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Marketing Operations Defined for Wikipedia, Part I

ClearAction

MO professionals’ career paths sometimes originate in Finance, IT, Sales Operations and other analytical or process-oriented roles. The 2006 IDC CMO Technology Benchmark Study found that the headcount allocated to MO was about 2.5%.

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Acquisition Addiction’s Impact on Customer Experience ROI

ClearAction

Outside-in context should be natural for marketers, with access to market research, customer intelligence and predictive analytics. Digital marketing and predictive analytics are vital to real-time customer experience effectiveness. 1 2018 NPS® & CX Benchmarks Report , CustomerGauge.

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The Need for Customer Experience is Based on Science Not Myth

Natalie Petouhof

And what’s critical is determining where a brand’ web / mobile sites compare to customer expectations as well as benchmarking against CoIT applications or competitors or even non-competitors who have a great customer experience. Since 2006, what has changed slightly is the average online shopper expects pages to load in four seconds or less.