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Why Companies Are Cutting the CMO Role (and What Happens Next)

Marketing Insider Group

The fractional CMO functions much like a typical CMO, except they function as a consultant. Some businesses are restructuring to have the CEO or CTO take on responsibilities for directing marketing campaigns. If you want to work with your fractional CMO on a periodic or per project basis, you can do that.

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Direct Marketing: What it is and 5 direct message marketing examples

Sprout Social

A new era of direct marketing is here. Direct marketing has come a long way since the first direct mail campaign in the 1800s. Even in the past few years, direct messaging channels enabled marketers to reach people in a more personalized, targeted way. What is direct marketing?

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Consultants Collective Profile: Ruth Stevens

Biznology

We’re pleased to present our latest featured profile, designed to introduce you to our member consultants, advisors, executive coaches, clients, partners and other extraordinary people. Ruth advises companies on go-to-market strategy, sales lead generation, customer and prospect data, content marketing and ABM.

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The Complete Guide to a Consulting Business

Hubspot

If you have, you’ve consulted with them. If you’re passionate about helping others succeed by providing niche expertise that’s been honed by years of education, experience, and skill development, a career consulting may be for you. We’ve compiled this guide to dig deeper into the wild, lucrative world of consulting.

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3 recent surveys predict B2B marketing budgets will get a boost in 2025

Sword and the Script | B2B

The top areas marketers plan to invest next year include the following: marketing technology – 54%; direct marketing – 36%; content marketing – 34%; branding – 29%; artificial intelligence – 22%; tradeshows & events – 21%; and public relations – 13%. Read more: 2025 B2B Marketing Mix Report by Sagefrog 3.

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4 Elements that drive B2B direct marketing results

Biznology

If you’re an experienced B2B direct marketer, this is probably not for you. In B2B, direct marketing copy leads the process, and finding a good direct marketing copywriter is almost as hard as going undefeated in the NFL. So with that in mind, this blog is focused on the basics. Like this post?

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Why you don’t want to close a sales letter with “For a free consultation …”

Direct Response Coach

If you have ever written a sales letter for any type of service business, chances are you finished your letter with a closing sentence that read something like this: For a free consultation, call me at (phone) or (email). Listen, we’ve [.].