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Optimizing Outcomes In Media Marketing $50 US*
Power Up Brand Growth With In-Flight Agility
Much is riding on your media marketing and advertising strategy. Driving sales, mostly. Brand loyalty and customer experience, too. CMOs really need to get this right. The problem is that the media landscape, chock full of digital channels, has become wildly unpredictable. Today’s CMO must be incredibly agile in order to successful navigate this environment. They have to be able to le...
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Digital Enterprise Execution: Ailing or Excellent? $50 US*
Are companies gaining business lift from the digital shift? According to a new survey of senior corporate executives, entitled “Digital Enterprise Execution: Ailing or Excellent?”, there’s unanimous validation of the business gains from digital transformation, but it’s not entirely due to strategic leadership from the corner office. An overwhelming 89 percent of survey res...
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Increase Your Pace in the E-commerce Race $50 US*
Rating the State of Consumer Supply Chains
With ecommerce expectations skyrocketing for rapid home delivery of consumer products, manufacturers and retailers are caught in a major supply and fulfillment dilemma. Legacy supply chains, often designed for in-store fulfillment, are not keeping pace with consumer demand and are no longer profitable. Faced with the unrelenting success of ecommerce giants like Amazon and Walmart, industry execut...
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Sparking MarTech Migration + Digital Innovation Progress Report $50 US*
Learnings and insights from EMEA marketing leader invention sessions held in Dubai, London and Johannesburg.
The CMO Council hosted three interactive EMEA roundtables with digital marketing transformation leaders in London, Dubai and Johannesburg. The discussions were focused on the Sparking MarTech Migration + Digital Innovation mandate and focused on the struggles to centralize, protect, share, and better use customer data, brand assets, market intelligence and best practice knowledge across their glob...
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Revenue Gain From The Local Demand Chain $50 US*
Using Digital Transformation to Power Partner + Field Marketing Performance
With limited digital marketing resources and expertise, local businesses are falling behind in digital transformation. They need a better understanding of digital marketing tactics such as search, social and online review management — critical areas for building brand awareness in an increasingly digitalized customer journey. There’s a big opportunity for national marketers to help lo...
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NextGen Events: Optimized for Outcomes $50 US*
Aligning Strategy, Teams and Tech for Success in a New Era of Events
Anxiously awaiting the return of in-person events, marketers are seizing the opportunity to reimagine event channel strategy. Next-gen events can drive depth and breadth of customer engagement that lead to better brand awareness, lead generation, retention and loyalty. Learnings over the last two years will inform a holistic view of events that are better aligned to marketing outcomes. By matchin...
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Gaining Lift From the Consumer Shift $50 US*
Insights into Buying Behavior During Covid and Beyond
How well do you know your customers? Over the last several years, the theme of “meeting customers where they are” has been top-of-mind, but the pandemic brought this to the forefront of every marketer’s strategy in a new way. When life as we know it comes to a startling halt, how can we continue to deliver customer-first experiences when the future feels so uncertain and bleak? T...
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Humanize + Optimize The Way You Recognize Every Customer + Contact $50 US*
Using Frictionless Biometrics Across All Channels of Engagement
Improving digital customer experience (DCX) is now a crucial business issue for brands. Consumers have flocked to digital channels since the start of the pandemic. Too often, they have encounted experiences that don’t satisfy, causing many to abandon transactions and take their business elsewhere. Very often, the problem is digital authentication and identity verification. More than 80 perce...
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Authentication Frustration $50 US*
How Companies Lose Customers in The Digital Age
One of the fastest ways to lose customers and revenue in the digital age is a painful and convoluted identity verification process. More than 6 out of 10 consumers report exiting online transactions due to problems verifying identity. Over 8 in 10 say they prefer to do business with companies and brands that make identity confirmation simple and safe with biometrics. This new report explores the ...
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Instant Interaction Driving Business Traction $50 US*
How the Live Mobile Chat Commerce Revolution Is Powering Fast, Frictionless Transactions, Secure, Lower Cost Customer Engagement and Stronger Brand Affinity
Chat Commerce is taking the world by storm. This emerging digital channel of engagement delivers fast and frictionless customer interactions with a brand’s chatbot or live agent conducted mostly over popular messaging platforms, such as Facebook Messenger and WhatsApp. It leverages these trusted social connections and engages localized audiences seeking to satisfy real-life needs.Chat Commer...
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Sparking MarTech Migration + Digital Innovation $50 US*
Marketing Leader Intentions and Projections in Europe, Middle East, Africa and Latin America
As companies look to transform and embrace this digital-first reality in 2021, they cannot lose what makes their brand resonate with their audience: human connection. The ability to balance digital advancements with authenticity is the holy grail for marketers today. This study sponsored by HCL Software highlights perspectives from a global CMO Council member survey about their experiences ...
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C-Suite Scorecard $50 US*
A 2021 Enterprise Performance Report of Marketing Effectiveness
The C-Suite Scorecard report card is based on a survey of 120 enterprise business leaders in companies of all sizes. It gave marketing high marks for 2020 performance, and nearly 70% of respondents are confident in marketing’s ability to lead growth recovery in 2021. Notably, however, management in enterprises of more than $500 million in revenue differ in their views of marketing developmen...
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Rising Above The Fray $50 US*
Self-reliant buyers, shifting behaviors and digital disarray have upended sales. But marketers can right the revenue ship.
A chaotic customer journey has flipped much of the sales action to the top of the funnel, making marketers responsible for nearly half of a company’s revenue. It’s a big ask with even bigger challenges to overcome. Marketers face immense pressure, scarcity of resources, a data literacy gap and a skeptical CEO. All of which puts marketers at serious risk of missing their revenue target...
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Scaling the Value of the CMO $50 US*
How to Globalize, Modernize and Optimize Enterprise Marketing Operations with Interim CMO Domain Experts and Advisors
Chief marketers are stretched and challenged like never before. The global pandemic has disrupted markets, operations and customer behaviors. Agile recovery and new routes to revenue are the new imperatives. Leaner, more digitally proficient marketing organizations with shared purpose and greater productivity are a key deliverable for 2021. Better integrating and leveraging new automation platform...
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The Future of Work Is Now $50 US*
New Research Shows the Benefits of an Augmented Workforce
Organizations of all sizes and industries are adopting Intelligent Virtual Assistants (IVAs) to reduce operational costs, optimize processes, and driving top-line growth across the customer lifecycle. Explore this eBook to learn how a blend of business professionals and Intelligent Automation technologies work together to augment workforces. The future of work is here!...
