Contently

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

This awoke a sleeping giant: content marketing. The Content Marketing Institute’s 2022 Annual B2B Content Marketing Benchmarks, Budgets, and Trends Report gives an interesting insight into the new post-pandemic landscape. LinkedIn reins supreme for B2B marketers. Key takeaways.

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ClickZ

AUGUST 29, 2020

30-second summary: As of August, nearly 42% of marketers reported decreasing marketing budgets. Interestingly, 33% of marketing budgets are allocated to marketing technology. 44% of CMOs experienced mid-year budget cuts with 11% expecting significant budget cuts. Reducing media buying.

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Tomorrow People

MARCH 13, 2018

Having well designed content isn’t good enough. You need to have an excellent digital content distribution strategy and your marketing agency has the experts who can help. A generation ago, digital was a rounding error in marketing budgets, with success measured in hundreds of pageviews rather than millions of customers.

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Sword and the Script | B2B

NOVEMBER 23, 2019

Whether you are tallying up your results for the end of the year, or planning programs for the next year, benchmarks provide context for companions. Benchmarks give us a sense of how well we are resourced and what sort of results others in industry are providing. 1) Content marketing benchmarks.

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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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ClickZ

MAY 9, 2020

30-second summary: Board members, C-level, and Director+ level executives from retail and ecommerce, technology, media and publishing, and other businesses participated in our ClickZ and Search Engine Watch: Benchmark survey 2020. said their marketing budgets are staying the same, while 28.4% Some key takeaways: 46.3%

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KoMarketing Associates

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

Software Advice’s recently released 2014 B2B Demand Generation Benchmark report revealed that the vast majority of B2B marketers (79 percent) use at least 11 different marketing software applications. Plans for 2015 Demand Generation Spending, by Channel. Software Solutions Used.

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KEO Marketing

OCTOBER 5, 2017

Successful marketing leaders understand the value of early planning. There are many benefits of completing marketing plans and budgets early. There are many benefits of completing marketing plans and budgets early. 5 Steps to Setting a Marketing Budget.

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KEO Marketing

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Companies are often lax about defining a specific marketing budget number and sticking to it, and this makes managing to a number very difficult. This type of ever-changing budgeting can lead to missed opportunities throughout the year and unexpected results and perceived under performance at the end of the year.

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KEO Marketing

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Digital marketing campaigns often result in some of the highest conversions of any marketing activities. Traditional marketing tactics are no longer enough to stay competitive. These new demands create a challenge for marketers in the B2B space as marketing budgets are often smaller than those of B2C companies.

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KoMarketing Associates

MAY 1, 2013

Last month, Content Marketing Institute (CMI) released its report , “B2B Software Content Marketing: 2013 Benchmarks, Budgets, and Trends – North America,” sponsored by the International Data Group (IDG). The report, which highlights responses from more than 1400 B2B software marketers across the U.S.

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DivvyHQ

DECEMBER 12, 2018

Hopefully your content marketing budget won’t do the same. Although content marketing is relatively inexpensive, there are always plenty of needs to be addressed. 4 Indisputable Reasons to Increase Content Marketing Budget in 2019. Content Marketing Works. Content Marketing Is Cost-Efficient.

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KoMarketing Associates

DECEMBER 18, 2018

Not all marketers have implemented account-based marketing (ABM) into their overall strategies, but those who have are seeing several benefits, and they intend to continue investing in it in the future. In the coming months, marketers claim that 28 percent of their marketing budget will be spent on ABM.

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SocialPilot

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

When we talk about AI in marketing terms, it means AI can enhance the work of marketers by providing insights and automating tasks, allowing for more creativity and personalized customer engagement. But there’s more to AI marketing than just the strategies and the tools. What is AI Marketing?

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Online Marketing Institute

DECEMBER 6, 2011

Our Sites: Content Marketing Institute. Content Marketing World. Content Marketing Stats. B2B Content Marketing Assessment. « Must-See Content Marketing Examples From 2011. How to Climb the Engagement Pyramid with Public Sector Content » « Must-See Content Marketing Examples From 2011. |

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Vidyard

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

It’s really difficult to plan a journey if you don’t know your destination. Getting in the car and driving until you find something cool is a great way to spend an afternoon in your late teens, but the same concept is difficult to apply to your video marketing. × Get the Report. × Get the Report. Get the Report.

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The Effective Marketer

FEBRUARY 15, 2010

The Effective Marketer Effectiveness is a discipline and it can be learned Home About the Effective Marketer Books Speaking The Danger of Email Marketing Benchmarks A recent article from BtoB Online about email deliverability reminded me of how dangerous this whole thing of email marketing deliverability numbers can be.

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Content4Demand

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

As part of my quest to find new ways to support our clients’ content marketing goals and strategies for 2020, I dove into the newly published B2B Content Marketing 2020: Benchmarks, Budgets, and Trends—North America from Content Marketing World (CMI) and spotted some notable takeaways.

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Marketing Insider Group

OCTOBER 6, 2015

55% of B2B marketers say it is unclear what effective content marketing looks like at their organizations. This was one of the key highlights of the sixth annual B2B Content Marketing: Benchmarks, Budgets, and Trends report from Content Marketing Institute (CMI) and MarketingProfs released last week.

