The Guides to New Marketing Roles

Stepping into a new marketing role can be challenging. Luckily, we’ve researched and collected information from interviews with marketing leaders who were once in your shoes to give you a step-by-step outline of what to expect and how to achieve your goals. Check out our free guide on New Marketing Roles, starting with Guide to a New Role | Director of Marketing!

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#MarketersBreakfast - Fostering Human Connection

At Setup, we love to facilitate environments where people can network and embrace themselves freely, so our #MarketersBreakfast for August 2022 was all about “Getting Back to the Basics to Find Human Connection.”

At this breakfast, no one was a stranger.

With a balance of attendees from both marketing agency and brand leadership teams, the breakfast consisted of open networking and an “improv” activity led by Setup’s Marketing Manager, Madeline Evans, who is actively teaching and performing improv professionally in Atlanta.

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Setup Partner Feature | Capitol Media Solutions

JT Hroncich, the Managing Director at Capitol Media Solutions, shares how CMS serves as a tool for both marketing agencies and clients who need media planning and buying, but do not have the budget for a dedicated media department or person. He also shares how he leads his company as a leader, with trust and respect. Read more about Hroncich and CMS…

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What Do Clients Look for in Marketing Agencies?

At Setup, we live in the world between marketing agencies and brands, connecting the two and consulting them on how to work effectively together. In any partnership, it’s important to understand and articulate the expectations one group has of another.

The following list includes five notable traits marketing leaders from Great Clips, Atlanta Hawks, Randstad, CrowdStreet, and NCR expect from their marketing agency partners.

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4 Lessons Brands Taught Us When They Became “Cool”

Fashion trends are cyclical in nature, constantly going in and out of style. There are some brands, however, that were never trendy, but are somehow currently defying the odds and catapulting into mainstream fashion. The strategies these once undesirable brands used to thrust themselves into the fashion spotlight are applicable to marketers everywhere.

Here are four takeaways from notable brands' marketing campaigns that have impacted their resurgence:

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5 Ways Marketers Get C-Suite Buy-In

Proving marketing’s value to other departments or the C-Suite can seem like a futile effort. When there is a disconnect across departments and a marketing campaign’s KPIs are vanity metrics, the first touchpoints in a long running brand awareness ploy, or the foundation of what’s to come - it can be hard for the C-Suite to see the full picture to get on board.

That’s why we reached out to marketing leaders from Danone, LEARFIELD, RE/MAX, Stratasys, and Invesco for answers on how they team up with their company’s leaders to get C-Suite buy-in and financial support.

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5 Key Tips to Unlocking Killer Content | 2022 Digital Summit Recap

Last week, the Digital Summit Conference came to Atlanta! Marketers from every stage in the marketing career path attended to network and gain knowledge from experts about current marketing industry trends.

There were countless presentations highlighting how marketers could better optimize their content strategy. Here are five key takeaways that marketers need to implement in order to unlock engaging content.

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The Marketing Career Path | Advice for the Marketing Professional #3

In this Marketer Musings segment, the following mashup presents marketing leaders sharing advice that they wish they had known as a younger marketer, as well as advice they would give to current marketing executives in executive, CMO, or VP roles similar to their own.

This Advice column features marketers from Danone, Del Taco, RE/MAX, and more.

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