Here is a valuable blog today from what appears to be a US head of sales in how he views marketing in his business in a tech company contrasting to a non-tech company – it can be inferred from the post that marketing’s compensation is getting tied to revenue...
(Reposted from DemandGenReports Blog) When I recently attended Oracle’s Marketing Cloud kickoff event, where Oracle COO Mark Hurd gave his presentation to 100 of us, we had a chance to ask him questions at the conclusion. My question for him was, “how are you...
A colleague asked me to compare and contrast what marketing automation deployments we’ve seen prospect and customer wise – what their use case is relative to the gap with best practices. To execute on a need he had committed to a client, I came up with the following...
There is a need for B2B Marketing ROI yet we’re still not there. According to Adobe’s 2012 CMO report, fewer than 20% of executive B2B marketers have the ability to measure ROI. SiriusDecisions reported in  their 2012 CMO survey that CMOs number one concern was...
We’re still not yet hitting the full promise of what marketing 2.0 could be delivering on. In an informal poll of 3 CMOs of B2B companies with revenues from $50M to $5B, I asked about their progress with new revenue acquisition effectiveness around gaining bigger...
