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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. Whether you’re buying cars, software, or any other category, buyers are influenced more by their peers than by the vendor themselves.”

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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. Here are seven specific best practices to get there. Click To Tweet.

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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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11 Tips for Manufacturing Marketers Dealing with the Coronavirus Crisis

Brandpoint

If you’re in charge of marketing for a manufacturer , you’ve likely had to shift your entire strategy to work around store closings, trade show interruptions and other effects caused by the COVID crisis. Most likely, you’re focusing on digital marketing more than ever before. Redirect marketing money.

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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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Differentiated Marketing for Professional Services

Hinge Marketing

What is the best way to grow your professional services firm? Should you specialize and zero in on a specific market niche? For many professional services firms the answer is neither. They choose a strategy that combines elements of both approaches. They choose a strategy that combines elements of both approaches.

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Marketing Planning Process for Professional Services

Hinge Marketing

Any firm that wants to succeed needs a marketing plan. The alternative is a haphazard, start-and-stop, inefficient effort that wastes time and money – two valuable resources no professional services firm can afford to squander. Creating a marketing plan takes more than just writing down some ideas about how to promote your firm.