chiefmartech

AUGUST 29, 2021

But it is why I always look forward to Gartner’s annual CMO Spend Survey report. Allocation of budget is a CMO’s way of “voting with their wallet” for what they think is most important. of the budget. Closely related, marketing analytics was ranked #4 with 11% mean budget allocation.

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nDash

DECEMBER 14, 2020

My job as a B2B SaaS & enterprise software content strategist is to wrangle brands into champions in the eyes of their audience—and my approach has worked. I believe my team outperformed all others at Gartner Digital Markets at Capterra because they were encouraged to stay curious, test new ideas, reflect, and iterate.

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Martech

AUGUST 28, 2023

Marketers are using only one-third of their martech stack’s capability, according to Gartner’s 2023 Martech Report. Utilization has been declining amid huge increases in spending on marketing technology: up 35% from $15.3 of their marketing budget on technology, says Gartner. billion in 2020 to $23.6

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Salesforce Marketing Cloud

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Done the right way, commissions can be a powerful incentive to give your best and go beyond your comfort zone. In my 20-plus-year career, and as founder of the Harris Consulting Group, I’ve learned some valuable lessons, tips, and best practices when it comes to structuring sales commissions.

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accelerate agency

APRIL 12, 2023

Finding the right SaaS marketing strategy for your company may seem challenging, but in such a competitive environment, it’s crucial. It’s estimated that the total value of the worldwide SaaS market will hit $195 billion in 2023, up 17% from 2022. Data Source How is SaaS marketing different?

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Vision Edge Marketing

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

To “get things done”, Marketing like all functions in the organization runs on processes. are all examples of Marketing processes! Here are some sobering statistics: Scott Edinger in an HBR article claimed “18% to 69% of Marketing Technology implementations fail.”. To Improve a Process, Map It.

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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. . Why is it such a problem?

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Top Rank Marketing

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

2023 has created something of a perfect storm for B2B marketing. We’re facing a recession, budgets are down, customer expectations are up, and, on top of it all, radical new AI applications are changing the way marketing works forever. Gains reported by CMOs surveyed in the 2022 Gartner report have slipped from 9.5%

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chiefmartech

NOVEMBER 26, 2017

Gartner recently released their CMO Spend Survey 2017-2018. The headline of their report: Budgets Recede Amid Demand For Results. After three consecutive years of growth, average marketing budgets at enterprise companies (most of the companies Gartner surveyed have more than $1 billion in revenue) have slipped from 12.1%

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Convince & Convert

JANUARY 8, 2014

Can You Increase the Budget for Everything? The most extraordinary statistic in this report is that marketers appear to be almost universally bullish on digital marketing , and are planning to throw gobs of cash at every conceivable digital tactic. If So, Please Call Me. More consolidation is on the way, powering #3, above. #2

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B2B Marketing Directions

NOVEMBER 1, 2020

Image Source: Gartner, Inc. Gartner recently published the findings of the 2020 Gartner Marketing Operations and Organization Survey. The survey results are described in two reports - the 2020 Marketing Operations Survey report, and the Marketing Organization Survey 2020 report.

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Hinge Marketing

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Scientists believe there is a tendency for cognitive processes or neural functions to be specialized to one side of the brain or the other. How is this relevant to marketers? According to a major study by Google, Gartner and Motista , B2B buyers are more emotionally connected to the brands they purchase than B2C consumers.

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Martech

MARCH 2, 2023

And although marketing budgets, as a share of revenue, rebounded last year to more than 9%, according to the 2022 Gartner CMO Spend and Strategy Survey , they are still lower than they were in 2020, forcing CMOs to achieve more with less. Imagine a product or service with a six-month sales cycle.

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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. Lance Walter is Chief Marketing Officer for Host Analytics and leads the company’s global marketing efforts.

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DiscoverOrg

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

Well, IT budgets were still pretty big back then, so that’s one simple reason. According to Gartner, in 2007, spending on software rose 13% and overall IT spending grew 11% worldwide. The proliferation of software-as-a-service (SaaS) and cloud computing created huge changes to the software market.

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accelerate agency

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Software as a service (SaaS) is a business model which is becoming ever more popular. You need a SaaS marketing strategy that works. One which can help you with what is often the tough job of selling your service to prospective customers. What follows are 12 elements of a successful SaaS marketing strategy.

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Martech

MARCH 14, 2022

With that said, let’s begin the journey to unlock the power of your marketing technology with this advice: Do not purchase another platform, point solution, service, or analyst report until you read this article and share it with the rest of your marketing organization. Ways of working: People and processes .

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Content Standard

OCTOBER 23, 2017

This estimated $40 billion market is eager to find enterprise customers seeking to build out their marketing technology stack, and the demand for these services is steadily increasing. If you’re just starting to build a marketing stack, then understanding where to put your money first is a fairly straightforward process.

