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How to tune your GTM strategies to cope with budgetary headwinds

Martech

Eighty-four percent of B2B buyers start the purchasing process with a referral, and peer recommendations influence more than 90% of all B2B buying decisions. Reducing marketing budgets while facing business headwinds debilitates revenue goals and depresses network effects. Winning marketing organizations self-regulate.

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How to Write a Marketing Budget Your CFO Will Enthusiastically Support

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

Does it feel like presenting your marketing budget to the CFO is like pulling teeth? If you want a less painful budgeting process, my best piece of advice is to build a budget that your CFO will understand and agree with from the get-go. Before taking your plan and budget to the CFO, run it by your sales counterparts.

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5 Contingent Workforce Advantages for B2B Marketing

Ledger Bennett

With enterprise businesses facing mounting challenges in recruiting and sustaining the top digital marketing talent required for optimal performance, many are turning to a contingent workforce model as an effective staff augmentation pathway to bring the necessary skills into their businesses. What is a Contingent Workforce?

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Need to Move Faster in Marketing? Improve Your Decision-Making Process and Build A Marketing Continuity Plan

Pam Didner

The answer is that you’ll need to modify your existing processes and initiate a new protocol, a Marketing Continuity Plan. Identify the potential factors inhibiting you from moving quickly Before you can do that, you need to understand the factors that prevent marketers from moving quickly.

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11 Tips for Manufacturing Marketers Dealing with the Coronavirus Crisis

Brandpoint

Key to resilience is the development of ongoing contingencies to mitigate against this loss.”. Redirect marketing money. Marr advises reassigning remaining marketing budgets toward social marketing, content marketing, SEO and influencer-led campaigns. Create informative videos. Start Twitter chats.

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Go-to-market tactics that won’t work in a post-pandemic world

Martech

Looking forward to the second half of 2023, we are recalibrating go-to-market plans for what I call the “next normal.” The category creation aspiration failure Popularized by evangelists from high-growth point solutions, this advice to create a new category was both the least achievable and most costly.

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Marketing Planning Process for Professional Services

Hinge Marketing

Any firm that wants to succeed needs a marketing plan. However, the marketing planning process that works well for consumer products, industrial goods or not-for-profits is not well suited for professional services. Creating a marketing plan takes more than just writing down some ideas about how to promote your firm.