First 90 Days: Customer Marketing Leader

January 1st, 2018

Lisa Nakano

Summary

The new leader of a customer marketing or customer experience function often faces a “boil the ocean” challenge, with many issues to tackle but few resources to apply. The new leader must set priorities and deliver immediate results in order to demonstrate the value of customer marketing and, in turn, to secure additional resources. In this report, we outline a customer marketing leader’s key activities for the first 90 days in the role and reference relevant research to ease the transition.

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