KoMarketing Associates

DECEMBER 5, 2017

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. We reached out to B2B marketers across different industries and asked them the following question: What are B2B marketers prioritizing in their 2018 budget? This includes account-based marketing and expanding their pipelines. Elena Britton , Head of US Marketing, Indusa.

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ClickZ

AUGUST 27, 2019

And yet, our marketing teams were challenged with the complexity of managing multiple marketing budgets maintained in multiple disparate spreadsheets across the globe. This resulted in a lack of real-time visibility into our marketing investment performance, which made it difficult to identify activities that should be reallocated to better align with strategic imperatives. Marketing budget management and reporting as top pain point.

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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. How marketing budget software can help you save time .

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The Point

APRIL 23, 2020

There’s plenty of debate online about the merits of marketing spend in a recession, but the reality is that many B2B firms are currently cutting back on large-scale investment. Nurture programs need care and feeding to make sure they’re performing as well as they should.

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Webbiquity

JULY 27, 2021

CMOs are reporting that marketing budgets are being slashed. Here’s what that means, and practical ideas that go beyond the bad news to how B2B marketers to adapt. in 2021, their lowest point in the history of Gartner’s CMO Spend Survey.”

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Marketing Insider Group

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

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.

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Hinge Marketing

JUNE 7, 2021

On top of the loss and personal stress experienced by so many, it has also been a period of rapid market change, requiring businesses to adapt and evolve without a clear roadmap. . Download the Executive Summary of the 2021/22 AAM Marketing Budget Benchmark Study here for free!

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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. Less than five weeks after signing the contract, we had deployed Allocadia to manage almost 200 budgets across 230 users distributed around the globe. How can we achieve better return on our marketing investments? “It

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QuanticMind

MAY 8, 2019

Balancing your SEM budget is one of the major challenges of marketing management today. You put a lot of effort into PPC budget forecasting to secure the funds you need and so the last thing you want is to mismanage it through overspending or underspending. Poor Adwords budget management can lead to missed performance targets. That’s why it’s important to balance optimizing your campaigns for budget caps as well as performance goals.

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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% Meanwhile, advertising clawed back some of that cash, as spending on paid media increased from 22% to 25%. Marketing Management

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

APRIL 17, 2018

It would seem that marketing budgets are the first to go on the chopping block when performance isn’t what’s expected in Q1. After marketing budgets saw a modest increase in 2017, Unilever announced for 2018 that it was cutting its ads by 30% and that it was slashing the number of agencies it works with by half. billion annual budget. If budget cuts become commonplace, agencies may find themselves in conflict with their clients.

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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. Equally important, is the evaluation of internal factors such as overall company goals and objectives, sales plans, and the results of the current year’s marketing initiatives. External Budget Considerations. Internal Budget Consideration.

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KEO Marketing

OCTOBER 10, 2017

The art of budgeting can be tricky. 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. There is a lot of value in analyzing existing and previous marketing initiatives and their results.

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Single Grain

MAY 6, 2021

A good SEO report distinguishes a reputed SEO agency from a mediocre one. These reports are a great way to analyze the progress of your SEO campaigns on a monthly, fortnightly or weekly basis. However, preparing an SEO report is not an easy task. Why Is an SEO Report Important?

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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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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.

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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. Therefore, this survey primarily captured the perspectives and experiences of marketers in large enterprises.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

DECEMBER 20, 2017

It’s planning season, marketers. 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% According to Gartner, the drop is due in part to marketing leaders being too distracted by tactics and execution. How much are you spending on trade shows? What did we get for this spend?

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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.” Time to consider, then: where can you focus your Q4 marketing investment for the highest possible return? Does your corporate blog contribute to overall marketing ROI in a measurable way?

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Allocadia

MAY 30, 2019

Marketers and their teams spend months planning and strategizing for the upcoming year, but they often overlook what happens once execution begins. The trickiest time to manage marketing spend is after a quarter has begun — once programs are happening, budgets are changing, and those crystal-clear goals everyone agreed upon before the quarter began don’t quite seem so clear anymore. Don’t rely on a finance-centric view of marketing spend.

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Marketing Graham

MARCH 30, 2022

But did it affect the marketing budget, and if so, by how much? I find benchmarking my marketing spend against the average really useful – especially when I’m begging for more money. So here are the headlines… Marketing spend in 2021 was the lowest recorded.

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Marketing Graham

MARCH 30, 2022

But did it affect the marketing budget, and if so, by how much? I find benchmarking my marketing spend against the average really useful – especially when I’m begging for more money. So here are the headlines… Marketing spend in 2021 was the lowest recorded.

