Meet today’s CMO: Multisport athlete
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The CMO’s role has been continuously evolving. The sheer volume and the speed of access to information have prompted a shift in B2B purchasing behaviors. With new channels and platforms regularly entering the landscape, the underlying technologies have evolved to follow an increasingly complex buyer journey and assist marketers doing business every day in the cross-channel environment.
Marketing technology is now indispensable to the CMO. The explosion of data and technology providers — enabled by the combination of the internet and cloud-based solutions — was supposed to solve the problems for today’s CMOs. Yet, in perhaps the greatest wake-up call for the competitive CMO’s career, we’re seeing a greater focus on revenue that requires a multidisciplinary approach to thrive in today’s competitive landscape.
Get out your cross-trainers! To deliver and win in today’s environment, the CMO must be a sales strategist as well as a media, advertising, content, data, product and technology expert.
The CMO is the multisport athlete inside the enterprise. Bo Jackson had only two professional sports under his belt. Forget “Bo Knows.” In marketing, it’s “Your CMO Knows.” The CMO of today exemplifies the business world’s equivalent of the ultimate multisport life.
Let’s start on the field with sales.
Developing a simpatico relationship for sales & marketing
An increased focus on revenue requires multiple disciplines working together. You can’t drive revenue unless these disciplines are better aligned to focus on performance.
The relationship between sales and marketing has always been key, but it’s now more critical than ever before. The complexity of today’s marketplace, and a shared understanding of what the B2B buyer is navigating, requires an even greater level of collaboration and compassion between the two.
If we lower the barricades on what has often felt like internal fiefdoms, we can easily see a shared challenge when it comes to impacting revenue. A simpatico relationship is a must. From the CMO’s vantage point, here are some things to consider as you aim to build a relationship with sales and truly understand each other’s perspective to achieve joint success.
• Feet on the street, ear to the ground: The feedback loop between sales and marketing may not be intact. It’s worth spending the time internally to set up a means for sharing feedback, between those facing the market and the client and those carefully monitoring and optimizing the journey from exposure to ultimate conversation.
Don’t just provide reports and analytics. Today’s CMO knows that to be effective, he or she must be hosting data-driven discussions with sales to arm them with market, media and account intelligence and help develop a more personalized sales approach to impact the pipeline.
• Leads, leads, leads: Often, marketing assumes that their job is done once they hand the leads over to sales. This is outdated thinking in the era of…
