Jeff Ernst

Principal Analyst serving CMO & Marketing Leadership PROFESSIONALS

Jeff serves CMO & Marketing Leadership Professionals. He is a leading expert in B2B marketing and sales, with a unique perspective that comes from being a CMO who has built marketing organizations, a hands-on marketing practitioner for over 20 years, and a developer of technology for marketing and sales. Now as an industry analyst at Forrester, he talks to marketing and sales leaders every day, hearing about their biggest challenges, and advises them on marketing strategy, new product/market opportunities, thought leadership and content marketing, business buyer behavior, emerging technologies, solution-based marketing and selling, and marketing effectiveness across the entire lead-to-revenue process.

Jeff is a frequent speaker and blogger on B2B marketing and sales, is a regular contributor to BtoB Magazine and has been featured by Forbes CMO Network, Mashable, Huffington Post, NPR, ReadWriteWeb, Financial Times, ClickZ, AdWeek, and Reuters.

Previous Work Experience

Prior to joining Forrester, Jeff served in executive and marketing leadership roles at several companies including FatWire, Infinium, Kadient, and Open Market. Most recently, he led the definition and launch of Kadient's new SaaS-based sales enablement platform, which helps Fortune 1000 companies improve B2B sales and marketing effectiveness.

He is the author of The New Rules of Sales Enablement and co-author of How to Create Killer Sales Playbooks.


Education

Jeff earned an MBA with a concentration in marketing from the F.W. Olin Graduate School of Business at Babson College and a Bachelor of Science in finance from Babson College.

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    Report:Why Marketers Must Integrate TV And Video Strategies

    In addition to the variety of media options that the digital age has brought forth, TV is the next medium to get a digital makeover. New access points to the living-room screen and the invasion of...

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    Tool:Forrester's Marketing Automation Maturity Model

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    Tool:Test Your Orchestration Maturity

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    Report:CMOs Must Lead The Brand Experience

    Organization: The 21st Century Brand Marketing Playbook

    Twenty-first century brands are grappling to maintain their traditional sources of competitive advantage in the age of the customer — a world in which the companies that take an obsessive...

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    Report:How Real CMOs Connect The Dots

    An Empowered Report: Insights From Forrester's Marketing & Strategy Forum EMEA 2010

    Forrester has called for the chief marketing officer (CMO) to be the chef d'orchestre, the conductor who assertively defines the brand and carefully knits together all of her company's offers and...

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    Report:Build Your Army Of Brand Advocates From Across The Enterprise

    Forrester's research with senior marketing leaders shows that enterprisewide commitment and engagement are critical to successfully building a brand in the 21st century. But this is also marketers'...

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    Report:Bad Habits Keep Marketers From Adapting

    Benchmarking The Adaptive Marketing Organization

    The results of Forrester's August 2011 North American Adaptive Marketer Benchmarking Online Survey reveal that the vast majority of marketers are not practicing the habits of Adaptive Marketing. The...

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    Report:Drivers Of B2B Marketing Organizational Design

    How B2B CMOs Can Determine When To Put Resources Closer To Customers

    When thinking about how to organize their marketing departments, business-to-business (B2B) CMOs face constant tension regarding the decision to put marketing resources closer to the customers and...

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    Report:Consumers Demand More From 21st Century Brands

    Landscape: The 21st Century Brand Marketing Playbook

    Empowered consumers threaten the traditional building blocks of brand equity, as they have greater influence than ever over brand preference, recommendation, and pricing power. In February 2012,...

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    The 21st Century Brand Marketing Playbook

    The Post-Digital Rules Of Brand Building

    In the 21st century, empowered consumers have steered brand marketing into foreign terrain — they have taken the driver's seat and told brands where, when, and how they want to be interacted...

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      Report:How To Drive Marketing Innovation

      Innovation Must Be Deliberate, Distributed, And Demonstrable

      Marketing innovation is a business priority. But not all marketing leaders are meeting the challenge despite executive interest. CMOs who are better at driving their organizations are doing so by...

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      Report:How To Build Your Brand With Branded Content

      Traditional marketing vehicles are becoming less effective in capturing and engaging the attention of today's perpetually connected consumers. Chief marketing officers (CMOs) must adapt their...

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      Report:Case Study: IBM Makes Social Media The Responsibility Of Every Employee

      An Empowered Report: Spread Social Media Responsibilities Across The Organization To Empower Employees And Strengthen The Brand

      As a global technology leader focused on delivering forward-looking technology and solutions, IBM is no stranger to taking a unique approach in order to generate a stronger end result. To encourage...

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      Report:2013 B2B CMO Imperatives

      Driving Growth With Customer Insights, Marketing Automation, And Content Marketing

      Business-to-business (B2B) CMOs will have three key initiatives to execute on in 2013 in order to separate themselves from the competition in front of empowered business buyers. Marketers must work...

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      Report:Marketers Need To Take Accountability For Creative Strategy

      How Marketers Can Get Better Work From Their Brand Agencies

      Great creative advertising is always in demand. But when it comes to providing strategic direction to agencies, marketers are their own worst enemy. Why? Many marketers' organizational structures,...

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      Report:CMO Mandate: Adapt Or Perish

      The Five Habits Of Highly Adaptive Marketers

      Three out of four CMOs plan to revamp their organizations for the digital age by the end of 2011. The reason? Their initial efforts to create digital departments and outsource digital capabilities...

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      Report:New Models For Agency Orchestration

      How Marketers Can Harmonize The Cacophony Of Multiagency Collaboration

      In a world where reaching and connecting with consumers gets increasing complex every single day, the last thing that marketers need is to deal with the cacophony of misdirected and misaligned agency...

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      Report:Case Study: Two Approaches To Align Marketing With IT

      The rapid adoption of new digital technologies by consumers is pushing marketing and IT closer together. Two companies that Forrester spoke with took very different approaches to the challenge of how...

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      Report:Bigger B2B Marketing Budgets Come With Great Expectations

      Use The Forrester Marketing Flywheel To Assess Budget Allocation

      After several years of making cuts, B2B marketing leaders have larger budgets in 2011, but they come with a catch: more scrutiny and greater expectations for results. Budgeting is no longer an annual...

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      Tool:The ADAPT Self-Diagnostic

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      Tool:Forrester's Marketing Automation Maturity Scorecard

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      Tool:Your Thought Leadership Must Embody Bold Attributes

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      Report:The Evolved CMO In 2012

      CMOs Must Take A More Active Role In Business And Technology Strategy

      Forrester Research and Heidrick & Struggles recently conducted a global survey of nearly 200 chief marketing officers (CMOs). In this report, you will find out how these CMOs view their relationship...

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      Report:How To Organize For The Digital Future

      Assign An Owner To Digital Strategy, Governance, And Execution

      To survive the destructive forces of digital disruption, firms must use eBusiness and interactive marketing capabilities to become customer obsessed. Yet most current digital organizations are too...

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      Tool:The Mobile Velocity Scorecard

     
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