Cisco’s CMO has to generate more revenue on the same budget. Here’s where she’s placing her bets
Source: Fortune ·
Cisco CMO Carrie Palin is betting on a better digital experience and live events to drive more revenue from a largely unchanged marketing budget.
From the source
Carrie Palin is expected to generate more revenue from Cisco’s marketing organization every year. She’s also expected to do it with essentially the same budget. For the tech giant’s chief marketing officer, that has meant identifying where the company is losing potential customers, challenging established spending priorities, and finding stronger evidence of marketing’s contribution to revenue. Shortly after joining Cisco in 2021, Palin discovered that more than 80% of visitors to the company’s website were leaving within seconds, despite Cisco’s substantial investment in campaigns designed to bring them there. The site ran on 17-year-old technology, and that year’s annual budget didn’t include a major overhaul. Palin asked her team to identify spending they could cut to finance the overhaul, including brand advertising. Fortunately, she says, those cuts proved unnecessary. Her then-boss, Cisco’s former chief customer and partner officer, brought the proposal to CEO Chuck Robbins.…
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