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How to "Market" to Your CEO (and ACTUALLY Get Heard)

Written by Dan Stillgoe | Mar 16, 2026 9:05:29 AM

Episode summary

Most marketing leaders are smart, hard-working, and still failing to get CEO buy-in. Not because their ideas are bad, but because they're speaking the wrong language.

In this episode, Dan is joined by Josh Bouk to unpack what CEOs actually care about and how marketing leaders can better communicate with the C-suite. They cover how to frame marketing in business terms, the metrics that actually matter, and why transparency builds more credibility than claiming success.