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Eliminating jargon to speak the language of performance

Visa’s CMO in the region, Tarek Abdalla, talks about the importance of translating jargon into impact for optimal performance.

Tarek Abdalla, Senior Vice President and CMO at Visa, writes on translating jargon to optimise performance.
Marketers constantly navigate a complex landscape of expectations and change, both internal and external. 
While continuing to deliver value at increasing levels of efficiency, we are also called upon to make sense of the impact of external factors—technological, economic, societal, and structural—on consumer behaviour. In justifying one of the largest spend items on the profit-and-loss sheet, we strive to demonstrate that marketing is an investment not a cost. 
It is in the intersection of these expectat


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Shantelle Nagarajan is Campaign Middle East’s Junior Reporter who covers marketing news which focuses on FMCG, real estate and brand retail industries. Her features delve into brand strategy, appointments, trends in consumer behaviour and CX. Shantelle also contributes to social media coverage, editorial event programming and print content work. She previously worked in PR and marketing, most recently at Edelman, where she was part of the Brand team. When she’s not writing for her day job, you can find her with her nose buried in a book, playing at a weekly open mic night or doom-scrolling the latest make-up challenges on TikTok.