As a marketing guy turned CEO, I have the relatively rare experience of having seen marketing from inside the organization as well as from above it. Yesterday, the SV Forum Marketing SIG invited me to give a presentation where I discussed marketing from the CEO's perspective.
I've embedded the slides below for your viewing pleasure.
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Just a quick post to highlight that Exit Five has published the audio from my presentation at their recent leadership retreat. The presentation was entitled How To Be the CMO Everyone Wants To Work With, and the audio is about an hour long. Exit Five founder Dave Gerhardt published it
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