Posts in Marketing Industry/Trends
5 Ways to Prove Marketing’s Value to the C-Suite

Why is Marketing always first on the chopping block when it comes to budget cuts? 

Because of soft metrics that are harder to track and “fluffy” language, Marketing can be overlooked by executives who don’t understand its value and overall contribution to success. 

Marketers are advocating for themselves more easily using analytics, but what other methods could CMOs, VPMs, Marketing Managers, and any Marketer in an organization use to get the C-Suite on the same page?

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Hiring The Wrong Agency Is A Fireable Offense

As marketers, it is clear that finding the right marketing agency to provide additional capacity or capability is crucial to achieving our business goals; however, the process of selecting the perfect agency can be overwhelming and time-consuming. Clients often inherit agency relationships that may no longer be the best fit or have become stale, leading them to consider a change. 

When faced with this laborious task, you may ask yourself: Where to begin when looking for a new agency? Or wonder if your team is making the right decision.

Let’s explore some of the major challenges to finding a great marketing agency and how to overcome them.

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Priorities of a CMO

The Setup CMO Spotlight series highlights high achieving marketing executives from different industries. After over 70 interviews with leaders at brands like Papa Johns, HEINEKEN, Randstad, NCR, and more, we’ve found that, despite each leader’s individual career journey and siloed industry, many CMOs and marketing professionals share the same priorities and outlook. Here are their thoughts!

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How Clients Find Marketing Agencies

Besides a simple Google search, or leaning on a past/familiar relationship with an agency, what are the other methods Brands use to find the perfect Marketing Agency partner? In our 2022 Marketing Relationship survey, we uncovered that referrals from trusted colleagues and friends were the most popular way Client-Side Brand Marketers found their next Agency partner. 

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4 Takeaways from TedxAtlanta

One of the main takeaways from our many #CMOSpotlight interviews is that it is important to seek inspiration from a variety of sources that are beyond your day-to-day tasks. At Setup, we love to invest time into exposing ourselves to learning opportunities and expanding our mindsets by hearing new and innovative approaches from experts in their field. We attended TEDxAtlanta with this very goal in mind. As the host, Jacqui Chew, stated at the beginning of the event, “Ideas can change the human condition.”

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What Types of Marketing Agencies are Clients Hiring?

In the 2022 Setup Marketing Relationship Marketing Relationship Survey, we surveyed over 300 Marketing respondents to uncover the behaviors and priorities of Brand and Agency marketing leaders. 

From discussing Why Clients End Their Agency Relationships, to What Clients Want From Their Agencies, there is so much to reveal and explore. But what are marketers spending their resources on? What types of agencies are being sought after for their specific marketing disciplines? 

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AI, Web3, and ChatGPT: What it means for you and me

Although there was a clear shift from last year’s Web3 and cryptocurrency heyday to today’s sexy new artificial intelligence chatbots (ChatGPT and Google’s Bard being the industry leaders), Web3 veterans have made it clear that they aren’t going anywhere. Evan Rosenthal, the Business Development Manager at Setup, shares his thoughts on rising technology and what that means for marketers.

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