Who Creates the Most Wealth, Sales or Marketing?

Some might say there's an easy answer to this question, “it’s sales right?”  And yet,  when you delve into the many facets of marketing’s long and short-term initiatives with Mark Coronna, CMO for Chief Outsiders, he makes a strong case for marketing’s superior contributions. 

Of course, marketing feeds the pipeline, manages the product lines and creates all of the marketing support and this is short term in nature.  Beyond this, Mark points out the long term contributions of tangible value, which Booz Allen Hamilton says can be worth a double-digit revenue and profit number when a marketing manager is considered a growth Champion; listen and be surprised.

About Mark Coronna

Mark is an Area Managing Partner & CMO for Chief Outsiders. Mark is a globally experienced executive with a track record of consistent growth, turnaround and repositioning expertise across multiple industries.  He uses digital marketing to transform go-to-market programs and his passion is to help leadership teams accelerate revenues and profits.

Mark has authored over 35 articles and four eBooks on topics such as account-based marketing, building compelling value propositions and improving lead generation and qualification using an Intelligent Sales Pipeline^tm  (https://contact.chiefoutsiders.com/improving-lead-gen-ebook)

About Chief Outsiders

Chief Outsiders, LLC is a nationwide "Executives-as-a-Service" firm, with 70 part-time, or fractional, Chief Marketing Officers (CMOs) engaged from coast-to-coast. Unlike other strategic marketing and management consulting firms, each CMO has held the position of VP Marketing or higher at one or more operating companies. Chief Outsiders have served on the executive team of over 800 client companies to drive growth strategy and execution plans for a fraction of the cost of a full-time executive.

Because of its market-based growth plans, quality of leadership, and experienced team, Chief Outsiders has been recognized for the past six years by Inc. Magazine as one of the 5,000 fastest growing privately held companies in the US, and was recognized in 2019 as a Forbes Small Giant. Chief Outsiders’ CEO Art Saxby and Principal Pete Hayes are the co-authors of “The Growth Gears: Using a Market-Based Framework to Drive Business Success,” an Amazon #1 best-seller for business owners and CEOs. For additional information about the companies who trust Chief Outsiders as their premier source for business growth acceleration, click here.  

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