Hinge Marketing

JUNE 7, 2021

On top of the loss and personal stress experienced by so many, it has also been a period of rapid market change, requiring businesses to adapt and evolve without a clear roadmap. . The timing of this study allows accounting marketers to see the many ways these changes have impacted the industry. We can learn from both.

Cost per Acquisition 117

Cost per Acquisition CPA Marketing Budget Marketing Budget Creation 117

Hinge Marketing

JANUARY 7, 2019

A wave of digital technology is transforming industry after industry, and professional services are no exception to this trend. Potential clients now have new ways to learn about and vet potential service providers. This change is forcing firms to rethink their digital marketing strategies if they wish to remain competitive.

Marketing Budget 125

Marketing Budget Work Management Marketing Automation Services Marketing Management 125

Sword and the Script | B2B

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Several credible studies conducted in 2023 put the average benchmark for B2B marketing budgets at about 10% of revenue How much money should a company invest in B2B marketing? As companies plan their budget for 2024, here’s a look at three credible benchmarks for B2B marketing budgets.

Marketing Budget 91

Marketing Budget Marketing Budget Creation Advertising Benchmark Budget Programs 91

Hinge Marketing

JULY 16, 2024

Earlier this year, we published the Law Firm & Legal Services edition of our 2024 High Growth Study. This study examines law firms and legal services (for brevity, we’ll refer to these as “law firms” from now on) from a variety of marketing and operational perspectives: marketing and business development, strategy, talent and technology.

Marketing Budget 110

Marketing Budget Studies Peer-to-peer Service 110

KoMarketing Associates

DECEMBER 8, 2015

As we wind down 2015, marketing budgets and planning for the new year begin to take focus. Hopefully, the performance metrics associated with your organization’s marketing programs have yielded success and validation for tactics proposed at the beginning of the year. It is that time in the year again. source ).

Marketing Budget Creation 120

Marketing Budget Creation Marketing Budget Budget Programs Enterprise Management 120

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. The marketing budget situation.

Planning 118

Planning Marketing Budget Creation Allocation Peer-to-peer 118

Hinge Marketing

DECEMBER 11, 2019

How is this relevant to marketers? When going through various stages of the buyer journey, purchasers of B2B and professional services have a list of criteria they use to evaluate service providers and vendors. . It reinforced key marketing messages, and satisfied the rational criteria I would use to evaluate brands like these.

Marketing Budget 117

Marketing Budget Top of Funnel Work Management Research 117

ClickZ

JUNE 3, 2020

21% of marketers pulled creatives to prevent looking insensitive. Top three marketing technologies that are winning attention are Content & Experience, Data, and Advertising. In order to help you stay a step ahead, we bring to you a quick wrap up of key movements and trends from across the marketing industry.

Paid Search Agency 116

Paid Search Agency Spending Advertising Agencies Marketing Budget 116

Content4Demand

MARCH 19, 2019

The findings of our 2019 Demand Generation Benchmark Survey contain some surprising information that may persuade you to adjust your own tactics. Are you confident in which content works best for each stage of your marketing funnel? Marketers are focusing on demand generation in a big way. That’s a big increase.

Top of Funnel 72

Top of Funnel Advertising Benchmark Demand Peer-to-peer 72

Engagio

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Marketing programs are often the first thing to get cut, leaving many teams with shrunken program budgets. We recently explored the challenge of defending marketing budgets at the Demandbase Smarter CMO Forum. Attribution is Difficult : Marketing measurement is hard — and it’s becoming even tougher.

Marketing Budget 62

Marketing Budget Budget Programs Peer-to-peer Allocation 62

Sword and the Script | B2B

JUNE 25, 2024

Yet there’s another pressure that’s pervasive across marketing. It serves as the hinge in this post: the tendency for the new marketing person, after getting the job, to say: “ My predecessor was a hot mess.” Many marketers take positions on such debates based on their formative career experiences.

Peer-to-peer 91

Peer-to-peer B2B Marketing B2B Thought Leadership B2B 91

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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Allocation Research B2B Marketing Effectiveness 100

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.).