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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. Key KPIs to Track in Your Marketing Budget. Cumulative budget: The total budget summed up across all marketing channels.

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KoMarketing Associates

JANUARY 24, 2023

As more B2B marketers begin to see a return-on-investment (ROI) from account-based marketing (ABM), new research suggests that they will be increasing their budget for these initiatives in 2023. However, ABM has not come without challenges for B2B marketers.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JUNE 6, 2013

Author: Gary Damiano For as long as I have been involved in marketing, the marketing budget process has revolved primarily around the use of a spreadsheet to allocate, track, consolidate and report budgets. The experience of using a spreadsheet for managing a marketing budget can range from simplistic to nightmarish depending on the depth of needs and complexity of marketing’s programs and business models. Budgets

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Hubspot

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

Here's a hypothetical for you: Let's say your company has decided to invest in a website redesign so you can improve lead generation, and you're responsible for managing the project. Our latest offer, 8 Free Budget Templates to Manage Your Marketing Spend , has got you covered.

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Single Grain

JANUARY 31, 2020

When you’re spending money to make money, naturally you want to see a healthy ROI. A suitable set of paid tools not only puts a limit on your spending, but saves you time by making the process of targeting users more granular and effective. So what are the best paid media tools?

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Full Circle Insights

JULY 9, 2020

With no future current participation, we’re seeing a lot of restructuring and planning going on in B2B marketing organizations, where marketing teams are thinking about ways to allocate more of their budget to reinvestments in digital marketing.

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Allocadia

JUNE 12, 2019

This post is part 2 of a three-part series on building and managing a marketing budget: Part 1: How to Organize Your Marketing Budgets. Part 2: How to Build Out a Marketing Budget [below]. Part 3: Ongoing Management & Tracking of a Marketing Budget. Note: this guide is written with marketing teams of 10 or more in mind. Top-down vs. bottom-up budgeting. Building out a marketing budget: step by step.

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Allocadia

MARCH 30, 2021

Freshworks provides intelligent customer engagement software for businesses of all sizes, making it easy for teams to win customers for life. The Problem: Missing Measurements and Budget Management. The Solution: Taking Control of Budgeting, Plans, and Measurements.

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Directive Agency

DECEMBER 11, 2018

How much should you be spending on Google Ads? There’s more that goes into the budget planning process than choosing a number. Here are a few things you may need to keep in mind and some tips on how to choose a budget that will work for your company, your industry, and your desired outcomes. What Is the Average B2B Budget for Ads? Budgets will inevitably vary by organization depending on financial restrictions and campaign goals. PPC Advertising Budget ROI

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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.

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Crimson Marketing

NOVEMBER 10, 2014

Your company conducts quarterly budget reviews to determine how well projections aligned with performance. 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. Marketing Technology Podcasts

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Walker Sands

DECEMBER 23, 2021

No matter how you slice it, effectively budgeting for marketing is a complex exercise with as many inputs as there are levers for success. Business and Marketing Goal Alignment . Creating a Strategic Budget . It provides the “why” to your marketing strategy.

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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. This budget is gone. .

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Allocadia

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Marketing teams were managing budgets out of spreadsheets and there was so little visibility into investments that it was hard to measure performance with any kind of confidence. Allocadia gave us streamlined budget efficiency for running the marketing business.

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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. But when it comes to redefining any of those structures as a whole, procedural thinking can turn into a marketer’s worst enemy. Its blog didn’t tell stories, it held news and information about software updates. Mapping Budget to Your Story. Marketing ROI

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Allocadia

APRIL 30, 2019

Commvault is a recognized global leader in enterprise backup, recovery, and data management across any hybrid environment. It also made the marketers’ lives more efficient because they could spend less time on manual tasks. Anna Soo, Senior Marketing Manager, Commvault.

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delicious b2bmarketing

DECEMBER 6, 2011

Our Sites: Content Marketing Institute. Content Marketing World. Content Marketing Stats. B2B Content Marketing Assessment. « Must-See Content Marketing Examples From 2011. How to Climb the Engagement Pyramid with Public Sector Content » « Must-See Content Marketing Examples From 2011. | 2012 B2B Content Marketing Benchmarks, Budgets and Trends [Research Report]. Marketers are using social media more frequently.

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Content Standard

JANUARY 4, 2019

Or for those working in the digital space, content marketing and advertising. For years, brands have found themselves torn between the familiarity of advertising’s straightforward promotional methods and the daring authenticity of content marketing’s brand storytelling initiatives. But as 2019 rapidly approaches, a new sort of understanding has started to arise in marketing offices. What could this new dynamic mean for content marketers? ROI Marketing

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