You: You’re a data-driven marketer. You get excited about a good A/B test. A 5% boost in conversion makes your day. For you, fine-tuning your campaign segments is a fascinating pursuit in and of itself. You love data.
Your CMO: Not so much. Your CMO likes big plans and big successes that can be touted in executive meetings, and doesn’t sweat the details one bit.
Your CMO is a creative soul, but you are more of a scientist. You want your CMO to value you, your data, and your data-focused methods. In the spirit of Valentine’s Day, and after an hour in a waiting room flipping through magazine articles about relationships, here are some fun yet effective ways to make your CMO appreciate your work and your data.
- Flattery Will Get You Everywhere.
Everyone enjoys hearing positive things about themselves. Beyond the regular MQL/SAL/SQL reports and website traffic, provide your CMO with something fresh that highlights your leader’s success. Present a report that showcases your company’s Top Five Campaigns Based on ROI. This will help your CMO dismiss any self-doubt that may be lingering in their mind.
- Give Your CMO Something to Flaunt with His/Her Peers.
There’s always a little bit of rivalry between Sales and Marketing. Give your CMO some data that can just be casually thrown out there in conversation before an executive team meeting. Image your CMO saying to the pompous Head of Sales, “You know, I’m just so proud of the way my Marketing team is accelerating your team’s sales cycles. I just saw that last quarter, 80% of the contacts in your target account list have consumed content Marketing created. Isn’t that incredible?” <commence gloating now>
- Share a Secret.
Sure, you publish stats all the time, and everybody knows the usual ones. Show your CMO something they haven’t seen before. A few examples: % of Leads in Your Marketing Automation Database That Match Your Buyer Personas, Target Account Coverage Ratio, or Top 10 Most Active Accounts. Anything that your CMO can use to spark a conversation with people on the team and demonstrate that your CMO is indeed engaged in the work everyone is doing.
- Heatmaps Are HOT. Give Your CMO…a Heatmap.
There are heatmaps for website visitors, and those are nice, like a box of chocolates, but if you really want to impress, give your CMO a heatmap of marketing’s campaign coverage of target accounts, by buyer persona. Here’s an example. Chances are your CMO doesn’t already have one, even if there’s an ABM initiative underway. This is real data bling your CMO can also show off to the CEO.
Don’t have high enough data quality at your fingertips to give gifts like this? Take some time and work on improving your data quality. Take the first step and see what you have to work with using a free Data Diagnostic.