B2B Marketing Directions

MARCH 14, 2021

The findings of the February 2021 edition of The CMO Survey were published last month. The CMO Survey is led by Dr. Christine Moorman and sponsored by Duke University's Fuqua School of Business, the American Marketing Association, and Deloitte. were VP level or above. The survey was fielded January 6-26, 2021.

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Zoominfo

JUNE 12, 2023

Our session included go-to-market efficiency insights from ZoomInfo CEO Henry Schuck and CMO Bryan Law, as well as Bain Partner Mackenzie Bushy and Dell SVP of Global Sales Operations Prabha Ramakrishnan. Speed to Lead Matters According to research from Bain, only 5% of customers are in-market at any given time.

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ClearVoice

JUNE 4, 2024

Six out of 10 — that’s the number of marketers who say their marketing budget is being scrutinized somewhat more or much more now compared to previous years. Done right, it’s a cost management technique you can leverage to squeeze the most value out of your marketing budget.

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ClickZ

MARCH 10, 2020

Personalized video enables marketers to combine data and content. Yotam Benami, Idomoo’s Chief Marketing Officer, has over a decade of experience working in the telecommunications, media and entertainment (TME) space. Q) Can you give us a brief insight into your professional journey and how you became the CMO of Idomoo?

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Terminus

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

For brand marketers, previously measured on nearly impossible to quantify metrics like impressions and visibility, this is a new challenge. In contrast, digital and demand gen marketers are nearly always responsible for pushing small (or large) marketing budgets to do more. What kind of budget does the department have?

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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. B2B and B2C companies. As this table shows, only 35.4%

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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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KoMarketing Associates

DECEMBER 5, 2017

Instead of planning for 2018 when you’re already starting it in January, the most prepared B2B marketers already have priorities identified and plans for execution come January 1. We reached out to B2B marketers across different industries and asked them the following question: What are B2B marketers prioritizing in their 2018 budget?

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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. and 2.5%, which most economists would consider good, but not great.

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Customer Experience Matrix

OCTOBER 21, 2010

Summary: a CMO Council survey shows that CMOs and CIOs agree they need to cooperate, but disagree on how well they're doing and what their roles should be. This affects marketing automation vendors too, since they sell to both sides. The CMO Council generously shared the detailed data with me.

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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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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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Sword and the Script | B2B

APRIL 16, 2024

Those companies that are in the early stages of a startup building a product stand to gain “the greatest” valuation benefit from marketing About half (45%) of all B2B technology startups make no effort to market their products. Too many investors and founders recommend avoiding marketing during the early stages.

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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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Martech

MARCH 21, 2024

As artificial intelligence technologies rapidly advance, marketing teams are tasked with integrating these powerful tools into their existing operations. As a marketing leader or CMO, you’re looking to harness AI to generate tangible business outcomes and elevate customer experiences. Sales and marketing alignment.

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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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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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Hubspot

JANUARY 4, 2021

Marketers are community-minded people. So, to better understand what to expect or pay close attention to in 2021, I've connected with 20 marketing experts for their perspective. I continue to believe in my mantra that marketing is powerful and must be used for good, not evil. Virtual Events.

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SmartBug Media

OCTOBER 5, 2023

A good KPI dashboard allows a CMO to quickly uncover actionable insights from the data and use those insights to make data-driven decisions that will move the company closer to set goals. Ultimately, as with most things in marketing, the “right” dashboard is the one that helps you reach your goals.

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Marketri

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Many people view marketing as a creative endeavor, but it’s really a mix of art and science. When you invest time and budget on marketing, you need to know it will pay off through a strong ROI. And therein lies the science of modern marketing. That assurance comes from data.

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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. Annual Budgeting Expense Management Process.

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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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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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Terminus

AUGUST 25, 2022

Terminus CMO, Natalie Cunningham , recently gave a keynote address at B2BSMX in Boston. We’ve taken her talking points and spun them up into this blog to talk about how this time of change is a real opportunity for marketers. Every marketer is scrambling. Budgets are under scrutiny like we haven’t seen in more than a decade.

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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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Heinz Marketing

MARCH 27, 2023

By Matt Heinz , President of Heinz Marketing If you’re not already subscribed to Sales Pipeline Radio or listening live every Thursday at 11:30 a.m The show is less than 30 minutes, fast-paced and full of actionable advice, best practices and more for B2B sales & marketing professionals. He’s the CEO of 2X Marketing.

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Content Standard

DECEMBER 10, 2020

As physical marketing spend shifts to digital channels, brands are looking to sales enablement and demand generation. The Marketing Insider Group recommends three basic tactics that serve marketers well in any B2B communication: Simplify your language. When the CMO shared her rationale, it made sense.

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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. What is your estimated timeline?

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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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LeadsRX

FEBRUARY 21, 2021

I joined LeadsRx in August 2020 charged with leading and improving upon the processes and services our dedicated Customer Care Team was already providing to customers looking to optimize their ad spend and improve their marketing campaigns. I realize a lot of marketers struggle with analytics in general, and attribution specifically.

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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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Metadata

JANUARY 27, 2021

Your marketing focus for 2021 should be getting better at targeting. Us marketers all understand that spending money on ads that get served to the wrong people is just a cost of doing business. Tightening belts and getting strategic Before 2020 tested us all, marketing departments had more wiggle room.

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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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Top Rank Marketing

JULY 2, 2018

Ask any marketer if they’ve ever had to contend with the shrinking or deep cutting of their budgets, odds are you’ll get a deep sigh and a “more than once” response. So, if you’re staring down a budget reduction, don’t panic. bctt tweet="If you’re staring down a #marketing budget reduction, don’t panic.

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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. Our Services.

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SnapApp

AUGUST 22, 2017

In the early 1990s, content marketing was, for the most part, traditional marketing. . In fact, almost one-fourth of the $150 billion in US advertising market spend was invested into television ads in 1990. . The internet became a tool more widely used and opportunity-packed than any marketer could ever dream of.

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