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. Therefore, this survey primarily captured the perspectives and experiences of marketers in large enterprises.

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Allocadia

APRIL 16, 2019

According to a recent study by Russell Reynolds Associates, CMOs think differently than their C-suite colleagues. Senior marketing executives tend to be more “imaginative,” “unconventional” and “willing to test limits” than CFOs, CEOs, CROs and CIOs. Plan and budget strategically and predict revenue performance.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

AUGUST 16, 2018

By the end of 2018, an estimated $500 billion in digital commerce revenue will be attributable to email marketing, reports Gartner. And if you are managing email marketing campaigns your CMO wants to know: What impact did they make in terms of revenue? You’re ready to quickly launch your email marketing initiatives.

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KoMarketing Associates

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

B2B marketers are still investing in conferences and tradeshows to expand their reach, but a survey conducted by Certain, Inc. About 73 percent of marketers claimed that they still rely on manual data capture at events. For more insight into this research, we spoke to Kristen Alexander, CMO at Certain, Inc.

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B2B Marketing Directions

APRIL 4, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic upended marketing and advertising at many companies last year. Confronted by a historically high level of business and economic uncertainty, many marketers were forced to dramatically change their marketing plans, and in some cases at least, to substantially reduce marketing and advertising spending.

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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

JULY 9, 2020

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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. – Eric Andrews, VP Global Marketing Operations, Juniper Networks.

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Allocadia

MARCH 30, 2021

The Problem: Missing Measurements and Budget Management. In 2019 Freshworks’ marketing operations team began streamlining various marketing and operational activities. All of their planned campaigns are created as line items to generate the Allocadia ID.

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The ABM Agency

APRIL 10, 2023

Reading Time: 11 minutes As a leading strategy for B2B SaaS marketing, account-based marketing (ABM) has become increasingly important in today’s rapidly changing landscape.

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Webbiquity

JANUARY 19, 2016

Image credit: The CMO Survey. Most businesses now use social media for marketing and those efforts are expected to continue to increase, yet many marketers and top executives alike find the business value difficult to quantify. 80% of marketers use these as primary success metric; 56% base social success on website traffic.

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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.

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The Effective Marketer

AUGUST 10, 2014

Look at how people are structured and what the reporting structure looks like and it will tell how the company is run, what is important to them, and how they think about their product and services and the market in general. A marketing org chart can give you clues about how a company goes to market.

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Content Standard

JANUARY 25, 2018

Since then, it has become one of the largest marketing platforms for brands to engage with their consumers, advertise, and publish content. Social media marketing, like social media itself, has come a long way, but social media marketers still struggle to get buy-in from the executive level to fully invest in their success.

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Seismic

MARCH 8, 2019

So even if you pick up just a handful of these habits, you will be on your way to becoming a more effective B2B marketer, as well as better prepared for future career success. What makes a marketer great? How can you execute a marketing strategy without knowing what you are working toward? 2) Embracing an agile marketing plan .

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JANUARY 5, 2018

Now…prepare for me to use the word “market” in its various forms a LOT in this next sentence. The Marketing team at Marketo asked marketers in the Marketing Nation a series of questions regarding their marketing plans for 2018. Question #1: In 2018, I expect my Marketing budget to….

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Vision Edge Marketing

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

Ted Levitt, author of The Marketing Imagination, writes, “The role of marketing is to create and keep customers.” ” A marketing plan is a valuable instrument in helping Marketing plot a course of action for how it will go about creating and keeping customers.

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The Marketing Blender

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

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. See Our Work.

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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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Single Grain

JULY 6, 2021

The Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) is a crucial position for every organization, but hiring a CMO is more challenging than any other C-level position. In this article, I will discuss what a CMO is, the different skills needed to become a great CMO, and how you can hire the perfect CMO for your organization.

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Content Standard

SEPTEMBER 22, 2015

Building an effective mobile marketing strategy is still foiling companies, even as many plan to increase mobile spending. A recent CMO Survey report found that mobile marketing currently accounts for 6 percent of total marketing budgets, but that number is slated to rise to 15.6

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SnapApp

JANUARY 29, 2015

Here’s what you missed in great reads for modern marketers this week: Marketo Blog: Flaunt Your Humanity. Jim Stengel, former CMO of Procter & Gamble, gave one of a series of interviews of marketing thought leaders by the Economist Intelligence Unit (sponsored by Marketo) and shared some very interesting insights.

