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Recession Planning: Should You Cut Your Marketing Budget?

Zoominfo

The constant pendulum swings give consumers and businesses little confidence for planning ahead, and the only thing we can probably agree on is that everything really is weird. All too often, marketing budgets are the first to be scaled back. Unfortunately, that’s not really an actionable business tactic.

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Your B2B Marketing Budget Playbook for 2021 Success [Research]

Marketing Insider Group

Most companies have learned that B2B marketing budgets are much more important than they thought – and that their existing marketing strategies, well, kind of sucked. Look, we all knew B2B marketing had plenty of problems long before COVID-19: Generic, bland, and forgettable content. Poor use of technology and automation.

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What Are Experts Prioritizing in 2018 B2B Marketing Budgets?

KoMarketing Associates

Instead of planning for 2018 when you’re already starting it in January, the most prepared B2B marketers already have priorities identified and plans for execution come January 1. We will see a shift toward even stronger account-based strategies across a multitude of functional groups, significantly impacting budgets. .

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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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Use Your Unspent Marketing Budget On Content Marketing For Next Year

Marketing Insider Group

The reason was mainly due to unspent marketing budget. Marketers, SaaS founders and startup CEOs were pulling their money from ads and events and doubling down on content marketing. We’re gonna suggest you use your unspent budget on content marketing. Now we ARE a little biased. Not one lead.

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Why and How You Should Measure Content Marketing ROI

Marketing Insider Group

As data analytics grow in sophistication, measuring the results of your marketing efforts becomes even more critical to your company’s success. So why, then, do 44% of all B2B companies not even bother to measure their content marketing ROI? After all, what’s the ultimate goal of content marketing?

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Why This Amount Is All the Marketing Budget You Need

Marketing Insider Group

Are you feeling pressure on your marketing budget? If you think you can’t stretch your dollars to meet all your marketing needs, you may actually need better allocation, not more money. The objective of marketing is to attract, engage, convert, and retain customers. Marketing Budgets Shifting and Changing.