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Leveraging AI to Boost Lead Generation and Conversion Efforts $50 US*
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is on the minds of Marketers now more than ever. Why? Marketers responsible for demand generation know better than anyone else that it’s crucial to stay ahead of the curve with new lead generation tactics — and AI is where it’s at. The best AI solutions use Marketing data to deliver powerful information about prospects and customers, as well as dig th...
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How Covid Has Changed The Channels Of Engagement $50 US*
What You Need to Know to Better Engage Your Customers in the "New Normal"
Consumers across generations and geographies are moving to digital channels, and running into all sorts of problems. Now 73% of frustrated consumers are considering spending their dollars elsewhere. Brands need to get ahead of this before it’s too late. Marketing leaders need to know where digital channels fail to meet expectations, what channels consumers turn to in critical situations, an...
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Bridging the Gap for Comms and Marketing $50 US*
Building Cohesion in the Age of Customer Disruption
Digital media now singularly impacts buying decisions and how consumers feel about brands, only amplifying the importance of consistent messaging across media channels and especially with earned media. Yet too many brands are dissatisfied with their earned media performance due largely to problems arising from misalignment between marketing and comms. Brand leaders need to know how to spot market...
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Forging the Future of Customer Experience $50 US*
Building a Unified Data Foundation For Turning Customer Insight Into Action
The rise of the data-driven marketer has propelled the marketing function beyond branding and into the realm of customer experience and revenue growth. Before marketers can succeed in their new role, however, they must first solve the customer data conundrum. A whopping 60% of marketers aren’t happy with the depth and granularity of customer insights, while 36% don’t even have the data...
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Measuring Marketing in the Moment $50 US*
Understanding How Shoppers React, Transact and Interact in Real-time
The pinnacle of personalization in marketing is delivering the right message to the right person in their moment of need. This requires a data-driven understanding of the customer, real-time buyer intent signals, masterful orchestration between team members and partners, and technology that closes the gap between insight and action. It’s no easy task, which is why four out of five marketers...
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Making Content Marketing Convert $50 US*
Combining Trusted Content from Channels of Insight + Influence with Lead Marketing Science
Digital content is indispensable in driving business opportunities, market education and customer engagement in 2020. Yet, many marketing organizations lack the necessary capabilities and processes to keep pace with a growing content marketing imperative. This report sheds light into the problems marketing organizations face in elevating the business impact of content development, distribution and...
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Making Content Grow Into Customer Flow $50 US*
Improving Content Marketing Value from the Pipeline to the Bottom Line
Content marketers face challenges on multiple fronts — and they’re losing the battle. Marketers can spend a third of their marketing budget on content yet lack the capability to measure ROI. Content strategies are built on budget and time, not on customer and market trends. Content quality is hit or miss. Scattershot content distribution turns off customers. Marketers better turn thei...
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Mobile Ingenuity in Africa's Dynamic Community $50 US*
Using Real-Time Insights to Understand the Digital Life of Telco Subscribers
Known as a land rich in minerals, the African continent has a new source of economic growth and wealth to mine: mobile customer data. Possessing a vast abundance of ever-multiplying subscriber insight, Africa’s leading wireless network operators and communications service providers are now hardwired to turn this under-performing asset base into a new form of “data currency&r...
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Loyalty That Lasts $50 US*
Evolving Growth Strategies to Activate Emotional Connections with Brands
Today’s consumer is seeking a deep, emotional bond with the brands they do business with, and yet new research reveals that organizations see dollar-signs – not people – when thinking of their customers. While marketers admit their future growth and success will rely on leveraging deeper relationships with customers, 43 percent surveyed by the CMO Council admit that their...
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Customer Value Creation From Live Data Interpretation $50 US*
Using Real-Time Insights to Understand the Digital Life of Telco Subscribers, Fulfill Unmet Needs, and Realize Revenue Growth Opportunities
The CMO Council has undertaken numerous studies that reveal the majority of CMOs are more focused on pre-sales cultivation, conversion and customer acquisition, rather than realizing a better return from existing relationships that can be more effectively monetized, scaled, and strengthened to reduce churn, defection and detraction. This research defines a model and roadmap for how chief ma...
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Reshaping Global Engagement Operations $50 US*
Optimizing the Resonance and Relevance of Localized Marketing Initiatives
Today’s digitally-connected consumer seeks more localized, personalized experiences that are relevant to their own cultural context and situation. Yet 73 percent of global marketers feel only partially prepared to deliver on those expectations. This report, produced in partnership with Worldwide Partners, reveals that marketing operational structures may actually be keeping the customer and...
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Critical Channels of Choice $50 US*
Meeting the Customer Expectation for Omnichannel Relationships
Omnichannel IS the critical channel of choice. No matter what the generation, from Gen X all the way to the Silent Generation, consumers want a blend of both digital and physical channel experiences. Yet only 13 percent of consumers believe that brands are fully meeting this expectation and delivering across both physical and digital channels. This report, produced in partnership with Pitne...
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Data Protection, Privacy and Regulations $50 US*
An Exclusive Authority Leadership Briefing for Premium Members & Subscribers
This is the first of what will be quarterly briefings from the CMO Council team, available exclusively for our premium members and library subscribers. As May marked the one-year anniversary of GDPR, this first exclusive cut investigates the impacts and ramifications of this regulatory event. Diving into such areas as the cost of compliance – or non-compliance, for those companies that felt...
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AMI Report Bundle: Data, eCommerce and Digital Ads $50 US*
As a special offering to AMI Members, this bundle provides access to three complimentary CMO Council reports. In each of these reports you will find detailed charts and graphs as well as deep-dive executive interviews. Brand Protection From Digital Content Infection: While programmatic ad spend continues to increase exponentially year over year, the risk of digital display ads appearing nex...
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Bringing a Human Voice to Customer Choice $50 US*
Rededicating Marketing to Serve the People in Front of the Data
Chief Marketing Officers believe brands like Amazon, Google, Apple, Nike and Starbucks are getting customer experience right, looking at omni-channel engagement as a means to guide and inspire customers on a journey, and not just push them forward in a buying process. And in fact, this human-first approach is not just developing better relationships, but driving significant profitability and growt...
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Turn Up The Volume $50 US*
Rethinking Where and How Customer Voice Enhances Experiences
In order to further customer experience strategies, marketers must implement strategic customer voice listening initiatives. Yet according to a survey of over 160 senior corporate marketers across Europe, while marketers are listening, they are not hearing the voice of the customer. Indeed, while 63 percent say they actively employ a listening program, only 10 percent feel these programs do an ex...
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What's Changing the Way You Travel Today? $50 US*
How Life Transitions and Trends Impact Travel Intention, Selection, and Direction
Travel and tourism generated $1.6 trillion in bookings in 2017 and now accounts for over 10 percent of global GDP. Technology and service innovations are making it easier and cheaper to discover, reach and enjoy travel destinations. Destination marketers seeking to capitalize on the surge of global travel take note: travelers are still looking for the best deal, but also want a personalized experi...
