9 Common Mistakes non-marketing execs make

9 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐨𝐧 𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐤𝐞𝐬 non-Marketing execs and Board members make in marketing discussions (based on my last 4 years of 💯s of conversations): 1️⃣ Not having a clear understanding of marketing terminology, KPIs, metrics, and objectives 2️⃣ Viewing marketing solely as a cost...

ABM Marketing and the Role of Customer Support

When adding an Account Based motion to a lead based go-to-market motion, a common question is, ‘what will be our organizational impact – specifically to the Customer Support/Service function in working with Marketing?  What could be different from what we do...

What is a RACI framework for ABM?

A common question we get in our ABM/ABX enablement engagements is, ‘who owns what in an ABX environment?’ Let’s use a RACI framework – for definition sake, a RACI framework is a responsibility assignment matrix used in project management and business process...

My takeway learning from CMO Conferences in 2024

10 top themes at Pavilion CMO Summit this week (too many for one post). 𝐊𝐞𝐲𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐬: Alignment, Revenue, AI, Buyers Committee expanding, Process Building on yesterday’s thread (in comments if you missed it), the second top 3 moment was the community as a...

Pavilion Marketing Summit in NYC

“10 things I learned about CMO/Board relationships via Pavilion CMO Summit. Keywords: 𝐓𝐫𝐮𝐬𝐭. 𝐆𝐫𝐨𝐰𝐭𝐡 𝐒𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐠𝐲. 𝐏𝐢𝐩𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞. 𝐎𝐮𝐭𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐬. 𝐎𝐰𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐩. (This was 1 of 3 top presentations which I’ll summarize later on LinkedIn.) Kathleen Booth moderated an excellent...

Why CMOs should think like a CRO

CMOs should aim high and think like a CRO! (Actually all Marketers should think this way of this final Pavilion CMO preso – think in terms of revenue and tie your function to revenue outcomes). Wrapping up my 3rd and final hashtag#pavilionCMOsummit2024 in NYC LI...