Porch Group Media

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

The most likely probability, according to Forrester’s research, is a mid-2021 recovery — but even in the best-case scenario of a late-2020 recovery, CMOs will likely lose $222 billion of their budget. Forrester does predict that CMOs will continue to invest in marketing automation platforms with an increase of 3% in investments.

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KoMarketing Associates

DECEMBER 5, 2017

It’s clear advances in cloud data and data visualization is quickly becoming invaluable to B2B marketers. Samantha Stone , Author, Founder & CMO, The Marketing Advisory Network. As we go into 2018 marketers must make data integrity a higher priority. Katie Martell , On-Demand Marketer.

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ClickZ

AUGUST 12, 2019

And yet, oftentimes contact center management gets shrugged off to third-party companies, and much of this information gets lost. . To learn more about the point of view of customer experience from the contact center, we talked with Rebecca Martin , CMO at Calabrio. That’s the holy grail for a marketer. And that’s great.

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B2B Marketing Directions

DECEMBER 18, 2016

By this point, most B2B marketers are well into their planning for 2017, and it appears that many marketers will have healthy marketing budgets in the coming year. Several research studies have found that a majority of marketers are expecting their budgets to increase in 2017. over the ensuing 12 months.

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Hubspot

JANUARY 4, 2021

Jake Milstein , CMO at CI Security , told me: "When the pandemic hit, there was a huge spike in registrations and attendance in virtual events that attempted to mimic in-person events. Soon, marketers will be able to go all-in on what will work best without having to test the theory.". Digital marketing spend will continue to grow.

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NetLine

JUNE 22, 2023

But even when there’s mutual respect between sales and marketing teams, there are other reasons why both teams might reach out to the same target buyers, leading to a bad experience for the buyer. It means greater use of sales enablement tools and content that marketing provides which leads to more effective qualification.

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Leadspace

JANUARY 4, 2017

While this is a broad category, with lots of noise, hype, and fairy dust swirling, there are a few major categories that I believe are the most important to track (and if you’re an aspiring digital CMO and haven’t made these investments, it’s time to start talking to the CIO and the CFO about making them). Real-time content/offer management.

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Engagio

JANUARY 7, 2019

Peter Isaacson , CMO, Demandbase. ABM will become a core platform for marketers in the MarTech stack. While CRM is the system of record for all sales activity and marketing automation systems are used by almost all sophisticated B2B marketers, each carries well-known limitations. Jon Miller , CEO, Engagio.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

OCTOBER 15, 2008

Or how to split marketing programs budget between investments such as events, advertising, and PR? On slides 16-26, Michael also gives key benchmarks that are essential to help you plan your B2B marketing budget in 2009. (In In one of my first posts, I reported on the same marketing budget benchmarks for 2006.)

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The Marketing Blender

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

According to the Gartner CMO Spend Survey , marketing budgets made up 11.1% of total company budgets on average in 2018 and were predicted to remain steady throughout 2019. The survey also found that marketing spend as a percentage of revenue fluctuates between 6.5% Need help or recommendations?

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Seismic

MARCH 8, 2019

Good storytelling is highly effective in all types of marketing, from product marketing, demand generation to content marketing and everything in between. A sales enablement tool can integrate with marketing automation, allowing marketing teams to bring the value of content marketing to sales.

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Marketing Insider Group

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Martech) Digital marketing accounts for nearly 60% of marketing spending, as per the AMA’s 2021 CMO survey. Martech) The US Bureau of Labor Statistics forecasts a 10% annual increase in employment for marketing managers over the next eight years. market share. billion by 2030. billion by 2026.

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LeanData

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

But let’s say you don’t have a lead automation solution. Now you’re ready to upload into Salesforce or a Marketing Automation Platform. (We OK, maybe you think a lot of this is Marketing 101. CMO says: “That felt like a good/bad show, let’s do/not do it again”. Think Before You Upload. Pushing the button.

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Webbiquity

APRIL 26, 2010

The Marketing Automation & Lead Nurturing Myth by Nurture. A brief but insightful post contending that there is no such thing as “demand creation,&# only demand identification and lead nurturing–and counseling marketers to undertake the right kinds of programs, then have patience.

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LeanData

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

But let’s say you don’t have a lead automation solution. Now you’re ready to upload into Salesforce or a Marketing Automation Platform. (We OK, maybe you think a lot of this is Marketing 101. CMO says: “That felt like a good/bad show, let’s do/not do it again”. Think Before You Upload. Pushing the button.

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Hubspot

JUNE 28, 2016

The inbound strategy also consists of marketing automation software integration, website design, SEO, social media, email marketing, and lead nurturing, among others. 2) "Inbound Marketing is an Internet ‘fad’ that will pass.”. But content is only one piece of the puzzle. Fortunately, this myth couldn’t be more wrong.

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Hubspot

AUGUST 4, 2014

of CMOs have proven the short-term impact of marketing spend , while long-term spend dips to 29% in the latest 2014 CMO Survey. HubSpot’s CMO Mike Volpe created a primer to get you started. 2) Make Real-Time Marketing the Norm. 1) Always Be Measuring. Just 36% (!!)

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Tony Zambito

APRIL 2, 2011

If you are a CEO, CSO, or CMO, I am sure you’ve been confronted by the statement: “we know everything we need to know about our buyers” from your sales or marketing departments.    However, you can’t put your finger on exactly what you are getting out of this spend.  Image by yelowcap via Flickr.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

AUGUST 5, 2011

Marketing Operations delivers budget management discipline. Marketing is a top organizational spender. A big budget without operations to monitor effectiveness is fiscally negligent. Marketing strategy = Enterprise strategy. Marketing Operations optimizes lead conversion process. Investment insurance.

