Martech

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

4 Defend marketing efficiency and effectiveness above budget In challenging times , CEOs and boards can look to scale back go-to-market efforts, leaving marketing in a defensive stance when it comes to budget. A note on the martech front 2023 marketing budgets grew at a 72% slower rate (from 10.4%

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Vision Edge Marketing

DECEMBER 13, 2022

In business, the purpose of a budget is to ensure our organizations have enough resources to meet its objectives. The use of sub-accounts is the most common approach to budgeting and is used to separate funds for different expenses. The best place to start is to understand the purpose of a budget. We all have one.

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KoMarketing Associates

DECEMBER 8, 2015

As we wind down 2015, marketing budgets and planning for the new year begin to take focus. Hopefully, the performance metrics associated with your organization’s marketing programs have yielded success and validation for tactics proposed at the beginning of the year. It is that time in the year again.

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Marketing Insider Group

MARCH 9, 2020

Even larger companies need to cut corners when it comes to their marketing budget. Learn how to minimize content creation costs for your company here. Just because you’re with a large company doesn’t mean that you have an unlimited budget for content marketing. Repurpose Your Best-Performing Content.

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Heinz Marketing

OCTOBER 23, 2018

Marketing planning season is here for the top performing B2B marketers. Yes, just one month into Q4 the most proactive B2B marketers are starting their 2019 planning process. Even if that is the case, marketers can lead the way by preparing now for a successful 2019. The converse is true as well.

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Marketing Insider Group

APRIL 17, 2023

Over the years, we’ve read (and written) some of the best marketing articles, making our judgment pretty great when it comes to determining value. The best marketing articles are not only chock-full of valuable insight, but they also stand the test of time. 25 Best Marketing Articles No time to sift through Google SERPs?

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The Marketing Blender

MARCH 2, 2022

Our Services. What is the fractional CMO scope of work? For a fractional CMO, scope of work is usually determined by a few different factors, including: The budget you have assigned to spend on marketing. The nature of your current and future marketing initiatives. Marketing Strategy.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

DECEMBER 20, 2017

It’s planning season, marketers. Gearing up for another fight with finance to spar over the funds you need to fuel next year’s programs and activities? Gartner recently found that marketing budgets are beginning to recede, dropping from their peak (12.1% That’s the strategy used at GE Digital.

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Choozle

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

Jumping out of a plane, throwing the first pitch at a baseball game, or climbing all the 14ers in Colorado might be more daunting than creating a marketing budget. But, as a marketer, I can’t think of anything more unnerving than creating your very first marketing budget. How do I show what’s working?

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accelerate agency

DECEMBER 7, 2021

The job of the CMO is arguably the most difficult in the C-suite. The average CMO lasts just 20 months, so they have to move fast to make an impact. At its basic level, the role of the CMO is to define its company’s strategic direction. Is your GTM strategy ready?

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accelerate agency

DECEMBER 7, 2021

The job of the CMO is arguably the most difficult in the C-suite. The average CMO lasts just 20 months, so they have to move fast to make an impact. At its basic level, the role of the CMO is to define its company’s strategic direction. Is your GTM strategy ready?

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Content Marketing Institute

JULY 24, 2018

What would you do if your boss unexpectedly increased your annual content marketing budget? We asked the presenters at Content Marketing World 2018 to share what they would do. It doesn’t really matter how much extra budget you have if you’re not going to spend it effectively.”. This program would pay for itself!”

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accelerate agency

DECEMBER 7, 2021

The job of the CMO is arguably the most difficult in the C-suite. The average CMO lasts just 20 months, so they have to move fast to make an impact. The marketing industry, too, has become increasingly complex over the past two decades, and the CMO’s role has grown exponentially. . GTM strategy best practices.

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Top Rank Marketing

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Report] 43 percent of software as a service (SaaS) leaders have said that they use competitive analysis for pricing research, with 34 percent turning to feedback from existing customers, while 14 percent utilize previous market research, according to newly-published B2B survey data. How Do B2B SaaS Companies Determine Pricing?

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Martech

MARCH 31, 2022

You finished your best singing-in-the-shower rendition of Ed Sheeran’s “Shivers” when BAM! That once-in-a-lifetime genius marketing idea hits that will enrapture customers and slay your KPIs. As the firm’s newly appointed CMO, you need a breakthrough. You just applied a dose of shampoo to your hair.

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Convince & Convert

JANUARY 8, 2014

A fascinating new study was released this morning from Salesforce ExactTarget Marketing Cloud (a client of Convince & Convert ). Called 2014 State of Marketing , insights from over 2,500 global marketers , the report is full of data about marketers’ outlook and plans for the coming year.

