Oktopost

DECEMBER 21, 2023

But budget limitations can make or break even the best, and most thorough plans you’ve set to accomplish in 2024. CMOs have long encountered this problem. They’re expected to make every marketing dollar count and deliver maximum impact on a limited budget. Did your SEO program lead to a surge in web traffic?

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Martech

MAY 25, 2023

Almost half of the most advanced CDP users have significant challenges with data integration, Gartner’s Matt Wakeman told an audience at Marketing Symposium. Blowing up conventional wisdom This was the week Gartner analysts set about exploding some very familiar ideas about customer data collection and management.

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B2B Marketing Directions

AUGUST 15, 2021

Image Source: Gartner, Inc. Last month, Gartner released the findings of its CMO Spend Survey, 2021. The Gartner survey was conducted from March through May of this year. Gartner found that the mean percentage of total company revenue allocated to marketing in 2021 is 6.4%, down from an average of 11% in 2020.

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DiscoverOrg

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

Fear isn’t a luxury the CMO can afford. Today’s CMO position – “ a minefield where many talented executives fail ” – requires the courage of conviction to survive. If you’re a first-time CMO, this goes double. more likely to get increased budgets. Mentoring programs. Neither is hesitation.

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B2B Marketing Directions

OCTOBER 20, 2019

Gartner has just published the results of its 2019-2020 CMO Spend Survey. The Gartner study produced several valuable data points, but I want to focus on three takeaways that I found particularly interesting. Marketing Budget Growth Gartner's survey indicates that marketing budgets will come in at 10.5%

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ANNUITAS

DECEMBER 11, 2023

But whether we are talking about well-thought-out ‘growth marketing’ programs or haphazard ‘inside-out,’ interruptive go-to-market tactics, random acts of marketing and sales are at a breaking point. This has made for a challenging 2023. This combination of factors leaves little room for mistakes. Their approach?

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chiefmartech

NOVEMBER 26, 2017

Gartner recently released their CMO Spend Survey 2017-2018. The headline of their report: Budgets Recede Amid Demand For Results. After three consecutive years of growth, average marketing budgets at enterprise companies (most of the companies Gartner surveyed have more than $1 billion in revenue) have slipped from 12.1%

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Martech

DECEMBER 12, 2022

One would think this focus signals good news for marketing technology budgets, but the C-suite doesn’t look so positively upon more investments in martech solutions. Likewise, martech is among the top three capability gap areas cited by CMOs in the latest Gartner CMO Spend survey. Get MarTech! In your inbox.

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Martech

AUGUST 28, 2023

Marketers are using only one-third of their martech stack’s capability, according to Gartner’s 2023 Martech Report. Utilization has been declining amid huge increases in spending on marketing technology: up 35% from $15.3 Organizations are spending 25.4% of their marketing budget on technology, says Gartner.

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Crimson Marketing

NOVEMBER 10, 2014

Your company conducts quarterly budget reviews to determine how well projections aligned with performance. As Lance Walter, CMO of financial intelligence technology company Host Analytics suggests, there is a better way. He has more than 20 years of experience in enterprise software, and 15 in product marketing and management roles.

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B2B Marketing Directions

NOVEMBER 1, 2020

Image Source: Gartner, Inc. Gartner recently published the findings of the 2020 Gartner Marketing Operations and Organization Survey. All respondents were required to be involved in decisions regarding marketing operations and/or the alignment of marketing budgets, resources and processes.

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chiefmartech

AUGUST 16, 2023

The rates at which CRMs, email platforms, analytics/BI, and other attribution and performance tools were replaced have been cut by more than half. One related data point from Gartner’s latest CMO Spend and Strategy Survey reports that the majority of CMOs are under pressure to cut martech spend.

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Webbiquity

JULY 27, 2021

CMOs are reporting that marketing budgets are being slashed. in 2021, their lowest point in the history of Gartner’s CMO Spend Survey.” in 2021, their lowest point in the history of Gartner’s CMO Spend Survey.” ” Here are five likely impacts of those budget cuts.

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Customer Experience Matrix

MARCH 29, 2017

Like many people in the marketing technology industry, I was tickled in 2011 when Gartner predicted that CMOs would soon have bigger tech budgets than CIOs , and even more tickled when Gartner said in 2016 that it had happened. I understand Gartner's logic but I find the IDC figures more plausible. of the $1,235.3

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

DECEMBER 20, 2017

Gearing up for another fight with finance to spar over the funds you need to fuel next year’s programs and activities? Gartner recently found that marketing budgets are beginning to recede, dropping from their peak (12.1% How much are you spending on trade shows? What did we get for this spend?

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chiefmartech

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

Looking for the latest data on enterprise marketing technology spend? Gartner recently released their CMO Spend Survey 2016-2017. It’s already been in the news because their report showed that marketing budgets climbed for another consecutive year, now up to 12% of total company revenue. Look no further.

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KoMarketing Associates

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

Looking ahead to 2018, CMOs already have an idea of how they intend to spend their marketing budget, according to new research. Gartner recently released its “CMO Spend Survey 2017-2018: Budgets Recede Amid Demand for Results” report, providing a deep analysis how CMOs intend to utilize their budgets.

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Content Standard

OCTOBER 23, 2017

According to research from WARC , enterprise marketing technology budgets are projected to grow by an average of 10 percent next year, with technology accounting for 16 percent of overall marketing budgets. Additions to your stack will depend on your available marketing budget and what business goals you are hoping to achieve.

