The Marketing Blender

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

Our Services. How to calculate and allocate your marketing budget for the next fiscal year in 2020. Tips for planning next year’s marketing budget before the end of this quarter. In Q4, two different phenomena hit marketing departments—either belts get tightened or a “use it or lose it” mentality takes hold.

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Porch Group Media

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Marketing departments are certainly no exception and have been forced to balance between cutbacks in spend while still maintaining acquisition and retention strategies to thrive during these difficult times. Spend is also increasing for digital advertising as consumers head to online channels for information.

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Hubspot

JANUARY 4, 2021

Prospects learn about your solutions and then, after watching videos and chatting with others, they get directed immediately to your product team. Community marketing will replace event-based marketing. Soon, marketers will be able to go all-in on what will work best without having to test the theory.".

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Allocadia

MARCH 30, 2021

Freshworks provides intelligent customer engagement software for businesses of all sizes, making it easy for teams to win customers for life. The Problem: Missing Measurements and Budget Management. In 2019 Freshworks’ marketing operations team began streamlining various marketing and operational activities.

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Martech

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

“Year over year we’ve seen marketing analytics at the top of marketing budgets,” said John Hurley, Head of Product Marketing at Amplitude, in his recent MarTech session. “It’s a big spend for a lot of teams.” New marketing analytics tools for a new era.

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The ABM Agency

JANUARY 15, 2021

For some B2B companies, the 2021 marketing budget has increased due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Dollars usually spent on trade shows, in-person events, and travel expenses are up for grabs; the sales team is working virtually, spending less cash on entertaining potential clients. Before You Spend: Campaign Planning.

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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 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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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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Heinz Marketing

MARCH 27, 2023

By Matt Heinz , President of Heinz Marketing If you’re not already subscribed to Sales Pipeline Radio or listening live every Thursday at 11:30 a.m The show is less than 30 minutes, fast-paced and full of actionable advice, best practices and more for B2B sales & marketing professionals. Matt: I would agree.

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Top Rank Marketing

JULY 2, 2018

This is the time to evaluate and prioritize your efforts so you can revamp your integrated digital marketing strategy to include a tactical mix that will not only refocus your strategy to reach your objectives, but also improve how you measure and achieve ROI. Your marketing spend is likely not the only item that took a hit.

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Content Standard

SEPTEMBER 10, 2016

Having a social media marketing strategy still wasn’t mainstream, and people were largely unaware of the role that these technologies would come to play in their daily lives. The tech, trends, and behaviors surrounding social media are constantly evolving, leaving marketers to play catch-up. Social Is Service.

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Vision Edge Marketing

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

And without the ability to demonstrate value, the budgeting process becomes a game of guesswork because there is no link between expenditures and desired results. If developed properly, it will provide you with guidance on how to measure Marketing’s effectiveness and value. Establish outcome-based marketing objectives.

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The ROI Guy

MAY 4, 2006

A Q&A with me on latest IT sales and marketing metrics, trends and best practices Is 2006 shaping up to be a good year for IT spending growth? Worldwide annual growth in global IT spending is expected to be 6.3% in 2006, with annual growth in software sales leading the way at 7.0%. On average, IT firms invest 3.6

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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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Allocadia

MARCH 31, 2020

In times of chaos, a marketer’s first stop should be their finances and budget to re-align their plan to the new reality. Unfortunately, it’s not always that simple: budgets are often inconsistent, hard to access, and take too much manual work to roll up to a CMO or executive level view.

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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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Full Circle Insights

JULY 9, 2020

With no future current participation, we’re seeing a lot of restructuring and planning going on in B2B marketing organizations, where marketing teams are thinking about ways to allocate more of their budget to reinvestments in digital marketing. But what’s the best way to re-plan our B2B marketing budgets?

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Allocadia

APRIL 3, 2019

They produce automated test equipment and virtual instrumentation software. The Solution: A New Framework and Outlook. The marketing organization needed to stop planning around the company’s products and instead develop campaigns aligned with the solution approach that customers embraced. “We Download now.

