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Marketing Departments: You Finally Got Some Swagga’!

By Brad Farris

Ok, you got some swagga’ – now what are you going to do with it?

Twenty years ago marketing departments didn’t have the cachet, or status that it has today.

Remember the famous Dilbert “Marketing: Two Drink Minimum” cartoon?

At that time marketing mostly reported to the vice president of sales.

Sales was the king-of-the-hill – marketing’s job was to support the sales team.

Sales had the big bonuses, the corner offices, the nice cars. The marketers sat in a cube and drove a mid-sized compact. (more…)