Research 111

Research Content Marketing Marketing Budget Creation Planning 111

Sword and the Script | B2B

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Often, Ill compile these into cliff notes that highlight the more interesting findings, along with analysis or advice for applying the findings to improve your own marketing efforts. Then at the end of the year, I go back through the findings to filter the best gems to highlight. That alone will 10X your marketing.

Statistics 60

Statistics Work Management B2B Thought Leadership Marketing AI 60

ClickZ

MAY 27, 2020

30-second summary: 35% of marketers said their marketing budgets were decreasing, the slump, however, shows signs of recovery in the past week. On the contrary, 36% increasing spend on marketing technology while 40% of marketers chose to maintain the same budgets for martech spending.

Customer Surveys 86

Customer Surveys Trends Peer-to-peer Marketing Budget 86

ViewPoint

MARCH 6, 2012

She is a founding member of the Savvy B2B Marketing blog , and contributes regularly to the Content Marketing Institute blog. ” Gaining the support of the CEO around this initiative should be simple—any CEO worth his or her salt grasps the value of a customer-centric strategy. Understand the Buyer’s Experience.

Forrester 120

Forrester Buyer Personas Peer-to-peer Lead Ranking 120

Heinz Marketing

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

According to a study we conducted with Heinz Marketing, 68% of organizations plan to increase their level of investment in video in the next six to eight months. A lot of marketers make the instant assumption that videos are difficult to create. When it comes to B2B video marketing myths, this one just doesn’t seem to want to die.

Top of Funnel 84

Top of Funnel Video Marketing B2B Marketing Marketing Budget 84

Metadata

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

[Insert the collective sighs of marketers.]. Although marketing budgets have recovered slightly since bottoming out during the pandemic, many B2B marketing teams are still treading water as sales cycles slow, buyers put their projects on hold, and leadership teams go into fight-or-flight mode. Please, don’t do that.

Cost per Lead 98

Cost per Lead Ideal Customer Profiles Budget Programs CPL 98

ViewPoint

JUNE 10, 2016

Despite the counsel of leaders in this field—many of whom were quoted in this blog series—companies continue to waste marketing dollars, and sales continues to struggle to meet revenue goals. I maintain, as do many of my peers in the industry, that the age old misalignment of marketing and sales is something that the CEO needs to address.

Sales Qualified Leads 120

Sales Qualified Leads Planning Peer-to-peer Work Management 120

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. . Insights from Benchmark Research on Brand Impact .

CMO 62

CMO Peer-to-peer Budget Programs Organization 62

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.

Research 92

Research Top of Funnel Content Marketing Budget Programs 92

Sword and the Script | B2B

MAY 21, 2024

Gartner survey shows B2B marketing leaders divvy up ‘anemic’ marketing budgets, which are at the lowest levels in four years If it feels like your marketing budget is tight, you are not alone. Marketing budgets are at their lowest point since businesses slashed budgets following the pandemic.

Paid Content 71

Paid Content CMO Paid Search Agency Spending 71

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

APRIL 25, 2017

Steve described that today with digital marketing as the norm, marketers expect to be able to reach millions of people in an instant. “Today we are making more complicated decisions than ever before, & as marketers do it in seconds” ~ @nstevenlucas #socialmedia #MKTGnation pic.twitter.com/akTTPJ69ha.

Paid Search Agency 113

Paid Search Agency Marketo Marketing Budget Planning 113

Vidyard

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

According to a study we conducted with Heinz Marketing , 68% of organizations plan to increase their level of investment in video in the next six to eight months. This original research report delves into B2B marketing and sales leadership perspectives on using video. But, that couldn’t be farther from the truth. Video is here to stay.

Top of Funnel 70

Top of Funnel Video Marketing B2B Marketing Marketing Budget 70

ClearVoice

JANUARY 31, 2024

These were the ingredients chosen to create a successful content strategy, right? What we’re trying to say is there’s more than meets the eye when developing your content strategy. By incorporating the information they provide in your strategy, you can set up performance benchmarks and develop tools to achieve them.

