Brand Marketing Drives Sales, ROI and Even Performance Campaigns. Don’t Cut It!
CMOs are under pressure to cut budgets to protect their firms against economic uncertainty, without any corresponding drop in the requirement to deliver results. This can too easily lead brands to shift to a performance-marketing-led strategy, focused on short term sales results. This is often done at the expense of brand marketing, which, at first glance, with its soft KPIs and perceived difficulty in measurement, appears on the surface to be less impactful.