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Marketing Performance Woes? You Might Just Have a Planning Problem

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Now think of everything that encompasses your marketing performance management process. Without it, all of your connections become a convoluted mess of cables without a home from which to function properly.

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The Foundation of a Successful Agile Marketing Team: Centralization

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Spoiler: His verbally declaring bankruptcy didn’t automatically launch the legal process. In the fourth season of The Office , Michael Scott, laden with financial troubles, decided he needed to declare bankruptcy, leading him to announce to his colleagues, “I declare bankruptcy!”

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Break Down Silos at Your Enterprise with an Iterative Collaborative Planning Environment

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It needs to combine other planning processes from other departments that are involved with marketing in any shape, way, or form. A strong marketing plan isn’t just about marketing. And that’s a lot of departments, when leadership, sales, channel, product, and finance all play such an integral part in the role of marketing.

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Shine a light on your marketing planning efforts to deliver better performance

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It takes skills, tools, and a solid process to execute. Planning can be a dirty word in any aspect of business, especially Marketing. Planning is difficult. It takes time and resources to be done right. And it takes data, data that must be cleaned and aggregated into consumable insights for it to be usable for the planners.

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Ensure Your B2B Martech Purchase Takes Root

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Most marketing technology purchasing decisions involve a process. At 42% of large companies , ten or more people are typically involved making a purchasing decision. It makes sense that a variety of stakeholders should therefore be able to weigh in. But the trickier question is: which ones?

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Deploying Dynamic Marketing Planning

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That’s merely step one in the kind of iterative process we’re talking about when we use the term. It’s entirely possible to hear the term “marketing planning” and conflate it with simply having a budget or a general penned strategy, but the two aren’t the same thing.

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Marketing Planning with Financial System Integration

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Finance in turn looks to marketing to help break down and reconcile costs, as each group has their own set of budget processes. Marketing relies on finance for incremental budget approval and continuously works to report results that prove their value to the organization.

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