Marketing Budget 52

Marketing Budget Marketing Budget Creation Marketing & Strategy Allocation 52

ClearVoice

JANUARY 31, 2024

These were the ingredients chosen to create a successful content strategy, right? What we’re trying to say is there’s more than meets the eye when developing your content strategy. By incorporating the information they provide in your strategy, you can set up performance benchmarks and develop tools to achieve them.

Marketing Budget 52

Marketing Budget Marketing Budget Creation Marketing & Strategy Allocation 52

Webbiquity

JANUARY 19, 2016

Most businesses now use social media for marketing and those efforts are expected to continue to increase, yet many marketers and top executives alike find the business value difficult to quantify. 46% of B2B marketers say they’re not sure whether any social channels have generated revenue for their businesses.

Social Media 100

Social Media Stats Social Marketing CMS Development 100

Vidyard

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

According to a study we conducted with Heinz Marketing , 68% of organizations plan to increase their level of investment in video in the next six to eight months. Report: Using B2B Video to Drive Results This original research report delves into B2B marketing and sales leadership perspectives on using video. Video is here to stay.

Top of Funnel 65

Top of Funnel Video Marketing B2B Marketing Planning 65

The ROI Guy

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Marketers are scrambling to address the power shift and overcome lead generation and conversion issues by delivering more content and tools over more channels to actively engage ever more empowered, skeptical and frugal buyers. Having the right content and tools to help fuel buyer’s decision making process is essential.

Peer-to-peer 40

Peer-to-peer Marketing Automation Services Spending Marketing Budget 40

The ROI Guy

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

Although research indicates a significant 26% of annual marketing budgets are allocated to content marketing, only 41% find that the efforts are effective. Why the crisis in confidence and how can you insure that your content marketing investments are effective?

Buyer's Journey 40

Buyer's Journey Webcast Allocation Peer-to-peer 40

The ROI Guy

APRIL 23, 2015

Marketers are investing a substantial portion of their budget on content, consuming 28% of the average marketing budget, with 55% planning to increase this spending over the next year ( CMI / MarketingProfs). So, how can you improve your content mix to market better, stand out and sell more?

Marketing Budget 40

Marketing Budget Peer-to-peer Lead Scoring Lead Ranking 40

The ROI Guy

MAY 2, 2011

Free Campaign and Marketing Optimization (CMO) Assessment Tool and Service to Optimize B2B Marketing Return on Investment (ROI) Alinean announces the CMO Challenge , a free online assessment tool and service to help B2B marketers optimize the spending and practices of overall marketing groups, or individual campaigns.

CMO 40

CMO Peer-to-peer Marketing Budget Advertising Benchmark 40

The ROI Guy

AUGUST 9, 2010

According to recent survey results, 90% of B2B marketers are actively involved in producing custom content , and are investing some 25% of marketing budgets to custom content creation and promotion. It’s not just informing and entertaining, but calling the [readers] to action,” said Blank.

Urgency Marketing 40

Urgency Marketing Marketing Budget Peer-to-peer Content Marketing 40

Single Grain

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Book My Free SaaS Marketing Consultation . ACV (annual contract value) helps determine the health of your SaaS business. It enables you to identify low-tier clients so you can upsell them to generate more revenue. In fact, the majority of successful SaaS companies generate 16% of ACV by upselling to their customers. Let’s begin!

Churn Rate 59

Churn Rate Marketing Budget Planning Ideal Customer Profiles 59

The ROI Guy

DECEMBER 6, 2010

Tom Pisello: The ROI Guy This blog is dedicated to the strategies and tools used by solution providers to better prove and improve the value of B2B solutions to frugal buyers - using diagnostic assessments, interactive white papers, ROI calculators and TCO comparisons.

Work Management 40

Work Management Marketing Management ROI Marketing Automation Services 40

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 ).

Advertising Benchmark 28

Advertising Benchmark Work Management Marketing Management Marketing Automation Services 28

The ROI Guy

JANUARY 17, 2011

Tom Pisello: The ROI Guy This blog is dedicated to the strategies and tools used by solution providers to better prove and improve the value of B2B solutions to frugal buyers - using diagnostic assessments, interactive white papers, ROI calculators and TCO comparisons.

Budget Programs 40

Budget Programs Marketing Automation Services Enterprise Management ROI 40