Business Growth Strategies For CEOs: Top CMOs On Marketing Strategy Implementations

Jennifer Apy

With a keen focus on driving ROI and shareholder value, Jennifer thrives on building long-lasting relationships while developing new channels and strategic product marketing opportunities to accelerate business growth. A 30-year marketing veteran, she cultivates key customer and market insights to guide effective marketing and customer-centric product development for a broad range of B2B and B2C companies from Fortune 500 to startups. While driving top-line business results, Jennifer tests and scales new initiatives to formulate a cost-effective marketing mix, and mentors cross-functional, global teams to success.

Quarterly Business Reviews: A CXO guide to Best Practices

Thu, May 16, 2024 | Posted by Yury Larichev

Most companies run regular QBRs (Quarterly Business Reviews). Getting into QBR practice its benefits, like getting your broader team buy-in on your sales and marketing team issues, creating a sense of urgency on important cross-team action items, building a learning culture within your team, sharing new product initiatives in advance, collect and measure customer feedback (or NPS) regularly. Not to mention you get valuable team face time, undistracted by daily sales activities.

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The Fractional Chief Marketer: An Insider’s View

Thu, Aug 19, 2021 — How much is just enough? When you are the CEO of a small or mid-market business, this time-honored question isn’t just a euphemism, but a way of life. Obtaining just the right amount of resources – at the right moment in the company’s maturity – can be a game changer. Enter the fractional executive – an experienced, highly-credentialed CMO-for-hire who can be plugged in for a right-sized engagement, without the expense or expectations of a full-time senior marketing executive.

Growth Hacking vs. Growth Gears: Avoiding the Vanity Metrics Mirage

Thu, Apr 29, 2021 — Congratulations! You’ve hired a so-called “marketing expert,” trusted them with your digital properties, and learned today that you gained 1 million hits to your website last month. But, upon reflection, your cash drawer is not overflowing, and you’re certainly not feeling flush with success. It’s a sad reality – though many marketing agencies are well-meaning, there are some that can coax you into the fast-money trap. They promise shortcuts, big hits, and a load of sexy-sounding data that may look good on the surface – something I call vanity metrics, but not real business results.

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Jennifer Apy

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Quarterly Business Reviews: A CXO guide to Best Practices

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