Author: ai7pz
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A few months ago, I published a post arguing that marketers who want to improve the effectiveness of personalized marketing should focus primarily on making personalization pragmatically useful to recipients. This argument was based on the results of several research studies, including a 2018 survey by Gartner/CEB that polled more than 2,500 consumers in North…
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In 2013, Scott Brinker, Hubspot’s VP Platform Ecosystem, and the author of the widely-read Chief Marketing Technologist blog, published a post that introduced Martec’s Law. In essence, Martec’s Law states that technology changes at an exponential (very fast) rate, but organizations change at a logarithmic (much slower) rate. (See Scott’s graph below.) The rapid development…
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Measuring performance has been a major feature of the business landscape ever since double entry accounting made its appearance in the 14th or 15th century. “You can’t manage what you can’t measure” is one of the most widely-repeated cliches in the business world, and it’s been an article of faith for several generations of executives…
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The findings of the August edition of The CMO Survey by Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business, the American Marketing Association, and Deloitte were published a few days ago. The latest results are based on responses from 341 marketing leaders at U.S. B2B and B2C companies. Sixty-four percent of the respondents were affiliated with B2B…
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One of the marketing thought leaders I pay close attention to is Mark Schaefer. Mark is the author of several highly-regarded books and the principal author of the widely-read {grow} blog. Last month, Mark published a blog post arguing that today’s marketers are working in a world dominated by malignant complexity. Mark wrote that malignant…
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In my last post, I discussed some of the major findings from the State of Original Research for Marketing 2019 survey by Mantis Research and BuzzSumo. This research found that a substantial number of companies have made original research an integral part of their marketing efforts. Sixty-one percent of the survey respondents who had conducted…
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A few days ago, Mantis Research and BuzzSumo published the results of their latest survey regarding the use of original research in marketing. The State of Original Research for Marketing 2019 survey was fielded in May and June of this year and produced 644 responses from global marketers. Forty-seven percent of the respondents were from…
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In the February 2019 edition of The CMO Survey, senior marketing leaders were asked what marketing leadership activities they find most challenging. The top challenge identified – by a wide margin – was demonstrating the impact of marketing activities on financial outcomes to other senior company leaders. Measuring the performance and financial impact of marketing…