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How BODs Can Architect Better Strategic Customer-Centric Designs | What’s Your Edge

Vision Edge Marketing

Sales-centric strategies concentrate on closing deals. Anyone who has ever worked in a Sales-centric company can appreciate the internal chaos this approach can create. 4 BOD Roles in Architecting and Designing Customer-Centricity What does this mean for a board of directors? They are all about making the number.

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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?

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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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The CMO Isn’t Dead: Mastering the Skills of the Modern Marketing Leader

Content Standard

So why the recent flurry of headlines pronouncing the death of the CMO? In reality, the CMO role is evolving, as it should , and companies are restructuring, as they do. Thankfully, I know very few CMOs who fit this description. Successful CMOs are effectively becoming customer ethnographers.

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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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What are Fractional CMO Rates?

The Marketing Blender

In the ever-evolving world of business, fractional CMOs (Chief Marketing Officers) have emerged as a popular choice for many organizations. A fractional CMO is a professional who offers their marketing expertise part-time or on a contract basis, providing businesses with strategic direction for a fraction of the cost of a full time executive.

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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 To Make Marketing An Invaluable Function

Marketing Craftmanship

By design or default, most marketers are so far removed from the revenue-generation function that they cannot claim to add value to it. In my experience, the sales team typically forgets to ask prospects how they’ve learned about the company or product. The Holy Grail of Sales and Marketing Alignment. This is no easy task.