B2B Marketing Directions

JULY 12, 2020

Decades of research studies have shown that investing in advertising and marketing during a recession will enable companies to increase market share and recover more quickly when the recession ends. Nevertheless, the general view is that marketing is one of the first business functions to face budget cuts when times get tough.

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B2B Marketing Directions

AUGUST 15, 2021

Last month, Gartner released the findings of its CMO Spend Survey, 2021. The firm hosted a webinar and published a report discussing the findings of this research. The survey produced 400 responses from marketing decision makers and influencers located in North America, Europe and the UK. Image Source: Gartner, Inc.

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Martech

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Marketers are feeling much more optimistic this quarter, according to the CMO Survey from Deloitte. Nearly half (49%) reported feeling “more optimistic” about the U.S. The Marketer Optimism Score, which measures marketer sentiment on a scale of 0 to 100, went from 58.3 Marketing spend.

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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.) display advertising, digital video).

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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%

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B2B Marketing Directions

MAY 14, 2022

Source: The CMO Survey (This month's Research Round-Up is devoted entirely to the most recent edition of The CMO Survey, which was published in late February. The CMO Survey has been conducted semi-annually since 2008, and it consistently provides a wealth of valuable information about marketing spending, trends and practices.)

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Allocadia

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

COVID-19 and the ensuing market-turbulence put marketing teams under a microscope to explain exactly where they are spending and pivoting marketing dollars – and how it is driving business results.

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Ledger Bennett

JULY 15, 2020

Significant shift in budget since the onset of the pandemic Late last year Gartner published their 2019-2020 CMO Spend Survey , and while budgets had declined a little in 2019, confidence was very high regarding the outlook for 2020. When a crisis hits, a company’s marketing budget is usually the first to go.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

DECEMBER 20, 2017

It’s planning season, marketers. Gartner recently found that marketing budgets are beginning to recede, dropping from their peak (12.1% According to Gartner, the drop is due in part to marketing leaders being too distracted by tactics and execution. How much are you spending on trade shows?

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B2B Marketing Directions

OCTOBER 10, 2021

This is the second of three posts discussing some of the B2B-specific findings of the August 2021 edition of The CMO Survey. The "Part 1" post discussed the economic outlook of B2B marketers and the state of marketing spending in B2B companies. of their total marketing budget on digital marketing activities.

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KoMarketing Associates

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Content marketing can be a powerful way to build a foundation for your overall marketing strategy, create lead generation opportunities, and engage with your target audience. So it’s critical to take the time to create a strong content marketing strategy that can deliver relevant content to your audience.

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KoMarketing Associates

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

As marketers look ahead to the remainder of the year, those in both the B2B services and B2B product sectors expect their budgets to grow in the coming months. The CMO Survey” from Deloitte, The Fuqua School of Business at Duke, and the American Marketing Association discovered that B2B product marketers expect a 9.3

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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. One change CMOs are making due to these budget pressures is shifting outside agency work to in-house employees.

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Martech

MARCH 2, 2023

Boards and the C-suite expect CMOs to lead the way to profitable growth in 2023 despite various macroeconomic pressures manifesting into the “ triple squeeze ,” making everything more expensive. What is marketing mix modeling? Marketing mix modeling (MMM) can help answer them.

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Crimson Marketing

NOVEMBER 10, 2014

The problem is, by the time you analyze those results, you’ve likely already spent too much—or too little—on marketing. As Lance Walter, CMO of financial intelligence technology company Host Analytics suggests, there is a better way. Marketing Technology Podcasts'

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Martech

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

To add to the usual list of challenges marketers and their technology counterparts deal with regularly, we’ve been saddled with: A pandemic. Every CMO I’ve talked with in the past two years is hungry for talent, but they haven’t had the budget to staff up. Will marketing tech budgets grow in 2023?

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Sword and the Script | B2B

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

This time around survey polled 341 senior marketers – 95% of which hold the title of vice president or higher – to produce the survey. About 34% of respondents identified themselves as employed by B2B product companies, while another 31% said B2B services, so overall about 60% of respondents are senior leaders in B2B marketing organizations.

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B2B Marketing Directions

SEPTEMBER 15, 2019

The findings of the August edition of The CMO Survey by Duke University's Fuqua School of Business, the American Marketing Association, and Deloitte were published a few days ago. The latest results are based on responses from 341 marketing leaders at U.S. Marketing Spending On average, marketing expenses amount to 9.8%

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Allocadia

MARCH 31, 2019

They keep clients at the heart of everything they do by offering a better, more modern way to build and manage wealth. Charles Schwab is an American multinational financial services company headquartered in Westlake, Texas. Our marketers have become more accountable and better stewards of the dollars allocated to them.

