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Marketing Attribution: Keep It Simple

InsightSquared

When sales cycles are short, marketing attribution can be fairly straightforward. The higher the value of the contract, the longer the sales cycle and the more complex the marketing machine, the harder it becomes to know where marketing spend is achieving ROI. They met us at a conference or read something somewhere else.

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Marketing Attribution: Keep It Simple

InsightSquared

When sales cycles are short, marketing attribution can be fairly straightforward. The higher the value of the contract, the longer the sales cycle and the more complex the marketing machine, the harder it becomes to know where marketing spend is achieving ROI. They met us at a conference or read something somewhere else.

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What Type of CMO Do You Have?

ANNUITAS

The exception, as the Fournaise Marketing Group puts it, is the performance of what they term to be “ROI Marketers.” While Sales is oriented toward revenue, marketing is likely caught up in what is often termed as ‘vanity metrics’ that — while great for measuring activity — have a very tenuous correlation to actual business outcomes.

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Forrester’s B2B Budget Benchmarks

Drew Neisser

It’s no secret that marketing budgets are often the first to be cut when things get tight, but Forrester analysts Barbie Mattie and Nick Buck are here with the cold hard data about why marketing spend correlates directly to business growth.

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Why This Amount Is All the Marketing Budget You Need

Marketing Insider Group

In some cases, however, marketing spend is up. A survey from Merkle of 400 companies revealed that the majority (52%) are increasing marketing spend. The priority of these dollars was: Adopting new marketing technology. How Do Marketers Spend Their Budgets? Next, we leverage keyword research.

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Aligning Marketing Strategies with Private Equity Investment Goals

SmartBug Media

In other words, rather than simply celebrating an uptick in web traffic, a private equity firm would delve deeper to understand its sources and drivers—plus its correlation with lead generation, conversion rates, and, ultimately, revenue growth.

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Is the Role of the B2B CMO Past Its Prime? Or Is It Just in Need of Some Re-positioning around Go-to-market Leadership?

ANNUITAS

Marketing is viewed as a cost center: The numbers are telling. Most CFOs don’t believe the correlation between marketing spend and resultant commercial growth. CFOs subsequently see marketing spend as a necessary evil – expendable the minute they need to improve margins. “64%

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