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marketing champions

by denise lee yohn on November 4, 2010 · 0 Comments · in business, leadership, marketing

First the bad news:  Only 18% of CEOs are “very satisfied” with their marketing organizations.  Yep, that’s saying 4 out of 5 CEOs lack confidence in their companies’ marketing people. Now the good news:  Marketing can play a critical role in creating and harvesting a company’s cash flow – something every CEO wants. So why [...]

a cmo’s dream team

by denise lee yohn on October 19, 2009 · 3 Comments · in business, leadership, marketing

Last week’s Ad Age featured an article called “Why It’s Time to Do Away With the Brand Manager.” The piece, and the Forrester research report which inspired it, argues for “changing the name ‘brand manager‘ to ‘brand advocate,’ and fundamentally changing marketer organizations in response to the onset of the digital age.” It reminded me [...]

gaining the competitive edge

by denise lee yohn on April 20, 2009 · 4 Comments · in brand delivery, business

Next week I’m speaking at The Marketing Forum, a national conference for Chief Marketing Officers and brand managers.  My talk is on “Gaining the Competitive Edge:  How Companies Drive Business Growth by Operationalizing Their Brands without Huge Marketing Budgets.”

trends we watched in 2008

by denise lee yohn on December 29, 2008 · 0 Comments · in brand communication, brand delivery, brand fun, marketing, trends

Before we quickly toss aside 2008 with the carelessness due a former lover, I thought it might be enlightening to look back on the predictions that were made at this time last year —

stats from the summit

by denise lee yohn on December 10, 2008 · 1 Comments · in marketing

I’m posting live from the CMO Council Summit in Monterey, CA — it’s a membership-only gathering of approx. 100 CMOs from a range of industries (everything from Ciao Bella gelato to SAP) and the theme of the conference is “Routes to Revenue.”