The Time to Win: 6 Ways to Exceed Customer Expectations

Speed and responsiveness have become crucial competitive advantages in today’s fast-paced business world. Jay Baer, a renowned author, customer experience expert, and purveyor of fine tequila, joined a CMO Huddles Career Huddle to share insights from his latest book, “The Time to Win,” which explores the power of speed in driving customer satisfaction and revenue growth. During the insightful conversation,…

The Key to CMO Candor: Care Personally and Challenge Directly

Author Kim Scott joined the CMO Huddles Book Club to share insights for CMOs from Radical Candor, her book on how to be a kick-a** boss without losing your humanity. Radical Candor, the philosophy Scott details in her book, boils down to caring personally while challenging directly. It’s about building relationships based on trust and mutual understanding, not just delivering…

The Ultimate Customer Onboarder – Nasdaq

I recently witnessed the stock BitFuFu going public on Nasdaq. It was quite a show offering multiple lessons for B2B marketers. A show that Nasdaq reproduces about 500 times a year. And boy are they good at it. From the invitation to the parting pictures in Times Square, every moment is carefully orchestrated for maximum impact. And of course, all…

8 Time Management Tactics for the Busy CMO

99.6% of B2B CMOs face one common challenge: TIME. As in, too much time in meetings and no time for strategic thinking (or a personal life). Knowing how to get the most out of your hours and minutes, while managing the fine line between big-picture planning and the nitty-gritty daily grind, can truly make or break how well you rock…

Navigating the B2B Marketing Landscape in 2023: Insights from Top Influencers

2023 was a tumultuous year for B2B marketers, with significant financial obstacles leading to budget cuts more severe for B2B companies compared to B2C firms. This economic climate prompted a cautious approach among business buying committees, leading them to be hesitant about engaging with new vendors.  In response, B2B marketers displayed resilience by creatively adapting to limited resources, focusing on…

7 Ways To Redefine Your B2B Manufacturing Marketing Strategy In 2023

Written By Daniel Martin, chief editor at Altitude Marketing. Gone are the days of manufacturing industries employing offline tactics such as word-of-mouth, referrals, trade shows, and sales calls. To stay relevant, it’s absolutely essential that manufacturers craft marketing strategies that cater to their audience. Millennials, the new bosses, are the key decision-makers now. Those born between 1997-2012 find it easier…

Renegade Marketing Review by Petra Bajdek

Renegade Marketing: A Practical Guide to B2B Marketing Written by Petra Bajdek, Student at Bentley University | August 2023 In the book, Renegade Marketing: 12 Steps to Building Unbeatable B2B Brands, marketing influencer and founder of CMO Huddles, Drew Neisser, explores the keys to successful business-to-business (B2B) marketing through a series of anecdotes shared by leading Chief Marketing Officers (CMOs)….

The AI Content Challenge: Humans Still Reign Supreme (For Now)

A recent study by CMO Huddles, Marketing Insider Group, and Renegade.com, put generative AI tools like ChatGPT to the test against human writers. The goal was to see how machine-generated content compared to human-authored and collaborative human/AI hybrid content. The study compared 60 blog posts: 20 written by humans, 20 generated by AI (ChatGPT), and 20 AI-written but refined by…

AI Marketing: How to Achieve Authentic Thought Leadership in Your Generative AI Content

Written By Nicole Leffer, CMO AI Advisor, with the assistance of ChatGPT Plus. While AI tools promise to revolutionize marketing efficiency and quality, they are often met with skepticism or outright refusal. I often encounter a sentiment that sounds like this: “Generative AI models like ChatGPT can’t capture human nuance or drive thought leadership.” But let’s shift the perspective—it’s not…