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How to optimize your marketing budget: Do more with less

Sprout Social

With an economic downturn looming, it’s not surprising around 75% of CMOs report being asked to do more with less in a Gartner survey. See where your dollars had the most impact in the previous year—the campaigns that brought the biggest return on ad spend (ROAS), conversion rates or lead sources.

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How to Capture Buyer Intent in B2B Marketing

Marketing Insider Group

By learning everything you can about your current audience, you’ll better understand who you should target in campaigns and how likely your prospects and leads will make it through the sales funnel. With this data, you can get a clearer picture of where potential buyers are in the marketing funnel. Analyze Your Sales Funnel.

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Buying group marketing: The next evolution of ABM

Martech

The way to do that is by monitoring their engagement signals and their sentiments, making sure those insights are coming back to sales and marketing,” she added. According to Gartner, the average buying team size is between 14 and 23 people, and that depends on the size of the spend,” she said. And, the data backs this up.

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Marketing mix modeling: A marketer’s guide

Martech

And although marketing budgets, as a share of revenue, rebounded last year to more than 9%, according to the 2022 Gartner CMO Spend and Strategy Survey , they are still lower than they were in 2020, forcing CMOs to achieve more with less. or “How will a 10% change to upper-funnel media impact bookings?”

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How to Measure Your Content’s Effectiveness

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When it comes to demand marketing, what matters is how effective that content is at moving prospects through the funnel to closed-won. in 2019 according to Gartner — it’s becoming more and more important for marketing to demonstrate its value in order to secure the budget necessary to be effective.

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Where Do Case Studies Fit into Your Content Marketing Strategy?

Marketing Insider Group

Source: Gartner. In other words, having social proof like case studies, reviews, and testimonials on your website can help you move customers down the sales funnel. Lead individuals further down the sales funnel, taking them from one stage to the next. Your prospects should see themselves in the shoes of the protagonist.

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Content marketing: What it is and why marketers should care

Martech

It’s been said, ad nauseam, that content is king. But paid content promotion sometimes factors into content marketing – for example, sponsored content on publications or gated content that requires a fee to access. It’s often used as a top-of-the-funnel tactic to attract prospects and turn them into leads or customers.