Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

DECEMBER 20, 2017

It’s planning season, marketers. Gartner recently found that marketing budgets are beginning to recede, dropping from their peak (12.1% According to Gartner, the drop is due in part to marketing leaders being too distracted by tactics and execution. Finance may ask: “Marketing, what have you done for me lately?”.

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B2B Marketing Directions

OCTOBER 3, 2021

The findings of the August 2021 edition of The CMO Survey were published last month. The CMO Survey is led by Dr. Christine Moorman and sponsored by Duke University's Fuqua School of Business, the American Marketing Association and Deloitte LLP. The CMO Survey is conducted semi-annually, and it provides a wealth of information.

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Heinz Marketing

JANUARY 29, 2019

I recently hosted our latest invite-only CMO Roundtable in Seattle. We partnered with Allocadia and our topic focused on Finance and Marketing Alignment with the CFO and CMO. Chris Pick , CMO from Apptio and Samantha Bannister , VP of Finance and Operations from Allocadia were the panelists who provided valuable insights.

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B2B Marketing Analytics

NOVEMBER 29, 2020

Among the most interesting trends shaping the modern marketing function is the rise of a new breed of the CMOs called the “Revenue CMO”. The role of the CMO has undergone a radical shift especially in B2B technology companies, which are driving the revolution of this new breed of the CMOs.

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The Marketing Blender

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

Our Services. How to calculate and allocate your marketing budget for the next fiscal year in 2020. Tips for planning next year’s marketing budget before the end of this quarter. In Q4, two different phenomena hit marketing departments—either belts get tightened or a “use it or lose it” mentality takes hold.

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Porch Group Media

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Marketing departments are certainly no exception and have been forced to balance between cutbacks in spend while still maintaining acquisition and retention strategies to thrive during these difficult times. Spend is also increasing for digital advertising as consumers head to online channels for information.

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KoMarketing Associates

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

As marketers look ahead to the remainder of the year, those in both the B2B services and B2B product sectors expect their budgets to grow in the coming months. The CMO Survey” from Deloitte, The Fuqua School of Business at Duke, and the American Marketing Association discovered that B2B product marketers expect a 9.3

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Martech

MARCH 2, 2023

Boards and the C-suite expect CMOs to lead the way to profitable growth in 2023 despite various macroeconomic pressures manifesting into the “ triple squeeze ,” making everything more expensive. As a forecaster , to predict the outcome that raising or lowering marketing budgets will have on marketing’s contribution to the overall budget.

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Crimson Marketing

NOVEMBER 10, 2014

The problem is, by the time you analyze those results, you’ve likely already spent too much—or too little—on marketing. As Lance Walter, CMO of financial intelligence technology company Host Analytics suggests, there is a better way. Marketing Technology Podcasts'

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Terminus

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

For brand marketers, previously measured on nearly impossible to quantify metrics like impressions and visibility, this is a new challenge. In contrast, digital and demand gen marketers are nearly always responsible for pushing small (or large) marketing budgets to do more. What kind of budget does the department have?

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B2B Marketing Directions

OCTOBER 10, 2021

This is the second of three posts discussing some of the B2B-specific findings of the August 2021 edition of The CMO Survey. The "Part 1" post discussed the economic outlook of B2B marketers and the state of marketing spending in B2B companies. of their total marketing budget on digital marketing activities.

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Allocadia

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

COVID-19 and the ensuing market-turbulence put marketing teams under a microscope to explain exactly where they are spending and pivoting marketing dollars – and how it is driving business results.

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Martech

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Every CMO I’ve talked with in the past two years is hungry for talent, but they haven’t had the budget to staff up. While 61% of CMOs report they lack the in-house capabilities to deliver their strategy, spending on in-house labor remained static, per Gartner’s 2022 CMO Spend survey. .

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Allocadia

DECEMBER 22, 2017

It’s planning season, marketers. Gartner recently found that marketing budgets are beginning to recede, dropping from their peak (12.1% According to Gartner, the drop is due in part to marketing leaders being too distracted by tactics and execution. Figure out how marketing spend aligns to business goals.

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Allocadia

APRIL 16, 2019

It’s planning season, marketers. Gartner recently found that marketing budgets are beginning to recede, dropping from their peak (12.1% According to Gartner, the drop is due in part to marketing leaders being too distracted by tactics and execution. Finance may ask: “Marketing, what have you done for me lately?”.

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Allocadia

MARCH 31, 2019

Serving B2B markets worldwide, the company designs, develops and sells products and services that provide network infrastructure for networking requirements of service providers, enterprises, governments, and research and public sector organizations worldwide. The Challenge.

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SmartBug Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

For this article, we spoke to franchise business expert Jenn Foster , fractional CMO and founder of Foster Marketing. Jenn: My experience has almost exclusively been assisting home services franchise brands. Jenn: My experience has almost exclusively been assisting home services franchise brands.

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The ABM Agency

JANUARY 15, 2021

For some B2B companies, the 2021 marketing budget has increased due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Dollars usually spent on trade shows, in-person events, and travel expenses are up for grabs; the sales team is working virtually, spending less cash on entertaining potential clients. Before You Spend: Campaign Planning.

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Allocadia

JUNE 13, 2019

John O’Rourke is Vice President of Strategic Marketing at Host Analytics. With a background in accounting and finance, John has over 30 years of experience in the software industry, including 20 years of experience in EPM Product Marketing at Hyperion Solutions, Oracle and Host Analytics.

