Demand for Results Pushes Marketing Budgets Down

It is evident that traditional marketing channels have been hit the hardest when CMOS shift major parts of their budgets to digital media. The shift to digital marketing reflects changing media consumption habits among target audiences and potential customers. The process of the customer journey is rapidly changing. The customer’s journey now includes a range of digital touchpoints which interplay and integrate with each other. Financial management credentials must be accounted for at every touchpoint a customer is expected to enter and exit. Beyond that, CMOs will shift their focus from analytics that reflects marketing and advertising efforts to effectiveness and results of these efforts. Digital channels are built to feed metric requirements given by CMOs. Such channels also facilitate easy calculations in marketing program performance in terms of reach, engagement, and conversion. However, the multichannel journey is a work in progress as it demands that marketing leaders go further than channel performance metrics and challenges to employ advanced analytics and answer vague marketing ROI questions.

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Chief Nation

We manage a number of cross-industry brands through our B2B marketing consultancy including; CEO.digital (thought leadership portal); Chief Wine Officer, Chief Golf Officer, Chief Gin Officer (VIP networking experiences) and our Nation Decision-Maker Communities including; Finance Nation, Retail Nation, Mobile Nation, Media Nation, Gaming Nation, Social Nation, Risk Nation, etc.

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COLLABORATIVE ABM: BEYOND SALES & MARKETING ALIGNMENT

whitePaper | November 20, 2019

As we asserted in our recent white paper, Humanizing the Account Based Marketing Experience, marketing/sales duo that don’t respect each other can torpedo even the best Account Based Marketing (ABM) program. While many of today’s account based marketing and sales strategies are powered by technology and AI, the human element (knowing who your customers and prospects are at a deep level) is critical.

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Data and Tech: Enterprise B2B Marketing Priorities for 2023

whitePaper | January 13, 2023

With an uncertain economy, marketers at B2B enterprises are scrutinizing their 2023 strategy to get as much mileage out of their approach as possible. In our recent survey with Ascend2, we found that data is a major focus as is an investment in technology. We found that 78% of large B2B marketing organizations (those with more than 1000 employees) experienced growth of 10% or more in 2022. After two years of marketing during a pandemic, many B2B brands found their footing in 2022 with a heavier reliance on digital channels and renewed spending from clients ready to move forward.

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B2B Trends: How Intent Data Can Boost Marketing Results

whitePaper | August 23, 2022

To achieve success in today’s digital world, marketers need to collect, analyze and master intent data. But what exactly is intent data and how can organizations use this information to close deals? To answer these questions, we’ve recruited a team of B2B marketing experts to share their tips, tricks and insights on intent data. The result is our free e-book, “B2B Trends: How Intent Data Can Boost Marketing Results.” In it, you’ll discover not only the trends behind intent data, but what actual marketers like you are doing to use it.

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Delivering Frictionless Customer Experience

whitePaper | October 5, 2022

Our relationships with brands naturally change over time, and the radical, accelerated digital evolution of consumer behavior and expectations over the past two years only serves to underscore the need for instant gratification. Not long ago, CX professionals focused in large part on behavioral differences between generations—Millennial or Gen Z versus Boomer. But today’s CX behaviors and the challenges associated with them transcend generations. The pandemic has transformed most of us into digital natives.

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Devenir un distributeur numérique: guide et modèle de maturité

whitePaper | December 9, 2022

Le modèle d’affaires traditionnel du secteur du commerce de gros et de la distribution n’est pas viable. Le temps presse, les distributeurs doivent transformer leur modèle d’affaires. Notre rapport complémentaire de leadership éclairé « Les impératifs de transformation dans le secteur du commerce de gros et de la distribution »

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As ABM Programs Mature, Practitioners Are Building Stronger Relationships & Generating Better ROI

whitePaper | December 23, 2022

ABM gets better with age - but unfortunately, practitioners don't have the luxury of pouring it into an oak barrel for a couple decades to let it mature. Demand Gen Report's "2022 ABM Benchmark Survey" uncovered that 59% of experienced practitioners (those with ABM programs more than a year old) indicated their ABM programs are meeting or greatly exceeding their expectations, while only 45% of novices (those with ABM programs less than one year old) could say the same.

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Chief Nation

We manage a number of cross-industry brands through our B2B marketing consultancy including; CEO.digital (thought leadership portal); Chief Wine Officer, Chief Golf Officer, Chief Gin Officer (VIP networking experiences) and our Nation Decision-Maker Communities including; Finance Nation, Retail Nation, Mobile Nation, Media Nation, Gaming Nation, Social Nation, Risk Nation, etc.

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