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Are You Ready to Be a Fractional CMO?

Duct Tape Marketing

Are You Ready to Be a Fractional CMO? written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing The Duct Tape Marketing Podcast with John Jantsch In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast, I do a solo show exploring the misconceptions surrounding the role of the Fractional CMO.

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Stop defending your marketing budget — start proving its value

Martech

Let’s be honest: seeing Gartner’s latest CMO spending report probably made your stomach drop. Marketing budgets are down 15% year-over-year. Only 24% of CMOs feel confident about their 2024 funding. This sparked doom-and-gloom predictions about marketing’s diminishing role in 2025.

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Holistic Marketing Works — Here's How You Can Apply It to Your Campaigns [+ Expert Tips]

Hubspot Marketing

Now, when I lecture marketing students at my alma mater, I couldn’t imagine not thinking holistically about marketing. The marketing function keeps expanding, as Deloitte’s Spring 2024 CMO Survey affirmed. And marketing must help other departments and the entire company accomplish its goals and objectives.

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How wisdom makes AI more effective in marketing

Martech

It’s reasonable to infer that many of those laid off were in marketing and customer service roles, where AI is handling many more tasks. Despite AI’s powerful marketing tools, something crucial is often overlooked — the accumulated wisdom of experienced workers and established processes.

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Why buyer groups matter in B2B demand gen and how to target them

Martech

Traditionally, marketers focused on the buyer journey as if a single person handled research, evaluation and final selection. This approach assumed that targeting a CEO, CFO or CMO would likely result in a sale. In B2B demand generation , buyer groups have become more important than individual buyers.

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The hard truth about what AI will do to GTM

Martech

Dig deeper: It’s time for B2B marketing to understand its GTM role From vendor-driven GTM to buyer-controlled AI B2B companies have relied on marketing to capture attention and create demand, sales to convert leads into opportunities and customer success to drive retention and expansion. What replaces it? What replaces it?

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Solving the Marketing Leadership Gap for Small Business

Duct Tape Marketing

So the traditional solutions, I already talked about them. John Jantsch (02:27.416) that's probably going to be very focused on execution, hire full-time marketing leader, maybe a CMO or fractional CMO, maybe pretty expensive. Clear path, aligned goals, customer needs. We need to hire some marketing leadership.

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