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Content Marketing Institute

DECEMBER 6, 2017

B2C marketers may be about to hit that stage given the signs that popped up as we read through the survey data and fill-in responses to the latest annual content marketing research. You can read the full results in B2C Content Marketing 2018: Benchmarks, Budgets, and Trends—North America , produced by CMI and MarketingProfs.).

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Hinge Marketing

DECEMBER 11, 2019

How is this relevant to marketers? It reinforced key marketing messages, and satisfied the rational criteria I would use to evaluate brands like these. With over 25,000 buyers and sellers studied and nearly one hundred research reports published , there is no other place with more extensive research on professional services markets.

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Allocadia

APRIL 3, 2019

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. Marketing leaders were tasked with creating a high-level report on global marketing spend.

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KoMarketing Associates

DECEMBER 29, 2015

Three years ago our leadership team made it a point to treat our online marketing experience as a priority in organizational strategy and business development. 5 Surefire Ways to Drive B2B Brand Awareness via Content Marketing by Ryan Young. 50+ Statistics Designed to Influence B2B Marketing Budgets in the New Year by Derek Edmond.

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The Mx Group

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

As a savvy B2B marketer, you know why content marketing is critical if you want to connect with modern customers. As you start creating and presenting your plans for next year (yes, it’s that time again!), The B2B space is embracing content marketing — so B2B buyers expect it. CMI and MarketingProfs ). Forrester ).

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Content Marketing Institute

DECEMBER 12, 2018

The outlook for B2C content marketing looks bright if budgets are any indication. Fifty-seven percent of B2C marketers surveyed expect their 2019 content marketing budget to increase over 2018, and 29% of those expect it to increase by more than 9%. We don’t yet know where those increases will be spent, of course.

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SmartBug Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Effective franchise marketing drives customer acquisition, maintains brand integrity, and facilitates sustainable growth. 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.

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Content Marketing Institute

JANUARY 16, 2018

Being committed to content marketing is a no-brainer requirement for success. But what may be surprising is how a small shift in commitment level can make a BIG difference in overall content marketing success. Only 5% in UK somewhat committed to #contentmarketing report high success via @CMIContent #research. content marketers.

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Hubspot

MAY 18, 2015

In an ideal world, marketers would have limitless budgets to invest in experimental initiatives and new programs. The challenge, however, is that marketing budgets are often limited around what’s "proven" to work -- which tends to look different from company to company. Tweet This Stat ). Tweet this Stat ).

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Hinge Marketing

JANUARY 29, 2020

Technology and automation will reshape the skills needed in marketing departments. Adoption of digital & content marketing techniques is up dramatically over the past three years. About half of study participants reported publishing blog posts, networking on social media and doing some level of email marketing. .

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Content Marketing Institute

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

With each passing year, there are more examples of manufacturers doing impressive things with content marketing. What can manufacturers in the young/first steps phase do to take their content marketing to the next level? What can manufacturers in the young/first steps phase do to take their content marketing to the next level?

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LeanData

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Over the past several years now, marketers and other go-to-market (GTM) professionals have suggested account-based marketing (ABM) motions will be the way of the future, simply because it makes too much sense to discount. Push the old marketing sales funnel aside. Limitations of sales & marketing data processes.

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Allocadia

APRIL 8, 2019

There‘s a little secret most marketers know, but don‘t talk about. According to The CMO Survey of marketers, only 35 percent of decisions are made based on marketing analytics. Just one in three marketing decisions is data-driven. Better budgeting and planning are critical to improving marketing performance.

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ANNUITAS

OCTOBER 6, 2015

Modern marketers need to be agile as a rule, able to adjust and to tweak plans as necessary to optimize the performance of everything. If you aren’t sure, pass and stay focused on your existing plan as it is just a distraction from your strategy. Author: Erika Goldwater CIPP/US @erikawg VP, Marketing for A NNUITAS.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

OCTOBER 15, 2008

Do you know how much to spend on your B2B marketing budget in 2009? How to allocate your budget across programs and headcount? Or how to split marketing programs budget between investments such as events, advertising, and PR? Making marketing more relevant through sales enablement (slides 11-15).

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B2B Marketing Directions

JUNE 20, 2020

In-person events such as trade shows and industry conferences have been a mainstay of B2B marketing for many years. Various industry analysts have estimated that B2B companies typically spend from 12% to 24% of their total marketing budget hosting and/or participating in events. The short answer is: No one really knows.

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The Effective Marketer

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

Sure, depending on your industry the numbers might be skewed but at least you have a benchmark and something to show (or not!) The report goes a bit further and also tells us that 52% of all registrations occur within 10 days before a scheduled webinar and 15% registering on the day of the webcast. United States License.

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Martech Advisor

MARCH 31, 2020

Let's look at how that impacted the industry and other big news, insights, studies, and updates in marketing and martech in this March 2020 monthly roundup. And while marketers and business leaders struggle to make the best of a bad situation, markets and revenues around the world seem to be in a state of steady decline.

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