2 in 3 US CMOs are feeling pressure from the board to prove marketing’s value, according to recent research, and it seems that B2B marketing leaders may have some work to do in this regard. According to a Forrester Research survey of 174 B2B marketing leaders, while 72% agreed that it’s clear to their leadership how marketing impacts the business, just 51% agreed that marketing’s financial value is clear to the business. Respondents themselves may be to blame.
That’s because just 4 in 10 believe that measuring marketing’s value and contribution to the business is either very important or critical, per the researchers. What’s more, only 45% of respondents expressed confidence that they know which metrics or business outcomes their key stakeholders care about. A symptom of a larger problem: while roughly two-thirds publish a marketing dashboard, slightly fewer than half share it with an executive team. Read the rest at MarketingCharts.
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