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Chris Davis
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A digital sales executive, Chris builds and leads teams across early-stage startups and established companies, helping them navigate complex markets to unlock new revenue opportunities. His approach is centered on identifying untapped potential, optimizing go-to-market strategies, and fostering collaboration across sales, marketing, and customer success teams. With experience across diverse sectors, including technology, media, and SaaS, Chris drives transformative growth with revenue increases often exceeding 40% YoY, as well as successful acquisitions (4x). With a strong track record of success, he leads companies through pivotal growth phases, from early-stage revenue generation to nine-figure exits.
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Beating Industry Benchmarks
Fri, Jul 18, 2025 | Posted by Grant Johnson
In my previous blog, I discussed a fast way to assess relative marketing performance, and covered proven approaches to improving six industry benchmark-based Key Performance Indicators (reach, share, engagement, loyalty, pipeline, and progression) that can boost overall marketing effectiveness. Today, I’m going to review some of the key findings from recent research around Marketing benchmarks. I’ll select key metrics from each of these three benchmarks and their implications for optimizing marketing performance.
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