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New Results from the Fall 2023 Edition of The CMO Survey

The CMO Survey

AI bolsters marketing returns, weaker Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion investments and impact, and brand activism shifts to hot-button societal issues are among the results of the Fall 2023 edition. Customer retention, customer acquisition, and brand value also increased, with brand value increasing dramatically from 6.3%

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Marketers Spend on New Technologies While Battling Usage and Impact Challenges

The CMO Survey

The 32 nd edition of The CMO Survey examines reoccurring questions related to marketing spending and performance, marketing leadership, and marketing jobs. with B2B companies growing faster (at 19.1%) than B2C companies (at 11.5%). Lagging are “changing market selection” (18.5%) and “changing brand” (10.1%). per year on average.

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Top Ten Results From The CMO Survey – August 2019

The CMO Survey

Here are my top ten results from the August 2019 CMO Survey. Consistent with this, marketing budgets as a percentage of overall firm budgets match the highest level in history of The CMO Survey at 12%, which is also 9.8% B2C companies are most likely to take a stance. B2C Services companies expect to hire the most at 8.6%.

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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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CMO of the Future: 5 Ways Marketing Leaders Are Stepping Up to Navigate Their New Destiny

Litmus

Businesses need CMOs more than ever before, but the role of the CMO itself has changed. Being a CMO is no longer simply about being great at marketing strategy: The CMO is now a direct influence on business growth and a critical driver of transformation. The evolution of the CMO. 5 essential CMO pivots.

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Marketing Spending and Hiring Growth Slows Amidst Economic Uncertainty

The CMO Survey

Results from the 30 th edition of The CMO Survey indicate that inflation and economic uncertainty are harming marketing spending as the C-suite retrenches and cuts costs. In the B2C Product sector, superior product quality is now ranked as the top customer priority by 41.2 While more than half of marketers reported a 10.4

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How to use TikTok for B2B marketing (and 3 brands doing it right)

Sprout Social

This new opportunity has revolutionized how B2C brands interact with their customers. Quite a few brands are trying to answer that question for themselves. Not all B2B companies may not be able to capitalize on those instant #TikTokMadeMeBuyIt B2C conversions, but that doesn’t mean they won’t get any value out of the network.

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