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Doing More With Data $50 US*
Discovering Data-Accelerated Revenue Traction
Charged with the mandate of elevating customer experience, marketers increasingly look to data to better engage with customers and identify new opportunities. Yet previous CMO Council research highlights that marketers admit their organizations could do more to transform the data supply chain to allow them to do more with internal data assets. To ignite real change, data needs to move beyond the ...
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Ingenuity in the Global eCommerce Community Detailed Findings $50 US*
How To Compete and Not Get Beat in the Digital Retail Marketplace
Large, global eCommerce communities are disrupting the retail marketplace by bringing together vast numbers of buyers and sellers in frictionless transactional environments. Inspired by their success, brand marketers are rethinking go-to-market strategies to better integrate digital advertising with personalized shopper engagement and more effective conversion programs. This report highlights per...
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The State of Engagement $50 US*
Bridging the Customer Journey Across Every Last Mile
Customer empowerment is heightening the job security risks of chief marketing officers, who are struggling to keep up with new digitally driven ways to engage, satisfy and enrich the experience of more mobile, savvy and fickle consumers. According to this study from the CMO Council, 75 percent of CMOs believe their jobs are on the line if their customer experience strategies are unsuccessful. Mor...
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Engage at Every Stage: An Investigation of Video Activation $50 US*
Reports about incomplete and inaccurate reporting of video performance on Facebook and Google and brand safety issues on YouTube are causing marketers to question their video investments and call for greater transparency and more reliable reporting on rich media contributions. According to this CMO Council study—conducted in partnership with ViralGains—more than 70 percent of marketers...
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Elevate What Consumers Appreciate $50 US*
Increase Brand Attraction by Upgrading Ownership Satisfaction
To date, the customer experience mandate of the CMO has focused on creating an experience that will surprise and delight their consumers up to the point of purchase; unfortunately, the aftermarket for far too many is an afterthought. Yet with the rise of IoT-enabled service-oriented business models, and a savvy consumer that can quickly share feedback through any number of social channels about th...
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Brand Protection From Digital Content Infection $50 US*
Safeguarding Brand Reputation Through Diligent Ad Channel Selection
While programmatic ad spend continues to increase exponentially year over year, the risk of digital display ads appearing next to offensive or objectionable content is becoming a top concern for marketers. In fact, this study—conducted in partnership with Dow Jones—reveals that 72 percent of marketers are concerned about brand integrity and control when it comes to their programma...
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Customer Experience Dynamics $50 US*
Defining the Requirements for a Strong CX Ecosystem
According to this study by the Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) Council—conducted in partnership with SAP Customer Experience and SellingPower magazine—customer experience (CX) lacks coordinated, centralized leadership in most enterprises. Functional heads that should have a vested interest in owning CX simply don’t. Only 7 percent of sales and 9 percent of marketing leaders view t...
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Getting Serious About Omni-Channel Experience $50 US*
Making Customer Value Creation the New Competitive Equation
Today’s omni-channel consumer expects a seamless journey across both physical and digital channels. Personalization and real-time, always on experiences are a core demand for consumers who expect that each and every experience delivers value to their unique journey. But this expectation has shone a harsh spotlight onto two critical players in the omni-channel experience: the brands creating...
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The Responsiveness Requirement $50 US*
How Agile Marketers Act on Consumer Feedback to Drive Growth
Adept and timely response to consumer feedback, requests and preferences has become a key indicator of brand performance according to this study by the Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) Council and Danaher Corporation's Product Identification Platform companies. According to survey participants, the ability to source, understand and then quickly react to feedback, preferences and needs is important, ...
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The Customer in Context $50 US*
Understanding the Real Expectations of Today's Connected Customer
This study—conducted in partnership with SAP Customer Experience—reveals that customer experience is more critical than ever. Based on findings from an online survey of more than 2,000 consumers in early 2017, the report reveals that while today’s connected consumers are not looking for omnichannel perfection, they do have a short list of critical channels they expect to have acc...
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The Age of the Adaptive Marketer $50 US*
Meeting the Needs of the Connected Customer with Adaptive Brand Content
Presenting brand materials in a manner that maintains brand identity while also adapting to geographical and cultural customer preferences is a critical challenge for marketers today. Increasingly discerning consumers expect – if not demand – that the materials brands present across sales, marketing and service touch points are timely, relevant and reflect the customer’s unique c...
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Product Ownership $50 US*
Lasting Satisfaction or Painful Distraction?
The ownership experience should be a critical brand differentiator and revenue generator for both manufacturers and retailers. Yet only 17 percent of North American consumers believe brands truly care about them after the point of purchase, which might be an accurate reflection of the importance that acquisition-centric marketers place on the aftermarket service and support that drive and solidify...
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How Brands Annoy Fans $50 US*
The Impact of Digital Advertising Experiences on Consumer Perceptions and Purchase Intent
While it is estimated that programmatic advertising will account for 80 percent of all digital display advertising in 2017, recent headlines and pronouncements by leading brand marketers highlight the significant limitations in this technology-driven ad buying process, with image-sensitive brands appearing next to offensive or irrelevant digital and video content. As a result of this digita...
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Adaptability in Branded Content Delivery: Background Research $50 US*
This presentation explores background research conducted by the CMO Council and other third party experts to explore the state of adaptability in the world's largest global brands. The presentation explores the localization mandate, benefits of adapting and localizing content, the need for platforms, and overcoming localization hurdles. ...
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The Impact of Connectedness on Competitiveness $50 US*
Creating Business Value From Operational Insight Driven by the Industrial IoT
The Industrial Internet of Things will transform business and industrial performance, delivering significant improvements in operational efficiency and uptime, as well as growth from new business models, products, services and customer experiences. Still, despite keen interest and growing expectations, most companies are unprepared to take advantage of IIoT technology and have no clear strategic ...
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Empowering the Data-Driven Customer Strategy $50 US*
Addressing Customer Engagement From the Foundation Up
This report explores the findings of a survey of more than 250 global marketers and reveals that while marketers seem to agree that the CMO should be the driver of a data-driven customer strategy (78 percent), there is a clear gap when it comes to effective execution of that strategy as only 7 percent say they are able to deliver real-time, data-driven engagements across physical and digital touch...
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Connected Interaction to Power Brand Attraction $50 US*
How Marketing Is Transforming to Create More Connected Customer Engagements
According to this research by the Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) Council and IBM, senior marketers will be devoting significant effort to better understanding the customer journey and how to create more personal, content-rich and connected experiences for their customers in 2017. The success of these efforts, however, will be contingent on their ability to create alignment across the digital and ph...