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Crimson Marketing

NOVEMBER 10, 2014

Your company conducts quarterly budget reviews to determine how well projections aligned with performance. The problem is, by the time you analyze those results, you’ve likely already spent too much—or too little—on marketing. Marketing Technology Podcasts'

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accelerate agency

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Any marketing campaign should start with a solid plan that sets out what you’re aiming to achieve, how you’re going to do it, the deadline for doing it, and how you’ll measure its success. SaaS marketing is no exception. Skip ahead, if you like: What is a SaaS marketing plan?

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accelerate agency

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Any marketing campaign should start with a solid plan that sets out what you’re aiming to achieve, how you’re going to do it, the deadline for doing it, and how you’ll measure its success. SaaS marketing is no exception. Skip ahead, if you like: What is a SaaS marketing plan?

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accelerate agency

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Any marketing campaign should start with a solid plan that sets out what you’re aiming to achieve, how you’re going to do it, the deadline for doing it, and how you’ll measure its success. SaaS marketing is no exception. Skip ahead, if you like: What is a SaaS marketing plan?

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Martech

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Tight budgets and scrappy teams require innovation at every level — from the Founder and CMO, e-commerce Marketing Director to VP of Marketing, Social Media Director to Paid Search Strategist. The job of a digital marketing decision-maker within an SMB can be challenging— from the long hours to shifting budget priorities.

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Valasys

JUNE 27, 2023

On June 7, 2023, LinkedIn, the professional networking platform, released a new B2B research report and introduced several B2B tools, including generative AI ad copy features. These findings depict an industry facing mounting pressure, as outlined in LinkedIn’s first-ever B2B Marketing Benchmark study released on the same day.

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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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KoMarketing Associates

APRIL 7, 2021

A few B2B marketing strategies did particularly well in 2020, and demand generation was one of them. For the marketers who were able to pivot quickly, many B2B demand generation best practices helped to ease the pain of 2020. So B2B demand generation has gained influence thanks to the pandemic.

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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. While there’s some level of uncertainty, the general consensus is there’s extra money that can be used on marketing, albeit in different ways than previous years. Before You Spend: Campaign Planning.

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Content Standard

JULY 14, 2021

Each offers a unique set of product and service packages, industry specialties, and track records. As you weigh potential partners against one another, it’s also worth looking from a macro level: how each option fits with your organization’s overarching marketing goals, most pressing areas of need, and content marketing budget.

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Marketing Insider Group

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

I worked with Deanna Ransom , Televerde’s Global Head of Marketing and Marketing Services and Chairperson of Diversity and Inclusion for many years in SAP North American Field Marketing. Q: Fred, why is marketing analytics so important as we move into planning our 2021 strategies.

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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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KoMarketing Associates

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

As detailed in coverage earlier this year, CMO’s remain committed to growing their investment in social media. The CMO Survey Highlights and Insights Report”, published in February 2017, found that even though B2B CMO’s currently spend 10.5 Furthermore, B2B CMO’s foresee social media spending rising to 18.5

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Velocity Partners

DECEMBER 13, 2023

If you have an ABM strategy, I’d bet my last stinkin’ dollar you made it in one of two ways. The trouble is, when you treat ABM like an add-on to your existing marketing, you tacitly base your entire marketing strategy around people less likely to buy from you. You’re also strangling funding to your best prospects.

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6sense

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Editor’s Note: CMO Coffee Talk is an open space for more than 1,300 CMOs to come together weekly with their peers and discuss timely, crowd-sourced topics. Matt Heinz of Heinz Marketing co-hosts these dynamic, illuminating conversations with 6sense CMO Latané Conant. . Think Beyond Budget .

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Litmus

JANUARY 26, 2021

At some point in your email marketing career (if you haven’t already), you’ll go through the rite of passage that is migrating email service providers (ESP) or marketing automation platforms (MAP). Your new CMO or other marketing leader wants to move to a new platform. So, first off, you may be wondering….

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Terminus

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

In contrast, digital and demand gen marketers are nearly always responsible for pushing small (or large) marketing budgets to do more. The common denominator is this: From budgeting responsibilities to driving pipeline efficiency, marketing leaders are working more closely with finance.

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Allocadia

DECEMBER 22, 2017

It’s planning season, marketers. Gearing up for another fight with Finance to spar over the funds you need to fuel next year’s programs and activities? Gartner recently found that marketing budgets are beginning to recede, dropping from their peak (12.1% That’s the strategy used at GE Digital.

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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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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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Convince & Convert

MARCH 4, 2016

Technology used to be only a concern of the IT department, but these days, even the most entry-level employee is expected to have basic knowledge of online tools. According to Gartner, by 2017 the Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) will spend more on IT than the CIO. Engagement is a key indicator of marketing success.

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