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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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Stop defending your marketing budget — start proving its value

Martech

Marketing budgets are down 15% year-over-year. This sparked doom-and-gloom predictions about marketing’s diminishing role in 2025. But here’s the truth: this isn’t a crisis of budgets its a crisis of imagination. I’ve spoken with CMOs who are thriving sometimes because of tighter budgets.

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Master Your Marketing Budget: Essential Steps for Planning Ahead

Heinz Marketing

By Lisa Heay , Director of Business Operations at Heinz Marketing Planning for 2025 might be the last thing on your mind—we’re not even done with Q3! So, if you’re not already thinking about your marketing budgets for next year, you could be falling behind. Resource planning. What is marketing’s role here?

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Your B2B Marketing Budget Playbook for 2021 Success [Research]

Marketing Insider Group

Most companies have learned that B2B marketing budgets are much more important than they thought – and that their existing marketing strategies, well, kind of sucked. Look, we all knew B2B marketing had plenty of problems long before COVID-19: Generic, bland, and forgettable content.

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How Startups Should Plan Their First Major Content Marketing Program

Marketing Insider Group

We’re here today to help simplify what can be a complex process: building a successful content marketing program. In our step-by-step guide, we’ll walk through what you need to know to develop a sophisticated content marketing plan to hit your goals and win new customers for your business. Source: Semrush. Source: G2.

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Why This Amount Is All the Marketing Budget You Need

Marketing Insider Group

Are you feeling pressure on your marketing budget? If you think you can’t stretch your dollars to meet all your marketing needs, you may actually need better allocation, not more money. The objective of marketing is to attract, engage, convert, and retain customers. Marketing Budgets Shifting and Changing.

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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 includes account-based marketing and expanding their pipelines. Elena Britton , Head of US Marketing, Indusa.