B2B Marketing Directions

AUGUST 15, 2021

Last month, Gartner released the findings of its CMO Spend Survey, 2021. The survey produced 400 responses from marketing decision makers and influencers located in North America, Europe and the UK. Therefore, this survey primarily captured the perspectives and experiences of marketers in large enterprises. in 2020 to 5.8%

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Marketing Insider Group

MARCH 9, 2020

Even larger companies need to cut corners when it comes to their marketing budget. Learn how to minimize content creation costs for your company here. Just because you’re with a large company doesn’t mean that you have an unlimited budget for content marketing. Start with a Content Marketing Audit.

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Content Standard

JULY 14, 2021

Once your content marketing needs outgrow your internal capacity, it’s time to start looking for outside help. Before you kick off your search for the perfect content marketing partner, though, your business must first look within itself to understand its marketing goals and needs.

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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. CMOs have long encountered this problem. They’re expected to make every marketing dollar count and deliver maximum impact on a limited budget. A new year means new opportunities.

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The Marketing Blender

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

What is a fractional CMO? If you’re thinking about outsourcing some (or all) of your marketing responsibilities, you may have stumbled upon fractional CMO services. What is a fractional CMO, how are they different from a marketing agency, and how can they support your business? What is a fractional CMO?

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Meerkat Marketing

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Virtual Chief Marketing Officers (Virtual CMO) are becoming increasingly popular as many businesses struggle to understand how they should be marketing during the pandemic. . A Strategic Marketer at a Fraction of the Cost. A Virtual CMO can act as a mentor and teacher to help grow your marketing talent already in place.

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accelerate agency

DECEMBER 7, 2021

The job of the CMO is arguably the most difficult in the C-suite. The average CMO lasts just 20 months, so they have to move fast to make an impact. At its basic level, the role of the CMO is to define its company’s strategic direction. Read on to learn more about: What does a SaaS chief marketing officer do on a regular basis?

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accelerate agency

DECEMBER 7, 2021

The job of the CMO is arguably the most difficult in the C-suite. The average CMO lasts just 20 months, so they have to move fast to make an impact. At its basic level, the role of the CMO is to define its company’s strategic direction. Read on to learn more about: What does a SaaS chief marketing officer do on a regular basis?

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Martech

MARCH 31, 2022

That once-in-a-lifetime genius marketing idea hits that will enrapture customers and slay your KPIs. As the firm’s newly appointed CMO, you need a breakthrough. Your Marketing Operations (MOps) director’s face looks like you just ate her puppy for breakfast. Get the daily newsletter digital marketers rely on.

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accelerate agency

DECEMBER 7, 2021

The job of the CMO is arguably the most difficult in the C-suite. The average CMO lasts just 20 months, so they have to move fast to make an impact. The marketing industry, too, has become increasingly complex over the past two decades, and the CMO’s role has grown exponentially. . GTM strategy best practices.

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Martech

JULY 30, 2021

MarTech’s daily brief features daily insights, news, tips, and essential bits of wisdom for today’s digital marketer. Good morning, Marketers, it’s all about partnerships. Even when building and updating websites, it’s important to know who your partners are. There’s more on the line. Chris Wood, Editor.

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Launch Marketing

AUGUST 23, 2023

Finding the ideal candidate for a VP of Marketing role is an ongoing challenge for B2B executive leaders. Marketing is a rapidly evolving field, necessitating a candidate who has a unique blend of skills and leadership qualities to thrive in today’s competitive digital landscape.

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sagefrog

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

The digital space is evolving, and B2B social media marketing is witnessing a paradigm shift in 2024. With the onset of the new year, marketers are urged to assess the current state of their strategies. AI tools reshape ad creation, providing innovative ways to reach wider audiences. of overall company revenue. [1]

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Martech

MARCH 18, 2022

Is marketing return-on-investment missing in action ? The mystery of the marketing spend has baffled many CEOs, often illustrated by this quip that half the spend is wasted, if they only knew which half. Brenner came to marketing from sales. “[M]ost he recounted in his blog post , “ What is marketing? Brenner asked.

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Valasys

JUNE 27, 2023

The launch was accompanied by a captivating advertising campaign led by Ryan Reynolds’s Maximum Effort, showcasing these products. These findings depict an industry facing mounting pressure, as outlined in LinkedIn’s first-ever B2B Marketing Benchmark study released on the same day.

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ClickZ

JUNE 21, 2023

This interview with Tyrona Heath , Director of Marketing Engagement at LinkedIn’s B2B Institute, is aimed at celebrating and championing B2B excellence to drive creativity and excitement amongst B2B brands, marketers, and advertisers. Is B2B advertising facing a crisis of creativity? And if so, how did we get here?

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Content Marketing Institute

JULY 24, 2018

What would you do if your boss unexpectedly increased your annual content marketing budget? We asked the presenters at Content Marketing World 2018 to share what they would do. Often, this happens as the budget year nears its end and your team needs to spend the designated dollars or lose them.). Get face to face.

