CMO Roundtable: A Practical Guide to Your First 90 Days as CMO

There have been Marketing Trends episodes about how CMOs should approach their first 90 days on the job. But on this episode, we talk with someone who is actively going through it. Lauren Vaccarello was named CMO of Talend just before this episode was recorded. Across the roundtable, we had Thomas Butta, who has served as CMO multiple times and currently serves as CMO of SignalFx.

On this episode, Tom and Lauren dive deep into how to succeed as a new CMO. They also talk about real-time analytics, leadership, giving feedback, and much more.

“Not only is your job to help position your company in a way that you can guide your customers to where they need to go, but I think you also need to be a coach, a mentor, and a guide to your team.” - Tom Butta

 

Links:

Full Notes & Quotes: http://bit.ly/2mEkgw4

Tom’s LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/tombutta

Tom’s Twitter: twitter.com/thomasbutta

SignalFx: signalfx.com

Lauren’s LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/laurenvaccarello

Lauren’s Twitter: twitter.com/laurenv

Talend: talend.com

 

3 Key Takeaways:

- When you’re first getting started as a CMO, talk to everyone and get their perspectives. This includes your team, customers, your peers in other functions, and even industry analysts.

- It’s important to balance getting short-term wins like feeding leads to sales, with long-term initiatives like category development and positioning.

- Take the time to offer in-depth, meaningful feedback. It saves you time in the long run as your team learns to do things according to your preference.

 

 

Bios:

Thomas Butta is the CMO at SignalFx. As a marketing leader and brand strategist, Tom has helped some of the world’s most successful enterprise SaaS companies in rapidly-changing categories achieve the coveted positions of thought leader and trusted guide to the Fortune 2000. Prior to SignalFx, Tom was CMO at Sprinklr, consultant-in-residence at Andreessen Horowitz, and CMO of AppNexus, NICE Systems, PTC, and Red Hat. Tom is a Board Director at YSA.org, and Advisor to Airship, Gigster, Kustomer, and Teampay.

Lauren Vaccarello is the CMO of Talend. Previously she served as the VP of Marketing at Box and has also held executive marketing roles at AdRoll and Salesforce. Regarded as an expert in B2B digital marketing, Lauren has written two industry-leading books, “Complete B2B Online Marketing,” and “The Retargeting Playbook.” She has also received numerous awards for her work, including “Top 50 Women in Revenue” and San Francisco Business Times’ “Most Influential Women in Business.”

 

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