Envy

DECEMBER 23, 2020

How do you plan when your marketing (and beyond) world spins at an unprecedented pace? Pandemic aside, this is not the first time B2B marketers will face drastic changes to their best intended budget plans. Here are some practical tips to keep you on the right marketing budgeting (and planning) track.

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Hinge Marketing

JUNE 7, 2021

This is why for the 5th time, the Association for Accounting Marketing (AAM) joined forces with the Hinge Research Institute to conduct the industry’s most comprehensive study on CPA marketing budgets. The timing of this study allows accounting marketers to see the many ways these changes have impacted the industry.

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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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The Marketing Blender

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Your starter guide to marketing budget software. If you’re like most marketing professionals, then you know that having a well-managed budget is crucial to the success of your campaigns. But what you may not realize is that using marketing budget software can help you save both time and money.

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SmartBug Media

OCTOBER 1, 2020

The most skilled marketers aren't just the ones who can identify the best channels for growing customers; they are also the ones who can identify the best channels to avoid. Key KPIs to Track in Your Marketing Budget. Cumulative spend: The total budget expended across all marketing channels.

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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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Ledger Bennett

JULY 15, 2020

The latest Gartner data shows that 65 percent of marketers face moderate to significant budget cuts due to coronavirus disruption. And, while many marketers have faced cuts in the order of 10-20 per cent, some have reported much deeper cuts, especially in industries where demand has fallen away due to social distancing measures.

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KoMarketing Associates

JANUARY 31, 2017

Marketo’s “2017 Marketing Benchmark Report: North America” has found that marketers are implementing mobile marketing and optimization as a part of their multi-channel marketing strategies. The majority of marketers rank PPC as the most effective digital ad channel.

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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 we spending to launch this new product?

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DealSignal

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

What does this mean for digital marketing spend in 2021-2022, and how should you plan to allocate your B2B marketing budget for the best ROI? Here, we explore insights and walk through three tips you should keep in mind when creating your B2B marketing budget. By producing SEO blogs and video content?

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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 . It provides the “why” to your marketing strategy. This will help you see which channels should continue to be prioritized.

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KEO Marketing

OCTOBER 10, 2017

When developing a B2B marketing budget, there are two key perspectives to consider. It is also important to understand predictions from industry analysts and trends in marketing spend within your industry. External Budget Considerations. Stay current with industry analyst reports for your industry.

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KEO Marketing

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Companies are often lax about defining a specific marketing budget number and sticking to it, and this makes managing to a number very difficult. This type of ever-changing budgeting can lead to missed opportunities throughout the year and unexpected results and perceived under performance at the end of the year.

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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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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. Yet many marketers dump the creation of stories into their old content pipelines and expect the best. Mapping Budget to Your Story.

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Sword and the Script | B2B

APRIL 11, 2020

You can’t control the constraints imposed by the Coronavirus, but you can make a case to keep your marketing budget It’s a challenging time to be a marketer. Second, the business is chasing after your budget with a saw. And that’s the theme for this week’s Unscripted Marketing Links [UML]. What sort of studies?

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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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KoMarketing Associates

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

“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 percent increase in their marketing budget in the next 12 months. B2B services marketers foresee an 8.5 percent increase.

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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.

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Allocadia

MARCH 13, 2020

Three actions marketing organizations can take and how Allocadia can help. As marketers we all wish that we could set our plan and budget at the beginning of the year or quarter and we are able to execute exactly as planned. Document spend that has been forecasted, committed, and spent.

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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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ClearVoice

OCTOBER 21, 2022

Marketing is Essential During a Recession. It’s tempting to cut back on your marketing budget, but data shows that is actually not a good idea. According to a new report from Analytic Partners , if you cut back on marketing spending during a recession, your competitors may swoop in and steal your business.

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Top Rank Marketing

JANUARY 5, 2024

[Survey] 90 percent of B2B marketers have said that their roles have become increasingly complex, while 62 percent of marketing leaders have indicated a change from sales-owned to marketing-owned customer relationships — two of numerous findings of interest to B2B marketers contained in newly-published survey data.

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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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KEO Marketing

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Digital marketing plans for 2018 will consume a large portion of most B2B companies’ entire marketing budgets. The ease of tracking and adjusting mid-campaign, the extensive reach, and the preference by consumers for digital communications, make digital marketing a high priority for 2018.

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The Point

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

In uncertain economic times, Market Development Funds (MDF) can be a precious resource for channel partners (resellers, distributors, ISVs) looking for budget to fund sales and marketing activity. Yet industry surveys report that as much as 60 percent of available MDF funds go unused.

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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.” Spend more on content and less on media. Make SEM work harder. Sound familiar?

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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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Savanta

JULY 14, 2014

The full report can be downloaded free-of-charge here. B2B marketing budgets at an all-time high. The average budget increase is 19%, and 1 in 10 report a growth of over 50%. Events, email and web dominate spend. Email follows a close second, receiving 12% of budget. Yup, 39%.

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Porch Group Media

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

In recent researched conducted by Gartner , 44% of CMOs surveyed in April and May 2020 said they are facing midyear budget cuts in 2020 as a result of the pandemic. One change CMOs are making due to these budget pressures is shifting outside agency work to in-house employees. share) of total US marketing budgets in June, up from 13.3%

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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% Your CFO cares very little about your marketing tactics (besides wondering how much money you’ve spent on them!). Are you donning your boxing gloves?

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Allocadia

JUNE 13, 2019

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. The days of adding a line item called “Marketing” to a corporate budget are long gone.

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Hinge Marketing

JANUARY 22, 2015

All too often, marketing budgets become a battleground for the various perspectives and emotions of an organization’s decision-makers. Chaotic budgets based on a patchwork of beliefs rather than the goals and needs of the business. Fortunately, there’s a better way: basing the budget on research. The result?

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B2B Marketing Directions

OCTOBER 3, 2021

Moorman and her colleagues typically produce three reports for each edition of the survey. Highlights and Insights Report" - This is a relatively brief and graphically-rich report that provides mostly top-level results, along with an analysis of those results and major marketing trends.

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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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B2B Marketing Analytics

AUGUST 2, 2020

As though the ever-increasing expectations of the c-suite from marketing teams to demonstrate the quantifiable impact were not enough and now we are in these unprecedented times, which have further highlighted the need for marketing to be more data-driven and efficient with their investments.

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