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If I could double your email revenue, would you listen to me?

Martech

The problem is real — media spend is falling out of balance Companies are spending less on marketing overall, according to Gartner’s 2024 global CMO survey. If you’re the CMO or VP of marketing, ask whether your transactional programs come close to that standard. The average marketing budget is 7.7%

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CMO Spotlight | Dan Csont - Corpay

Set Up

The CMO Spotlight is a chance to get an inside look into the minds and journeys of high-performing marketing leaders. Some people I've noticed over the years, if they get promoted too quickly or they get too single-threaded, then they aren't able to expand, do more things, and you can build a bigger house on a bigger foundation.

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Stop defending your marketing budget — start proving its value

Martech

Let’s be honest: seeing Gartner’s latest CMO spending report probably made your stomach drop. Only 24% of CMOs feel confident about their 2024 funding. One CMO reduced her martech spend by 40% and saw lead quality improve. Marketing budgets are down 15% year-over-year. They’ve stopped playing defense.

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CDP and customer experience: Best of the MarTechBot

Martech

For this prompt, try selecting the CMO persona. There are many possibilities, depending on the human user’s industry and main objectives: Before we start, in addition to your other context, you are CMO for a large consumer brand. Context) You are CMO for a large consumer brand.

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Marketers Spend on New Technologies While Battling Usage and Impact Challenges

The CMO Survey

The 32 nd edition of The CMO Survey examines reoccurring questions related to marketing spending and performance, marketing leadership, and marketing jobs. of companies reporting this change, followed by “changing partners” (42.9%), “changing marketing promotions” (40.3%), and changing distribution (33.6%). two years ago.

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The Future of Marketing: 50 CMO Quotes On How Marketing Has Changed

Marketing Insider Group

The following marketing quotes from todays leading CMOs and Marketing influencers describe their pandemic experiences and how they’ve adapted to this extreme culture shock. Four major marketing trends emerge from these CMO quotes: Communicating to connect (not promote). Perseverance. Giving back.

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Banking on Social: How to Build a Social Media Budget & Spend Smarter in 2025

Hubspot Marketing

S ocial commerce, sponsored content, and advertising: This includes managing in-platform product sales and promotion, working with influencers or creators , and running paid ad campaigns. Miscellaneous expenses: This includes social media giveaways, contests, and other promotions that hold monetary value or require additional resources.