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Martech

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Marketing budgets slashed in 2021: Gartner. In its report, “The State of Marketing Budgets 2021,” analyst firm Gartner finds marketing budgets as a percentage of revenue falling to “their lowest level in recent history.” Budgets were almost cut in half, falling from 11% in 2020 to 6.4% Why we care.

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Martech

AUGUST 19, 2022

Technical debt in the case of marketing technology is similar to that of software development projects. The CMO and CTO didn’t have much in common a decade ago. Some 25% of marketing budgets are spent on marketing technology, according to the 2022 Gartner CMO Spend Survey. Wrapping up.

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Parse.ly

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Now’s the time to evaluate how content has impacted your bottom line and leverage that data to secure budget for next year. How can customer journey mapping and planning help us secure budget and buy-in for next year? “One of the things that always happens in Q4 is that you get into budgeting and planning.”

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Martech

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

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. While 61% of CMOs report they lack the in-house capabilities to deliver their strategy, spending on in-house labor remained static, per Gartner’s 2022 CMO Spend survey. .

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Only B2B

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

Cost-Effective: Usually requires minimal additional investment beyond existing tools. For instance: You are selling marketing automation software but find it challenging to reach the right prospects. Leverage their anonymized data on prospects actively researching similar tools. Evaluate your resources and budget.

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Content Standard

JULY 14, 2021

As you weigh potential partners against one another, it’s also worth looking from a macro level: how each option fits with your organization’s overarching marketing goals, most pressing areas of need, and content marketing budget. In no particular order, here are some of the most key factors to consider as you evaluate partners.

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Martech

MARCH 2, 2023

Boards and the C-suite expect CMOs to lead the way to profitable growth in 2023 despite various macroeconomic pressures manifesting into the “ triple squeeze ,” making everything more expensive. As a forecaster , to predict the outcome that raising or lowering marketing budgets will have on marketing’s contribution to the overall budget.

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 4, 2016

Technology used to be only a concern of the IT department, but these days, even the most entry-level employee is expected to have basic knowledge of online tools. According to Gartner, by 2017 the Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) will spend more on IT than the CIO. Aligned Goals. Integrated CRM. Integrated CRM.

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Martech

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

“Year over year we’ve seen marketing analytics at the top of marketing budgets,” said John Hurley, Head of Product Marketing at Amplitude, in his recent MarTech session. “It’s a big spend for a lot of teams.” New marketing analytics tools for a new era. Image: Gartner and Amplitude.

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Convince & Convert

JANUARY 8, 2014

Can You Increase the Budget for Everything? Other than the 6% of responding marketers that predict they’ll spend less on banners in 2014, where are all these dollars coming from? Consultants that can do the same, while also providing guidance on software selection (hey, that’s us!). If So, Please Call Me.

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Martech

MARCH 14, 2022

If you’re like many of the marketers I’ve advised over the years, one of the biggest challenges is securing a consistent budget to build out a martech stack that’s fit for purpose. There are many possible reasons for this budget challenge. What now, you ask? I have three words for you. Prioritize.

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ClickZ

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

According to the Gartner Marketing Data and Analytics Survey 2020, 54% of senior level marketers believe marketing analytics hasn’t had the influence expected. It can be used to uncover a customer’s purchase patterns, budget and growth projections, and even sentiment signals towards a company and its competitors.

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sagefrog

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

As businesses embrace the dynamic nature of online platforms, staying ahead of the curve with the right social media experts, tech tools, and solutions becomes vital. AI tools reshape ad creation, providing innovative ways to reach wider audiences. of overall company revenue. [1]

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chiefmartech

MAY 16, 2016

Because I’m a rambling blogger and not a professional journalist, I’m going to bury the lede — that a recent Gartner report shows larger companies spending more on marketing technology than advertising this year — but I promise to get to it eventually. 28% of marketing technology spend goes to infrastructure (e.g.,

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ClickZ

AUGUST 26, 2020

30-second summary: With more marketing budgets being spent on marketing technology than on people, and with an increasing number of marketing technology there is a whirlwind of confusion around martech. Marketers are spending more on martech than on people. Our third market trend covers off the demand from marketers for technology.

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Vision Edge Marketing

APRIL 19, 2018

The marketing automation software industry was a $3.3 Investment in Marketing Technology (Martech) remains strong based on the Gartner CMO 2017-2018 spend survey which found that Marketing leaders are allocating 22% of their expense budget to martech. But like any tool, its real value lies in its ability to scale.

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B2B Marketing Directions

DECEMBER 18, 2016

By this point, most B2B marketers are well into their planning for 2017, and it appears that many marketers will have healthy marketing budgets in the coming year. Several research studies have found that a majority of marketers are expecting their budgets to increase in 2017. Where Will Spending Grow in 2017?

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Metadata

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

This may sound cynical, but I blame software vendors for “ABM” being ill-defined. You can see this when you look at the inclusion criteria for a Forrester or Gartner report on ABM Platforms — it reads like a Demandbase features list. But before I delve into ABM’s overuse, I need to address an elephant in the room. You don’t need ABM.

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B2B Marketing Directions

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

The B2B Content Marketing Benchmarks, Budgets, and Trends: Insights for 2023 report is based on data from 925 survey respondents. Half of the respondents were concentrated in two industries - technology/IT/software/hardware and agencies (content marketing, advertising, digital, PR, etc.). Recent actions by the U.S.

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