Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JUNE 6, 2013

Author: Gary Damiano For as long as I have been involved in marketing, the marketing budget process has revolved primarily around the use of a spreadsheet to allocate, track, consolidate and report budgets. The impact ripples throughout your spreadsheet based marketing budget. We’ve all seen it.

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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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Heinz Marketing

MARCH 27, 2023

By Matt Heinz , President of Heinz Marketing If you’re not already subscribed to Sales Pipeline Radio or listening live every Thursday at 11:30 a.m The show is less than 30 minutes, fast-paced and full of actionable advice, best practices and more for B2B sales & marketing professionals. Matt: I would agree.

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Allocadia

APRIL 30, 2019

Commvault is a recognized global leader in enterprise backup, recovery, and data management across any hybrid environment. Commvault’s converged data management solution redefines what backup means for the progressive enterprise through solutions that protect, manage, and use their most critical asset – their data.

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Engagio

OCTOBER 6, 2023

In fact, Gartner’s 2023 CMO Spend and Strategy Survey revealed that 71% of CMOs feel their 2023 budgets fall short of what’s needed to meet their goals, 75% are struggling to achieve more with less, and 86% are seeing a need to restructure their marketing operations for sustainable results.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

APRIL 21, 2011

Traditional measurements may become inferior and unable to scale to meet the needs of today’s B2B marketing professional. To obtain optimal results, marketers need a powerful and efficient marketing analytics solution.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

APRIL 3, 2015

As with any other marketing strategy, how you calculate a budget typically depends on the extent of the potential reach and derived impact. Let’s say you’re an SMB marketer and you need to determine your goals and which channels you will utilize to achieve them. The Solution. The Problem.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

APRIL 7, 2015

Which funnel stage gets the majority of a marketing budget? If you answered the top and the middle—congrats, you’ve passed today’s marketing pop quiz! According to CustomShow , 97% of a company’s marketing budget is spent on the top and middle-of-the-funnel— which is where online ad campaigns play a key role.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JUNE 25, 2013

Many marketers spend time stuck in their own spreadsheet hell. In fact, 89% of organizations are still using spreadsheets to manage budgets. But going beyond the spreadsheet will enable you to perform better and provide metrics that lead to greater accuracy in your forecasting and budget. Budgets Infographic'

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

APRIL 17, 2018

It would seem that marketing budgets are the first to go on the chopping block when performance isn’t what’s expected in Q1. After marketing budgets saw a modest increase in 2017, Unilever announced for 2018 that it was cutting its ads by 30% and that it was slashing the number of agencies it works with by half.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

AUGUST 18, 2011

These more intelligent marketing assets and tools are crucial to building and operating a high performance revenue engine. You’ve no doubt heard the hoary business axiom, “Half my marketing spend is wasted, but I just don’t know which half.” However, I bet that you would also agree that it is much truer than it should be.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JUNE 20, 2013

As we continue into the digital era, where marketing processes become more and more automated everyday, isn’t it time to bring some automation to how we manage our budgets ? 89% of Organizations Use Spreadsheets to Manage Budgets – Really?

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2012

And like most marketers, you are trying to determine what your 2013 event schedule will look like, and plan your accompanying strategy. We know that on average, marketers spend 20% of their marketing budget on events, which is a sizeable amount. Create a solid event strategy.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JULY 12, 2011

But, since the above described “seat” discussions seem to be continuing unabated, I would offer the following recommendation to senior marketing professionals, and those that aspire to be: Don’t just occupy that seat at the senior management table…truly own it. Social media made up about 3 percent of spending on the chart.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2012

Many CRM systems have a module for marketing. Salesforce recently rebranded their social marketing application as the Marketing Cloud, and their website says you can use their solutions to “optimize campaigns from lead to close, on every channel”. Marketing Automation. Marketing Automation. Business Goal.

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Leadspace

APRIL 26, 2017

What’s the difference between a winning demand generation strategy, and a mediocre one? Between generating enough leads to keep things going (and keep your own head above the water), and taking your marketing to the next level? Companies need to be crystal-clear on their top objectives in order to maximize their marketing spend.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2012

Of course, it’s okay to track some of these metrics internally within your department (we call these “boiler room metrics”) if they help you make better marketing decisions. But it’s best to avoid sharing them with other executives unless you’ve previously established why they matter. Did the marketer get his budget?

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Online Marketing Institute

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

On this blog you will find insights and advice about how to make conventional, online, and social media work well in B2B marketing. My goal is to inspire, challenge, and engage marketers at firms that sell highly-considered products and services. This blog draws on the heritage of my Forrester research.

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KoMarketing Associates

AUGUST 3, 2017

That said, there are definite nuances and characteristics of B2B marketing that are different from marketing to a general consumer. For example, differences are reflected in marketing spend. The average marketing budget across all companies in the study was about 8 percent. Target Audience.

