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How to Use Marketing Budget KPIs for Decision-Making

SmartBug Media

One of the most underrated skill sets of a marketing leader is the ability to guide decision-making based on budgetary analysis. The most skilled marketers aren't just the ones who can identify the best channels for growing customers; they are also the ones who can identify the best channels to avoid.

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What is marketing performance management and how can it help you?

Martech

One of marketing’s greatest challenges is proving its value to the business. Without demonstrable proof that marketing initiatives are driving business results, marketers’ budgets are easy pickings for leaders seeking to improve profitability or just keep the business afloat during challenging times.

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Are You Spending Enough on Online Marketing?

The Effective Marketer

Although the level of marketing spend doesn’t usually correlate to marketing effectiveness, it is useful to know how others in your industry or other companies of similar size are spending their money on marketing. So if the survey finding that the median of annual interactive marketing budgets is $7.19

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The Most Important Marketing Metrics

Marketing Insider Group

Which metrics you chose to run your business and to report to your CEO is important because this will determine the size of your budget, the stability of your job and the influence your team will have on the strategy of the organization. Marketing Metrics Keep Marketing Accountable. But this really blew me away.

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Tom Pisello: The ROI Guy: Seeing ROI in the Cloud?

The ROI Guy

Tom Pisello: The ROI Guy This blog is dedicated to the strategies and tools used by solution providers to better prove and improve the value of B2B solutions to frugal buyers - using diagnostic assessments, interactive white papers, ROI calculators and TCO comparisons. New TCO Calculator: EMC SMB Virtual Solutions Advi.

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Tom Pisello: The ROI Guy: Updated Alinean Social Media ROI.

The ROI Guy

Tom Pisello: The ROI Guy This blog is dedicated to the strategies and tools used by solution providers to better prove and improve the value of B2B solutions to frugal buyers - using diagnostic assessments, interactive white papers, ROI calculators and TCO comparisons. New TCO Calculator: EMC SMB Virtual Solutions Advi.

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Tom Pisello: The ROI Guy: Let the Good Times Roll? IT Spending on.

The ROI Guy

Tom Pisello: The ROI Guy This blog is dedicated to the strategies and tools used by solution providers to better prove and improve the value of B2B solutions to frugal buyers - using diagnostic assessments, interactive white papers, ROI calculators and TCO comparisons. Monday, January 10, 2011 Let the Good Times Roll?