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Advertising Week Panelist Explains Marketing's Expendability

AD_Week_NYC.jpgAt Ad Age's NY City Advertising Week panel, "Money Talks: The view from the CMO's office" Ad Age editor/moderator Scott Donaton noted that the average tenure of a chief marketing officer is 22.9 months ñ half that of the average CEO.

Why is marketing so expendable? Said Paul Guyardo, Kmart CMO, "We're an easy target. Everybody likes to think theyíre a marketer and can do our job. It's easier to get rid of us than to adjust the real problems affecting sales."


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B.L. Ochman, Managing Director of Emerging Media for Proof Integrated Communications, the digital marketing arm of Burson-Marsteller, has been helping Fortune 500 companies strategically incorporate new media into their marketing mix since 1996.

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