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Marketing Strategy

The Top 7 Digital Media Trends CMOs Need to Keep Up With in 2023

In today's fast-paced digital world, keeping up with media trends is essential for businesses to stay relevant and competitive. This article covers seven trends that are particularly relevant for CMOs.

Customer Experience

Why a CXO Alone Won't Solve Your CX Problems

If you're concerned about your company's customer experience, don't just throw a CXO into the fray and expect that person to fix it. Leaders need buy-in from all departments to improve customer experience.

Career Development

The Top Skills Among B2B Marketers on LinkedIn

Which skills are the most common for B2B marketers to list on their LinkedIn profiles? To find out, researchers at the professional social network examined LinkedIn 2023 data for marketers who work for 1,000 B2B companies around the world.

Career Development

The Average Tenure of CMOs at Big Companies

How long have chief marketing officers been on the job at large enterprises and advertisers? What are the backgrounds of those CMOs? To find out, Spencer Stuart looked at the data.

Marketing Management

How to Find and Nurture the Entrepreneurs in Your Company

Your organization's greatest innovations have yet to be discovered. Who's going to discover them? Your sales team's entrepreneurs. So, find and nurture your brightest problem-solvers. Here's how.

Career Development

The Digital Marketing Jobs That Will Be Disrupted Most by AI

Digital marketers say the industry roles that will likely be disrupted most by artificial intelligence are content writers, email marketers, and social media managers, according to recent research from Authority Hacker.

Communications

Five Tips for Effective Communication With Distributed Teams

Zoom fatigue? You may be missing those water-cooler conversations. Feeling confused? You might need a video call to give you some visual cues. This article offers five tips for healthy communication with a remote team.

Career Development

The Responsibilities and Backgrounds of Copywriters

What do copywriters do? What are their educational backgrounds? Which skills do employers expect them to have? To find out, Semrush analyzed 400 copywriter job postings on Indeed.com.

Marketing Management

What We've Got Here, Marketers, Is a Failure to Communicate (Marketing's Value)

Forget bragging about Marketing-qualified leads or social media likes. To keep our jobs, marketers have to learn to communicate Marketing's value in terms that matter to senior management.

Career Development

Want to Beat the Average CMO Tenure? Remake Your Role.

The secret to performing successfully as a CMO—and extending your tenure—is being adaptable to the company's needs. This article provides some suggestions for getting there.

Marketing Management

CEOs' Must-Haves for Their Marketing Teams

Instead of looking at the marketing department as a standalone function, CEOs need to construct a marketing team that benefits all areas of the organization. Here's how.

Career Development

LinkedIn Data: The 10 Most In-Demand Marketing and Sales Skills

Social media expertise is the most in-demand marketing skill and customer service expertise is the most in-demand sales skill, according to recent research from LinkedIn.

Marketing Strategy

How Confident Are Senior Marketers in Their Capabilities?

Among their many marketing and media capabilities, senior marketers are most confident in their ability to target customers and are least confident in their third-party data analyses, according to recent research.

Marketing Strategy

Five Trends Reshaping B2B Marketing Leadership in 2023

From an uncertain economy to new customer expectations, the B2B marketing function—and the job of the B2B CMO—is shifting, quickly. Here's how to make sure those changes lead to better marketing and faster growth.

Career Development

Four Ways Marketers Can Increase Their Productivity

The trials of remote work and multiple meetings can make being productive more difficult than ever. Check out these four tips for increasing your productivity.

Marketing Management

Three Ways to Help Women Join the Ranks of Agency Owners

Women make great marketers. So why do so few of them own marketing agencies? This article presents possible ways to solve that problem.

Career Development

Unlearn So You Can Succeed: Why (And How) You Should Rewrite Your Playbook

It seems natural to move beyond ways of thinking that haven't worked. But business leaders also need to be able to let go of tactics that have worked in the past so they can start fresh in a new role.

Career Development

2023 Salary Guide: Pay Forecasts for Marketing, Content, and PR Positions

The median starting salary for a corporate chief marketing officer in the United States is expected to be $175,500 in 2023, according to recent research from Robert Half.

Marketing Management

The State of Ethnic Diversity in the Marketing Industry

The marketing and advertising industries are steadily becoming more ethnically diverse, though some segments are still significantly underrepresented in senior-level positions, according to recent research.

Career Development

How Much Content Marketers Make: Salaries for Seven Positions

How much do content marketers make in 2022? To find out, Managing Editor surveyed 305 content marketers, most of whom are based in the United States.

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