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Is the Role of the B2B CMO Past Its Prime? Or Is It Just in Need of Some Re-positioning around Go-to-market Leadership?

ANNUITAS

There is perhaps no more challenging role in the C-suite than that of the Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) within a B2B organization. While the data on average tenure for CMOs changes each year, the consistent trend is that – among the C-suite – CMOs typically have some of the shortest tenure, well shorter than CEOs, CFOs and CIOs.

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Why you don’t need a CMO… yet

Martech

However, most likely, you don’t need a CMO. There are plenty of reasons to hold off on hiring an in-house CMO, ranging from the effect on your bottom line to a CMO’s inability to build successful marketing efforts without an established sales cycle to extrapolate from — let alone a team to build out content and campaigns.

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The Future of Marketing: 50 CMO Quotes On How Marketing Has Changed

Marketing Insider Group

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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How Sales Reps Can Use Generative AI to Sell Faster

Hubspot

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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6 tips to optimize lead handoff between marketing and sales

Rev

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?

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ANNUITAS Predicts – How Go-to-market Will Transform in 2024

ANNUITAS

But whether we are talking about well-thought-out ‘growth marketing’ programs or haphazard ‘inside-out,’ interruptive go-to-market tactics, random acts of marketing and sales are at a breaking point. Our ability to succeed through haphazard marketing and sales acquisition efforts is rapidly coming to an end.

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How Empathy Will Grow Your Sales and Marketing Pipeline

Marketing Insider Group

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.).