Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

APRIL 21, 2011

Traditional measurements may become inferior and unable to scale to meet the needs of today’s B2B marketing professional. To obtain optimal results, marketers need a powerful and efficient marketing analytics solution.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

APRIL 7, 2015

Which funnel stage gets the majority of a marketing budget? If you answered the top and the middle—congrats, you’ve passed today’s marketing pop quiz! According to CustomShow , 97% of a company’s marketing budget is spent on the top and middle-of-the-funnel— which is where online ad campaigns play a key role.

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Engagio

OCTOBER 6, 2023

In fact, Gartner’s 2023 CMO Spend and Strategy Survey revealed that 71% of CMOs feel their 2023 budgets fall short of what’s needed to meet their goals, 75% are struggling to achieve more with less, and 86% are seeing a need to restructure their marketing operations for sustainable results.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

APRIL 3, 2015

As with any other marketing strategy, how you calculate a budget typically depends on the extent of the potential reach and derived impact. Let’s say you’re an SMB marketer and you need to determine your goals and which channels you will utilize to achieve them. The Solution. The Problem.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

AUGUST 18, 2011

These more intelligent marketing assets and tools are crucial to building and operating a high performance revenue engine. You’ve no doubt heard the hoary business axiom, “Half my marketing spend is wasted, but I just don’t know which half.” However, I bet that you would also agree that it is much truer than it should be.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

APRIL 17, 2018

It would seem that marketing budgets are the first to go on the chopping block when performance isn’t what’s expected in Q1. After marketing budgets saw a modest increase in 2017, Unilever announced for 2018 that it was cutting its ads by 30% and that it was slashing the number of agencies it works with by half.

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Online Marketing Institute

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

B2B Marketing POSTs by Laura Ramos About the Author About this blog High tech marketers face incredible challenges building awareness, developing demand, enabling sales, and demonstrating marketings impact on the business in an increasingly digital world. This blog draws on the heritage of my Forrester research.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2012

And like most marketers, you are trying to determine what your 2013 event schedule will look like, and plan your accompanying strategy. We know that on average, marketers spend 20% of their marketing budget on events, which is a sizeable amount. Create a solid event strategy.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JULY 12, 2011

But, since the above described “seat” discussions seem to be continuing unabated, I would offer the following recommendation to senior marketing professionals, and those that aspire to be: Don’t just occupy that seat at the senior management table…truly own it. Social media made up about 3 percent of spending on the chart.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2012

Many CRM systems have a module for marketing. Salesforce recently rebranded their social marketing application as the Marketing Cloud, and their website says you can use their solutions to “optimize campaigns from lead to close, on every channel”. Marketing Automation. Marketing Automation. Business Goal.

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KoMarketing Associates

AUGUST 3, 2017

That said, there are definite nuances and characteristics of B2B marketing that are different from marketing to a general consumer. For example, differences are reflected in marketing spend. The average marketing budget across all companies in the study was about 8 percent. Target Audience.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2012

Of course, it’s okay to track some of these metrics internally within your department (we call these “boiler room metrics”) if they help you make better marketing decisions. But it’s best to avoid sharing them with other executives unless you’ve previously established why they matter. Did the marketer get his budget?

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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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Full Circle Insights

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

That’s why the company was built from the ground up on the principle that marketing data should reside in the CRM. We’ve seen what a difference it can make when sales and marketing share a single source of truth. Performance-Driven Marketer’s Guide to Annual Planning. Top 5 Reports Sales Wants From Marketing.

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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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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

Of course they do—most of the resource effort sits with the marketer! But many wonder if the resulting revenue impact is enough to warrant the effort, especially when events typically make up the majority of many marketing budgets. B2B is tough with so many touches and sales cycles that can last years. What to Measure.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JUNE 24, 2013

Author: Jon Miller (@jonmiller) This is the 1,000th post to Marketo’s blog. It seems fitting to commemorate the occasion by revisiting our very first post, “ Modern B2B Marketing Defined ”, and commenting on what’s changed – and what hasn’t – since August 8, 2006. What Hasn’t Changed. Buyers today are more empowered.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

OCTOBER 1, 2014

Author: Maggie Jones Every year, marketers spend billions of dollars attracting new business – on average, marketers spend 56% of their marketing budgets on acquisition. All of this makes one thing clear: without a rock solid engagement strategy , your acquisition efforts largely go to waste.

