Sprout Social

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Marketers are finding it increasingly difficult to set the right budget, optimize it and keep the leads flowing. Managing social media and other marketing channels in this economy can be challenging. You’ll need a plan to address top budget concerns to provide clarity and control over every dollar spent.

Marketing Budget 132

Marketing Budget Marketing Budget Creation Paid Content Budget Programs 132

chiefmartech

NOVEMBER 26, 2017

Gartner recently released their CMO Spend Survey 2017-2018. The headline of their report: Budgets Recede Amid Demand For Results. After three consecutive years of growth, average marketing budgets at enterprise companies (most of the companies Gartner surveyed have more than $1 billion in revenue) have slipped from 12.1%

Enterprise Management 88

Enterprise Management Budget Programs Budget Management Spending 88

KoMarketing Associates

JANUARY 9, 2019

As marketers continue to see the benefits associated with social media marketing, new research indicates that they remain dedicated to this avenue when looking ahead to the coming months. At the moment, the majority of marketers’ social media budget (almost 60 percent) goes toward content creation.

Social Media 143

Social Media Spending Customer Surveys Budget Management 143

KoMarketing Associates

DECEMBER 5, 2017

We reached out to B2B marketers across different industries and asked them the following question: What are B2B marketers prioritizing in their 2018 budget? Elena Britton , Head of US Marketing, Indusa. One of our main marketing KPIs is qualified leads. Markus Reutner , Digital Marketing Manager, Emarsys.

Marketing Budget Creation 439

Marketing Budget Creation Marketing Budget Budget Programs Marketing AI 439

SmartBug Media

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Getting buy-in from the leadership team for your marketing spend can be a daunting task, especially when marketing has traditionally had a reputation of contributing little to the overall revenue goals of a business. As a marketer, it’s easy to get into the weeds with the metrics you are presenting. Start with Why.

Budget Management 90

Budget Management Spending Sales Qualified Leads Planning 90

B2B Marketing Directions

MARCH 13, 2022

(This month's Research Round-Up features the latest ABM benchmark study by ITSMA and the ABM Leadership Alliance, Winterberry Group's latest forecast of marketing and advertising spending, and a survey examining the future of marketing events by the CMO Council and Cvent.) linear TV, direct mail) and eleven online channels (e.g.

Account Based Marketing 52

Account Based Marketing ABM Spending Budget Management 52

Martech

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Campaign management software helps marketers automate the manual tasks of planning, launching and measuring the impact of their campaigns. That’s important because there are a number of moving pieces to many modern marketing campaigns. creative, media, brand, legal, etc.)

Work Management 79

Work Management Marketing Management Marketing Automation Services Budget Programs 79

Martech

APRIL 12, 2023

Over two-thirds of DTC brands use these channels, and 57% plan to increase spending in CTV/OTT in the first half of 2023. This is a significant jump in interest from the first half of 2022, when 43% of DTC expected to up their spend. Brands can fit a campaign into a budget of any size. Why we care. First-time advertisers.

Planning 99

Planning Spending Marketing Plans Advertising Agencies 99

Hubspot

JUNE 26, 2019

In fact, businesses make an average of $8 for every dollar they spend on Google Ads. WordStream reports, for example, that the average small business loses 25% of their PPC budget on wasted spend. If you’re a PPC marketer, you might know how time-consuming these campaigns can be. PPC Management Tools.

Budget Programs 98

Budget Programs Enterprise Management PPC Paid Search Agency 98

Hinge Marketing

JUNE 7, 2021

This is why for the 5th time, the Association for Accounting Marketing (AAM) joined forces with the Hinge Research Institute to conduct the industry’s most comprehensive study on CPA marketing budgets. The timing of this study allows accounting marketers to see the many ways these changes have impacted the industry.

Cost per Acquisition 117

Cost per Acquisition CPA Marketing Budget Marketing Budget Creation 117

Engagio

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

During these uncertain times, putting your limited marketing budget to the best use to stimulate revenue growth and form better relationships with your best customers becomes even more important. Check out our ROI calculator to estimate the ROI for your ABM program. Taking an account-based approach has many benefits.

Account Based Marketing 71

Account Based Marketing Budget Programs ABM Marketing Analytics Tools 71

The Marketing Blender

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Your guide to building a marketing budget template. Looking to create a new marketing budget template for your business? Although a marketing budget template can take some time and thought to build, it’s not as difficult as you may think it is. What should you know before building your marketing budget?

