Martech

MARCH 18, 2025

The rise of the AI-driven buyer For decades, B2B GTM strategies relied on persuasion-based marketing and sales motions lead generation, content marketing, consultative sales and vendor-led buyer enablement. The B2B GTM organization will unify under a chief commercial officer and the CMO role will significantly decrease.

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Welcome Software

AUGUST 3, 2024

I'm thrilled to announce the promotion of Shafqat Islam from CMO to President of Optimizely. In this expanded role, Shafqat will oversee product and engineering in addition to marketing, bringing a holistic approach to our solutions.

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Welcome Software

JANUARY 17, 2025

By tracking content marketing metrics, you turn the lights on; you get all the information you need to make sure your marketing efforts (and marketing budget) never go to waste. Organic traffic indicates how visible your content is in the SERPs, and your content's SEO effectiveness.

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Marketing Insider Group

JUNE 29, 2020

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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Martech

OCTOBER 14, 2022

And it makes sense to have a savvy individual in the driver’s seat to ensure that your marketing efforts dovetail together, connect with your KPIs and overall business goals and move the organization forward. However, most likely, you don’t need a CMO. What is a chief marketing officer (CMO)? What is a CMO?

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Martech

DECEMBER 27, 2022

Look for more enterprises to adopt composable architectures in 2023 to mitigate the costs of digital transformation. AI will also increasingly be used for content marketing. But this will trigger a backlash long-term and a return to content basics. Dig deeper: No–code tools are transforming marketers into makers.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

MAY 10, 2016

Meanwhile, other marketers were prepping for an intense day of learning with Marketo University Day and Certification exams. Digital Transformation for Tomorrow’s Marketer. To start, Phil reflected on what marketing looked like 10 years ago—when Marketo was founded. And, it’s already begun.

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Marketing Insider Group

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

CMOs have a lot to wrangle within the next two years. Facilitating transformation initiatives – which entails guiding and empowering teams. And, continuing to push for a better alignment of marketing with overall business strategy.

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Hubspot Marketing

OCTOBER 22, 2024

After years of struggling to prepare reports for my marketing campaigns, I discovered how AI reporting can truly transform the process — and empower creativity with data-backed strategies. For example, he asked the tool to create a chart demonstrating how different topics performed in the email marketing channel.

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 20, 2024

These changes are about meeting the new expectations of your customers, and if you adapt, youll thrive Table Of Contents: Marketing Trends 2025: What to Expect 1. AI-Driven Marketing Orchestration 5. AI in Marketing: A Tool for Growth or a Threat? Thats just where we are right now. MLaaS fills that gap. Lets connect.

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Marketing Insider Group

JUNE 8, 2020

I had the great pleasure to work with Michael Brenner while in SAP North America Field Marketing and later in SAP Global Marketing. His work in both Thought Leadership and Content Marketing constituted early-stage pioneering work in what we now know as “ modern marketing ”.

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Martech

APRIL 3, 2023

The challenge in writing about content marketing experts is they’ve likely already written it and written it better. They write and produce content, they talk about it at conferences and they know where it’s going and why. If you want your content to connect, these are the people who can tell you how. followers) A.

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Hubspot Marketing

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Brand content bylined by or featuring industry experts (e.g., 90% of marketers report their experiences are at least somewhat personalized, with moderate or serious increases in sales coming from personalization. Content Marketing Institute ) Email marketing reigns supreme, with 34% of marketers using it in their strategies.

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Marketing Insider Group

SEPTEMBER 19, 2013

Recently I was asked for my thoughts on some of the top challenges and questions on content marketing. Marketers and brands are trying to understand content marketing and how to execute successful content marketing programs. What are the most common mistakes brands make with content marketing?

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Rock Content

DECEMBER 11, 2020

You work a lot every day to achieve the best results with Content Marketing. You can get some by following the best Content Marketing blogs on the internet. Content Marketing Institute. The CMI was founded by none other than Joe Pulizzi, one of the creators of Content Marketing itself.

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Marketing Insider Group

JUNE 18, 2015

Content marketing can help. The Lincoln Motor Company, Land Rover and Cadillac are three automotive brands that have struggled in recent years with brand identity, and now are leveraging content marketing to transform their perception and engage new, desired audiences. Uwe Ellinghaus, CMO, Cadillac.

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Orbit Media Studios

JANUARY 8, 2025

For example, a quote about a specific transformational employee interaction could signal customer satisfaction on your home page, but it could also provide evidence for your career page, corroborating claims about the impact your team members have on their community.” What Do Experienced Marketers Do Differently? Yes, please!

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Hubspot Marketing

JANUARY 4, 2021

Jake Milstein , CMO at CI Security , told me: "When the pandemic hit, there was a huge spike in registrations and attendance in virtual events that attempted to mimic in-person events. Soon, marketers will be able to go all-in on what will work best without having to test the theory.". Digital marketing spend will continue to grow.

