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Ask the CFO: If Your Marketing Isn't Generating Revenue, Here's Why with Dolores Hirschmann
If Your Marketing Isn’t Generating Revenue, Here’s What May Be Missing
There are more ways to market a business today than there have ever been.
You can automate outreach. You can build targeted prospect lists. You can use AI to research potential clients, optimize your website, create content, build spreadsheets, write emails, and handle work that used to take hours—or days.
And yet, plenty of businesses are still asking the same question:
Why isn’t our marketing actually generating revenue…
Bekah Carlson: Make Your Marketing Pay Off Like an Investment
Most small and midsized businesses don’t have a marketing problem — they have a measurement problem.
You’re spending time (and probably money) on websites, social posts, trade shows, maybe even ads. But if you asked, “What return are we getting on all this?” the answer usually sounds something like:
“We’re getting our name out there.”
That’s not a strategy. That’s hope. And as a CFO, I’ll tell you — hope doesn’t make for a good business plan.
Marketing Should Work Like Any Other Invest…
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