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Be an ADEPT Traveler $50 US*
Care Less About Travel Stress
With billions of travelers exploring key global destinations every year, destination marketers and travel service providers are seeking to deliver better experiences and reduce irritation, consternation and aggravation. According to new research from the Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) Council and its GeoBranding Center, in partnership with AIG Travel and Travelzoo, the travel process - from researc...
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Building Brands That Attract + Engage Fans $50 US*
How Culturally Connected Brands Stay Valued, Real and Relevant With Consumers
How do consumer brands stay relevant, authentic and differentiated in a rapidly evolving and culturally complex global market? With 195 countries and 6,500 languages around the world, the challenge is daunting as brands seek new methods and motivators to connect and engage with audiences through social, mobile, experiential, digital advertising and eCommerce channels. The Chief Marketing Officer ...
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Gaining Traction Through Each Customer Interaction $50 US*
Achieving Business Impact With Customer Engagement Optimization
Despite marketing’s best intentions and desire to deliver on the promise of customer centricity, many of us are stymied by gaps and deficiencies across the people, processes and platforms that are powering our customer interactions. In fact, in a recent study, the CMO Council found that marketers across Asia-Pacific admitted that their back-office systems were not enabling their brands to fu...
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Context, Commerce + Customer $50 US*
Best Practices to Exceed Expectations
While digital marketing technologies and engagement channels multiply, many marketers remain concerned that they are still not delivering what customers want most: a seamless, frictionless and individualized buying and problem-solving experience. According to new research from the Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) Council and SAP Customer Experience, more than a third of marketers (39 percent) believ...
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How Global Voices Shape Travel Choices $50 US*
The Impact of Consumer Apprehension on Travel Intention
A plethora of global incidents have made headlines this past year—including terrorist attacks, natural disasters, disease outbreaks, regional conflict, political upheaval, crime or civil unrest, airline tragedies and cruise line accidents and food safety issues—that have impacted travel plans, schedules and intentions. News coverage, social media postings and government warnings have o...
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APAC Digital Marketing Performance Dashboard 2015 $50 US*
The CMO Council and Adobe have partnered once again for our fourth annual study into the state of digital marketing across the Asia-Pacific region. This study reviews the state of adoption, readiness and maturity of organizations in Asia who are working to meet the demands of today’s digital customer, and it also provides comparisons to previous years’ studies to benchmark and measure ...
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Brand Attraction From Enriched Interaction $50 US*
Creating an End-to-End, Multi-Channel Experience That Engages and Enlivens Customer, Partner and Employee Audiences With More Compelling and Relevant Content-Driven Commerce and Conversation
This report reveals that marketers still lag in creating multi-channel, digital marketing campaigns that reach and resonate with diverse, micro-audiences worldwide. Only 19 percent said they are extremely good or very good in this area. In contrast, 45 percent gave lackluster grades on their ability to captivate and engage customers, partners and employees through fully integrated mobile, web and ...
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Lead Flow That Helps You Grow $50 US*
Call it a lead, opportunity or prospect. No matter what the term, sales organizations can never get enough new business contacts from their marketing groups. The question is how wisely they are used and whether that new point of customer access is qualified, primed and ready to write orders.This detailed study from the CMO Council and the Content ROI Center finds that most companies are struggling...
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Making the Workplace a Brand-Defining Space $50 US*
Engaging Employees in Shaping Corporate Culture and Brand Personality
Produced in partnership with CultureSphere and Executive Networks Inc., this CMO Council report explores where and how marketing and HR leaders are collaborating on new ways to organizationally reinforce and reflect their brand values and qualities. It looks at social media strategies and techniques currently being embraced by leading consumer brands to recruit and retain Millennial workers, build...
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Quantify How Well You Unify $50 US*
Exploring the Business Impact of Marketing Technology Integration
This report explores how well chief marketers are taking ownership of digital marketing technology strategies and to what degree they are unifying and extracting value from multiplying customer data sources. The 38-page report summarizes the quantitative insights of 150 senior marketers and highlights insights from qualitative interviews with leading marketers at Wells Fargo, Charles Schwab, Disne...
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Mastering Adaptive Customer Engagements $50 US*
A Look Into How Today’s Marketing Leaders Are Driving Business Performance Across the Customer-Centric Enterprise
How customer-centric is your organization? Better yet, how customer-centric do your customers believe your organization is? The answers may surprise you. According to new research by the Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) Council, only 14 percent of marketers say that customer centricity is a hallmark of their companies, and only 11 percent believe their customers would agree with that characterization...
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Grow From the Right Intro $50 US*
A Report on the Strategic Value of Business Alliances and Compatible Partner Matching
More than ever, businesses must rely on strategic partnering to grow revenue, acquire customers, expand market reach and innovate products, services and customer experiences. But many are struggling to get it right. This report examines the state of partnering in today’s fast-changing, global marketplace. The study sheds new light into the motivations, rewards, pitfalls and proven practices ...
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State of Marketing 2014 $50 US*
A Global and Multi-Regional Marketing Assessment
The "State of Marketing"—the most valued annual study by the CMO Council—provides an in-depth view of global marketing vitality and direction and serves as a valuable resource tool to help calibrate, prioritize and make a business case for marketing investments. The benchmark report is based on a 50-point assessment taken by more than 525 senior-level marketers from around the globe. T...
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CMO Compensation $50 US*
Analytics and Authoring by Dr. Kimberly A. Whitler, Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia
The Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) Council’s new “CMO Compensation Report” tells all you need to know about chief marketer compensation, with 36 pages of analytics and insights drawn from a survey of 345 chief marketers around the world. It is the first and most defining analysis of senior marketer salary, benefits, bonuses, incentives and perks published to date. The report is a...
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Ambush Marketing $50 US*
A Global Legal Perspective
The Global Advertising Lawyers Alliance (GALA) released "Ambush Marketing: A Global Legal Perspective," which summarizes laws and other rules governing ambush marketing in 52 countries around the world. Ambush marketing, a controversial marketing practice that pits non-sponsors against rights holders, is as prevalent as ever as marketers seek to associate themselves, rightly or wrongly, with signi...
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Maximize How You Individualize $50 US*
Map the Operational Gap in Customer Insight and Experience
Digital engagement has flourished in Asia, now home to more than 40 percent of the world’s Internet population. Social media, as a key example, has grown at the rate of 10 million new registered users per month. However, most critical to brands is that consumers across APJ are not just registering on social media channels, but they are actually engaging with brands and each other. According ...
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Business Traction From Smarter SMB Interaction $50 US*
Advancing Enterprise Excellence in SMB Marketing in North America
Two out of three big business brands are planning to increase their focus and investment in engaging small to medium-sized business (SMB) customers over the next 12 to 36 months, according to this study from the CMO Council and Penton, a leading business information services company. However, these marketers admit to shortcomings in their ability to access customer data, intelligence and critical ...
