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How to Create Your 2021 Marketing Budget Plan [Step-by-Step Guide]

Marketing Insider Group

If you’re like most companies, you realized in 2020 that annual marketing budget planning doesn’t work anymore. Annual budgets aren’t flexible enough to keep up with your audience’s dynamic behavior. Quick Takeaways: Annual marketing budget planning isn’t ideal anymore. Don’t overcomplicate things.

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Recession Planning: Should You Cut Your Marketing Budget?

Zoominfo

The constant pendulum swings give consumers and businesses little confidence for planning ahead, and the only thing we can probably agree on is that everything really is weird. All too often, marketing budgets are the first to be scaled back. But cutting back on marketing isn’t always what’s best for your business.

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3 recent surveys predict B2B marketing budgets will get a boost in 2025

Sword and the Script | B2B

Much of the “profit” in “profitable growth” came from the marketing budgets of tech organizations that didn’t grow this year; t hose in a financial position to fix this error are hastening to give their marketing team their budget back next year In ten or 20 years, we might look back at the year 2024 as the “great marketing measurement experiment.”

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What Are Experts Prioritizing in 2018 B2B Marketing Budgets?

KoMarketing Associates

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. This requires us to put time into a comprehensive closed-loop reporting strategy but really allows us to optimize the marketing budgets.

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10 Things to Do When Marketing Spend is On Hold

The Point

There’s plenty of debate online about the merits of marketing spend in a recession, but the reality is that many B2B firms are currently cutting back on large-scale investment. Corporate blogs are some of the most neglected marketing assets in a company’s arsenal. 10 Things to Do When Marketing Spend is On Hold Click To Tweet.

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How to optimize your marketing budget: Do more with less

Sprout Social

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. Do your research You need to be aware of the market conditions to allocate the right marketing budget.

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8 Tips for Working with a Smaller Marketing Budget

The Point

When a marketing budget get cut, certain line items tend to get immediate scrutiny: media spend, headcount, events. However, simply slashing spend – while quick and dramatic – can have a detrimental effect on leads, pipeline, and revenue. Even a design update can give old content new life.