
CMO Insights
Learn how to make digital revenue happen. Gain insights into Digital Transformation, the Customer Experience and Innovation by listening to your fellow CMO's as they discuss organizational changes, dynamics, digital transformation, and operationalizing the customer experience using content, programs, campaigns, personas, full life cycles and more.
Latest episodes

Sep 21, 2020 • 17min
Season 6. Episode 5: Marketing Caffeine: Mike Westgate, VP of Marketing at Briggo
In this episode of CMO Insights, Jeff Pedowitz sits down with Mike Westgate, VP of Marketing at Briggo.Mike talks about:
Connected Coffee – connecting people digitally to their coffee, enhancing the coffee experience through technology
Location based marketing and leveraging location based data
Scaling to new markets with a small (3-person) marketing team
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Sep 21, 2020 • 31min
Season 6. Episode 3: Experts Exchange
At the B2B Marketing Exchange, The Pedowitz Group CEO Jeff Pedowitz sits down with three marketing leaders to discuss their perspective and share insights into strategic priorities for the year ahead, trends impacting shote ability to engage buying teams at key accounts, new tools and solutions they are testing or deploying, and plans for building and guiding the modern marketing organization. Featuring Jeanne Hopkins - Ipswitch, Chinstine Nurnberger - Bottomline Technologies, Ken Wincko - Workwave.Connect with Jeff on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeffpedowitz/Learn more about The Pedowitz Group https://www.pedowitzgroup.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sep 21, 2020 • 16min
Season 6. Episode 1: Thunder from Down Under: Andy Mcfarlene
In this episode of CMO Insights, Jeff Pedowitz sits down with Andy McFarlaneAndy discussed the radically changing Telco market, Telstra's transformation and what it takes to build an enterprise B2B marketing capability in a legacy B2C business.Connect with Jeff on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeffpedowitz/Learn more about The Pedowitz Group https://www.pedowitzgroup.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sep 20, 2020 • 14min
Season 3. Episode 20: Account Based Personas : Ardath Albee, CEO of Marketing Interactions
In this episode of CMO Insights, Jeff Pedowitz sits down with Ardath Albee, CEO of Marketing Interactions.talks about:
Texting – a new trend for her company in 2018 – and how it contributes to big data
The importance of personas in Account Based Marketing
Learning the language of the business
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Sep 20, 2020 • 21min
Season 3. Episode 19: Tradeshow Relevance : Paul Johnson, Chief Product and Marketing Officer for Displayit
In this episode of CMO Insights, Jeff Pedowitz sits down with Paul Johnson, Chief Product and Marketing Officer for Displayit Paul discusses the tradeshow industry as it stands today, the important role they still play in a company's overall marketing strategy and trends affecting the industry. About Paul JohnsonIn 2014, Displayit brought Paul Johnson on board as the head of the Marketing Advantage team. Paul is responsible for determining clients’ needs, ensuring that Displayit has the right products and services to satisfy those needs, and making it easy for Clients to decide what to buy. Displayit is an ecommerce company that makes trade show exhibits at their 70,000 square-foot headquarters near Atlanta, Georgia, and ships all over the United States. Since 2014, Displayit has organically doubled its business. After working in numerous sales roles - from account manager to vice president of sales and marketing - Paul discovered that true sales success is achieved with a healthy marriage of effective product management and smart marketing. Thus, he began his unending pursuit of the “question behind the question,” developing a knack for hearing what others aren’t saying, connecting the dots, and helping people make decisions that solve their problems.Previously, Paul Johnson worked with Oracle (Siebel Systems), ADP, AkzoNobel, and several smaller firms.Paul has a degree in electrical engineering. He once rebuilt a manual transmission all by himself, and only had 4 parts left over!Paul Johnson was a founding director of the Technology Association of Georgia, and co-founder of the Technology Marketing Association. He is an accomplished writer, author of 2 books. In addition, Paul’s advice has appeared in numerous publications including the Atlanta Journal Constitution, Selling Power Magazine and Sales and Marketing Management. He is past president of the National Speakers Association Georgia State Chapter. Connect with Jeff on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeffpedowitz/ Learn more about The Pedowitz Group https://www.pedowitzgroup.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sep 20, 2020 • 15min
Season 3. Episode 18: Insights on Technology Management : Chris Spears, Chief Marketing Technology Officer for Arke
In this episode of CMO Insights, Jeff Pedowitz sits down with Chris Spears, Chief Marketing Technology Officer for Arke.Chris discusses how
Integrating technology requires a plan, process and forethought for true implementation
Minimally viable data is an important term for his internal team when it comes to metrics and analytics
Procurement of technology and project management are two different functions that need to be connected.