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Metadata

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Human marketers and AI are both needed to sustain the future of the industry. A CMO shouldn’t be wasting time digging into excel spreadsheets. This is where automation comes in. Humans have vision, strategy, incentives, and creativity, all skills a machine could never automate. This was the first wave of AI in marketing.

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Metadata

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Human marketers and AI are both needed to sustain the future of the industry. A CMO shouldn’t be wasting time digging into excel spreadsheets. This is where automation comes in. Humans have vision, strategy, incentives, and creativity, all skills a machine could never automate. This was the first wave of AI in marketing.

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Full Circle Insights

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

Optimizing Marketing Outcomes Over Time. Optimize Your Marketing Mix in Salesforce. Building a Solid Case for Attribution to the CMO. Top 10 Reports Your CMO Wants from Digital Marketing. Build vs Buy Marketing Analytics. Cost of Not Implementing Marketing Performance Management.

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Sage Marketing

APRIL 22, 2020

The CEOs I meet also understand that a plan on its own will not generate success, and that there must also be an expert team in place to execute the plan and manage everything from sales tools , content and messaging to lead generation , brand identity , events , public relations and beyond. Why outsource marketing?

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Allocadia

APRIL 23, 2019

In order to plan effectively, a marketing team needs a significant amount of insight into last year: where the organization spent and why, and what the business impact was. But this data takes time to compile, and when the CMO calls asking for a marketing plan in two weeks, it can cause major fire drills. Marketing Ops.

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Allocadia

JUNE 20, 2018

In order to plan effectively, a marketing team needs a significant amount of insight into last year: where the organization spent and why, and what the business impact was. But this data takes time to compile, and when the CMO calls asking for a marketing plan in two weeks, it can cause major fire drills. Marketing Ops.

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Allocadia

APRIL 16, 2019

You may use Customer Relationship Management software, Enterprise Resource Planning software, and/or a Marketing Automation platform. Think about which elements of these systems need to be used in your marketing performance management processes, so they can be linked with other data and reported on.

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Allocadia

APRIL 23, 2019

Examples of how an individual marketer can # RunMarketingBetter in this area: Be proactive about your own learning. Most companies have a professional development budget; never let that money go unspent. Whether you’re a CMO or just getting started in your career, find industry peers to learn from. Can any be automated?

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The ABM Agency

APRIL 30, 2023

Reading Time: 14 minutes What is Account Based Marketing? As a CMO at a large B2B SaaS organization, you may be familiar with the concept of Account Based Marketing. Account-based marketing (ABM) is a strategic approach that aligns sales and marketing efforts to target specific accounts with personalized content and messaging.

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Heinz Marketing

DECEMBER 13, 2017

With 2018 right around the corner, this may be just the tool you need as you work through your marketing tech stack plans for the coming year. Enterprise marketers spending 22% of their budget on martech. Scott Brinker dives in to examine the results of Gartner’s recent CMO Spend Survey 2017-2018.

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Allocadia

APRIL 25, 2018

Examples of how an individual marketer can #RunMarketingBetter in this area: Be proactive about your own learning. Most companies have a professional development budget; never let that money go unspent. Whether you’re a CMO or just getting started in your career, find industry peers to learn from. Can any be automated?

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Full Circle Insights

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Marketing leaders are betting on a digital-focused future by adopting martech solutions at an accelerated pace. In the Gartner CMO Spend Survey , nearly 70% said they expected to increase martech investments over the next 12 months. Another point in favor of more CMO-CIO collaboration: there’s evidence that it increases revenue.

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LeanData

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

When Adam New-Waterson became the chief marketing officer at high-tech startup LeanData in 2015, he completely revamped the company’s use of Marketo to take full advantage of the marketing automation platform’s capabilities. Adam New-Waterson, CMO with LeanData. The results were clear: Increased pipeline generation.

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LeanData

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

When Adam New-Waterson became the chief marketing officer at high-tech startup LeanData in 2015, he completely revamped the company’s use of Marketo to take full advantage of the marketing automation platform’s capabilities. Adam New-Waterson, CMO with LeanData. The results were clear: Increased pipeline generation.

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LeanData

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

When Adam New-Waterson became the chief marketing officer at high-tech startup LeanData in 2015, he completely revamped the company’s use of Marketo to take full advantage of the marketing automation platform’s capabilities. Adam New-Waterson, CMO with LeanData. The results were clear: Increased pipeline generation.

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LeanData

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

When Adam New-Waterson became the chief marketing officer at high-tech startup LeanData in 2015, he completely revamped the company’s use of Marketo to take full advantage of the marketing automation platform’s capabilities. Adam New-Waterson, CMO with LeanData. The results were clear: Increased pipeline generation.

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Hubspot

AUGUST 27, 2012

The future of our beloved marketing industry is changing fast -- the good news is, we don't even need a crystal ball to see where it's headed! 5) 84% of B2B marketers use social media in some form. 6) Marketers spend an average of 4-6 hours a week on social media. 7) Currently, marketers allocate 7.6%

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Full Circle Insights

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

By Bonnie Crater o riginally featured in Marketing Profs. Rumors that the CMO role is going the way of the dodo bird have been circulating for years. But it’s also possible that the devaluation of the CMO role is in some cases the consequence of outdated notions of what CMOs do and misconceptions about the scope of the job.

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