article thumbnail

Recession Planning: Should You Cut Your Marketing Budget?

Zoominfo

The constant pendulum swings give consumers and businesses little confidence for planning ahead, and the only thing we can probably agree on is that everything really is weird. All too often, marketing budgets are the first to be scaled back. Unfortunately, that’s not really an actionable business tactic.

article thumbnail

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

Contently

When these words start to appear, conventional wisdom tells businesses to cut their marketing budgets. As multiple researchers have found over decades of studies, stopping your marketing efforts during tough times is a mistake. There’s a really interesting contrast playing out in marketing right now.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Martech and marketing technologists go mainstream — 3 key stats

chiefmartech

They surveyed 532 marketers, in both the US (174) and Europe (358), across a wide range of organizational sizes and marketing budgets, to produce one of the most authoritative and statistically significant studies of how firms are managing marketing technology today. 2008) and Rise of the marketing technologist (2010).

Stats 40
article thumbnail

Tom Pisello: The ROI Guy: Value Selling Tools and the Buying Lifecycle

The ROI Guy

It is best to look at what tools are needed to address each stage in the buying lifecycle, and have tools specifically designed to help move the decision making from initial engagement to delivery. Tom’s ROI and TCO experience began in 1993 with his first entrepreneurial venture, Interpose (acquired by Gartner in 1998).

article thumbnail

Tom Pisello: The ROI Guy: How TCO is a common sense sales and.

The ROI Guy

Wednesday, February 04, 2009 How TCO is a common sense sales and marketing Tool for Today’s Chaotic Economy My friend and board member Bill Kirwin, original father of TCO analysis with Gartner, put it best when he wrote this article for us on the power of using TCO as a sales and marketing advantage to win deals in these tough economic times.

article thumbnail

Tom Pisello: The ROI Guy: IT Budgets into 2011 - Robbing Peter to.

The ROI Guy

Friday, September 10, 2010 IT Budgets into 2011 - Robbing Peter to Pay Paul? Gartner Executive Programs midyear survey indicates that IT budgets are growing at a paltry 1.1% cut in operating budgets. in 2010, essentially flat in 2010. CIOs of the largest firms indicate that opportunities in these areas remain."