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The Planning Disconnect: Building an Integrated Marketing Strategy

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In theory, a marketing department is one entity, with each part working for the good of the whole. In practice, the different parts of the marketing team are often largely disconnected from one another and focused on their own work and goals – whether or not they line up with those of their team.

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Product Marketing: Breaking Down the Keys to Success

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B2B companies are often struggling to meet their goals when it comes to the success of new product launches, according to recent SiriusDecisions research. In terms of reaching both performance and financial targets, 56% of B2B companies say that more than half of their new offerings aren’t up to par.

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The Foundation of a Successful Agile Marketing Team: Centralization

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For instance, agile marketing - becoming more popular in the B2B community in particular - can’t be implemented by waving a magic wand and assuming everyone is on board with the concept. Spoiler: His verbally declaring bankruptcy didn’t automatically launch the legal process.

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Press Release: Trio of CMOs Discuss Success with Hive9

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Hive9, the Marketing Performance Management (MPM) company, today announced continued customer momentum driven by creating living marketing plans tied to financials, goals and strategy.

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Why You Need a Living Marketing Plan

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You sat down with your team, analyzed last year’s data, clarified your goals, and turned it all into a clear strategy to guide your campaigns and actions for the coming year. You worked hard on your marketing plan. But once you left that room, what happened to the plan?

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The CRM “lead” conundrum: Why did they have to get it so wrong and cause so many problems?

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I am talking about the word “lead” with regard to marketing and CRM systems. We have gotten it completely wrong for decades, and it has caused a great deal of problems and unnecessary expense for many organizations.

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Marketing, Are You and Finance Aligned? Five Evergreen Tips for Getting in Sync

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We’ve talked a lot recently about how creating the most effective marketing plan is a team sport involving departmental input across your organization, especially between marketing and sales - but collaboration between marketing and finance is certainly no exception.

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