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Here at IDC's CMO Advisory Service we are in the field with our 11th annual Tech Marketing Benchmarks Study. I would like to offer an invitation to participate to marketing executives across the industry.  Have you ever wondered,  "Is my marketing organization receiving enough budget to compete?" or " Exactly how much  should I be spending on marketing automation?" If so, IDC's CMO Advisory Service's benchmark survey has been helping senior marketers answer questions like these for over 10 years! Below are the essential "need to knows" around our survey and further down I'll dive into all the great value of benchmarking your marketing organization. Let's get started: What are the benefits? Complimentary copy of our 2014 Marketing Investment Planner  to benchmark your company's marketing data against the industry's data. Receive an invitation to our client only telebriefing held by IDC Analysts.  What is needed?  Email me ( sm...

There is no arguments that the cloud software industry is currently top of mind for many, in fact enterprise companies are even receiving their share of  love . While the industry as a whole has our attention, what about marketing departments at these companies.  How are CMOs at these fast growing cloud organizations managing their marketing budget? What are they worried about? and what are their priorities for the rest of the year? Within IDC's 2013 Marketing Barometer survey we received answers from marketing leaders within cloud organizations. In this presentation you will see the high level findings comparing these cloud marketing departments to more traditional  2nd platform  companies. I would love to hear your thoughts on these initial findings and how your marketing organization is working to compete in this fast growing market (whether as a pure play or just one of many product lines).   For an extended dec...

The CMO Advisory Service at IDC is conducting its annual barometer survey. This is the 10 th year of the survey.  All respondents will receive a free copy of the report produced from the results of the survey and an invitation to IDC's exclusive Client Telebriefing. During The CMO Advisory's 2012 Marketing Benchmarks survey we collected data from ~100 of the largest and most influential tech companies, their combined revenue totaled nearly $750 Billion.  The barometer survey provides a "finger in the wind" follow up to the Benchmark Survey providing detailed guidance to senior marketers. Areas of focus include: budget ratios, program spend, headcount allocation, and in-depth insights into key trends in the industry and forward looking roles and programs.    If you are interested in participating:  contact Sam Melnick at smelnick (at) idc (dot) com Below are some answers to questions you might have: Q: A free report and webinar, cool! Wait what type of infor...

We are now publishing the results of our major annual Tech Marketing Benchmarks survey. Our tenth year of doing so! My thoughts today: 1) Most importantly: The Marketing Transformation effort is accelerating. Many vendors have been at this for a few years but as we now do some accounting for  results,  we see as many false-starts as we do successes. And so there are renewed and bigger efforts underway to Transform.  The best evidence of this is in recent, aggressive marketing budget overhauls and  larger, more sweeping re-organizations of the marketing function.  The good news is that top marketing  execs and C-Level execs DO understand that "future" Marketing can and should be the game-changer function, and so they are going to keep at the Transformation efforts until they see results.  Here are three major outcomes to watch for and benchmark, on your own Transformation journey: Shorter purchase cycles; reduced overall c...