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APAC Digital Marketing Performance Dashboard 2013 $50 US*
Exploring the State of Digital Marketing Across Asia to Benchmark Levels of Adoption, Traction and Success
Building on the findings of our study in 2012, this research seeks to identify where marketers are making improvements in their digital marketing efforts in APAC, as well as where challenges still exist. For this initiative, the CMO Council once again partnered with Adobe to explore the state of digital marketing across Asia in order to benchmark levels of adoption, traction and success. The stud...
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Japan Digital Marketing Performance Dashboard 2013 $50 US*
How Japan Compares to the Rest of Asia-Pacific as It Relates to Digital Marketing Traction and Success
The rapidly evolving nature of digital marketing presents increased challenges across Asia-Pacific and Japan, with many marketers struggling to integrate digital components in a way that is efficient, effective and measurable. This research seeks to identify how marketers are progressing in their digital marketing efforts in Japan, as well as where challenges still exist. For this initiative, the...
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Know More to Grow More $50 US*
Applying Timely, Targeted and Tailored Insight to Improve Pipeline Performance
Conducted in partnership with Dun & Bradstreet, this report identifies a number of gaps in the customer intelligence process and underscores the importance of arming front-line resources with alerts and insights to capitalize on moments of opportunity. And while marketers agree that the provision of this intelligence is important, only 21 percent of those surveyed feel equipped to provide this...
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Challenger Brands in Emerging Markets $50 US*
The New Global Contenders
Many emerging market multi-nationals are category innovators, market disruptors and opportunistic acquirers of entrenched Western brands. They use frugal design, lean production, new technology, large cash coffers, and economies of scale from contract manufacturing and robust local markets to compete with slow moving and less agile incumbents. What challenges do they face and what strategies are t...
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BtoB Content Impacts Customer Thinking & Buying Decisions $50 US*
Uncovering the Impact of Marketing Content
According to a report released by the CMO Council, 87 percent of B2B buyers say online content has a major or moderate impact on vendor selection. Of those surveyed, 28 percent share valued content with more than 100 colleagues, with email being the most used method for sharing online content. The study also showed B2B buyers value the following sources of online content when researching products...
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Customer Attainment From Event Engagement $50 US*
Benchmarking the Business Value of Trade Shows and Events
While events and trade shows are still a vital part of the marketing and customer engagement mix, senior marketers remain challenged to identify effective methods to measure and prove ROI, according to this CMO Council study, conducted in partnership with the Exhibit & Event Marketers Association. Further complicating this scenario is that events and trade shows have largely remained isolated ...
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Brand Automation for Local Activation $50 US*
Connecting Customer Engagement Into Measurable Local Strategies
Through an online quantitative audit of senior marketers regarding the mandates, challenges and opportunities presented in localization, the CMO Council set out to identify where and how marketing mindsets must shift to best capitalize on local potential. The audit of 296 senior marketers was conducted between November 2012 and February 2013. Best-practice leaders from brands including Arby’...
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Profitability From Subscriber Acuity $50 US*
Embracing Behavior-Based Engagement Models
The CMO Council, through a series of qualitative interviews with leading CSP marketers and an in-depth online audit involving 222 senior marketers at global CSP companies, set out to better understand where behavior-based experiences and decision making—including the development of new pricing models and partnership opportunities—could positively impact the customer experience while op...
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State of Marketing 2012 $50 US*
A Global Assessment of Marketing Vitality and Direction
The outlook is distinctly positive for marketers as executives head into 2013 with renewed confidence in their roles and business performance. Despite a varied and mixed outlook for the global economy, chief marketers report positive outlooks for their roles and functional areas. Nearly 70 percent received a salary or bonus in 2011, and 73 percent expect the same at the end of this year depending ...
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Engage at Every Stage: Using Mobile Relationship Marketing (MRM) to Put More Interaction in the Hands of the Customer $50 US*
The desire to engage at every stage of the customer lifecycle has always been the unrealized goal of savvy marketers, but this may no longer be the case. Marketers are putting mobile interaction in the hands of consumers and finding clever, gratifying ways to add value to every aspect of the brand experience, reports the CMO Council, but some challenges still remain.Detailed in the full report are...
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Integrate to Accelerate Digital Marketing Value $50 US*
Driving Digital Marketing Performance With the Right Platforms, People and Processes
Most corporate management teams are fully supportive of digital marketing investments, with 20 percent of marketers stating they have a mandate and budget to execute, 42 percent saying they have strong interest and active support at a LOB level, and 18 percent noting it is an agenda item they have to address with their CEO, CIO, and CFO. Integration and alignment are the key challenges facing mar...
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Whats Critical in the Telecommunications Vertical $50 US*
Insights Into the Factors Driving Loyalty and Defection in the Telecommunications Industry
This installment of the CMO Council's "What's Critical in the Vertical" series, in partnership with Ricoh, provides key insights into the factors driving loyalty and defection in the telecommunications industry based on data gathered from 1,660-plus global consumers and 147 senior marketers. Only 34 percent of 1,660 mobile subscribers surveyed around the globe in the second quarter of 2012 are lo...
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More Gain, Less Strain $50 US*
Optimizing Marketing Partner Performance and Value in a Digital World
Just 9 percent of senior marketers believe traditional ad agencies are doing a good job of evolving and extending their service capabilities in the digital age, in contrast to 22 percent who view their agencies as struggling to transition their business models and service offerings. Another 51 percent of the 250-plus senior marketers surveyed in the CMO Council study see their agencies as playing ...
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Delivering Positive Impressions During Market Depressions $50 US*
How Banks Are Regaining Trust As the Financial Sector Readjusts
As the global financial crisis and US credit rating downgrade took grip, banks of all sizes were challenged to leverage and activate custom media channels to reassure, engage, inform, advise, and notify customers, stakeholders, and investors. Quick response to ever-changing conditions and market gyrations required nimble content provisioning and adept use of digital media channels for rapid versio...
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The Social Consumer Brand Compatibility Model $50 US*
Matchmaking Comes to Marketing: Social Media Insights Find the Right Fit Among Brands, Audience Types, and Channels
Social media has become one of the biggest, most dynamic parts of marketing. Brands across every vertical are scrambling to make up ground and develop and implement digital marketing strategies. While some brands scored huge early wins and established themselves as digital leaders, most marketers are still searching for how social channels can work for their companies and how they fit with the res...