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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. Performance-Driven Marketer’s Guide to Annual Planning. Watch: On-Demand Webinar.

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Full Circle Insights

MAY 20, 2022

There is a steady interest in predictive analytics from B2B marketers – possibly related to the popularity of account-based marketing (ABM). In marketing, predictive analytics is about understanding the customer journey. Predicting Behavior Through an Account-Based Management Role Lens.

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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

JULY 8, 2022

Funnel Metrics from Full Circle Insights provides full visibility into the marketing and sales funnel, and B2B marketers who use it are able to align their activities more closely with sales around CRM data and significantly improve process efficiency. It lets you know when responses can be expected to drive revenue (Six weeks?

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Full Circle Insights

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Have overarching strategies and detailed tactics to drive growth, including recommendations on new product development. So, to the larger point, is marketing really in decline as a function? The most recent Gartner CMO Spend Survey fueled even more speculation, reporting that marketing budgets declined to a record low of just 6.4%

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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. That’s a mistake.

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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. What I learned from that situation was to ask for the order.

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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. Performance-Driven Marketer’s Guide to Annual Planning.

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Full Circle Insights

JUNE 16, 2020

Defining Digital Marketing Metrics. B2B marketers: are you doing more digital campaigns lately? If so, you’ve got company: many businesses have shifted spend from in-person events like lunch-and-learn gatherings to digital marketing campaigns due to lingering public health concerns. ABM Success Metrics.

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Full Circle Insights

JUNE 30, 2020

For B2B companies especially, lead generation is where everything starts, so let’s take a moment to examine what it is, how it works and how you can make it work better. Let’s start with a basic definition: B2B lead generation is whatever methods you use to create demand for your company’s products and services. Got CMO Skills?

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Full Circle Insights

DECEMBER 15, 2020

What are the qualities of great B2B lead management? B2B lead generation operations experienced a seismic shift when the pandemic took in-person events, which so many companies rely, off the table. Some B2B marketers took a major budget hit, while many marketing departments redirected dollars to digital programs.

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Full Circle Insights

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

The first martech solution to give B2B marketers the power to measure campaign performance in an ABM funnel framework, Full Circle ABM now integrates with 6sense to enable the tracking of accounts from the detected stage, indicating when an account may be recognised as in-market based on intent signals, all the way to closed-won business.

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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

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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Full Circle Insights

AUGUST 16, 2021

At Full Circle, nearly every one of our employees works with national nonprofits such as Bay Area Lyme Foundation and Alcoholics Anonymous or local organizations such as Spokane Youth Choirs or Episcopal Community Services in San Francisco or Olive Branch Parks and Recreation in Mississippi. Top 5 Reports Sales Wants From Marketing.

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Full Circle Insights

MAY 10, 2021

B2B companies that shifted lead gen from customer-facing activities and events to digital channels are now starting to think about how they can add in-person meetings and gatherings back into the mix. Still, there’s strong momentum for digital campaigns, and analysts expect the digital spending trend in marketing to continue.

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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. . Top 5 Reports Sales Wants From Marketing.

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Full Circle Insights

JULY 13, 2023

SAN ANTONIO, Texas,  July 13, 2023 — Scaleworks, the B2B SaaS-focused venture equity firm, today announced its acquisition of Full Circle Insights, known for helping companies drive pipeline growth through their marketing attribution and campaign measurement platform.

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Full Circle Insights

JULY 20, 2021

More women than men work in service and retail jobs, so they were more vulnerable than men to COVID-19-related layoffs, especially women of color. Performance-Driven Marketer’s Guide to Annual Planning. Top 5 Reports Sales Wants From Marketing. Top 5 Reports Your CEO Wants From Marketing. ABM Success Metrics.

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