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Board members with marketing experience improve shareholder returns by 3% [benchmark]

Sword and the Script

of boards have directors with marketing experience, but 100% have directors with finance experience Companies that have board members with marketing experience outperform companies that do not. That’s the high-level finding of an academic study titled, When and How Does Board-Level Marketing Experience Impact Firm Performance ?

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Market research has to earn its place at the table—here’s how to do it

Agility PR Solutions

Recently I received an email from the international market research organization, ESOMAR, hyping a webinar entitled, “Selling Research Results Internally: Thinking like a marketer instead of a researcher to drive insights into action.” because it reminded me of something I wrote back in 2007. And sure, […].

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What Are the New Rules of Marketing and PR?

wiredPRworks

In 2007, David mentioned my fledgling blog wiredPRworks in his book, “ The New Rules of Marketing and PR.”. In a stroke of marketing brilliance, David included over 160 bloggers/contributors in the first edition. When I found David’s work and read his first book, I knew I’d found the roadmap to the future of marketing and PR.

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5 SDR statistics that can help B2B marketing improve performance

Sword and the Script

B2B marketing tends to be quick to critique messages they get from SDRs, but the fact is this team is an important link between sales and marketing. With that in mind, it’s worth examining the relationship your own marketing shop has with the SDR team. The company has conducted this survey every year since 2007.

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This Week in PR Ethics (2/2/23): Non-Competes, Bribes, AI, and Guerilla Marketing Ethics

Ethical Voices

This week the communications ethics issues spanned a wide variety of topics from non-competes, to stupid PR people, to ethics developments with AI and the 16 th Anniversary of one of the dumbest guerilla marketing stunts of all time. Are non-competes ethical? This was the big news last week, but I am just getting to it now.

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7 Best Marketing Blogs of 2019

Critical Mention

The world of digital marketing is an ever-shifting landscape where platform algorithms and industry trends change in the blink of an eye, and you need to be able to keep up. Luckily, we have seven of our top picks for the best marketing blogs of 2019 that’ll help you up your game! Content Marketing Institute. Marketing Land.

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7 Ways Marketers Can Get Creative With Compliance

Contently - Strategy

Marketers find few things as grim as compliance. While covering Jobs’s death, for instance, the writing started in 2007. Marketers have started to figure out how to build better relationships with compliance teams. Then create a clear checklist that both marketing and legal can scan as they’re working on a project.