The Marketing Blender

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Resources. . Your guide to building a marketing budget template. Looking to create a new marketing budget template for your business? Although a marketing budget template can take some time and thought to build, it’s not as difficult as you may think it is. Our Services. . See Our Work. .

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ClearVoice

JUNE 4, 2024

Six out of 10 — that’s the number of marketers who say their marketing budget is being scrutinized somewhat more or much more now compared to previous years. Done right, it’s a cost management technique you can leverage to squeeze the most value out of your marketing budget. The result?

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Salesforce Marketing Cloud

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

About 69% of sales professionals say selling is more difficult now than in previous years, according to Salesforce’s State of Sales report. Even though it’s harder to sell, reps still need to hit their numbers. To keep your sales team motivated when things are tough, you need to reward them for their victories.

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DealSignal

OCTOBER 18, 2020

Do you have enough data to effectively analyze, strategize, and prioritize your prospects, leads, and sales and marketing activities? But you can’t rely on website forms or event attendee lists to tell you everything you need to know to move leads down the funnel and convert them. That’s where data enrichment comes in.

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SmartBug Media

OCTOBER 2, 2023

As the year draws to a close, marketers face a crucial task: allocating their remaining marketing budget to drive the best return on investment (ROI). Whether you're an experienced marketer or just starting out, we've got you covered. Let's dive in and make those marketing dollars count! What’s working well?

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Webbiquity

JUNE 8, 2021

Developing a concise, productive, balanced marketing budget usually always involves allocating limited funding—especially if that budget is for a startup or small business. Every department head in the company needs part of the overall budget (and most want more) for their specific team’s operations. 1: Branding.

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Martech

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Executives can also convince themselves that sales will provide enough “air cover.” Eighty-four percent of B2B buyers start the purchasing process with a referral, and peer recommendations influence more than 90% of all B2B buying decisions. ” Here’s the problem with that mindset.

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Marketing Insider Group

MAY 11, 2021

Only then can you create truly personalized, seamless experiences to guide your leads through the sales funnel successfully. If you can master this skill, you’ll continually improve your digital marketing efforts and drive more brand loyalty online. What is Predictive Marketing Analytics?

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Marketing Insider Group

AUGUST 3, 2020

All of these things can clearly lead to a more profitable company and a better customer experience, which is why many companies are allocating large sums of their marketing budget towards this strategy. ABM gives the sales team fewer leads to work with. Why Sales Marketing Alignment Matters.

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DealSignal

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Do you have enough data to effectively analyze, strategize, and prioritize your prospects, leads, and sales and marketing activities? But you can’t rely on website forms or event attendee lists to tell you everything you need to know to move leads down the funnel and convert them. That’s where data enrichment comes in.

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Martech

MARCH 20, 2023

Slightly more than half (53%) of CFOs expect to increase their marketing budgets by at least 3% this year, according to a Gartner survey of 300 top financial executives. Some 21% are planning on level funding, while 25% predict they will cut the marketing budget by at least 3%. Marketing in the middle.

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Tiecas

MAY 7, 2024

How does all this relate to industrial marketing? The Problem: Let’s Talk About Industrial Marketing’s Obsession With New Leads Let’s be clear: there’s absolutely nothing wrong with industrial companies dedicating resources to generating fresh leads. A healthy pipeline is essential for growth.

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FunnelEnvy

MAY 1, 2023

But the saying itself speaks to a problem at the heart of many marketing departments: it’s just tough to know which of your marketing campaigns are successful and which are a waste of time and resources. For marketers today, a significant chunk of their resources go towards creating content.

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ClearVoice

JANUARY 5, 2024

Allocating resources and setting a budget that reflects your content marketing goals is like having a GPS for your content strategy — it keeps everything on track. The question is, how do you budget for success and allocate resources to align with your content marketing goals? Content creation.

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SmarkLabs

JANUARY 3, 2023

Creating a marketing budget for the year can be a daunting task, but it’s an essential part of any business’s planning process. A marketing budget helps you allocate resources effectively, track the performance of your campaigns, and make informed decisions about your marketing strategy.

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Heinz Marketing

OCTOBER 23, 2018

By Brian Hansford , VP of Performance Management. 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. The days of activity-based marketing are over.

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The Point

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

In uncertain economic times, Market Development Funds (MDF) can be a precious resource for channel partners (resellers, distributors, ISVs) looking for budget to fund sales and marketing activity. By some measures, that may add up to $15 billion of unspent marketing budget every year in the US alone.

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Oktopost

DECEMBER 21, 2023

But budget limitations can make or break even the best, and most thorough plans you’ve set to accomplish in 2024. They’re expected to make every marketing dollar count and deliver maximum impact on a limited budget. Now that doing more with less is essential, strategic budgeting is the key to success for CMOs in 2024.

