Marketing Budgets – Gut or Data Driven?

57% of #CMO are not basing marketing spend on ROI analysis, rather on historical spend and gut.  How do you budget?  Are you trying to establish KPI’s? >>Article from Marketing Charts  http://bit.ly/zEGdh9 Only 14% of senior marketers whose companies use...

We Are All Marketers Now (Part Two)

Our continued thoughts on the great article from McKinsey that notes the importance of data driven marketing. Extracting Meaningful Intelligence Marketers today not only need to be able to plan for effective sales and marketing channel data integration, they also need...

We Are All Marketers Now (Part One)

Read a great article from McKinsey that notes the importance of data driven marketing. Due to the new models of customer engagement and the technical complexity involved in dealing with the resulting mounds of data from social networks, websites, other online media...