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Allocadia

MARCH 30, 2021

Freshworks provides intelligent customer engagement software for businesses of all sizes, making it easy for teams to win customers for life. The Problem: Missing Measurements and Budget Management. In 2019 Freshworks’ marketing operations team began streamlining various marketing and operational activities.

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Webbiquity

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

Digital marketing budgets continue to rise, often at the expense of offline advertising spend. But digital marketers must continue to evolve practices as they strive to make their content an asset, rather than an annoyance, to prospective buyers. Yet marketers continue to spend heavily on online advertising.

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B2B Marketing Directions

SEPTEMBER 16, 2018

With the beginning of the fourth quarter less than a month away, many B2B companies have already started planning for 2019. Over the next several weeks, marketing leaders will be evaluating how well their existing marketing programs have performed and developing plans for the coming year. five years from now.

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Porch Group Media

JULY 6, 2021

Using data-based insights to make better marketing decisions requires a comprehensive view of. Nearly one-third (32%) of marketers surveyed by Ascend2 report that a strategy is. planned to have unified marketing data and 45% are already operating with a strategy in place ( Ascend2 , 2021). CMO Council).

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PureB2B

JUNE 14, 2021

Marketing budgets, a critical element in any marketing campaign but difficult to generate, and getting approval seems like an arduous task. That is a general notion, and it comes from what marketing directors have noticed over the years. Such stats only go to prove that justifying a marketing budget to the CFO is hard.

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Webbiquity

JULY 27, 2021

CMOs are reporting that marketing budgets are being slashed. Here’s what that means, and practical ideas that go beyond the bad news to how B2B marketers to adapt. in 2021, their lowest point in the history of Gartner’s CMO Spend Survey.” ” Here are five likely impacts of those budget cuts.

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Hubspot

JANUARY 4, 2021

Here's what else 2021 has in store based on the predictions of this fabulous group of marketing leaders. Marketers will plan asynchronous events that plug into the funnel. Latané Conant , Chief Market Officer at 6sense , predicts: "This year saw an explosion of virtual events as marketers adapted to a changing world.

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Allocadia

APRIL 3, 2019

.” – Chethan Chandra, Senior Manager of Business Operations, VMware. The Challenge Like many global marketing organizations, VMware’s team needed more visibility into how its marketing budget was being spent. Marketing leaders couldn’t effectively predict or evaluate marketing ROI.

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Allocadia

APRIL 8, 2019

There‘s a little secret most marketers know, but don‘t talk about. According to The CMO Survey of marketers, only 35 percent of decisions are made based on marketing analytics. Just one in three marketing decisions is data-driven. Better budgeting and planning are critical to improving marketing performance.

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Marketing Insider Group

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

As we look ahead, the future of marketing is shaping up to be an exhilarating swell, filled with evolving challenges and opportunities. Keen to see how your marketing playbook compares with the industry’s best? Or maybe you’re itching to find out the latest strategies keeping top marketers on their toes?

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The Lead Agency

JUNE 6, 2019

Social media marketing, the 3 words which have completely changed the landscape of B2C marketing forever, but where does this leave us B2B marketers and is it worthwhile including a social media campaign into the marketing mix? This is as true for B2B marketers as it is for B2C marketers.

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Content Standard

JANUARY 25, 2018

There is still a disconnect within organizations on why this channel should be fully integrated into the overall marketing strategy and not in a silo. Social media remains a silo within the marketing department: In the most recent CMO Survey , marketing leaders gave an average of 4.2 (7 Was it a fad?

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Allocadia

APRIL 24, 2019

GE Digital is subsidiary of General Electric and provides software and advisory services around operational technology and infrastructure. The Problem: How to Prove Marketing’s Impact. Neenu Sharma, VP Marketing Operations & Analytics, GE Digital. The Solution: Redefining the Hierarchy. Download now.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JANUARY 5, 2018

The Marketing team at Marketo asked marketers in the Marketing Nation a series of questions regarding their marketing plans for 2018. Question #1: In 2018, I expect my Marketing budget to…. Leveraging innovative marketing practices— 10%. Driving more value from my marketing spend— 6%.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

OCTOBER 15, 2008

Do you know how much to spend on your B2B marketing budget in 2009? How to allocate your budget across programs and headcount? Or how to split marketing programs budget between investments such as events, advertising, and PR? Making marketing more relevant through sales enablement (slides 11-15).

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Allocadia

APRIL 3, 2019

In just 12 months, Jeremie established process and discipline around marketing performance reporting to significantly elevate marketing’s standing within the company, with the help of Allocadia. To market its offerings, the company calls upon more than 250 marketers in over 30 countries around the globe.

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Webbiquity

JANUARY 19, 2016

Image credit: The CMO Survey. Among the top 100 global brands, just 31 CMOs maintain active Twitter accounts, and only six of those big-brand CMOs have more than 10,000 Twitter followers. But social media marketing spending will rise anyway. But Snapchat isn’t the best place for marketers (at least not yet).

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ViewPoint

JUNE 10, 2016

Understanding the CEO’s role in eliminating wasted marketing spend and increasing sales results—the final of a multi-part blog series. Many challenges facing Sales and Marketing have been around since the beginning of time. Marketing adds more value and performs better by having skin in the game. Budget not in place?

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