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How to optimize your marketing budget: Do more with less

Sprout Social

Managing social media and other marketing channels in this economy can be challenging. You’ll need a plan to address top budget concerns to provide clarity and control over every dollar spent. Do your research You need to be aware of the market conditions to allocate the right marketing budget.

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How to Write a Marketing Budget Your CFO Will Enthusiastically Support

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

Does it feel like presenting your marketing budget to the CFO is like pulling teeth? If you want a less painful budgeting process, my best piece of advice is to build a budget that your CFO will understand and agree with from the get-go. Here are seven specific best practices to get there. Click To Tweet.

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Best Practices for Marketing Budget Agility During Crisis & Disruption

Allocadia

Three actions marketing organizations can take and how Allocadia can help. As marketers we all wish that we could set our plan and budget at the beginning of the year or quarter and we are able to execute exactly as planned. But even in the best of times, priorities shift, programs fail, and change has to happen.

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THE HACKIES: How leading marketing executives tackle martech

chiefmartech

For marketing executives and their teams, building an effective marketing technology stack is a daunting prospect. I’ll touch on three practical approaches that marketing leaders and their teams take to MarTech strategy: How do we decide which martech bets to make? Always Design for Change.

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Go-to-market tactics that won’t work in a post-pandemic world

Martech

Looking forward to the second half of 2023, we are recalibrating go-to-market plans for what I call the “next normal.” The category creation aspiration failure Popularized by evangelists from high-growth point solutions, this advice to create a new category was both the least achievable and most costly.

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Marketing Planning Process for Professional Services

Hinge Marketing

Any firm that wants to succeed needs a marketing plan. However, the marketing planning process that works well for consumer products, industrial goods or not-for-profits is not well suited for professional services. Creating a marketing plan takes more than just writing down some ideas about how to promote your firm.

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Differentiated Marketing for Professional Services

Hinge Marketing

And a differentiated marketing strategy allows you to address multiple segments with carefully tailored services and marketing plans. It is true that implementing multiple marketing strategies can be more complex and costly. And it requires discipline to plan and execute a differentiated strategy.