B2B Marketing Directions

OCTOBER 10, 2021

This is the second of three posts discussing some of the B2B-specific findings of the August 2021 edition of The CMO Survey. The "Part 1" post discussed the economic outlook of B2B marketers and the state of marketing spending in B2B companies. of their total marketing budget on digital marketing activities.

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Martech

MARCH 2, 2023

Boards and the C-suite expect CMOs to lead the way to profitable growth in 2023 despite various macroeconomic pressures manifesting into the “ triple squeeze ,” making everything more expensive. As a forecaster , to predict the outcome that raising or lowering marketing budgets will have on marketing’s contribution to the overall budget.

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Allocadia

MARCH 31, 2019

Serving B2B markets worldwide, the company designs, develops and sells products and services that provide network infrastructure for networking requirements of service providers, enterprises, governments, and research and public sector organizations worldwide. . – Eric Andrews, VP Global Marketing Operations, Juniper Networks.

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B2B Marketing Directions

SEPTEMBER 16, 2018

With the beginning of the fourth quarter less than a month away, many B2B companies have already started planning for 2019. Over the next several weeks, marketing leaders will be evaluating how well their existing marketing programs have performed and developing plans for the coming year. five years from now.

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B2B Marketing Directions

DECEMBER 18, 2016

By this point, most B2B marketers are well into their planning for 2017, and it appears that many marketers will have healthy marketing budgets in the coming year. Several research studies have found that a majority of marketers are expecting their budgets to increase in 2017.

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Allocadia

MARCH 30, 2021

The Problem: Missing Measurements and Budget Management. In 2019 Freshworks’ marketing operations team began streamlining various marketing and operational activities. The Solution: Taking Control of Budgeting, Plans, and Measurements. Calculating the ROI of Digital Channels.

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Allocadia

DECEMBER 22, 2017

It’s planning season, marketers. Gearing up for another fight with Finance to spar over the funds you need to fuel next year’s programs and activities? Gartner recently found that marketing budgets are beginning to recede, dropping from their peak (12.1% Are you donning your boxing gloves?

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SmartBug Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

The combination of brand positioning, lead generation, digital marketing, local advertising, and paid media helps franchisees maximize their marketing efforts while adhering to established brand standards. For this article, we spoke to franchise business expert Jenn Foster , fractional CMO and founder of Foster Marketing.

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Allocadia

APRIL 16, 2019

It’s planning season, marketers. Gearing up for another fight with Finance to spar over the funds you need to fuel next year’s programs and activities? Gartner recently found that marketing budgets are beginning to recede, dropping from their peak (12.1% How much are we spending to launch this new product?

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Porch Group Media

JULY 6, 2021

Using data-based insights to make better marketing decisions requires a comprehensive view of. Nearly one-third (32%) of marketers surveyed by Ascend2 report that a strategy is. planned to have unified marketing data and 45% are already operating with a strategy in place ( Ascend2 , 2021). CMO Council). GlobalDMA).

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Martech

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Every CMO I’ve talked with in the past two years is hungry for talent, but they haven’t had the budget to staff up. While 61% of CMOs report they lack the in-house capabilities to deliver their strategy, spending on in-house labor remained static, per Gartner’s 2022 CMO Spend survey. .

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Webbiquity

JULY 27, 2021

CMOs are reporting that marketing budgets are being slashed. Here’s what that means, and practical ideas that go beyond the bad news to how B2B marketers to adapt. in 2021, their lowest point in the history of Gartner’s CMO Spend Survey.” ” Here are five likely impacts of those budget cuts.

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PureB2B

JUNE 14, 2021

Marketing budgets, a critical element in any marketing campaign but difficult to generate, and getting approval seems like an arduous task. That is a general notion, and it comes from what marketing directors have noticed over the years. Such stats only go to prove that justifying a marketing budget to the CFO is hard.

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Allocadia

APRIL 3, 2019

.” – Chethan Chandra, Senior Manager of Business Operations, VMware. The Challenge Like many global marketing organizations, VMware’s team needed more visibility into how its marketing budget was being spent. Marketing leaders couldn’t effectively predict or evaluate marketing ROI.

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Webbiquity

JANUARY 19, 2016

Image credit: The CMO Survey. 46% of B2B marketers say they’re not sure whether any social channels have generated revenue for their businesses. Only 13% believe they’ve proved the impact quantitatively—though that may be because just 14% tie social media marketing activities to sales levels. 70% of the U.S.

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Hubspot

JANUARY 4, 2021

Here's what else 2021 has in store based on the predictions of this fabulous group of marketing leaders. Marketers will plan asynchronous events that plug into the funnel. Latané Conant , Chief Market Officer at 6sense , predicts: "This year saw an explosion of virtual events as marketers adapted to a changing world.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JANUARY 5, 2018

The Marketing team at Marketo asked marketers in the Marketing Nation a series of questions regarding their marketing plans for 2018. Question #1: In 2018, I expect my Marketing budget to…. Question #3: How well are your marketing activities integrated into your customer journey?

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Content Standard

JANUARY 25, 2018

There is still a disconnect within organizations on why this channel should be fully integrated into the overall marketing strategy and not in a silo. Social media remains a silo within the marketing department: In the most recent CMO Survey , marketing leaders gave an average of 4.2 (7 Breaking Down Silos.