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Martech

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Continuing to navigate the “next normal” world, marketing and GTM teams have been under new pressures due to inflation, talent shortages, slowing economic conditions, possible renewed COVID restrictions, and the digital transformation hangover. The companies range from mid-market startups to large public enterprise companies.

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Porch Group Media

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Marketing departments are certainly no exception and have been forced to balance between cutbacks in spend while still maintaining acquisition and retention strategies to thrive during these difficult times. One change CMOs are making due to these budget pressures is shifting outside agency work to in-house employees.

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Marketing Insider Group

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

As I discussed earlier this year in my BLOG “ Executive Insights: World-Class Demand Generation and Corporate Social Responsibility Converge at Televerde ”, I was very fortunate to work with some tremendous partners during my nearly 19 year tenure with SAP Global Marketing.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

DECEMBER 20, 2017

It’s planning season, marketers. Gartner recently found that marketing budgets are beginning to recede, dropping from their peak (12.1% According to Gartner, the drop is due in part to marketing leaders being too distracted by tactics and execution. Is marketing pulling its weight?

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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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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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Marketing Insider Group

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

What is the measure of your B2B marketing campaign’s success? As CEOs worldwide are looking at marketing as a growth driver , they have become more critical in measuring all marketing efforts’ performance. How much is marketing contributing to revenue? The Basics of Marketing Metrics. Website Traffic.

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Sprout Social

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Agencies and businesses alike have experienced their fair share of challenges in 2020. It’s pushed agencies to think outside of the box, remain flexible and innovate as the state of the economy and consumer landscape has consistently ebbed and flowed. Balance flexibility and stability. Innovate around client needs.

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BenchmarkONE

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Whether you’re a brand new startup or a tenured business, at some point during your company’s growth, you may find the need for an experienced chief marketing officer (CMO) who can lead your marketing team and efforts. . When hiring a CMO, many businesses assume their only option is someone who will be full-time.

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6sense

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Editor’s Note: CMO Coffee Talk is an open space for more than 1,300 CMOs to come together weekly with their peers and discuss timely, crowd-sourced topics. Matt Heinz of Heinz Marketing co-hosts these dynamic, illuminating conversations with 6sense CMO Latané Conant. . Think Beyond Budget . Power of voice.

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Porch Group Media

JULY 6, 2021

With the market becoming more complex and customers demanding a personalized experience, data-driven marketing is the only way forward. In an increasingly complex economy, marketers are more focused than ever on using data-driven insights to better understand their customers and boost their overall competitive advantage.

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Heinz Marketing

JANUARY 29, 2019

I recently hosted our latest invite-only CMO Roundtable in Seattle. We partnered with Allocadia and our topic focused on Finance and Marketing Alignment with the CFO and CMO. Chris Pick , CMO from Apptio and Samantha Bannister , VP of Finance and Operations from Allocadia were the panelists who provided valuable insights.

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SmartBug Media

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Channel marketing is a strategy businesses can use by working with third parties to take your products or services to a larger audience. It helps organizations to quickly go to market and scale no matter what size an organization is. In this article, we’ll highlight the value add of channel marketing for CMOs.

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Marketing Insider Group

MAY 11, 2020

While companies have relied on traditional marketing strategies for decades, some are still wondering, what is content marketing really? Content marketing, when you peel away all the layers of techniques, trends, and possibilities, is a business opportunity. What Is Content Marketing Really? And why do I need it now?

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Sword and the Script | B2B

MAY 30, 2023

The tech analyst likens CMOs spending and utilization of martech to gambling with the marketing budget but the real culprit may well be short-term thinking in business CMOs are buying and implementing marketing technology (martech) that their marketing teams aren’t using.

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Martech

MARCH 14, 2022

Embarking on a journey to marketing technology transformation is also not without disappointments. Read on for a proven approach to unlock the power of your marketing technology and tip the odds of transformation success in your favor. There are many possible reasons for this budget challenge. Avoid shiny objects.

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Kabbage

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

2016 has been a year of technological innovation and adoption in the B2B marketing world. With the growth in solutions, channels, and data, marketers have increasingly become more analytical and strategic when implementing campaigns to drive revenue. Marketing Budgets are Increasing. According to the SOPM report, 57.3%

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The Marketing Blender

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

How to calculate and allocate your marketing budget for the next fiscal year in 2020. Tips for planning next year’s marketing budget before the end of this quarter. In Q4, two different phenomena hit marketing departments—either belts get tightened or a “use it or lose it” mentality takes hold. See Our Work.

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The ABM Agency

JANUARY 15, 2021

For some B2B companies, the 2021 marketing budget has increased due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. While there’s some level of uncertainty, the general consensus is there’s extra money that can be used on marketing, albeit in different ways than previous years. Before You Spend: Campaign Planning.

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