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Variance in the Social Brand Experience $50 US*
The CMO Council set out to take a closer look at the state of affairs in the busy two-way street of social media marketing from both points of view: the consumer’s and the marketer’s. We surveyed 132 senior marketers and more than 1,200 consumers on the subject of social media, asking each how and why they are currently using it, what they get out of it, and what they’d like...
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Localize to Optimize Sales Channel Effectiveness $50 US*
Powering Performance on a Field Marketing Level Through Localized Content
Localized marketing has become a critical area of strategic focus and competitive advantage for brands. Yet, just 12 percent of marketers believe they have highly evolved campaigns and analytics on a local level in contrast to nearly 50 percent who see themselves as underperforming or needing new strategic thinking and capability development in local marketing. In this study &n...
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What's Critical in the Vertical: Global Banking $50 US*
The latest report in the "Critical in the Vertical" series showcases research from more than 1,200 consumers and delves into the needs, expectations, and pain points of banking’s retail market. It also includes insight from over 120 senior-level marketers from around the globe, who outline where and how banks should invest, communicate, and address consumer concerns. (Published: 2001) As cu...
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Promotion Commotion $50 US*
A View Into the Needs and Setbacks of the Front Line
The CMO Council interviewed 113 front-line managers, sales executives, and field marketing managers to assess their perspective of marketing materials. While almost everyone agreed that point-of-purchase materials and marketing consumables are persuasive at the point of sale, the management of these tools, from creation to distribution and implementation, is too often overlooked. Download the Mark...
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What's Critical in the Vertical: Utilities $50 US*
Relevant Messaging That Engages a Targeted Audience
Generating loyalty at a time when consumers are making active decisions over which bills to pay makes marketing within the utility space an ever-changing and challenging role. The CMO Council interviewed over 1,000 utility consumers and 100 utility marketers to get an understanding of needs, requirements and sentiment. The end product? 30 pages of insight into customer engagement, advocacy and loy...
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Renovate to Innovate $50 US*
Building Performance-Driven Marketing Organizations
As businesses in every industry work to transform themselves, CMOs are being tasked with driving the bottom line as business strategists. No longer just brand managers, marketing executives are now hired as change agents and decision-makers. The CMO Council sat down with over 20 newly appointed CMOs and delved into the challenges and nuances of their role. In addition to these interviews, the repo...
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Making Sense of Subscriber Complexity $50 US*
The Need to Get a Handle on Choice and Change in Global Communications Markets
Managing the challenge of subscriber complexity and choice in communications and media markets now represents one of the most critical business imperatives facing service providers worldwide. Subscriber expectations are exploding around value, features, services, pricing, quality, convenience, user control, and personalization – with more opportunities than ever to switch allegiances to both...
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What's Critical in the Vertical: Retail Banking In Australia $50 US*
Meeting the Needs of a New, Demanding Customer
Only 15 percent of marketers in Australia’s $2.5 trillion banking sector feel confident they have sufficient insights into customer profitability, value and retention. While Australia remained on steady footing through the global recession, bank marketers now face a younger, smarter banking customer with a desire for greater digital interaction and online engagement. The complimentary paper,...
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A Straight Line To The Front Line $50 US*
Unraveling and Understanding the Conflicts Between Sales and the Marketing Supply Chain
Growth and recovery are at the top of every executive’s to-do list as we head into a postrecessionary economy. This mandate has placed increasing pressure on Sales to close business and on Marketing to fill the pipeline with quality leads. And while the riff between Marketing and Sales is certainly nothing new, it has taken on a new direction that has a direct and immediate impact on the bot...
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Unify to Multiply $50 US*
Marketing Ecosystem Effectiveness
Marketing must embrace the mandate for real-time adaptive marketing. Yet, in today’s increasingly complex, distributed and digitally driven marketing ecosystem global marketers are being challenged to better integrate and manage data, best of breed solutions, creative resources, brand assets and go-to-market functions. Becoming more agile at exploiting opportunities, pre-empting issues or th...
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Competitive Gain In The Demand Chain $50 US*
Go-to-market is a business critical, highly complex, and carefully sequenced process today. However, there can be multiple points of disruption, distress and deficiency in this ecosystem, which is essential to value creation and competitive advantage for any consumer or business marketer. But, this study finds that far too many marketing executives have never assessed demand chain performance, nor...
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The CMO-CIO Alignment Imperative: Driving Revenue through Customer Relevance $50 US*
In today's business climate of exponential information growth and technology dependency, this authority leadership campaign will leverage and aggregate insights from key IT and marketing stakeholders to address the need for tighter alignment and collaboration between these functional groups. Yet, according to this new report from the CMO Council and Accenture, "The CMO-CIO Alignment Imperative: Dr...
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Understanding the Critical Factors to Achieving Marketing Supply Chain Operational Effectiveness and Optimization $50 US*
A Mapping + Tracking The Optimized Marketing Supply Chain Initiative
There is an epidemic that threatens the optimized Marketing Supply Chain. As Marketers seek to provide the most timely, fresh and of-the-moment content to customers and channel alike, old, over-ordered or un-utilized materials tend to be stored, destroyed or ignored, left to sit an occupy costly space in offices to warehouses. High levels of waste can generally be attributed to limited access to m...
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Doing Away With Foul Play In Sports Marketing $50 US*
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What's Critical In the Vertical: Insurance $50 US*
There is some great news for marketers in the insurance space: your customers are ready, willing and able to learn more about what you do and how you can become more involved in their lives. This may simplify the news, but according to the consumers surveyed for What's Critical in the Insurance Vertical, 21 percent of consumers who received information about additional products or services rendere...
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Variance in The Tech Experience $50 US*
Combatting Computer Stress Syndrome
The digitally dependent consumer is increasingly overwhelmed and upset with technical glitches and problems in their daily lives. While the threats and complications with computers are on the rise, customer technical support has not kept pace to address the needs of a growing population of computer users that are highly dependent upon their device as part of their daily lives....
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State of Marketing 2010 $50 US*
Outlook, Intentions and Investments for 2010
The CMO Council State of Marketing Report, featuring the 2010 Marketing Outlook Audit, is the largest annual independent assessment of senior marketing executives today. This annual global benchmarking initiative undertaken by the Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) Council, gains insights into how senior marketing decision makers are managing marketing mix modeling, budget allocations and media mix spe...
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Why Relevance Drives Response and Relationships $50 US*
Using the Power of Precision Marketing to Better Engage Customers
In this CMO Council report marketers identified critical tactics and strategies to deepening engagement. Nearly 60 percent said they intend to improve customer segmentation, profiling and targeting, while 30 percent reported they were embracing more personalized, multi-channel communications across all customer touch points. However, only 15 percent of marketers believe their companies are do...
