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An Updated Look At the State of Marketing Budgets

B2B Marketing Directions

Image Source: Gartner, Inc. Last month, Gartner released the findings of its CMO Spend Survey, 2021. The Gartner survey was conducted from March through May of this year. The survey produced 400 responses from marketing decision makers and influencers located in North America, Europe and the UK. in 2020 to 5.8%

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How To Plan Your B2B Marketing Budget Like A CMO Pro

Envy

Pandemic aside, this is not the first time B2B marketers will face drastic changes to their best intended budget plans. Here are some practical tips to keep you on the right marketing budgeting (and planning) track. When you lay out your strategy for 2021, assume that up to 30% of your budget will be cut.

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Gartner rips CMOs over martech while business demands ‘more with less’

Sword and the Script | B2B

The tech analyst likens CMOs spending and utilization of martech to gambling with the marketing budget but the real culprit may well be short-term thinking in business CMOs are buying and implementing marketing technology (martech) that their marketing teams aren’t using. Ergo, CMOs invest martech.

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How CMOs Can Keep Marketing Organizations Agile in Changing Times

Marketing Insider Group

The challenges we are facing have changed how we communicate with consumers and market our products and services. How can chief marketing officers empower their organizations to remain nimble in changing times? Without the right strategies, businesses can quickly sink into an inescapable abyss (AKA go out of business).

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Managing Marketing Budgets in a Crisis

Ledger Bennett

Significant shift in budget since the onset of the pandemic Late last year Gartner published their 2019-2020 CMO Spend Survey , and while budgets had declined a little in 2019, confidence was very high regarding the outlook for 2020. When a crisis hits, a company’s marketing budget is usually the first to go.

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Choosing a Content Marketing Partner: 9 Factors to Consider

Content Standard

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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3 Ways to Ensure You Get the Marketing Budget You Need in 2018

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

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. How can marketing impact the business tomorrow? That’s the strategy used at GE Digital.