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Companies struggle to engage customers

Warc 

NEW YORK: Less than 10% of US companies think they are genuinely “customer-centric” in their strategy and activities, new analysis has shown. The Temkin Group, a consultancy, polled 255 representatives of firms with revenues topping $500m, and found that just 7% of the panel believed the customer experience they provided was superior to all of their rivals. A further 28% placed performance levels “considerably above” the industry average, while 30% “slightly” improved on the norm, and 23% fell into line with typical standards for their sector.

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Why CMOs Need to Experiment

Digiday 

When it comes to digital marketing from a brand perspective, Steven Cook knows his stuff. With top marketing positions at top brands like Samsung, Procter & Gamble and Coca-Cola, Cook has seen it all. The 30-year global brand marketer and current CMO of live-music tech firm Fankix.com spoke to Digiday about why the number of Facebook fans doesn’t make the brand, why brands need to experiment, and why the hunt for social media ROI is beside the point.
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Sales Productivity Blog- Hey Sales Reps, Don’t be “Clippy”

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By, Michael Gerard 

I was reading an article in MIT’s technology review this past weekend about social intelligence, and I came across an interesting comment by Stanford professor Clifford Nass, an expert on human-computer interaction.  You may be thinking, “what could this possibly do with sales?”  Well, Nass was commenting on why Microsoft’s 1997 intelligent assistant for Microsoft Office, Clippy, failed so miserably.  As Nass suggests, “Clippy’s problem was it said ‘I’ll do everything’ and then procreeded to disappoint [its customers].”  Sound familiar?. . . I hear this from a lot of CIOs about their interaction with their vendors’ sales teams.

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TV Universe Continues To Contract, Nielsen Attributes Declines To Census, Technology Too

MediaPost 

Nielsen this morning released preliminary estimates for television’s so-called “universe” — the percentage of U.S. households with at least one conventional TV set capable of receiving at least one conventional TV signal — and for the second year in a row, it has declined, albeit at a miniscule rate. Like last year’s decline, Nielsen executives attribute some of the reduction to changes in the U.S. Census’s estimates for the number and composition of U.S. households, which the TV universe estimates are based on, but they say at least part of it is a function of changes in the media technology composition of U.S. homes. Precisely how much, they cannot say.

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Cisco’s Connected Life Exchange: A Blog with an Educational Mission

Cisco is well known for its networking products and services so the company decided it needed to produce an informational not promotional blog. The blog articles and videos focus on the telecom network’s impact on society. The Connected Life Exchange earned a runners up award for blogs selected by BtoB editors. At the Social Media Marketing Awards ceremony and BtoB Digital conference in March 2012, Cisco’s Tim Washer described the blog and its evolution to IDG Strategic Marketing Services Director Howard Sholkin…

Read the BtoB story on Cisco’s Connected Life Exchange

View “The Network Effect” video

Read more about the BtoB Social Media Marketing winners and runners up

Room For New Tactics From B2B Marketers

MediaPost

According to a comprehensive survey of B2B marketers across the U.S. by Crain’s BtoB in conjunction with Bizo, there are significant opportunities for B2B marketers to expand their marketing mix and more effectively leverage data and emerging channels in the changing digital media environment in 2012.

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US adspend outlook improves

Warc 

LONDON/WASHINGTON: The outlook for the US ad market is improving ahead of other key countries, Warc’s latest Consensus Ad Forecast shows.Within the 13 markets measured by the new research, US adspend received the largest single upgrade in forecast growth. The world’s largest ad market is now predicted to raise expenditure by 4.1% this year, a rise of +0.8pp from the January Forecast.

The Forecast, which is compiled based on a weighted average of adspend predictions at current prices from ad agencies, media monitoring companies and other industry bodies, as well as Warc’s own data, indicated that global expenditure will be raised by 5.3% in 2012 and by 5.4% in 2013.

Forrester says b2b marketers will increase budgets 6.8% this year

BtoB daily news 

Cambridge, Mass.—B2b marketers will increase their marketing budgets by an average of 6.8% this year, according to a report from Forrester Research. The report, “B2B Marketers Must Focus on Partnership and Experimentation as 2012 Budgets Rise,” was based on an online survey of 864 b2b marketing executives in North America and Europe, conducted in the fourth quarter.

According to the report, 27.0% of marketers will increase their budgets between 10% and 19% this year; 20.0% will increase budgets between 5% and 9%; and 18.0% will increase them between 1% and 4%. Sixteen percent of b2b marketers will boost budgets by more than 20% this year. The remaining 19.0% will decrease marketing budgets.

The Transformative CMO

cmo.com 

As organizations strive to set themselves apart from competitors, marketing has taken on new prominence throughout the business process. The days when marketing simply built brands, created above-the-line programs, and targeted customers are over. Now marketing—and more specifically the office of the Chief Marketing Officer (CMO)—is transforming how business is done. As a result, today’s top-flight and aspiring CMOs need new competencies to thrive in this expanded role. Through interviews and research, Korn/Ferry has identified the three competencies most essential for success.

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Gap Global CMO: Marketing ‘More Honest’ Than Journalism

ClickZ 

Gap Global Chief Marketing Officer Seth Farbman contends that marketers are “more honest” and transparent than journalists.

“In journalism, I always had the sense that I was creating information, but the real purpose of that information was to sell something – to sell newspapers and ad space,” he said today during a question-and-answer session during the Ad Age Digital Conference in New York.

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