What is the Authentic Growth® Marketing Maturity Matrix?

What is the Authentic Growth® Marketing Maturity Matrix?

A powerful tool for understanding your marketing journey Jump to the matrix attributes, which link to in-depth articles about what it takes to build maturity across each attribute. As a community of fractional CMOs, we’ve always rooted our client work in Authentic Growth® methodology. This methodology is our proven process that helps small and mid-sized businesses build strategic marketing departments and create alignment between sales and marketing. (more…)
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Professional development is key to building effective marketing teams

Professional development is key to building effective marketing teams

Building an effective marketing team is always top of mind for businesses. And amid a talent shortage, economic downturn, and annual budget planning, it’s even more critical that companies make strategic and thoughtful talent decisions. Professional development is key to all of this and should serve as the crux of any solid talent strategy.  (more…)
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Marketing data: From information to intelligence

Marketing data: From information to intelligence

Let's talk about Marketing ROI. Every growing business wants to know the ROI of its marketing investments. They want to predict, with certainty, how much they’ll get in return for various marketing activities. But few of these businesses have done the strategic work necessary to mature their data practices. (more…)
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Marketing + Finance: An unlikely match, or a love story written in the stars?

Marketing + Finance: An unlikely match, or a love story written in the stars?

We’ve all heard it said that opposites attract. This time-tested sentiment holds true in the C-Suite, where leaders balance roles between risk aversion and growth investment. Opposite perspectives are valuable to inform decision-making. But opposing priorities are deadly to team culture and corporate health. The rubber often meets the road in the relationship between Marketing and Finance. Should the company invest in strategic, but often unpredictable (risky), marketing initiatives? Or should the business limit its spend to programs already proven to generate measurable results? What is the right ratio of risk vs. caution, reward vs. stability? There is no one-size-fits-all…
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Dynasty Leadership Podcast Featuring Jennifer Zick

Dynasty Leadership Podcast Featuring Jennifer Zick

How to Overcome Random Acts of Marketing Our founder and CEO, Jennifer Zick, was recently the featured guest on the Dynasty Leadership Podcast, with host Todd Eberhardt. In this episode, Jennifer shares how a fractional CMO can help revitalize your business when you’re in the middle of the growth stages. She offers a seven-part framework to help break out of any marketing funk you might have. (more…)
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Cultivate a culture of trust between marketing, sales, and finance

Cultivate a culture of trust between marketing, sales, and finance

The process of creating demand and happy customers has never been more of a team sport than it is today. The buyer’s journey is one long continuum that requires marketing’s close alignment and collaboration with sales. And just as important to both marketing and sales is a solid foundational alignment with the finance team. (more…)
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Sales and marketing alignment: What is it & how to achieve it

Sales and marketing alignment: What is it & how to achieve it

Sales and marketing alignment is something businesses talk about a lot. But what is it, really, and how do organizations achieve it? This definition from Highspot succinctly and effectively defines it: “Sales and marketing alignment is a shared system of communication, strategy, and goals that enable marketing and sales to operate as a unified organization.”  (more…)
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