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The Marketing Blindspot

One idea a month on the commercial side of marketing: what it costs to win a customer, what they are worth, and why the two so rarely meet.

Monthly, last Thursday Three-minute read By Alan Edwards

The letters

  1. Issue 02 The seat is going to whoever answers for the money The CMO title is thinning out across the Fortune 500. The seat is not vanishing, it is going to whoever will answer for the commercial outcome.
  2. Issue 01 The conversation nobody's having Why the marketing budget is the one line on the P&L nobody can defend, and the question that changes it.

What to expect

The note
One idea, plainly

A short essay from Alan. A single argument from the commercial side of marketing, no hype, no jargon.

The number
One figure that matters

A benchmark, a finding, or a metric worth knowing, with the source named.

From the work
A case or a method

A concrete note from practice: an anonymised pattern or a point of method that proves the idea.

It's written for CFOs, finance directors, marketing leaders, and the investors behind B2B technology and SaaS businesses: the people who hold the marketing budget and the people who answer for it. If that isn't you, it probably won't be useful, and that's fine.

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