Blue Flame Thinking

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

Throughout many industries, marketing budgets took a hit. In fact, in a recent survey of CMOs by Gartner , 44% reported facing midyear budget cuts due to the effects of the pandemic. This translates into everything from scaling back planned campaigns to staff reductions. What to Consider as You Plan for 2021.

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Allocadia

JUNE 6, 2019

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

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Stevens & Tate

APRIL 18, 2024

In the ever-evolving landscape of senior living, employing robust marketing strategies is vital for standing out in a crowded marketplace. Automation is transforming how marketing for senior living facilities is executed, making it crucial for operators to understand and integrate these technologies.

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Allocadia

MARCH 13, 2020

Three actions marketing organizations can take and how Allocadia can help. As marketers we all wish that we could set our plan and budget at the beginning of the year or quarter and we are able to execute exactly as planned. But even in the best of times, priorities shift, programs fail, and change has to happen.

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SalesIntel

APRIL 28, 2022

Many marketing leaders are reluctant to try new marketing campaigns. After all, you have limited funds, and it can be scary to throw any money at a marketing campaign that might not work. You need a structured strategy and planning to ensure the ROI (return on investment) is there. Personalize Content and Mapping.

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accelerate agency

APRIL 12, 2023

Finding the right SaaS marketing strategy for your company may seem challenging, but in such a competitive environment, it’s crucial. It’s estimated that the total value of the worldwide SaaS market will hit $195 billion in 2023, up 17% from 2022. Marketing of any kind is all about finding ways to stand out from the crowd.

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SocialPilot

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Simply put, this duo of human creativity and AI’s capabilities offers marketers a powerful tool to innovate, improve their strategies, and build genuine connections. But there’s more to AI marketing than just the strategies and the tools. What is AI Marketing? Get Power of AI 6.

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SmartBug Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Jenn is a proven marketer with unparalleled success over her career helping businesses, and the people who operate them, succeed in brand building and positioning, content strategy and execution, digital marketing (and how it relates to consumer journeys), and social media marketing and influencer strategies.

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Heinz Marketing

JANUARY 29, 2019

Here are detailed takeaways: Success starts with planning. A strong CMO and CFO partnership is built on planning, communication, and results. Planning is the starting point. Many CMOs and marketing VPs start their planning process late and this forces reactive decisions without data models.

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Binary Demand

JUNE 22, 2023

The quick answer is that businesses gain valuable insights into their target audience, industry trends, and market dynamics by gathering, analyzing, and utilizing data. It begins when sales and marketing teams employ a range of B2B lead generation strategies to pique the target market’s interest and lead prospects through the sales funnel.

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Hinge Marketing

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

There’s no getting around it: any professional services firm that wants to grow has to find new clients and new opportunities. And the most successful firms take a methodical approach to this task, documenting each year’s strategy in a marketing budget plan. Four Approaches to Marketing Planning.

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Atomic Reach

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Subjective criteria drive selection of influencers and creative strategies. Strategies for scaling hit their targets with all the hit-or-miss accuracy of a shot in the dark. This blind inefficiency translates into wasted marketing spend. Budgets are met at the expense of missing marketing goals and revenue targets.

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accelerate agency

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Software as a service (SaaS) is a business model which is becoming ever more popular. You need a SaaS marketing strategy that works. One which can help you with what is often the tough job of selling your service to prospective customers. What follows are 12 elements of a successful SaaS marketing strategy.

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Allocadia

JUNE 13, 2019

John O’Rourke is Vice President of Strategic Marketing at Host Analytics. With a background in accounting and finance, John has over 30 years of experience in the software industry, including 20 years of experience in EPM Product Marketing at Hyperion Solutions, Oracle and Host Analytics.

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B2B Marketing Directions

OCTOBER 3, 2021

Highlights and Insights Report" - This is a relatively brief and graphically-rich report that provides mostly top-level results, along with an analysis of those results and major marketing trends. The CMO Survey does not state that it uses a representative sample of senior marketing leaders at U.S. for-profit companies.

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InsightSquared

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

At Winning by Design, we help implement Sales as a Science by applying the scientific method to all areas of the customer journey which is, in many ways, the kaizen approach to GTM (go-to-market). So what does the Japanese manufacturing philosophy have to do with modern GTM strategy, you ask? ”[ 1 ].

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B2B Marketing Directions

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

Source: Analytic Partners Analytic Partners , a provider of marketing optimization solutions, recently published an ebook that offers marketers five recommendations for addressing the economic uncertainty that's likely to exist for much of 2023. Let's take a closer look at those three.

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Crimson Marketing

NOVEMBER 10, 2014

The problem is, by the time you analyze those results, you’ve likely already spent too much—or too little—on marketing. He ought to know—his company’s marketing budget is already 3 times greater than its technology budget—a turn of events Gartner predicts will only begin to proliferate widely after a couple more years.