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Content Standard

SEPTEMBER 22, 2015

Building an effective mobile marketing strategy is still foiling companies, even as many plan to increase mobile spending. A recent CMO Survey report found that mobile marketing currently accounts for 6 percent of total marketing budgets, but that number is slated to rise to 15.6

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ClickZ

AUGUST 27, 2019

And yet, our marketing teams were challenged with the complexity of managing multiple marketing budgets maintained in multiple disparate spreadsheets across the globe. Marketing budget management and reporting as top pain point. Marketing budget management and reporting as top pain point.

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Single Grain

JULY 6, 2021

The Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) is a crucial position for every organization, but hiring a CMO is more challenging than any other C-level position. In this article, I will discuss what a CMO is, the different skills needed to become a great CMO, and how you can hire the perfect CMO for your organization.

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Heinz Marketing

AUGUST 30, 2019

And the onus of that experience is beginning to lean on marketing far more heavily. At the same time, marketing is continuing to take on more of the buyer’s journey than ever before, and today, marketers spend exorbitant amounts of money trying to get the attention of the buyer. How are marketers encouraging engagement?

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Allocadia

APRIL 24, 2019

They did this by breaking down their marketing budget at the investment level into three buckets: market analysis, enablement, and customer acquisition and nurture. Marketing activities dedicated to specific high-level strategy, referred to as tactics, help make each strategy a success.

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Vision Edge Marketing

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

Ted Levitt, author of The Marketing Imagination, writes, “The role of marketing is to create and keep customers.” ” A marketing plan is a valuable instrument in helping Marketing plot a course of action for how it will go about creating and keeping customers. Develop performance-based programs.

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Heinz Marketing

MARCH 27, 2023

I’d love to hear a little bit about what you’re seeing in the market, both in terms of the evolution of the marketing function, as well as how people are sourcing that work. And when you used to ask marketers about transformation, it’s we want to do some innovation. I need to do it internally.

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Aberdeen

JANUARY 25, 2019

In this week’s roundup of intent data news and features, we’ll assess marketing budgets, touch on LinkedIn, take a trip to an unfamiliar industry, and consider how to format a B2B content marketing strategy. B2B Marketing Budget Boost. This Marketing Daily column explores B2B marketing spend projections for 2019.

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Allocadia

JUNE 12, 2019

This post is part 3 of a three-part series on building and managing a marketing budget: Part 1: How to Organize Your Marketing Budgets. Part 2: How to Build Out a Marketing Budget. Part 3: Ongoing Management & Tracking of a Marketing Budget [below]. Managing Your Commitments.

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Metadata

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

How’d you do with your marketing budget this year? If you’re anything like me… Every single year, planning and forecasting in marketing teams is already a little bit like jumping in a Delorean and going 88 MPH with 1.21 Add a dose of worldwide pandemic and your 2020 plan is now nothing better than a bad guess.

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Metadata

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

How’d you do with your marketing budget this year? If you’re anything like me… Every single year, planning and forecasting in marketing teams is already a little bit like jumping in a Delorean and going 88 MPH with 1.21 Add a dose of worldwide pandemic and your 2020 plan is now nothing better than a bad guess.

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Marketing Insider Group

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Content Marketing Stats 84% of digital marketing leaders acknowledge the role of AI in enhancing personalization. Zippia) 82% of marketers report that AI significantly influences their content creation plans. Hubspot) 79% of companies have observed revenue growth in marketing and sales due to AI.

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Marketing Graham

MARCH 30, 2022

But did it affect the marketing budget, and if so, by how much? I find benchmarking my marketing spend against the average really useful – especially when I’m begging for more money. These marketing budget examples are based on research from Gartner and their regular CMO Spend Survey.

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Marketing Graham

MARCH 30, 2022

But did it affect the marketing budget, and if so, by how much? I find benchmarking my marketing spend against the average really useful – especially when I’m begging for more money. These marketing budget examples are based on research from Gartner and their regular CMO Spend Survey.

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Allocadia

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

This post is part 3 of a three-part series on building and managing a marketing budget: Part 1 : How to Organize Your Marketing Budgets. Part 2 : How to Build Out a Marketing Budget. Part 3 : Ongoing Management & Tracking of a Marketing Budget [below]. Budget Tracking.

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Allocadia

JUNE 12, 2019

This post is part 2 of a three-part series on building and managing a marketing budget: Part 1: How to Organize Your Marketing Budgets. Part 2: How to Build Out a Marketing Budget [below]. Part 3: Ongoing Management & Tracking of a Marketing Budget. Top-down Budgeting.

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Allocadia

MARCH 31, 2020

During times of uncertainty, it can be hard to know what to do next – plans are no longer relevant, buying patterns have changed, and hard decisions must be made. Our challenge as marketers is that we cannot control our external environment and have limited control of our market’s response.

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Martech

APRIL 27, 2022

Tools are even giving marketers the ability to predict interactions in order to increase efficiency and allow for real-time adjustments. Data and analytics take the guesswork out of marketing. They help you get more value from your marketing budget (e.g., What is marketing analytics? Budget optimization.

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Allocadia

APRIL 16, 2019

You may use Customer Relationship Management software, Enterprise Resource Planning software, and/or a Marketing Automation platform. Think about which elements of these systems need to be used in your marketing performance management processes, so they can be linked with other data and reported on.

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