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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.

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Your B2B Marketing Budget Playbook for 2021 Success [Research]

Marketing Insider Group

Most companies have learned that B2B marketing budgets are much more important than they thought – and that their existing marketing strategies, well, kind of sucked. Look, we all knew B2B marketing had plenty of problems long before COVID-19: Generic, bland, and forgettable content.

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The Impact of COVID-19 on B2B Marketing Plans: Tech vs. Non-Tech

Webbiquity

The abrupt shutdown of vast swaths of economy and the entire live events industry, to help slow the spread of the novel coronavirus, has dramatically impacted plans for B2B marketers. overall budgets will be cut). But roughly the same share plan to reallocate those funds to other marketing tactics.

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Maximizing martech’s impact: Insights from the CMO Survey

Martech

The CMO Survey is conducted biannually since 2008. Here, we will analyze the marketing technology portion of the report. Increasing investment and ongoing integration challenges in martech Most companies plan to increase their martech budget annually, from the current 19% of the marketing budget to 23.5%

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3 Studies to Help You Keep Your Marketing Budget and Fend Off Reactionary Cuts [UML]

Sword and the Script | B2B

You can’t control the constraints imposed by the Coronavirus, but you can make a case to keep your marketing budget It’s a challenging time to be a marketer. Second, the business is chasing after your budget with a saw. And that’s the theme for this week’s Unscripted Marketing Links [UML]. What sort of studies?

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How to Recession-Proof Your Content Marketing Strategy

ClearVoice

Brands you use every day, like Groupon, WhatsApp, and Uber incredibly got their start during the Great Recession of 2008-2009. Marketing is Essential During a Recession. It’s tempting to cut back on your marketing budget, but data shows that is actually not a good idea. What’s your #contentmarketing plan?

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How Marketers Should Navigate Economic Uncertainty in 2023

B2B Marketing Directions

Don't Cut Marketing Spending The research by Analytic Partners found that 63% of brands that increased their investment in marketing after the "great financial crisis" of 2008 generated a positive ROI, and those that increased their media investments realized a 17% growth in incremental sales.