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Leveraging Loyalty to Transform Publishing $50 US*
The Challenges Faced By Today’s Magazine Industry, and How Personalization and Relevance Could Save the Day
As marketers look for new channels of customer engagement, magazine advertising has been a casualty as online opportunities from ereaders to online publications become more cost-effective and trackable options. However, in this consumer survey, we see that customers aren't quite ready to abandon their magazines and they are certainly not ready for an onslaught of iPad-vertising to interrupt their ...
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Define Where to Streamline $50 US*
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Losing Loyalty $50 US*
The Consumer Deflection Dilemma
Consumer defection and lapsed loyalty are rampant among major consumer packaged goods brands, a problem that is only worsening in the current recession. A study by the CMO Council, conducted with Catalina Marketing's Pointer Media Network, provides a comprehensive and detailed analysis the defection dilemma among CPG brands. The study underscores the critical need for brands to more effective...
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Bottom Line From The Front Line $50 US*
Achieving Go-To-Market Advantage Through Enhanced Capabilities
Driving the Bottom Line from the Front Line addresses the challenges facing global companies in their quest to develop world-class go-to-market capabilities. The study represents a "scorecard" that highlights an alarming trend among multinational companies: marketing and sales leaders give themselves decidedly poor marks when assessing their own go-to-market effectiveness. (Published: 2008)...
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Protection From Brand Infection $50 US*
Marketer's Fight Against Fakes, Frauds and Infringements
Sophisticated and savvy online brand extortionists and cyber scammers are boldly preying on unsuspecting consumers with bogus brand name email/websites, deals and inducements that entrap, extort and expose consumers to financial loss, identity theft, and viral infection. Offline, global and organized counterfeiting operations fueled by the down economy are flooding the market with knock-offs and f...
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Calibrate How You Operate $50 US*
Improving Marketing Yield, Visibility and Process
Profitable customer relationships are the lifeblood of any commercial enterprise. Yet companies do a decidedly poor job of nurturing, cultivating or even reactivating customers in order to drive sustained revenue growth, loyalty and bottom line performance. Marketers are flying blind when it comes to leveraging customer data and analytics. Few companies look within their own data silos to extract ...
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Giving Customer Voice More Volume $50 US*
Turning Customer Pain into Competitive Gain
Customer experience is still very much a work in progress for senior marketers who participated in this study, fielded in late 2008. Despite overwhelming agreement on the importance of customer experience and word-of-mouth, the admit their companies are failing to take decisive, company-wide action to integrate customer voice and experience into key business and marketing processes. Sponsored...
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The Leaders In Loyalty $50 US*
Feeling the Love From The Loyalty Clubs
Customer loyalty and rewards programs are everywhere – it seems like every brand has one and the average consumer is carrying a handful of laminated cards from big retailers alongside a few hole-punched printed cards from their neighborhood burrito palace or dry cleaner. Yet, through the CMO Council’s research in The Leaders in Loyalty: Feeling the Love from the Loyalty Club these prog...
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Track The Yack $50 US*
Voice of the Customer Monitoring to Help Reinvent the Mobile PC Experience
The Track the Yack voice of customer (VOC) study, part of the CMO Council's Reinvent Mobile campaign, gathered nearly 10,000 distinct sentiments based on some 4,000 online conversations between mobile PC users to analyze the preferences of today's diverse digital user base worldwide. Analysis of the consumer-generated conversations examines user perceptions, preferences, satisfaction levels and ex...
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Routes to Revenue $50 US*
Routes to Revenue benchmarked the state of customer revenue realization, encouraging the adoption and the uses of technologies, solutions and professional services that drive deeper interaction and communication with customers...in one of the most challenged financial times. With fielding of the study starting on the day that Leihman's Brothers closed and financial collapse was immenent, mark...
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Perfect How You Project $50 US*
Assessing Diligence and Discipline in the Planning Process
The Perfect How You Project survey of over 340 financial professionals revealed that executives and financial staff, from a broad industry spectrum of small, medium and large companies, unanimously agreed that budgeting, forecasting and reporting are essential or very important to their business success. However, over 65 percent admitted they are not agile or adaptive in their financial practices,...
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Discovering The Pivotal Point Consumer $50 US*
A Milestone Study on American Shoppers Who Drive CPG Brand Volume
A study of American consumer shopping behavior designed to provide fresh and actionable insight, backed by detailed data, to help Consumer Packaged Goods marketers and retailers better understand and address the global challenge of fragmentation and the need for precision marketing. Conducted by Catalina Marketing's Pointer Media Network, in conjunction with the CMO Council, the study unmasks the ...
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Variance in Customer Experience $50 US*
Customer Affinity From Optimized Content Delivery
What would you learn if you sent out customers to experience every touchpoint of your brand? In this CMO Council study, consumers were sent out to do just that...from brand-owned and controlled channels to channel partners, local points of sale, advertising and even sponsored events. What was assessed was the clarity and consistency of message, brand and vision. Brands thought to be most valued an...
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CLOSE: Scenarios and Solutions $50 US*
Mapping the Traps and Sales Effectiveness Gaps
In any sizeable company, the functions of marketing and sales are crucial to success. No matter the product or service, marketing must drive programs that stimulate demand and sales must develop and mazimize opportunities. Successful execution of these functions has always been challenging, hinging on the sometimes strained and troubled relationship between sales and marketing. The Chief Marketing...
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Closing the Gap $50 US*
The Sales and Marketing Alignment Imperative
Global businesses continue to suffer from a seemingly unbridgeable divide between their marketing and sales teams—a gap which undermines two of the most important competencies necessary to generate demand, capture revenue and gain competitive advantage. The traditional relationship between sales, marketing and channel groups tends to be more antagonistic than synergistic. Even in those enter...
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Business Gain From How You Retain $50 US*
Addressing The Challenge of Customer Churn and Marketing Burn
Business Gain From How You Retain examines ways companies can improve the return on customer equity and lifetime value by making customer insight, understanding and intimacy a hallmark of the organization. The study assesses the degree to which major global brands are unifying and centralizing customer data, undertaking effective marketing analytics, embracing advanced segmentation strategies, and...
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The Power of Personalization $50 US*
The Impact + Influence of Individualized Content Delivery
Personalized marketing techniques are still in the early stages of being integrated into most company's marketing campaigns and budgets. While the need for quantifiable tools for gauging effectivenes and ROI Exist, marketiers are lagging in their adoption due to the lack of accurage and reliable customer data sources. These are two of the top findings from the "Power of Personalization" research. ...
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Profitability from Customer Affinity $50 US*
Profitability from Customer Affinity is a cooperative initiative developed from business schools, top market and customer relationship executives, designed to help marketers better understand how to manage the customer experience and improve return on account and customer relationships....