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Businesses Grow

MAY 5, 2025

AI is creating iterative improvements but I am not TRANSFORMING. As far as I knew, this had been my first contact with him, and the email was signed with his name and title — he was the CMO of a Fortune 100 company. Yet the foundation of my business is Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and a WordPress blog/website. This is CRUDE.

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Search Engine Land

JULY 24, 2024

Meaning, SEO in the context of content marketing or SEO in the context of brand marketing. I’m excited about our upcoming ‘big rock campaigns’ such as the ebook for marketing leaders, ‘Diary of a first-time CMO.’” This diary is equal parts search content, social, multimedia, community building and more.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 14, 2024

How to Hire a Fractional CMO: The Smart Way to Scale written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing Are you looking at your business goals and feeling your marketing strategy just isn’t cutting it? This is where hiring a fractional CMO can make a significant difference. Where can I find a fractional CMO?

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 18, 2024

As we look ahead to the future of marketing in 2025, I dive into why traditional solutionslike hiring agencies or fractional CMOsoften fall short and what businesses must do to implement a long-term marketing strategy that drives sustainable business growth. We need to hire some marketing leadership. Hire an agency.

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Marketing Insider Group

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

What does a good content marketing strategy look like? Why is content marketing king? Whether you are new to the riveting world of content or are a self-ascribed expert (i.e. content addict), there is always more to learn. You may have noticed that we’re talking about more than a marketing tactic.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

AUGUST 30, 2010

In that short time, we’ve transformed the marketing automation industry with our vision of powerful, revenue-focused software that’s also fast to implement and easy to use, and helped more than 650 companies accelerate their revenue growth. Tags: Accountability Modern B2B Marketing. The New Demand Center.

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Martech

MAY 9, 2024

How the rise of the marketing generalist will impact marketing organizations and workflows AI has the potential to radically transform today’s typical marketing organization and to wipe out the typical campaign flow as every marketer becomes a marketing generalist and takes over most of the work done today in silos.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

MARCH 24, 2011

I wasn’t surprised to hear how many CMOs say that thinking and acting like a business leader is one of the characteristics most integral to their success. I’ve written about the role of a “true” marketing leader before. As business leaders, CMOs must earn their seat at the revenue table with other C-level executives and board members.

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Marketing Insider Group

JUNE 4, 2013

Along the way since then, studies indicated that Marketing leaders felt unprepared for the changes that had come. And we’ve seen the increasing level of discussions on how marketing was evolving into content marketing and employing social business strategy.

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Consult with Ease: Personalize Your Customer Stragtegy Using AI written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing The Duct Tape Marketing Podcast with David Edelman In this episode of the Duck Tape Marketing Podcast, I had the pleasure of interviewing David Edelman , a seasoned digital transformation and marketing expert.

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Marketing Insider Group

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

The global pandemic significantly accelerated digital transformation. This has radically transformed marketing, which was already well along on the path of marketing transformation. We are in the era of digital-first marketing.

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Martech

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Whether you’re an old hand or just starting, you’ll find advice that you can use to improve SEO, content marketing, social media strategy, email marketing and more. The CMO Podcast Host Jim Stengel is a true marketing legend.

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Marketing Insider Group

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

As mainstream media continues to shrink and tech press primarily focuses on the biggest companies, Nutanix needed to find ways to effectively raise its profile in order to remain successful in a highly competitive and transformative industry, according to Jennifer Massaro, senior director of Public Relations and executive director of The Forecast.

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Hubspot Marketing

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Thats what happens when marketers ignore keyword intent, which is the missing element of the puzzle. Knowing not just what your audience is searching for but also why they want the information can transform your content strategy. Table of Contents What is keyword intent? Below, Ill share my deep dive into keyword intent.

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Martech

APRIL 19, 2023

Over the last several years, I’ve written frequently about the lack of CMO engagement in technology strategy and management. I’m now starting to see CMOs actively participating in strategy discussions, working hand in hand with their tech lead to make decisions about what to acquire and what to retire. drove this home.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JUNE 7, 2019

Automation is making waves in the business world as more and more companies are moving towards digital transformation. Companies are allocating large sums of their marketing budgets for technology investments that promise to make their teams more productive and the business more profitable. Marketing automation is creating new roles.

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Marketing Insider Group

OCTOBER 13, 2011

Here is a summary of the survey that includes my take on what you can do right now to stay ahead of the curve…and a final comment on the use of Thought Leadership in Content Marketing. Source: IBM "Global CMO Study" (Oct., The report states: “The digital revolution is transforming the marketplace.

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Marketing Insider Group

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

That’s why in this Future of Marketing series, we are looking for the guidance and advice from the best minds in our industry. I started with my own prediction that the future of marketing lies in our ability to transform the entire enterprise into a truly social business. Tell us about some tough marketing challenges?

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Content Marketing Institute

AUGUST 10, 2018

Editor’s note: Glenn LaFollette is a finalist for 2018 Content Marketer of the Year. We’ll share insights from CMY finalists in the blog before the winner is announced at Content Marketing World this September. Content is never just content. Today, he’s the senior manager of brand strategy.

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