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Hubspot

JANUARY 9, 2018

What’s a sales plan? A sales plan lays out your objectives, high-level tactics, target audience, and potential obstacles. It’s like a traditional business plan but focuses specifically on your sales strategy. Who writes sales plans? What is a sales plan template?

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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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Pam Didner

MAY 26, 2020

After talking to many marketers, we all agree that we need to start thinking about how to do marketing differently in order to react fast as a team. The question is: “How can marketing move quickly in fast-changing situations?” Sales can’t visit customers anymore, what can we do to better support them? What is not?”

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The Marketing Blender

MARCH 22, 2024

Understanding B2B Digital Marketing Strategies Unlike B2C marketing, which focuses on reaching individual consumers who can often make an immediate decision, B2B marketing typically involves multiple decision makers, longer sales cycles, and higher price points. Go deeper than demographics and even firmographics.

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DealSignal

OCTOBER 18, 2020

Do you have enough data to effectively analyze, strategize, and prioritize your prospects, leads, and sales and marketing activities? But you can’t rely on website forms or event attendee lists to tell you everything you need to know to move leads down the funnel and convert them. That’s where data enrichment comes in.

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Marketing Insider Group

APRIL 22, 2021

To build or grow a startup in 2021, you need to invest in tools that can help you optimize, automate, and improve every working part of your business – from sales and marketing to employees and customers. In marketing alone, you have over 8,000 tools to pick from. Marketing Tools for Startups. Startup Tools for Sales.

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BenchmarkONE

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Your company blog is great for pushing your own content marketing agenda and for providing endless resources to your leads and site visitors. And while many marketers solely think of thought leadership in terms of guest content and what they can publish elsewhere, sometimes the best place to start is right on your own site.

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Pam Didner

MAY 14, 2020

Does my marketing strategy need to be revised for the changing economy? My clients asked me if they need to revise their marketing plan, and marketing plan templates AGAIN when the economy starts to reopen, Post COVID-19. And that was a lot of work and stressful. Therefore, the answer is YES.

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Only B2B

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Conventional lead generation tactics for B2B marketers will not work in 2022. If you look at the most recent B2B market trends, you can notice how much has changed in such a short time. According to a 2020 McKinsey research , 90% of B2B sales have switched to digital channels. Adopt An Omni-Channel Marketing Strategy.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

OCTOBER 21, 2020

As Global Marketing Manager at LiteracyPlanet, my small but agile team faced this situation. LiteracyPlanet is an online gamified learning resource designed to help school-aged children of all ages and levels. Tip 3: Always maintain sales alignment. According to UNESCO , 80% of children globally (1.37

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ClearVoice

AUGUST 29, 2022

To scale your content, you need to strategically plan your content calendar and execute on proven best practices. In this article, we break down some of the top tips for how to scale your content marketing efforts. Most businesses have a marketing budget that allows for advertising, including content creation.

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Webbiquity

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Nearly three-quarters of companies plan to maintain or grow their content marketing teams over the next year. Social media managers are actually (slightly) happier working in the office rather than hybrid or remote. Here are 25 key findings, facts, and stats from these insight-packed content and social media marketing reports.

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Tiecas

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

I’m sure you’ve heard marketing consultants like me talk about the importance of creating a marketing strategy and then following a plan for success. But what exactly is the difference between an industrial marketing strategy and a plan? While planning is about answering the What and the How questions.

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ClickZ

OCTOBER 30, 2020

30-second summary: COVID-19 has stress-tested the technologies and processes used in digital marketing departments by forcing everyone to work remotely. The situation has led to budget cuts, massive reply-all email chains, and rapid pivots to e-commerce. Marketers hesitate to invest in new content. What does that change?

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accelerate agency

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

It doesn’t matter how big or small your business is; creating a SaaS marketing budget takes a lot of time and effort. There are countless resources online offering various calculations as well. All good SaaS marketing budgets go beyond the numbers alone. How much do SaaS companies spend on marketing?

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accelerate agency

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

It doesn’t matter how big or small your business is; creating a SaaS marketing budget takes a lot of time and effort. There are countless resources online offering various calculations as well. All good SaaS marketing budgets go beyond the numbers alone. How much do SaaS companies spend on marketing?

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BenchmarkONE

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

There’s never a bad time to put together a marketing plan , especially if you don’t already have one. In this article, we’ll show you how to create an effective marketing plan — but first, let’s discuss the basics. . What Is a Marketing Plan? . A tactical process. Inform Your Content Marketing.

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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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