Marketing Budget 98

Marketing Budget Marketing Budget Creation Budget Programs Template 98

ViewPoint

JULY 26, 2016

If your company is average, you are only following up 10-25% of the leads you give your salespeople which means you are wasting 75% of your lead generation budget!”. Sales Lead Management Association. Marketing measures the sales contribution value of every campaign. Why it’s Important. “If

Budget Management 120

Budget Management Spending Marketing Management Budget Programs 120

EveryoneSocial

JUNE 23, 2020

As you begin exploring employee advocacy, one thought that might come to mind is how you will get a budget for it. After all, your company’s tech stack is already growing and there are tons of software products out there to optimize your desired results. Many times, introducing new software and product costs can be met with resistance.

Budget Programs 103

Budget Programs Enterprise Management Work Management Marketing Management 103

Golden Spiral

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Have you been asked to cut your marketing budget? Google slashed their own marketing budget at the height of the pandemic. The UK government urged businesses to reduce prices by cutting their marketing spending. Fitness megabrand Peloton is making the marketing cut. Watch the headlines.

Marketing Budget 62

Marketing Budget Budget Programs Marketing Budget Creation Demand Generation Agencies 62

Hinge Marketing

JANUARY 26, 2023

From following innovation in marketing technology to supporting their firm’s recruiting campaigns, the list of ways they need to manage their marketing budget increases in complexity every year. Spoiler alert: the research suggests you should NOT cut your marketing budget this year.

Marketing Budget Creation 92

Marketing Budget Creation Marketing Budget Budget Programs Peer-to-peer 92

Metadata

AUGUST 14, 2023

Much of that pressure comes from sky-high expectations—but also the lack of tools to effectively and efficiently launch, manage, and optimize paid campaigns. Performance marketers need help. How does Metadata help performance marketers spend on the right stuff? What’s a budget group in Metadata?

Budget Programs 52

Budget Programs Paid Search Agency Optimization Ads 52

Webbiquity

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Despite growing demand for networking solutions, security software and IT services, these operations can still run into money problems, even when things are going well. Simple cost-saving strategies can go a long way in reducing spending on everything from day-to-day operations to business marketing.

Marketing Budget 239

Marketing Budget Marketing AI Work Management Budget Programs 239

ClickZ

JUNE 25, 2020

AI is transforming marketing—giving marketers more accurate and more useful insights on a continuous basis. Whether you want to optimize your content, advertising, or audience management, there’s a tool out there for you. . We’re going to explore some of the best AI-based marketing tools currently on the market.

Marketing AI 137

Marketing AI Pricing Price Budget Programs 137

B2B Marketing Directions

AUGUST 15, 2021

Last month, Gartner released the findings of its CMO Spend Survey, 2021. The survey produced 400 responses from marketing decision makers and influencers located in North America, Europe and the UK. In manufacturing companies, the mean percentage of total company revenue devoted to marketing fell from 12.7% in 2020 to 5.8%

Marketing Budget Creation 98

Marketing Budget Creation Marketing Budget Budget Programs Allocation 98

Hubspot

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

If only there were a way to organize your answers to all of these questions -- a place where you could enter in estimated costs for all of your line items, and then compare your projected marketing budget to what you actually end up spending. Click here to download your 8 free marketing budget templates.

Budget Programs 101

Budget Programs Marketing Budget Paid Content Marketing Budget Creation 101

Webbiquity

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

As an industry, influencer marketing has grown by nearly a factor of 10 in that time, from $1.7 93% of marketers have used influencer marketing at some point, and collectively they plan to directly spend almost twice as much on influencers in 2023 as they did in 2016. billion in 2016 to $16.4 billion in 2022.

Paid Content 265

Paid Content Paid Search Agency Advertising Agencies Work Management 265

SmartBug Media

OCTOBER 1, 2020

The most skilled marketers aren't just the ones who can identify the best channels for growing customers; they are also the ones who can identify the best channels to avoid. Key KPIs to Track in Your Marketing Budget. Cumulative budget: The total budget summed up across all marketing channels. Budget pacing.

Marketing Budget Creation 82

Marketing Budget Creation Marketing Budget Budget Programs Cost per Lead 82

Marketing Insider Group

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

In this post, you’ll find out how B2B marketers are planning, executing and budgeting their marketing programs, so you can be sure your strategy falls in line with or zooms ahead of your competition in 2020. Have a Formal Marketing Plan. Partner with a Marketing Agency. Partner with a Marketing Agency.