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illumin

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

It involves the strategic planning, negotiation, and purchase of ad space and time on various media channels to reach a target audience effectively and, with the rise of digital advertising, media buying has evolved to include both traditional and digital channels. Media planning focuses on the strategic aspect of the campaign.

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B2B Marketing Analytics

AUGUST 2, 2020

As though the ever-increasing expectations of the c-suite from marketing teams to demonstrate the quantifiable impact were not enough and now we are in these unprecedented times, which have further highlighted the need for marketing to be more data-driven and efficient with their investments.

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Hinge Marketing

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

The study opens with data that reviews the industry as a whole, comparing AEC firm performance and trends to other professional services industries. The analysis covers 281 AEC firms, representing a combined revenue of $75 billion and more than 90,000 employees. High Growth AEC Firms Are Increasing Their Marketing Budgets.

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B2B Marketing Analytics

OCTOBER 20, 2019

Marketing teams across the board are heads-down reviewing 2019 performance and coming up with strategy and budget for 2020. Having access to these marketing analytics capabilities to access performance data in real-time has been game-changing for our customers especially when it comes to annual planning.

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Binary Demand

JUNE 19, 2023

The quick answer is that businesses gain valuable insights into their target audience, industry trends, and market dynamics by gathering, analyzing, and utilizing data. It begins when sales and marketing teams employ a range of B2B lead generation strategies to pique the target market’s interest and lead prospects through the sales funnel.

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Mass Analytics

DECEMBER 16, 2022

MASS Analytics designed a full Marketing Mix Modeling Course to help you master the full process of delivering a marketing effectiveness project. Marketing Mix Modeling. Marketers today are asking the following question: What media channel are best to invest in? Introduction. Increasing Return On Investment.

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B2B Marketing Directions

NOVEMBER 7, 2020

In 16 business categories, the use of content marketing is nearly ubiquitous, and it accounts for between 45% and 66% of the total marketing budget. to measure and analyze the economic landscape of content marketing. Content Marketing Spending Borrell's analysis found that U.S. companies spent $64.3

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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). Ascend2 , 2021).

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Allocadia

APRIL 24, 2019

GE Digital is subsidiary of General Electric and provides software and advisory services around operational technology and infrastructure. The Problem: How to Prove Marketing’s Impact. Neenu Sharma, VP Marketing Operations & Analytics, GE Digital. The Solution: Redefining the Hierarchy. Download now.

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Marketing Insider Group

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

As we look ahead, the future of marketing is shaping up to be an exhilarating swell, filled with evolving challenges and opportunities. Keen to see how your marketing playbook compares with the industry’s best? Or maybe you’re itching to find out the latest strategies keeping top marketers on their toes?

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Allocadia

APRIL 8, 2019

And, according to SiriusDecisions, fewer than 20 percent of B2B organizations are comfortable with their ability to quantify return on marketing spend. Better budgeting and planning are critical to improving marketing performance. But how are marketers tackling these challenges in the real world?

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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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xiQ

JUNE 19, 2019

Craig Rones, VP of Marketing, NTT DATA Services. 66 % of marketers say being able to produce engaging, well-designed visual content consistently is their biggest struggle”. Successful B2B marketers spend 40 percent of their total marketing budget on content marketing.”.

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Content Marketing Institute

DECEMBER 6, 2017

We saw a higher level of reported success with content marketing, the same level of commitment to content marketing, an increased focus on building an audience, and a higher value placed on creativity and craft in content creation, among other positive signs. Stay true to the documented strategy. cmicontent.

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xiQ

JUNE 19, 2019

Craig Rones, VP of Marketing, NTT DATA Services. 66 % of marketers say being able to produce engaging, well-designed visual content consistently is their biggest struggle”. Successful B2B marketers spend 40 percent of their total marketing budget on content marketing.”.

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The Point

MAY 30, 2023

When a marketing budget get cut, certain line items tend to get immediate scrutiny: media spend, headcount, events. However, simply slashing spend – while quick and dramatic – can have a detrimental effect on leads, pipeline, and revenue. Even a design update can give old content new life.

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Metadata

JANUARY 27, 2022

I just went through the hiring process for the Demand Generation Manager position on our team, and let me tell you: I had to sift through a lot of BS before I found the stellar demand gen expert who ended up joining our team. Because the best marketers have their own perspective on everything from metrics to channels to branding.

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Sana Commerce

MAY 17, 2023

For the average business to business (B2B) organization, a significant portion of marketing spend goes towards paid advertising. In fact, in 2022, the global estimated spend on paid advertising hit $441 billion dollars. Cross-functional relevance : Sales, Marketing, PR and IT teams can all benefit from your SEO strategy.

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KoMarketing Associates

AUGUST 22, 2012

To address the marketing trends, challenges, and expenditures specific to the engineering, technical, manufacturing, and industrial communities, marketers now have access to the “Trends in Industrial Marketing 2012” report from GlobalSpec. Online) Marketing Spending on the Rise.

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