Blue Flame Thinking

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

Throughout many industries, marketing budgets took a hit. In fact, in a recent survey of CMOs by Gartner , 44% reported facing midyear budget cuts due to the effects of the pandemic. This translates into everything from scaling back planned campaigns to staff reductions. What to Consider as You Plan for 2021.

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Allocadia

JUNE 6, 2019

This post is part 1 of a three-part series on building and managing a marketing budget: Part 1 : How to Organize Your Marketing Budgets [below]. Part 2 : How to Build Out a Marketing Budget. Part 3 : Ongoing Management & Tracking of a Marketing Budget.

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Walker Sands

DECEMBER 23, 2021

All organizations, no matter their size or structure, should start by considering the core goals of the business for the year ahead and understanding long-term growth plans. Creating a Strategic Budget . can provide opportunities to focus your spend in a way that resonates with audiences by role and industry.

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Content Standard

NOVEMBER 11, 2016

Marketers love their processes. From abstract creative thinking to nitty-gritty marketing budget balancing, we’re constantly searching for patterns to settle into. To some extent, the process worked, and it was comfortable for the brand’s leadership. Mapping Budget to Your Story.

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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.

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BenchmarkONE

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

Effective small business marketing requires a savvy mindset. It also requires having a proper hold on your priorities, including what you should be spending on marketing and where you should be spending it. A small business marketing budget tends to be limited — but that’s okay! It may even be a good thing.

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The Marketing Blender

APRIL 16, 2020

How to make smart cuts to your Marketing Budget…. I acknowledge that many businesses need to make cuts to their marketing budget right now to stay alive, so how do you do that without being like one who cuts off their nose to spite their face? If you lack strategy, all other spend will be wasted. Digital Marketing.

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Marketing Insider Group

NOVEMBER 8, 2012

It’s that time of year again and I have to ask the only question that matters for those of us involved in marketing strategy and planning: Do you know which marketing programs have worked and which ones didn’t? Accountability is tough on B2B Marketing organizations. It should be followed by a business plan.

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Marketing Insider Group

NOVEMBER 8, 2012

It’s that time of year again and I have to ask the only question that matters for those of us involved in marketing strategy and planning: Do you know which marketing programs have worked and which ones didn’t? Accountability is tough on B2B Marketing organizations. It should be followed by a business plan.

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SalesIntel

APRIL 28, 2022

Many marketing leaders are reluctant to try new marketing campaigns. After all, you have limited funds, and it can be scary to throw any money at a marketing campaign that might not work. You need a structured strategy and planning to ensure the ROI (return on investment) is there. Personalize Content and Mapping.

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Allocadia

APRIL 4, 2019

And because their budget was siloed into departments, they had no visibility into their spending and couldn’t report on spending through multiple dimensions. At Arc’teryx, nothing is more important than design and craftsmanship. We can easily and efficiently relocate spend.

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InsightSquared

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

The Japanese term “Kaizen” stands for the continuous improvement of a process. Adopted by Japanese manufacturing companies after World War II as a way to reduce waste and create competitive advantage, kaizen evolved beyond the assembly line in manufacturing to all business processes and became the precursor to lean manufacturing.

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The Point

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

By some measures, that may add up to $15 billion of unspent marketing budget every year in the US alone. For some, it may be the hassle of navigating an onerous MDF approval process. For others, it might be a lack of marketing resources. Why are channel partners leaving so much money on the table?

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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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Allocadia

MARCH 30, 2021

The Problem: Missing Measurements and Budget Management. In 2019 Freshworks’ marketing operations team began streamlining various marketing and operational activities. The Solution: Taking Control of Budgeting, Plans, and Measurements. Calculating the ROI of Digital Channels.

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The Point

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

In B2B circles, Q4 is historically a time of year when marketing spend picks up. Sales teams need the push to meet year-end numbers, whilst at other companies, spending marketing dollars in Q4 is simply a matter of “use it or lose it.” Does your corporate blog contribute to overall marketing ROI in a measurable way?

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Stevens & Tate

APRIL 18, 2024

This article will explore how automation and specific digital marketing strategies can optimize outreach and resident acquisition efforts. The Role of Automation in Senior Living Marketing Modern marketing automation provides a variety of tools designed to enhance efficiency and efficacy in reaching potential clients.

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Heinz Marketing

JANUARY 29, 2019

Here are detailed takeaways: Success starts with planning. A strong CMO and CFO partnership is built on planning, communication, and results. Planning is the starting point. Many CMOs and marketing VPs start their planning process late and this forces reactive decisions without data models.

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B2B Marketing Analytics

OCTOBER 20, 2019

With our marketing analytics services , we have been enabling our customers to access 2019 (and before) marketing performance data on the fly along with the ability to drill down into the data to discover actionable insights and do what-if analysis for 2020 planning.

