The Marketing Blender

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Our Services. . 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. Related Content: Your guide to building a marketing budget template.

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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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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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Marketing Insider Group

AUGUST 9, 2017

Where to Focus Your Annual Marketing Spend It’s never too early to start working on your company’s marketing plan for the upcoming year – just ask the accounting department. The post Creating Your 2018 Marketing Budget [Guide] appeared first on Marketing Insider Group.

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Golden Spiral

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Have you been asked to cut your marketing budget? Google slashed their own marketing budget at the height of the pandemic. The UK government urged businesses to reduce prices by cutting their marketing spending. Fitness megabrand Peloton is making the marketing cut. Watch the headlines.

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The Marketing Blender

APRIL 16, 2020

Our Services. How to make smart cuts to your Marketing Budget…. In a separate article, I’ll teach on Account Based Marketing, which is a strategy for sales and marketing alignment to target your VIP prospects. At Blender, we organize marketing into the Seven Fundamentals. Digital Marketing.

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accelerate agency

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

It doesn’t matter how big or small your business is; creating a SaaS marketing budget takes a lot of time and effort. All good SaaS marketing budgets go beyond the numbers alone. Join us as we look at how to build a SaaS marketing budget that’s tailored to you. How much do SaaS companies spend on marketing?

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accelerate agency

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

It doesn’t matter how big or small your business is; creating a SaaS marketing budget takes a lot of time and effort. All good SaaS marketing budgets go beyond the numbers alone. Join us as we look at how to build a SaaS marketing budget that’s tailored to you. How much do SaaS companies spend on marketing?

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B2B Marketing Directions

AUGUST 15, 2021

Gartner expressly noted that the results of this survey do not represent the market as a whole, but only reflect the sentiments of the respondents surveyed. Marketing Budgets Fall The "headline" finding of the Gartner research points to a significant decline in marketing budgets as a proportion of company revenue.

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Webbiquity

APRIL 28, 2020

On April 23, while presenting the findings on a webinar , the BMZ team ran four quick polls with the webinar audience to find out how the B2B marketing outlook and plans had changed over 30 days of lockdowns, slowdowns, and shutdowns. The quick polls focused on four topics: Change in overall budgets. Change in event plans.

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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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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.

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SmartBug Media

OCTOBER 1, 2020

One of the most underrated skill sets of a marketing leader is the ability to guide decision-making based on budgetary analysis. 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.

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accelerate agency

JANUARY 10, 2022

Whether you’re a brand new startup or an established business, building a SaaS marketing budget is a time-consuming project. As we’ll explore, building a SaaS marketing budget is about more than just figures. How much do SaaS companies spend on marketing? Does spending more on marketing equal more success?

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Webbiquity

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Running a business is expensive—especially a tech company that’s trying to provide the best services possible for clients. Despite growing demand for networking solutions, security software and IT services, these operations can still run into money problems, even when things are going well.

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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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Ledger Bennett

JULY 15, 2020

To save money, Airbnb halted all its marketing activities at the end of March in order to save an estimated $800 million in 2020. When a crisis hits, a company’s marketing budget is usually the first to go. So planning for multiple outcomes, with a budget to match is a sensible approach. Of course, it’s not alone.

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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. Finance may ask: “Marketing, what have you done for me lately?”.

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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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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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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. Its blog didn’t tell stories, it held news and information about software updates. Follow the Money.

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SalesIntel

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Breakdown of marketing spending between organic and paid channels was most commonly 75% organic – 25% paid, followed by 50% organic – 50% paid. The top 3 most effective marketing channels as reported by respondents were social media, organic search and content marketing. Here are 7 GTM Strategies for EdTech Marketing: 1.

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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]. Give our services a try.

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Walker Sands

DECEMBER 23, 2021

Although there’s not a one-size-fits all answer to what will have the greatest impact on your business, there are a few key starting points for setting strategic budgets and effectively aligning your goals to larger business strategies. Business and Marketing Goal Alignment . Creating a Strategic Budget .

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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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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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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. Internal Budget Consideration.

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Brandpoint

APRIL 16, 2020

Yet we know that social distancing currently remains the best strategy to counter the COVID-19 virus and thus staying home remains the best course of action for us as individuals. One that, at best, leaves potential opportunities on the table and at worst, can hinder future market share. It’s a bad idea.

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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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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. But even in the best of times, priorities shift, programs fail, and change has to happen.

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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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Choozle

DECEMBER 1, 2021

The year is nearly over, and we’re preparing to launch into Q1 with a plan and the confidence to execute it. Strategies and budgets have continued to shift after a year of exploring new trends in consumer behavior and the technology available. Make a note of any changes in your team members or marketing partners.

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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. By some measures, that may add up to $15 billion of unspent marketing budget every year in the US alone. Be realistic.

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KEO Marketing

AUGUST 24, 2016

Leading business to business (B2B) marketing agency, KEO Marketing , understands that many businesses are beginning to plan their marketing budget for 2017. With the upcoming New Year comes a new set of challenges that marketers will want to take into account.

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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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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. Fund nothing without 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. Fund nothing without a business plan.

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