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In B2B, Marketing Professional Services Is Different. Here’s How to Do It Right.

The Marketing Blender

In B2B marketing, professional services is an industry that requires a specialized approach. After all, you are often selling your “smarts” (expert knowledge that drives value in the service) instead of a tangible product. Why Is Marketing B2B Professional Services So Hard?

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What Are Experts Prioritizing in 2018 B2B Marketing Budgets?

KoMarketing Associates

Their answers ranged depending on their industry, but we found that most were interested in attempting new strategies and techniques for the B2B market, like artificial intelligence, paid social media campaigns, and virtual reality, while others wanted to focus budget dollars on tried-and-true tactics that work.

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Why an ABM foundation makes your whole marketing strategy work harder

Velocity Partners

Most ABM campaigns are too narrow. If you have an ABM strategy, I’d bet my last stinkin’ dollar you made it in one of two ways. Both approaches make the same mistake – they treat ABM as a second-class citizen – either as an entirely separate discipline or as an isolated offshoot from your everyday marketing activities.

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Make Each Dollar Count: How to Maximize Marketing Budget in 2024

Oktopost

But budget limitations can make or break even the best, and most thorough plans you’ve set to accomplish in 2024. CMOs have long encountered this problem. They’re expected to make every marketing dollar count and deliver maximum impact on a limited budget. Here’s our guide to help you get started.

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How to tune your GTM strategies to cope with budgetary headwinds

Martech

Even the most successful sales teams, with the best incentive plans, cannot fill the gap when marketing is constrained, let alone deliver the customer experience and convince the audience of brand value. We live in a peer-bound world,” says Chandar Pattabhiram, CMO for business spend management platform Coupa.

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[Research Round-Up] ABM, Marketing Spending and Next Generation Events

B2B Marketing Directions

(This month's Research Round-Up features the latest ABM benchmark study by ITSMA and the ABM Leadership Alliance, Winterberry Group's latest forecast of marketing and advertising spending, and a survey examining the future of marketing events by the CMO Council and Cvent.)

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3 marketing motions successful B2B software companies do differently than peers

Sword and the Script | B2B

The two organizations teamed up to survey “sales and marketing executives at about 1,100 US software and cloud hosting companies.” Sword and the Script Media can help with B2B marketing, PR and social media. That’s how Post It notes were discovered and it went on to be a best-selling project.