Growth Insights for CEOs
Joe Grace
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Outsider Insights | You Can't Measure AI ROI If You Can't Measure Marketing ROI
Executive Takeaways
- Most mid-market companies lack the measurement foundation to evaluate AI — or any marketing investment.
- Hours saved, speed to market, and revenue realized are the three key AI ROI markers — baseline required.
- AI amplifies what's working. If measurement is broken, AI won't fix it.
- Real results start with a defined problem and a way to measure it — not the tool.
Outsider Insights
Across Chief Outsiders, we talk to hundreds of CEOs every month. In this series, we explore the trends and challenges we’re hearing from these discussions – and what you can do if you’re facing the same issues in your business.
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The Solution to Mediocre Marketing? A CMO Leading Multiple Niche Agencies
Thu, Apr 26, 2012 — It sounds like a great idea to turn your business's entire multichannel marketing campaign over to a single large marketing agency, doesn't it? You simply tell the agency, "Here's our target market, this is our brand, here's how we would like to position ourselves. Now go create the content, buy the media and help us grow." And the agency promotes itself as a "full-service" provider capable of handling every detail of your marketing from soup to nuts. So why are the results so frequently lackluster?