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Full Circle Insights

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

Full Circle University SEO Series: Campaign Attribution for Digital Marketing. Marketers: Keep Calm and Follow the Data in the Pandemic. Will COVID Change Marketing Measurement Forever? We’re All Re-planning our B2B Marketing Budgets Now. Full Circle University SEO Series: Defining Digital Marketing Metrics.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JUNE 24, 2013

Because of this, traditional marketing tactics based on “renting” attention that others have built — and interrupting the buyer in the process — are becoming less and less effective. They can access detailed specs, pricing, and reviews about goods and services 24/7 with a few flicks of their thumbs. Buyers today are more empowered.

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Full Circle Insights

JULY 9, 2020

With no future current participation, we’re seeing a lot of restructuring and planning going on in B2B marketing organizations, where marketing teams are thinking about ways to allocate more of their budget to reinvestments in digital marketing. But what’s the best way to re-plan our B2B marketing budgets?

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

Of course they do—most of the resource effort sits with the marketer! But many wonder if the resulting revenue impact is enough to warrant the effort, especially when events typically make up the majority of many marketing budgets. This way you’ll be able to demonstrate the impact of each dollar of marketing spend.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

OCTOBER 1, 2014

Author: Maggie Jones Every year, marketers spend billions of dollars attracting new business – on average, marketers spend 56% of their marketing budgets on acquisition. All of this makes one thing clear: without a rock solid engagement strategy , your acquisition efforts largely go to waste.

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Allocadia

APRIL 23, 2019

Choose a specific topic or technology (for example, SQL, Marketo , or copywriting) and take a class or teach yourself. How to recognize a challenge in this area: Do you observe any of the classic symptoms of a lack of sales and marketing alignment Here’s a checklist from Heinz Marketing. Are marketing budgets being cut?

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Allocadia

APRIL 25, 2018

Choose a specific topic or technology (for example, SQL, Marketo, or copywriting) and take a class or teach yourself. How to recognize a challenge in this area: Do you observe any of the classic symptoms of a lack of sales and marketing alignment? Here’s a checklist from Heinz Marketing. Are marketing budgets being cut?

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Full Circle Insights

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

The economic downturn caused by COVID-19 prompted many companies to cut marketing budgets. B2B marketers have redirected budget dollars previously earmarked for in-person events to digital ads instead, driving a 22% increase in spending on digital channels. One Marketing Team’s Efficiency Success Story.

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Full Circle Insights

JANUARY 28, 2021

For example, a software vendor that focused on the travel and leisure industry might have to recalibrate the ICP and focus on clients in less hard-hit sectors. Adopt Agile Marketing Methods. How Getting Marketing Attribution Right Boosts. Full Circle University SEO Series: Campaign Attribution for Digital Marketing.

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Full Circle Insights

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Have overarching strategies and detailed tactics to drive growth, including recommendations on new product development. So, to the larger point, is marketing really in decline as a function? The most recent Gartner CMO Spend Survey fueled even more speculation, reporting that marketing budgets declined to a record low of just 6.4%

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Full Circle Insights

MAY 20, 2022

Marketers who are selling to accounts are typically dealing with a group of buyers who give off different behavioral signals, so predictive analytics, a programmatic method to assess big data and derive predictions about the future could be a powerful strategy to leverage. Marketing Attribution and Funnel Metrics Are Still the Key.

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Full Circle Insights

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Larry Ellison taught us all how to be marketers and I got the chance over the years to serve as CMO and VP of Marketing for many Silicon Valley software companies. I started a couple of software companies that didn’t work out before Full Circle Insights. Marketers: Keep Calm and Follow the Data in the Pandemic.

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Full Circle Insights

NOVEMBER 26, 2020

A Gartner CMO spend survey found that 68% expect to increase martech investments in the coming months. But will CMOs consult with their CIO before buying a new martech solution? Marketing departments and other business units routinely make decisions about purchasing cloud solutions and other technology without IT’s input.

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Full Circle Insights

JUNE 16, 2020

To get digital marketing metrics right, you need a way to connect clicks from digital ad campaigns, social media channels and other digital marketing campaigns to leads inside the CRM system. That can be a challenge because digital point solutions generate their own metrics, which creates silos. A Brief History of (CPU) Time.

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Full Circle Insights

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

It’s an especially popular approach during a downturn and other uncertainties because it allows marketing teams to try new things and shift gears quickly rather than commit to the long-term strategy as required by other methods, such as the waterfall approach. Marketers: Keep Calm and Follow the Data in the Pandemic.

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Full Circle Insights

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

The first martech solution to give B2B marketers the power to measure campaign performance in an ABM funnel framework, Full Circle ABM now integrates with 6sense to enable the tracking of accounts from the detected stage, indicating when an account may be recognised as in-market based on intent signals, all the way to closed-won business.

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Full Circle Insights

JULY 27, 2021

Digital Source Tracker from Full Circle Insights, maker of comprehensive sales and marketing performance measurement solutions, connects data from a wide variety of digital channels, such as online advertising, website traffic and social media to leads, pipeline and revenue, providing funnel and attribution metrics inside a CRM.

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Full Circle Insights

JUNE 22, 2021

If you’re using Full Circle Insights funnel metrics and campaign attribution solutions, you already have the measurement tools in place to successfully deploy an agile strategy. Don’t forget to cover the “ measurement sprint ” concept and explain how that can help make marketing more productive while fostering collaboration.

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