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Channel Performance Outlook 2008 $50 US*
This report examines indirect sales channel-centric dynamics and issues, gleaned from input from 500 indirect sales channel executives, distributors, resellers and other channel representatives. In particular, it examines the relationship between the sales channel and vendors, and its impact on business leads and revenue generation. This includes the extent of sales collaboration between vendors a...
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Call Center Exposure: Limiting Leaks and Peeks $50 US*
With an estimated 100,000 call centers employing nearly 7.5 million workers handling an average of 1,708,379 calls per center per year, the opportunity for information leakage and data corruption is staggering. For many companies, the call center is the first direct touch point to the consumer, and often an opportunity to access a consumer’s personal information....
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Define and Align the CMO $50 US*
The CMO Council is frequently asked by the media, executive recruiters and CEOs to define the essential qualities and attributes of a successful marketing officer. To achieve this we have partnered with a professional services company called 'Bluprints™' to assist us in a globally inclusive process to systematically decipher a distinct Formula for Success - exclusive to the CMO community....
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Marketing Outlook 2007 $50 US*
This groundbreaking study uncovers the further changes executives plan to make in 2007 to upgrade organizational effectiveness, strengthen customer engagement and achieve even greater measurability. Most marketers say they will have larger budgets in 2007 to accomplish these goals. The 2007 Marketing Outlook study is the first in this annual benchmark study undertaken by the CMO Council....
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The Global Mobile Mindset $50 US*
The Global Mobile Mindset Audit is the most comprehensive research effort ever undertaken to understand the needs, intentions and issues surrounding the purchase and use of mobile technology and services worldwide. Conducted by the CMO Council's Forum to Advance the Mobile Experience (FAME) and powered by Global Market Insite, Inc. (GMI), the audit surveyed nearly 15,000 consumers in 37 countries....
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Remote Revolution $50 US*
Uptime Issues, Implications & Imperatives of the Mobile Workforce
By the end of 2005, the world's mobile and remote workforce jad expanded rapidly, companies are increasingly grappling with tough questions about how to best support, secure and empower their workers. Employee expectations were on the rise for ubiquitous real-time access to messaging and data, and 24/7 support for the devices and applications that can help deliver it. This study sur...
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Comply on the Fly $50 US*
Keeping Pace with the Challenges of Mobile Data Management
The collective findings of Comply on the Fly point to a nascent but increasingly pervasive imperative for ensuring corporate accountability and fiscal integrity. As company growth and competitive pressures accelerate adoption and use of mobile devices by the workforce, the chance of deploying such devices without proper guidelines, policies, processes and procedures, leading to a lack of adequate ...
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Secure the Trust of Your Brand $50 US*
Assessing the Security Mindset of Consumers
There has been little research into how broadly such incidences are eroding consumers’ trust in brands. This is the impetus for Secure the Trust of Your Brand™, a major thought leadership initiative fielded by the Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) Council. This comprehensive research effort is designed to better understand the degree to which information security, business continuity, and ...
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Accelerate How You Differentiate $50 US*
An Alert Enterprise Audit
Is your company an alert enterprise? The ability to quickly identify and respond to market and operational risks and opportunities is a major competitive advantage, and one in which information technology is playing an increasingly important role. The need for companies to become Alert Enterprises is forcing management to take a serious look at internal structures, cultures and capabilities. This ...
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Select and Connect $50 US*
Strategies for Targeted Acquisition and Retention
Select & Connect: Strategies for Targeted Acquisition and Retention explores the strategies, processes and methodologies to achieve maximum customer acquisition, retention and profitability. It also examines the marketing organization's level of customer knowledge, as well as the segmentation approaches used to target and acquire top prospects and profitable opportunities. By revealing pain po...
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Targeting with Texting: The Value of Just In Time Mobile Messaging $50 US*
According to professionals across a wide range of industries, text messaging has blossomed into a critical mechanism for enterprises and organizations as a means of instant, effective and affordable alerts. Text messaging, the practice of sending short messages to mobile devices, is enabling enterprises and governments to instantly send urgent alerts and notifications to support customer service, ...
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Market Viligance, Product Diligence $50 US*
Powering Product Marketing Effectiveness
Competitive global forces and factors are pressuring technology companies to constantly monitor, calibrate and adjust product development, build and delivery in the face of continuous and often unpredictable demand and supply chain dynamics. Adaptive pricing, agile response to competitive moves, effective stewardship of individual products, as well as astute management of product portfolios have b...
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RetailFluency $50 US*
Impact of Online Research on Off-Line Retail Buying Predispositions & Outcomes
The CMO Council, in partnership with The ConsumerEdge Research Group, surveyed retail shoppers at three consumer electronics stores in four U.S. markets to study the impact of the Internet on in-store purchasing behavior. While the findings represent a single snapshot of consumer behavior, they paint a clear and dramatic picture of the shifting landscape of media influence. The Internet is climbin...
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Define What's Valued Online $50 US*
Exploring Technology Content Usage and Its Influence on IT Buying
By 2005, just as consumers were flocking to the Internet to research vacation destinations or new cars, buyers of B2B technology had also turned to the Web to research IT products, services and solutions. In fact, the majority of technology buyers were using the Internet as their primary resource for purchasing decisions. The Define What’s Valued Online explores online technol...
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Crunch Time: Global Competitiveness $50 US*
Annual Assessment of Tech + Telcom Rigor and Readiness
Conducted in late 2004 and early 2005, Crunch Time serves as a benchmark for the ever-increasing challenges of global competition. At the time, if you were an executive in the North American high technology or telecommunications industries, there was a high probability you felt the heat of increasing global competition. Yet, there is no executive formally assigned to the task o...
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Digital Directions $50 US*
How Technology is Touching & Transforming Promotions
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Staging and Gauging $50 US*
Do Events Pay Off?
After facing the challenges of reduced travel following 9/11 and event-spend cutbacks during the subsequent business slowdown, event marketing rebounded. Expenditures on sponsorships, shows, conferences, meetings and other event activities grew by 15 percent in 2003 to over $140 billion, per Promotion Marketing Association/PROMO magazine. This growth environment led the CMO Council to launch ...
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Measures and Metrics $50 US*
The CMO Council Market Performance Measurement Report
The first time the CMO Council published a report on the topic of Marketing Performance Measurement (MPM) was back in 2004 -- long before MPM became a common part of the marketing lexicon. Selected by our over 1,000 members as the most compelling topic facing CMO's today, this report defined how companies should measure and quantify marketing's performance. It proved to be an invaluable ...
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Marketing Under Siege $50 US*
The State of Marketing in 2002
Published in February 2003, this study provided direct insights into the health of high-tech marketing in 2002 post internet bubble collapse, and provided a prognosis for the year ahead (2003). ...
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