Synopsis. With short tenures relative to others in the C-Suite, the role of the Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) is increasingly challenging. They must shift strategies and resources from platform to platform to match the ever-changing preferences of diverse customer cohorts. They must ensure that brand promises remain authentic and relevant in markets that are noisier and more crowded than ever. However, these challenges also present a unique opportunity for CMOs to renew their value propositions by being intentional about taking the lead in a critical transformation: guiding their companies through the structural transition from a tangible to intangible value exchange with today's discerning customers. As global economic activity and demand continues this seismic shift, CMOs are uniquely positioned to transcend traditional marketing boundaries to spearhead this evolution. To learn more order “The Customer Excellence Enterprise: A Playbook for Creating Customers for Life” at all major booksellers.

Operationalizing the voice of the customer (VoC) into marketing, sales and commercial ways of working is a core attribute and key differentiator for Customer Excellence Enterprises (CXEs). For those unique companies who are predisposed to consistently deliver exceptional experiences, this means integrating VoC (in all of its shapes and sizes) into every aspect of the commercial engine from product development, go-to-market, campaign execution to pre-call planning for sales reps. The dynamic workflow of listening across channels, making sense of, and acting on customer feedback and signals in near real-time offers CMOs, marketers, and sales reps the opportunity to not only align messaging, propositions, and engagement with customer preferences but to also elevate revenue performance and de-risk the revenue leakage that comes from customer churn.

The time to act is now, and those who embrace this change will future-proof their careers and their companies. The marketers who adopt this new model will be indispensable resources, the ones to shape the future of marketing by helping their companies create truly unique selling propositions, and defensible competitive advantages and deliver value in ways that transcend traditional product and brand factors.

As the digital marketing landscape becomes increasingly commoditized, the future of marketing is experiential, human-centered, and customer-driven. To reset, rejuvenate, and future-proof their careers, marketers must take accountability for their own professional development. This requires upskilling in areas that go beyond traditional marketing tactics and tools. Marketers must embrace the experiential commerce model and integrate customer experience and customer-centric behaviors into the very fabric of their marketing strategies, making them an organic part of a new customer-centric commercial model.

CASE-IN-POINT: Reimagining Marketing and Sales for Experiential Commerce BOLD MOVE: The Customers for Life Imperative. The Shift: Experiential Commerce

[WHITE PAPER] Are the "MAG 7" a Tech or Customer Experience Phenomenon? BOLD MOVE: The Customers for Life Imperative. The Shift: Experiential Commerce EXPERIENTIAL FACTOR(S): Consistency, Seamlessness, Convenience, Preferences