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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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