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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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B2B Marketing Traction

MARCH 12, 2010

One marketing tool to use in determining which marketing strategies and inbound marketing tactics will be most effective in B2B marketing planning is your product or service lifecycle stage. Here are some examples of marketing strategies and inbound marketing tactics that are best suited to each stage.

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Heinz Marketing

MAY 28, 2018

By Matt Heinz, President of Heinz Marketing. It’s just 30 minutes long, fast-paced and full of actionable advice, best practices and more for B2B sales & marketing professionals. In this episode, Brian Hansford , VP of Client Services at Heinz Marketing hosts Sam Melnick , VP of Marketing at Allocadia.

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Hubspot

AUGUST 4, 2014

In his new book, The Marketing Performance Blueprint , HubSpot partner Paul Roetzer , shares a story from Anita Newton , Vice President of Corporate Marketing at Adknowledge. of CMOs have proven the short-term impact of marketing spend , while long-term spend dips to 29% in the latest 2014 CMO Survey.

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Marketing Insider Group

MAY 31, 2012

The event gathered together more than 1,000 sales and marketing professionals from companies of every shape, size and location. RT @ HeinzMarketing : attention is marketings currency. ” @ aquarry @ wittlake sales and marketing alignment: just get it done! Cheesy line? Ok, I’ll stop.). Key question! BrennerMichael.

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Hubspot

JUNE 28, 2016

Even though inbound marketing has been a huge success within so many different industries, there are still some companies that are shackled with misconceptions about whether it will work for them. In fact, we have identified 23 myths about inbound marketing that some people may think are true. Time to bust these myths!

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Marketing Insider Group

OCTOBER 25, 2021

As we’re rapidly approaching the end of the year, it’s a great time to look ahead at where we’re going and the marketing trends we’re likely to see more of in 2022. I’ve already touched on how we can expect marketing to evolve strategically , and in this article, I’ll be looking in more detail at some of the specific trends to look out for.

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Sage Marketing

APRIL 22, 2020

In today’s market when it is becoming more and more difficult to capture the attention of potential clients, what can you do to foster meaningful dialog with your audience? How much you should invest in marketing and marketing resources? . Why outsource marketing? This is when hiring in-house becomes a major expense.

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Full Circle Insights

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

A Single Source of Truth for Marketing and Sales. Whatever the industry, marketing and sales departments that don’t share a single source of data truth tend to be misaligned because they aren’t operating from the same set of facts. We’ve seen what a difference it can make when sales and marketing share a single source of truth.

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Metadata

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

How’d you do with your marketing budget this year? If you’re anything like me… Every single year, planning and forecasting in marketing teams is already a little bit like jumping in a Delorean and going 88 MPH with 1.21 Add a dose of worldwide pandemic and your 2020 plan is now nothing better than a bad guess.

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Metadata

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

How’d you do with your marketing budget this year? If you’re anything like me… Every single year, planning and forecasting in marketing teams is already a little bit like jumping in a Delorean and going 88 MPH with 1.21 Add a dose of worldwide pandemic and your 2020 plan is now nothing better than a bad guess.

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Marketing Graham

MARCH 30, 2022

But did it affect the marketing budget, and if so, by how much? I find benchmarking my marketing spend against the average really useful – especially when I’m begging for more money. These marketing budget examples are based on research from Gartner and their regular CMO Spend Survey.

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Marketing Graham

MARCH 30, 2022

But did it affect the marketing budget, and if so, by how much? I find benchmarking my marketing spend against the average really useful – especially when I’m begging for more money. These marketing budget examples are based on research from Gartner and their regular CMO Spend Survey.

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GrowPowerful

DECEMBER 1, 2022

From this, a plan of what to do about your company’s marketing can finally take shape As we see it, there are four main, widely applicable options to consider, both within your marketing operations and the company as a whole. 1: Stop random acts of marketing. 3: Create a fully measurable marketing plan.

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Single Grain

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

Marketing budgets vary widely by industry, company size and business goals. Trying to figure out exactly how much you should be spending can be tricky – and if you ask 10 people what they think, you’re going to get 10 different answers. A Radical Way of Looking at Marketing Budgets. Marketing budgets are useless.

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