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Onalytica B2B

JANUARY 8, 2019

I feel like the more I learn and do, the more I need to learn and do to keep up with great ideas and practices in B2B marketing. My very first professional job was an inside sales rep for a PC-based software company that sold developer tools in the early 90’s. And the buying process needs to be made as easy as possible.

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sagefrog

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

With the onset of the new year, marketers are urged to assess the current state of their strategies. As businesses embrace the dynamic nature of online platforms, staying ahead of the curve with the right social media experts, tech tools, and solutions becomes vital. of overall company revenue. [1]

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ClickDimensions

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

In the fast-paced world of B2B sales and marketing, the landscape of complex and costly tech solutions can be overwhelming but also the key to success for small to medium businesses (SMBs). Scalability is Key: Look for solutions that can scale with your business. Did you know?

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ClickDimensions

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

In the fast-paced world of B2B sales and marketing, the landscape of complex and costly tech solutions can be overwhelming but also the key to success for small to medium businesses (SMBs). Scalability is Key: Look for solutions that can scale with your business. Did you know?

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Parse.ly

OCTOBER 7, 2021

As businesses gear up for 2022, executives are looking to invest in strategies that yield the biggest results and cut funding to the ones that don’t. Now’s the time to evaluate how content has impacted your bottom line and leverage that data to secure budget for next year. Lindsey: “There is quite a bit still being figured out.

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Content4Demand

MAY 21, 2020

Written by Marjorie Romeyn-Sanabria & Michael Rodriguez Republished with permission from Demand Gen Report With in-person engagement on hold this spring and possibly into summer, B2B marketers continue to pivot their strategies to make up for lost leads, maintain relationships with clients and attract new business.

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PathFactory

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

The number of interactions during the purchase process has also increased, rising from an average of 17 in 2019 to 27 in 2021. Marketers have already responded by doubling down on content production — the Content Marketing Institute reports that, on average, 26% of B2B marketing budgets are allocated to content.

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SnapApp

JULY 2, 2019

And today, there is no shortage of martech tools on the market—both free and paid. In fact, research from Chief Martec determined that there are 6,829 marketing technology solutions from 6,242 unique vendors. Why Marketers are Facing Martech Burnout. How to Make the Most of New Martech Tools.

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Kabbage

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

Over the span of the year the number of MarTech vendors has nearly doubled, over $1 billion in venture capital has been invested in marketing technology, and marketing budgets have grown exponentially (“ Walker Sands State of Marketing Technology 2017 Closing the Gap Between Martech Innovation and Adoption,” 2016 ).

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ANNUITAS

APRIL 20, 2020

“Content is king” is a phrase that’s dominated the marketing world for years now, and for good reason. It helps connect with customers in their buying process and it helps drive demand. So why are marketing teams still not measuring content ROI? Proving content ROI will help get those budgets back up. Content works.

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B2B Marketing Directions

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

The Content Marketing Institute and MarketingProfs published the findings of their latest B2B content marketing survey a couple of weeks ago. The B2B Content Marketing Benchmarks, Budgets, and Trends: Insights for 2023 report is based on data from 925 survey respondents. Recent actions by the U.S.

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Martech

OCTOBER 20, 2022

At the risk of being nostalgic, it was a simpler time for our industry: the martech landscape was comprised of a mere 1,000 solutions and nobody had even heard of Cambridge Analytica. Fast forward to today, that martech landscape now has over 10,000 solutions , with new product launches and integrations happening daily. .

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ANNUITAS

MARCH 4, 2014

Things really started to get serious when Laura McClellan from Gartner said that thing about marketing technology. Consider her first point on how marketing is becoming increasingly technology-based … absolutely true, but not necessarily a good thing. In the wrong hands however, that tool is not worth the investment.

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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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Allocadia

APRIL 28, 2020

After cancelling any in-person events and direct-mail programs, we all had the same thought: “where are these funds going now?”. Marketing never sleeps – even during an economic crisis, marketers are tied to the mandate of moving the needle and driving impact for their organization. Tip #3 – Invest in the Best.

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ClickZ

JUNE 5, 2020

Instead of looking at different tools in silos, you are able to build a holistic overview of the customer experience. What’s important is to introduce AI to our marketing stack as the solution to several of our current problems. It’s not enough to predict that AI will be soon part of your marketing strategy.

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ClickZ

AUGUST 26, 2020

30-second summary: With more marketing budgets being spent on marketing technology than on people, and with an increasing number of marketing technology there is a whirlwind of confusion around martech. Our third market trend covers off the demand from marketers for technology.

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Madison Logic

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Not all this time is spent talking to sales about solutions. Look at the graphic below from Gartner: most of the time spent by a B2B buying committee is away from solution providers. Buyer intent data is a collection of signals that reveal when a prospective customer is looking for or interested in learning about a solution.

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SmartBrief - Marketing

JULY 25, 2023

Essentially, marketing leaders are trying to optimize the resources they have while searching for creative ways to connect with their audiences without sabotaging their marketing budget. Another 32% said they were cutting TV and video advertising and 31% reduced their audio advertising budget.

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