Resource Management 360

Resource Management Demand Generation Agencies CMS Development Work Management 360

Marketri

APRIL 17, 2024

CEOs want strategic marketing direction. They’re tired of their teams and vendors engaging in random acts of marketing that don’t yield results. CEOs rest easier when a strategic marketer is vetting all those random requests from the business, aggressive ad pitches, and paid sponsorship opportunities posing as freebies.

Allocation 62

Allocation Planning Sales Qualified Leads Paid Search Agency 62

Choozle

JULY 5, 2022

Digital marketing budgets continue to shift in an effort to keep pace with changes in consumer shopping behavior. For the most part, brands are embracing the evolving digital marketing landscape, where consumers expect highly targeted content and offers that are readily available online. Full-funnel budget alignment.

Budget Programs 77

Budget Programs Advertising Agencies Allocation Paid Search Agency 77

KEO Marketing

FEBRUARY 26, 2015

StrongView recently released the results of its 2015 Marketing Trends Survey, which indicated that the majority (61%) of marketers planned to increase spending on email marketing this year, making this the top target of increased marketing spending for 2015.

Budget Management 48

Budget Management Spending Email Marketing Budget Programs 48

Choozle

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Strategies and budgets have continued to shift after a year of exploring new trends in consumer behavior and the technology available. And through these new developments, confidence in investing in marketing spending is back on the rise entering 2022. Make a note of any changes in your team members or marketing partners.

Budget Programs 79

Budget Programs Marketing Budget Creation Planning Campaigns 79

Engagio

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

One of the first items on your list: get budget for your ABM program. We get questions around budgeting all the time. Where should this budget come from? That’s why in this edition of Behind the Brilliance, I asked Sam Melnick , VP of Marketing at Allocadia, to join me in a conversation about this important topic.

Budget Programs 84

Budget Programs Account Based Marketing ABM Allocation 84

Allocadia

MARCH 31, 2019

Less than five weeks after signing the contract, we had deployed Allocadia to manage almost 200 budgets across 230 users distributed around the globe. – Eric Andrews, VP Global Marketing Operations, Juniper Networks. How can we achieve better return on our marketing investments? The Challenge. The Solution.

Budget Programs 40

Budget Programs Enterprise Management Work Management Marketing Budget 40

ScanmarQED

MARCH 5, 2024

Both are process related and achievable by any team managing marketing spends. Those keys are continuous data ingestion and proper MMM tooling. to get spend for the last modeled quarter from an agency. That was how we worked through a research program of models.

Marketing Mix 59

Marketing Mix Work Management Budget Programs Marketing Management 59

Customer Experience Matrix

MARCH 29, 2017

Like many people in the marketing technology industry, I was tickled in 2011 when Gartner predicted that CMOs would soon have bigger tech budgets than CIOs , and even more tickled when Gartner said in 2016 that it had happened. But my recent pondering of the relationship of marketing and IT departments had me rethinking the question.

Enterprise Management 120

Enterprise Management Work Management Spending Marketing Management 120

Top Rank Marketing

JUNE 30, 2023

media spending came from the digital sector during May, 2023 — up from 56 percent a year earlier, as the overall ad spending level increased for the first time in 11 months, according to recent ad index data. billion in 2022, according to recently-published search advertising data of interest to digital marketers.

Paid Search Agency 56

Paid Search Agency Budget Programs CMO Advertising Agencies 56

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.

Budget Management 40

Budget Management Spending Account Based Marketing Planning 40

PureB2B

JUNE 14, 2021

Marketing budgets, a critical element in any marketing campaign but difficult to generate, and getting approval seems like an arduous task. That is a general notion, and it comes from what marketing directors have noticed over the years. Such stats only go to prove that justifying a marketing budget to the CFO is hard.

Budget Programs 62

Budget Programs Paid Search Agency Optimization Advertising Agencies 62

Allocadia

MARCH 13, 2020

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. Document spend that has been forecasted, committed, and spent.

Marketing Budget 52

Marketing Budget Budget Programs Marketing Budget Creation Practices 52

Martech

JULY 25, 2022

Without demonstrable proof that marketing initiatives are driving business results, marketers’ budgets are easy pickings for leaders seeking to improve profitability or just keep the business afloat during challenging times. And it’s not just marketing department jobs and media budgets that are at stake.

Marketing Attribution 104

Marketing Attribution Enterprise Management Work Management Marketing Management 104