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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. Invest in yourself.

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Marketing Insider Group

JULY 1, 2020

This is not true for most marketing programs. But it is what marketing was always meant to be: a conversation between your company and your target audience that attracts new customers. Once you get your content marketing strategy going, it’s that positive snowball effect in action. It isn’t is more ‘stuff.’.

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Leadspace

APRIL 26, 2017

What’s the difference between a winning demand generation strategy, and a mediocre one? Between generating enough leads to keep things going (and keep your own head above the water), and taking your marketing to the next level? Companies need to be crystal-clear on their top objectives in order to maximize their marketing spend.

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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. Invest in yourself.

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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. CMOs avoid consulting their CIO before making martech purchases for a variety of reasons.

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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

JANUARY 28, 2021

For example, a software vendor that focused on the travel and leisure industry might have to recalibrate the ICP and focus on clients in less hard-hit sectors. Adopt Agile Marketing Methods. How Getting Marketing Attribution Right Boosts. Optimizing Marketing Outcomes Over Time. Optimize Your Marketing Mix in Salesforce.

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Full Circle Insights

NOVEMBER 26, 2020

Martech spending increased in 2020 and is expected to remain strong in 2021, as businesses continue to rely on digital channels, especially B2B companies that can’t hold in-person events. A Gartner CMO spend survey found that 68% expect to increase martech investments in the coming months. So, how can CMOs reach out?

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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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Full Circle Insights

MAY 20, 2022

Marketers who are selling to accounts are typically dealing with a group of buyers who give off different behavioral signals, so predictive analytics, a programmatic method to assess big data and derive predictions about the future could be a powerful strategy to leverage. Marketing Attribution and Funnel Metrics Are Still the Key.

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Full Circle Insights

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

As we move further into the second year of the coronavirus pandemic, the economic repercussions have sparked rumors of a fundamental reset in business roles, including the role marketing plays in driving business. Have overarching strategies and detailed tactics to drive growth, including recommendations on new product development.

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Full Circle Insights

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

The economic downturn caused by COVID-19 prompted many companies to cut marketing budgets. B2B marketers have redirected budget dollars previously earmarked for in-person events to digital ads instead, driving a 22% increase in spending on digital channels. One Marketing Team’s Efficiency Success Story.

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Full Circle Insights

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

It’s an especially popular approach during a downturn and other uncertainties because it allows marketing teams to try new things and shift gears quickly rather than commit to the long-term strategy as required by other methods, such as the waterfall approach. Optimizing Marketing Outcomes Over Time. CMOs: Now More than Ever.

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Full Circle Insights

JUNE 16, 2020

To get digital marketing metrics right, you need a way to connect clicks from digital ad campaigns, social media channels and other digital marketing campaigns to leads inside the CRM system. That can be a challenge because digital point solutions generate their own metrics, which creates silos. Build vs Buy Marketing Analytics.

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Full Circle Insights

JULY 27, 2021

Digital Source Tracker from Full Circle Insights, maker of comprehensive sales and marketing performance measurement solutions, connects data from a wide variety of digital channels, such as online advertising, website traffic and social media to leads, pipeline and revenue, providing funnel and attribution metrics inside a CRM.

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Full Circle Insights

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Larry Ellison taught us all how to be marketers and I got the chance over the years to serve as CMO and VP of Marketing for many Silicon Valley software companies. I started a couple of software companies that didn’t work out before Full Circle Insights. Optimizing Marketing Outcomes Over Time.

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Full Circle Insights

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

maker of comprehensive sales and marketing performance measurement solutions, has continued to focus on innovation this year, harnessing patented technologies and designing new dashboards for its Digital Source Tracker product to empower digital marketers with the Full Circle Method. Optimizing Marketing Outcomes Over Time.

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Full Circle Insights

JUNE 22, 2021

If you’re using Full Circle Insights funnel metrics and campaign attribution solutions, you already have the measurement tools in place to successfully deploy an agile strategy. Don’t forget to cover the “ measurement sprint ” concept and explain how that can help make marketing more productive while fostering collaboration.

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