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Listen now: Morning Brew for Marketing Executives

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Podcast: Morning Brew for Marketing Executives

Welcome to the podcast, where senior B2B marketing leaders from globally recognized brands in complex industries share their stories and experiences of what it’s like to be a marketing leader.

In the latest episodes, you'll hear more about leading marketing functions in companies like Valtra and Georg Fischer.

Executive Guides 

 

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Watch the video and read more: Executive guide for B2B marketing leaders

In this guide, we tackle four critical questions to rethink your function:

- Do you need a more strategic role for your function?
- What needs to happen to get to a more strategic role?
- How to evaluate if the change is needed?
- What would your more strategic function look like?

Watch the video that highlights three steps to a more strategic role. 

Executive Guide More strategic role

What would a more strategic role for your marketing function look like?

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Articles and our thoughts

 

Mavenfirst's Managing Director Jani Hovila

Why is cost of inaction often a better way to prove marketing impact than ROI and 9 other insights from the Executive Roundtable Stockholm

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Senior Marketing Consultant

How can marketing leaders create accountability within their marketing department?

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Mavenfirst senior consultant

Balancing act between benefits and fears of strict processes in marketing

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Mavenfirsts consultant

Strengthening your role as a marketing director in the management team

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Mavenfirst's consultants helping marketing executive communicate marketing value

How we helped our IT professional services provider to improve marketing value communication

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Mavenfirsts consultant helping client to thrive in a management team

How to thrive in a management team? Key takeaways from the first Executive Roundtable of 2025

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Mavenfirst's consultants helping our international client with a team in 9 countries

A new campaign planning process and playbooks driving success across multiregional marketing teams

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Mavenfirsts consultant

How should marketing executives lead AI change? Three key perspectives to note

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Mavenfirst's consultants

Focus on these three key elements to take your marketing strategy to the big league

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Mavenfirst's senior marketing consultant

Cracking the code of communicating total marketing value: why indirect value is the key

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Mavenfirst's team

Marketing Executive, you don’t need to master AI. But you must lead it.

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Zero-based budgeting and planning for CMOs: Key insights from September’s Executive Roundtable event

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Mavenfirst's consultants

How to make sure your marketing organization is on the journey towards profit center?

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Mavenfirst's consultant

Why is communicating the total marketing value of marketing so difficult?

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Mavenfirst's team

State of ABM and key takeaways for marketers for 2024 and beyond

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Building a world-class marketing team: six concrete operating models

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Mavenfirst's Senior Marketing Consultant

How Does Marketing Impact the Lead-to-Revenue Process?

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Webinars and online events —

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Building alignment in yearly planning – it's time to review your marketing strategy

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Lead your marketing function with clarity and accountability, not just tactics

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The big marketing organization debate – What shapes the way you should organize marketing?

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Why every marketing function needs a vision for the future?

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Year in review: Key insights, learnings and predictions for senior marketing executives in complex B2B industries

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How senior marketing executives can improve value communication and empower their teams to do the same

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Fuel yourself with researched information

Get to know our research reports. Please note that the reports are currently in Finnish. 

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Mavenfirst B2B Buying Study 2023

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B2B Buying Study 2023 (FIN)

Find out how B2B decision-makers are buying for over € 50,000 and what to focus on in marketing and sales. For the study, 70 business decision-makers from large Finnish companies with an annual turnover of more than €30 million were interviewed.

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Mavenfirst study: Markkinoinnin rooli ja haasteet complex sales -ympäristössä 2022

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Study on marketing in the complex sales environment (FIN)

This report describes the role of marketing in companies operating in a complex sales environment. The aim of the study is to support marketing leaders working in complex sales environments by providing insights into the current state of marketing.