testing, I’m thrilled to share my new book, Renegade Marketing: 12 Steps to Building Unbeatable B2B Brands. Way too much stuff.

article thumbnail

Sellers Have a New Challenge: To Ease an Increasingly Difficult Buying Journey

Mereo

They do not differentiate their solution or share a compelling value story of how it will make a difference for the buyer. The key was to minimize expense (hard dollars of marketing campaigns as well as staff cycles) while offering meaningful insights that the buyers ideally correlated with them as the trusted advisor.

Buy 41
article thumbnail

Three ways to use predictive analytics to grow your business

ClickZ

Using data points gleaned from previous campaigns (particularly, those data that help us understand what worked and what didn’t), plus all demographic information known about your customer base, you can build predictive models to draw correlations to link past behavior and demographics. If you’re not predicting, you’re losing ground.

article thumbnail

Use Buyer Persona Research To Improve B2B Customer Experience

Tony Zambito

Whereas in an age of hard to come by differentiation the actual product or service offering plus price combination accounts for only 20% of buying decisions. This 80/20 correlation is not a surprising revelation. These findings are consistent with others over the years. goes towards the 20% of decisions based on offerings and price.