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B2B Marketing Directions

MARCH 17, 2019

The findings of the latest CMO Survey by Duke University's Fuqua School of Business, the American Marketing Association, and Deloitte were published a few days ago. The latest results are based on responses from 323 marketing leaders at U.S. of respondents from B2B services companies, and 24.0% B2B and B2C companies.

CMO 53

CMO Marketing AI Customer Surveys B2B 53

Porch Group Media

JULY 6, 2021

With the market becoming more complex and customers demanding a personalized experience, data-driven marketing is the only way forward. In an increasingly complex economy, marketers are more focused than ever on using data-driven insights to better understand their customers and boost their overall competitive advantage.

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Allocadia

MARCH 31, 2019

Serving B2B markets worldwide, the company designs, develops and sells products and services that provide network infrastructure for networking requirements of service providers, enterprises, governments, and research and public sector organizations worldwide. How can we achieve better return on our marketing investments? “It

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SmartBug Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Effective franchise marketing drives customer acquisition, maintains brand integrity, and facilitates sustainable growth. The combination of brand positioning, lead generation, digital marketing, local advertising, and paid media helps franchisees maximize their marketing efforts while adhering to established brand standards.

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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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B2B Marketing Directions

SEPTEMBER 16, 2018

Over the next several weeks, marketing leaders will be evaluating how well their existing marketing programs have performed and developing plans for the coming year. The CMO Survey is a valuable resource for information regarding these important issues. Two-thirds of the respondents (66.0%) were affiliated with B2B companies.

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Allocadia

DECEMBER 22, 2017

It’s planning season, marketers. Gartner recently found that marketing budgets are beginning to recede, dropping from their peak (12.1% According to Gartner, the drop is due in part to marketing leaders being too distracted by tactics and execution. • How much are you spending on trade shows?

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Allocadia

JUNE 13, 2019

John O’Rourke is Vice President of Strategic Marketing at Host Analytics. With a background in accounting and finance, John has over 30 years of experience in the software industry, including 20 years of experience in EPM Product Marketing at Hyperion Solutions, Oracle and Host Analytics.

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B2B Marketing Directions

NOVEMBER 15, 2020

Image Source: Allocadia Over the past six months, I've devoted several posts to reviewing research studies that have examined the impact of COVID-19 on B2B marketing and buying behaviors. The first series of posts (available here , here , and here ) discussed the findings of a special edition of The CMO Survey that was fielded in May.

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Allocadia

APRIL 16, 2019

It’s planning season, marketers. Gartner recently found that marketing budgets are beginning to recede, dropping from their peak (12.1% According to Gartner, the drop is due in part to marketing leaders being too distracted by tactics and execution. How much are you spending on trade shows?

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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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Content Standard

JUNE 12, 2017

Most professionals love the close of Q2 each year: summer weather is getting into swing, many people have prepared to take well-earned vacations, and it’s time for the marketing conference circuit to kick into high gear. Cassandra is a marketing executive for a mid-size B2B tech company. There’s a lot to look forward to.

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Allocadia

APRIL 3, 2019

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. Marketing leaders were tasked with creating a high-level report on global marketing spend.

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Webbiquity

JULY 27, 2021

CMOs are reporting that marketing budgets are being slashed. Here’s what that means, and practical ideas that go beyond the bad news to how B2B marketers to adapt. in 2021, their lowest point in the history of Gartner’s CMO Spend Survey.” But first… A Brief Rant.

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Marketing Insider Group

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Navigating the digital marketing world is like surfing – you need to catch the right wave to successfully ride the trends. As we look ahead, the future of marketing is shaping up to be an exhilarating swell, filled with evolving challenges and opportunities. DemandSage) 49% of marketers believe organic search yields the best ROI.

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Allocadia

APRIL 3, 2019

The Task: Enable Proper Marketing Investment Management. Today’s marketers are being held to new levels of accountability when it comes to proving the value of their investments and efforts. To market its offerings, the company calls upon more than 250 marketers in over 30 countries around the globe.

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Allocadia

APRIL 24, 2019

GE Digital is subsidiary of General Electric and provides software and advisory services around operational technology and infrastructure. The Problem: How to Prove Marketing’s Impact. I don’t want to get stuck in the game of marketing needing to do more with less. The Solution: Redefining the Hierarchy.

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LeadsRX

JANUARY 7, 2022

From IT and marketing working together; to getting micro-analytical; to using analytics to be predictive; to focusing on the “smaller” in SMBs, the New Year is shaping up to be a challenging and opportunistic one for marketers. Rockefeller could be the theme behind our look at four trends in performance marketing for 2022.

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