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How to Align Marketing and Finance for Peak Performance

Allocadia

Let’s start with the annual budgeting and expense management process – what do CFOs expect from Marketing here? Marketing budget must be aligned to financial targets set by the company. The days of adding a line item called “Marketing” to a corporate budget are long gone.

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How to Create a Successful Performance-Based MDF Program

Computer Market Research

However, the amount you spend should be in direct correlation with a given partner’s performance. With a surplus of opportunity to spend on marketing, there is far less to measure ROI. This is measured against POS performance. Each performance-based MDF program will be distinct and require different goals and objectives.

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How Talend is Measuring Performance During a Pandemic with Allocadia

Allocadia

Talend spent Q1 of 2020 learning and encouraging all the budget managers to use Allocadia instead of regressing back to spreadsheets. Everyone went through training, and by the end of the first quarter had all their budgets in Allocadia and felt comfortable using it. Marketing ROI is a Journey, Not a Destination.

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Partners For Growth: How Marketing and Finance Found Common Ground at Cloudera

Allocadia

There were other challenges with how Marketing was managing its finances, including a proliferation of spreadsheets used for planning, no visibility into actual spend and an inability to compare that against plan, and no insight into marketing ROI. Real-time visibility into actual spend versus plan.