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How to Win Market Share with a Customer-Centric Lens

May 18, 2021

For B2B sales and marketing teams, competitive analysis is a foundational process that reinforces and clarifies business cases or campaign roadmaps by identifying gaps and potential differentiators. A competitive analysis has become essential to developing and identifying a winning strategy for growth and success—essential when, on average, a business can have 25 direct competitors. In the traditional sense, this would equate to an analysis of competitors, their products, and their messaging. But does that serve the purpose of identifying competitive gaps, or the ultimate goal of winning market share through displacement? Effective competitive displacement and competitive analysis need to be customer-centric above all else.

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CDM Media

CDM Media is leading B2B technology marketing and media firm that specializes in engagement with C-level executives. Our portfolio spans custom events, integrated media, social and mobile strategies, and our most prominent product, intimate summits that we produce all over the world. At these summits, we inspire lightbulb moments to our niche communities of C-suite executives and bottom line impact for our technology space providers. CDM Media’s communities span the following product portfolios.

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Almost a decade ago, McKinsey Global Institute found that data-driven organizations are not only 23 times more likely to acquire customers, but also six times as likely to retain customers, and 19 times more profitable than their competitors. Yet in 2021, NewVantage Partners found that “only 24% of organizations are data-driven.” With the velocity, volume, and variety of data, it is not easy to go from data to insights to action. Organizations struggle with bad data, siloed data, and multiple versions of the truth. No longer is it about having enough data, the focus is on having the right data and knowing what to do with it once you do.

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Lead Management for Cloud Offering

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As ABM adoption spreads, marketers find new value in data-driven insights

whitePaper | October 31, 2022

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whitePaper | January 27, 2022

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whitePaper | October 20, 2022

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CDM Media

CDM Media is leading B2B technology marketing and media firm that specializes in engagement with C-level executives. Our portfolio spans custom events, integrated media, social and mobile strategies, and our most prominent product, intimate summits that we produce all over the world. At these summits, we inspire lightbulb moments to our niche communities of C-suite executives and bottom line impact for our technology space providers. CDM Media’s communities span the following product portfolios.

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