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Why the Future of Marketing Depends on a C-suite Partnership for Long-term Growth

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To overcome this hurdle, CMOs shouldn’t focus on engagement, brand awareness, or sessions, but instead, embrace financial terms and metrics like: ROI. Customer lifetime value. Customer acquisition cost. Together, CMO and CHRO leadership can: Leverage marketing skills to attract talent for all positions.

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An Essential Guide to B2B Marketing Metrics That Matter

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As a CMO or director of digital marketing, you can use a handful of B2B marketing metrics to answer them. Here are some foundations of marketing metrics – key performance indicators (KPIs) used to measure marketing projects’ effectiveness. Customer Acquisition Cost (CAC). Qualified Lead Rate.

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How to Set And Align Goals for Agile Marketing Teams

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These are much more closely aligned to customer behavior, and are often measured via Customer Acquisition Cost , Pipeline , Revenue , Customer Retention , Churn etc. In some cases, the CMO outlines the company OKRs first, asking Marketing Owners to set their marketing goals based on that. There’s no right or wrong.

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What is Content Marketing, Really? (And Other Content Questions Answered)

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Once you have a strategy that’s clicking and you’re rolling out high-quality, meaningful content, you should pay attention to these content performance metrics. When defining your key performance indicators (KPIs) for content marketing efforts, it’s different from answering the question of ROI.