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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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Human + machine = marketing powerhouse: How AI empowers the marketing generalist

Martech

If AI can write, optimize and place content with the guidance of a generalist marketer, why have a content marketing group? Brand/PR will have fewer, higher-skill people. AI will take over the enforcement of brand guidelines and AI agents will handle brand promotion and basic PR.

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BEWARE of Fraudulent Fractional CMO services

GrowPowerful

As there's a rise in the popularity of leveraging Fractional CMO's to help companies grow, there's also a scam taking place that we keep seeing and frankly, have to clean up the mess. There is an immense growth in the popularity and adoption of Fractional CMO's in the B2B tech world. What's Happening? Who's to blame?

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Top 8 Questions to Quickly Evaluate a Fractional CMO

The Next CMO

Do they have the time and resources to hire a full-time Chief Marketing Officer (CMO)? Hiring the right fractional CMO (also known as an outsourced CMO or interim CMO) can address the time element and leverage the company’s ongoing momentum. Have they been both a full-time CMO and a fractional/outsourced CMO in the past?

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The Future of Marketing: 50 CMO Quotes On How Marketing Has Changed

Marketing Insider Group

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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CMO Confessions Ep. 37: Evy Lyons of Traackr

On24- CMO Confessions

We’re back with another episode of CMO Confessions, our B2B podcast with today’s marketing and sales leaders. Today’s CMO Confessions features Evy Lyons, CMO at Traackr. As always, you can find the full episode of CMO Confessions on Podbean here an edited transcript of our conversation below. Ecology Major to CMO.

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That time I received death threats in a brand Discord community

Businesses Grow

One of the worst PR meltdowns I have ever seen. “It’s a massive PR miss and potentially destructive to the brand. Finally, after 10 days, I received an email from the company’s outsourced PR team, Weber Shandwick. I wanted to know how this could have existed in the first place. So, this is bad.

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