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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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The 90-Day CMO and Cross-Channel Acquisition Strategies That Scale

Duct Tape Marketing

Key Takeaway: In today’s complex marketing landscape, Ryan emphasized the vital role of a fractional CMO in steering your business towards success. Questions I ask Ryan Stewart: [00:47] How do you define fractional CMO? [03:18] 03:18] What are the main challenges for those attempting the fractional CMO model? [07:17]

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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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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. percent), while having the right operating model is in second place (19.4 The CMO Survey Award for Marketing Excellence is selected by fellow marketers.

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The marketing ROI problem has its roots in marketing culture

Martech

In the fall 2023 CMO survey , CMOs report Increased pressure from the CFO to properly report and improve marketing ROI. For most marketing functions there are two primary roadblocks to effective internal promotion and to developing ROI measures that the CFO and CEO can buy into. The costs of brand development add up.

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Pandemic Exacts Toll: Digital Strategies Pay Off and Marketers Expect them to Pay Forward

The CMO Survey

Against this backdrop, The CMO Survey conducted a Special Covid-19 Edition survey, asking marketing leaders at U.S. Planned marketing hiring drops to the lowest point in CMO Survey history, going negative for the first time ever with average hiring predicted to be -3.5% Marketing leadership promoted : 62.3% in the next year.

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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? AI will take over the enforcement of brand guidelines and AI agents will handle brand promotion and basic PR. The CMO position may be eliminated in the organization in the future.

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