5 key articles to accelerate marketing-led growth
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5 key articles to accelerate marketing-led growth

40% of marketing leaders cite driving growth as their #1 challenge, according to the Spring 2019 Deloitte CMO Council Survey. Even more telling is that the next highest ranked challenge was ‘delivering a powerful brand’, at a mere 14%. This disparity speaks to both the sheer number of leaders facing the growth challenge and the…

Retail Multichannel Marketing Best Practices for Creative
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Retail Multichannel Marketing Best Practices for Creative

What if you changed just a few words in your retail and ecommerce direct response marketing creative and boosted engagement by 36%?  Would you know which words to change and why? Persado analyzed over 300 million marketing messages to pinpoint the words, phrases, emotions, product descriptions, CTAs and formatting elements that retail and ecommerce leaders…

The Growth CMO’s Summer Reading List
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The Growth CMO’s Summer Reading List

This is not your typical summer reading list. The growth challenges facing marketing leaders are anything but typical. Marketing executives face new challenges around data fluency, organizational design, talent and training, effective C-suite communication, enterprise-wide strategic planning, and measurement, to name just a few. Any summer reading list worth its salt needs to take these…

Creative Disruption: How AI Fuels Data-Driven Creativity
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Creative Disruption: How AI Fuels Data-Driven Creativity

Personalization in the banking sector in 1960 meant a teller in a branch knew your individual needs and how to communicate with you to optimize your experience. Maybe you’re a conservative investor looking for a one year CD or government bond? Your personal banker would hand you a glossy brochure and unconsciously use language that…

Cannes 2019 Key Takeaways: 3 Early CMO Mandates
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Cannes 2019 Key Takeaways: 3 Early CMO Mandates

Three early themes emerged from day 1 at 2019 Cannes-Lions as the Persado team met with CMOs and global marketing leaders at this year’s festival of creativity. These are the Cannes 2019 key takeaways.   The CMO growth mandate is here to stay, and accountability is king Brand health and creative excellence are important, but early…

Four Insights Marketing Leaders Need to Optimize Creative in the Era of Data
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Four Insights Marketing Leaders Need to Optimize Creative in the Era of Data

We know words matter in marketing, but can we say with mathematical certainty that we’re using the right words and phrases? CMOs and marketing leaders have been asking for these insights, especially as brands become more data-driven. The answer up to this point has been no: we don’t know if we are using the right…