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Recession Planning: Should You Cut Your Marketing Budget?

Zoominfo

The constant pendulum swings give consumers and businesses little confidence for planning ahead, and the only thing we can probably agree on is that everything really is weird. All too often, marketing budgets are the first to be scaled back. All too often, marketing budgets are the first to be scaled back.

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The Impact of COVID-19 on B2B Marketing Plans: Tech vs. Non-Tech

Webbiquity

The abrupt shutdown of vast swaths of economy and the entire live events industry, to help slow the spread of the novel coronavirus, has dramatically impacted plans for B2B marketers. More than 450 B2B marketing professionals gave their input to this study. overall budgets will be cut). Online Event Plans.

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Use Your Unspent Marketing Budget On Content Marketing For Next Year

Marketing Insider Group

When the pandemic started, our content marketing agency actually gained customers. The reason was mainly due to unspent marketing budget. Marketers, SaaS founders and startup CEOs were pulling their money from ads and events and doubling down on content marketing. Now we ARE a little biased. Not one lead.

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How to optimize your marketing budget: Do more with less

Sprout Social

Marketers are finding it increasingly difficult to set the right budget, optimize it and keep the leads flowing. Managing social media and other marketing channels in this economy can be challenging. You’ll need a plan to address top budget concerns to provide clarity and control over every dollar spent.

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Why This Amount Is All the Marketing Budget You Need

Marketing Insider Group

Are you feeling pressure on your marketing budget? If you think you can’t stretch your dollars to meet all your marketing needs, you may actually need better allocation, not more money. The objective of marketing is to attract, engage, convert, and retain customers. Marketing Budgets Shifting and Changing.

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How to Create a Marketing Plan

Sharpspring

The phrase “marketing plan” can mean many things, from your social media/ad campaign schedule to your lead nurture pipeline to your overall strategic goals. And this will become your capital-letter Marketing Plan! It’s always better to plan first, take action second! No two marketing plans are alike.

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Your guide to building a marketing budget template

The Marketing Blender

Your guide to building a marketing budget template. Looking to create a new marketing budget template for your business? Although a marketing budget template can take some time and thought to build, it’s not as difficult as you may think it is. What should you know before building your marketing budget?