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Strategic Marketing Skills
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Strategic Marketing Skills

by Ana Mourão
October 2026
Beginner
248 pages
7h 10m
English
Kogan Page
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06 Everything—Measuring, Explaining, and Connecting Marketing to Business Objectives

The CFO Question Marketers Can’t Answer

Picture this. Quarterly business review. The conference room smells like stale coffee and mild panic. Your CFO leans forward, taps the table twice, and asks the question every marketing leader dreads:

“We spent $2.3 million on marketing last quarter. What did we get for it?”

You pull up your dashboard. Impressions are up 34 percent. Click-through rates exceeded benchmarks. Social engagement grew by 22 percent. Brand awareness surveys show positive momentum. The deck looks impressive. The colors are on-brand.

The CFO stares at you like you just explained quantum physics in Klingon.

“But what did we actually get? How ...

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