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Martech

MARCH 2, 2023

And although marketing budgets, as a share of revenue, rebounded last year to more than 9%, according to the 2022 Gartner CMO Spend and Strategy Survey , they are still lower than they were in 2020, forcing CMOs to achieve more with less. As a coach , to suggest shifts to current marketing investments that improve performance.

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Allocadia

JUNE 13, 2019

Annual Budgeting Expense Management Process. Let’s start with the annual budgeting and expense management process – what do CFOs expect from Marketing here? Marketing budget must be aligned to financial targets set by the company. Having the Right Tools Helps Align Finance and Marketing.

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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. He ought to know—his company’s marketing budget is already 3 times greater than its technology budget—a turn of events Gartner predicts will only begin to proliferate widely after a couple more years.

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Hinge Marketing

JANUARY 21, 2016

It’s almost February and your firm has yet to approve your marketing budget. Worse yet, you don’t even have a marketing plan to work from. Don’t fall into the trap of running with the same marketing approach you used last year. The market is changing at warp speed. Best Bang for Your $$.

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illumin

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

It involves the strategic planning, negotiation, and purchase of ad space and time on various media channels to reach a target audience effectively and, with the rise of digital advertising, media buying has evolved to include both traditional and digital channels. Programmatic advertising has revolutionized the media buying process.

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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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Hinge Marketing

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

And the most successful firms take a methodical approach to this task, documenting each year’s strategy in a marketing budget plan. In this post, we will show you how to develop a thoughtful and effective plan for your professional services firm. Four Approaches to Marketing Planning. Legacy budget planning.

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SocialPilot

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

With AI, marketers can analyze historical data and market conditions to predict future sales trends , helping you make proactive decisions about your inventory, staffing, and marketing strategies. Content Generation Content generation: the most common use case of AI in marketing. Get Power of AI 6.

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Tomorrow People

MARCH 8, 2018

But what exactly is content marketing? Content marketing is the approach of fitting your content within a structured and measurable process to create better results in attracting leads and transforming them into customers — and increasing revenue. How content management grows business leaders. Your marketing personas.

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The Marketing Blender

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

In this situation, not only will the fractional CMO help develop a successful marketing strategy, but they’ll implement it, too. This team usually includes all the typical components of a marketing agency – content writers, designers, developers, digital marketing specialists, and more. Build a marketing budget.

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Allocadia

APRIL 8, 2019

And, according to SiriusDecisions, fewer than 20 percent of B2B organizations are comfortable with their ability to quantify return on marketing spend. Better budgeting and planning are critical to improving marketing performance. But how are marketers tackling these challenges in the real world?

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Mass Analytics

DECEMBER 16, 2022

MASS Analytics designed a full Marketing Mix Modeling Course to help you master the full process of delivering a marketing effectiveness project. Marketing Mix Modeling. Naturally, that measurement relies on calculating their ROI to optimize Marketing Spends. But first, what is Marketing Mix Modeling?

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ClearVoice

JUNE 24, 2021

That’s why an overwhelming 90% of all companies and other organizations use content in their marketing plans, including 91% of B2B marketers and 86% of B2C marketers. Here's a look at the top content marketing statistics and trends and how you can make the most of them. Video content performance and ROI.

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Allocadia

JUNE 17, 2019

In order to transform the way our world works, Trimble employs thousands across the globe and their size caused difficulties for the marketing team. With a lack of visibility to get a true read on their overall marketing spend, the company’s marketers ended up losing money because they couldn’t tell where they had underspent or overspent.

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Martech

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

If what’s past is prologue, marketing budgets will likely contract further in the coming year, despite a new survey saying 70% of U.S. marketers expect their tech budgets to grow. Dig deeper: B2B marketing budgets stalled out in 2022. Dig deeper: B2B marketing budgets stalled out in 2022.

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SmartBug Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

In most of these engagements, I was brought in to review the market and competition and to develop a marketing plan that could be scaled effectively across the nation to franchisees. I was always brought in at the franchisor level, as my expertise is building a plan that can be scaled to franchisees.

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SmartBrief - Marketing

JULY 25, 2023

Because of the volatile economic climate and rising inflation costs, many are trimming their marketing spend. But, after surveying more than 150 CMOs, marketing VPs, and marketing directors earlier this year, Forrester found that more than a third are planning to reduce their OOH ad spend.

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Schubert B2B

MAY 26, 2023

So why digital marketing is important for B2B? Hopefully, this should show you why digital marketing is a necessity for any B2B company that plans to be in it for the long haul. What is Digital Marketing? Digital marketing is a rather broad term. It covers everything related to marketing online.

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