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Sep 20, 2020 • 16min
Season 3. Episode 17: Three Pillars : Armen Najarian, Chief Marketing Technology Officer for ThreatMetrix
In this episode of CMO Insights, Jeff Pedowitz sits down with Armen Najarian, Chief Marketing Technology Officer for ThreatMetrix.Armen shares
How he thinks of himself as a business person and spends a lot of time with the CFO
The importance of delegation, communication and choosing the right things to focus on
His philosophy on the three pillars of people, process, and technology.
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Sep 20, 2020 • 15min
Season 3. Episode 16: In the Black : Bob Canaway, Chief Marketing Technology Officer for Black Duck Software.
In this episode of CMO Insights, Jeff Pedowitz sits down with Bob Canaway, Chief Marketing Technology Officer for Black Duck Software.Bob discusses
The importance of understanding how and when a customer is introduced to your product/service
The need to have a business analyst perspective on his marketing team
Why asking the right questions during the software demo stage is critical to ensure it will fulfill the promise for your organization.
Connect with Jeff on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeffpedowitz/ Learn more about The Pedowitz Group https://www.pedowitzgroup.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sep 20, 2020 • 16min
Season 3. Episode 15: All in on ABM : Peter Herbert, Vice President of Marketing with VersionOne
In this episode of CMO Insights, Jeff Pedowitz sits down with Peter Herbert, Vice President of Marketing with VersionOne.They made the decision 18 months ago to transform how they did marketing and adopt Account-Based Marketing (ABM). As a company, they moved from a transaction model to one where they focused on the Global 2000 organizations that would use the company’s software to do enterprise-wide transformation. As part of the VersionOne marketing transformation, they employed ABM.In Peter’s own words: “We’ve employed ABM to help us target our efforts more effectively, personalize [messaging] and have more success with our ideal customer profile.” When asked what the results of adopting ABM was, Peter replied “Our specific ABM effort where we went through the whole process to select accounts, get alignment with sales, change our marketing stack, and transition all of our campaigns to this new mode; we are about 6 months into it, we converted 20% of our top 100 accounts into the pipeline, and we’re currently sourcing about two thirds of the new business.”Other topics he addresses in this 15 minute video include the reasons why he made the switch to ABM, what processes had to change, what technology stack he adopted to help, and what metrics and KPI changes he had to make.Peter Herbert has nearly 20 years’ experience in strategic marketing and corporate communications including demand generation, public relations, corporate product positioning, content strategy, and channel development for both global and emerging technology companies.VersionOne helps companies succeed with Agile software development and they specialize in helping some of the largest organizations in the world scale agile successfully across their entire organizations and succeed with agile transformation. Connect with Jeff on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeffpedowitz/ Learn more about The Pedowitz Group https://www.pedowitzgroup.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sep 20, 2020 • 14min
Season 3. Episode 14: Content Crisis Prevention : Marvin Mason, CMO at the Crisis Prevention Institute (CPI)
In this episode of CMO Insights, Jeff Pedowitz sits down with Marvin Mason, CMO at the Crisis Prevention Institute (CPI) Marvin built a marketing team largely around the process of content marketing. In his own words: “The idea here is to publish relevant, helpful, interesting content that causes people to seek us out as solutions providers, and if we can get involved in the conversations they are having, and provide them helpful resources, we are a natural go-to place.”Marvin’s team does a lot of work around personas and buying journeys as well as use PPC to test what new content is helpful. He also encouraged his team to get content marketing certifications. The end result is that CPI has seen a 180% increase in leads, with up to 8% of those coming from Facebook alone.CPI is an education training organization that focuses on training for those who have a duty to care for others. When behavior can become a challenge, they teach techniques to help read and understand the behavior to help de-escalate it and hopefully prevent situations from becoming risky or dangerous for the care provider or the person being cared for. Connect with Jeff on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeffpedowitz/ Learn more about The Pedowitz Group https://www.pedowitzgroup.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices