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Content Marketing During a Downturn: Here’s What the Conventional Wisdom Gets Wrong

Contently

How content marketing leads to meaningful ROI. According to Gartner , marketing budgets as a percentage of revenue are actually up overall this year compared to 2021. Gartner research also revealed that 58% of CMOs don’t think they have the in-house talent “needed to execute on their strategy.”

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Gartner CIO Study Highlights Need for Outcome-Based Technology Sales & Marketing Strategies

The ROI Guy

Gartner's latest CIO study, "Reimagining IT: The 2011 CIO Agenda" highlights several important trends that will have significant impact on technology marketing and sales enablement into 2011 and beyond. According to Gartner, this requires CIOs re-imagine IT and lead it through a process of “creative destruction.

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Frugalnomics in Full Effect: Forrester and Gartner Downgrade IT Spending Outlook

The ROI Guy

In the latest research from Gartner and Forrester, both IT research firms revised their annual spending projections over the next few years, predicting lower budgets and slower growth. Gartner's View: Timid Growth for Next Five Years According to Gartner's latest projections, global enterprise spending on IT should increase 3.1%in

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Hard Data to Justify Your Marketing Automation Investment

Customer Experience Matrix

It includes five pages of properly sourced industry statistics from Aberdeen , Forrester , Gartner and SiriusDecisions. The Heart of Growing Conversion Rates," 2008): Best in Class Average % higher Inquires to Marketing Qualified Leads (MQLs) nearly 10% 3.9% Statistics include: • 16.5% But lots of people do anyway.

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What’s Worth More?

ANNUITAS

I’ve recently been involved in an ongoing online discussion regarding marketing automation, lead generation, and lead management (including lead nurturing). Neither help you get more fresh leads into your database – which is critical because most contact info expires at the rate of 20-30% per year”.

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How Online Sales Can Help You Grow in Hard Times

Hubspot

A 2021 Gartner report revealed that 44% of millennials prefer interactions online with no sales representative in B2B purchase settings (and 100% of authors of this post). The 2008 recession accelerated their inability to adapt to changing consumer demand -- and by 2010, they filed for bankruptcy. Take Blockbuster, for example.

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25 Stats That Prove Why Workplaces Need to Embrace Diversity

Hubspot

Most leading companies site diversity as one of the most valuable aspects of company culture. Most leading companies site diversity as one of the most valuable aspects of company culture. Between 2008 and 2018, the number of job reviews that spoke negatively about a company's diversity rose from 25% to 32%. Glassdoor ).

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