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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B2B Marketing Directions

OCTOBER 3, 2021

The findings of the August 2021 edition of The CMO Survey were published last month. The CMO Survey is led by Dr. Christine Moorman and sponsored by Duke University's Fuqua School of Business, the American Marketing Association and Deloitte LLP. The CMO Survey is conducted semi-annually, and it provides a wealth of information.

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KoMarketing Associates

DECEMBER 8, 2015

As we wind down 2015, marketing budgets and planning for the new year begin to take focus. Hopefully, the performance metrics associated with your organization’s marketing programs have yielded success and validation for tactics proposed at the beginning of the year. It is that time in the year again. source ). >.

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ClickZ

AUGUST 29, 2020

30-second summary: As of August, nearly 42% of marketers reported decreasing marketing budgets. Interestingly, 33% of marketing budgets are allocated to marketing technology. 44% of CMOs experienced mid-year budget cuts with 11% expecting significant budget cuts. Management.

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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. Read more here.

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KoMarketing Associates

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

As marketers look ahead to the remainder of the year, those in both the B2B services and B2B product sectors expect their budgets to grow in the coming months. 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

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Top Rank Marketing

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Report] 43 percent of software as a service (SaaS) leaders have said that they use competitive analysis for pricing research, with 34 percent turning to feedback from existing customers, while 14 percent utilize previous market research, according to newly-published B2B survey data. How Do B2B SaaS Companies Determine Pricing?

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6sense

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Editor’s Note: CMO Coffee Talk is an open space for more than 1,300 CMOs to come together weekly with their peers and discuss timely, crowd-sourced topics. Matt Heinz of Heinz Marketing co-hosts these dynamic, illuminating conversations with 6sense CMO Latané Conant. . Think Beyond Budget .

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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. Are you donning your boxing gloves?

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Ledger Bennett

JULY 15, 2020

Significant shift in budget since the onset of the pandemic Late last year Gartner published their 2019-2020 CMO Spend Survey , and while budgets had declined a little in 2019, confidence was very high regarding the outlook for 2020. When a crisis hits, a company’s marketing budget is usually the first to go.

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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. Marketing Technology Podcasts'

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B2B Marketing Directions

OCTOBER 10, 2021

This is the second of three posts discussing some of the B2B-specific findings of the August 2021 edition of The CMO Survey. The "Part 1" post discussed the economic outlook of B2B marketers and the state of marketing spending in B2B companies. of their total marketing budget on digital marketing activities.

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Martech

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Tight budgets and scrappy teams require innovation at every level — from the Founder and CMO, e-commerce Marketing Director to VP of Marketing, Social Media Director to Paid Search Strategist. The job of a digital marketing decision-maker within an SMB can be challenging— from the long hours to shifting budget priorities.

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Convince & Convert

JANUARY 8, 2014

A fascinating new study was released this morning from Salesforce ExactTarget Marketing Cloud (a client of Convince & Convert ). Called 2014 State of Marketing , insights from over 2,500 global marketers , the report is full of data about marketers’ outlook and plans for the coming year.

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B2B Marketing Directions

OCTOBER 20, 2019

Gartner has just published the results of its 2019-2020 CMO Spend Survey. The research report is based on survey responses from 342 marketing executives in North America and the U.K. Marketing Budget Growth Gartner's survey indicates that marketing budgets will come in at 10.5% of firm revenues.

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Martech Advisor

NOVEMBER 29, 2019

This is imperative, so marketing drives business growth and delivers a great customer experience. There has been a shift in the CMO’s role – from being focused on external communications and new customer acquisitions traditionally, to owning the customer experience across all touchpoints today. How can this be achieved?

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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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B2B Marketing Directions

AUGUST 13, 2023

LinkedIn and Ipsos reported some survey findings for subsets of the total survey sample. In the survey report, the term B2B leaders refers to the full sample of survey respondents. The term B2B marketing leaders refers to CMOs and other senior marketers (81% of the total survey sample).

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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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Marketing Insider Group

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

She took the lead on a great discussion on Modern Marketing, the impact of Analytics, Data and Marketing Technology ( MarTech ), and the importance of Data Literacy for all marketers. Q: Fred, why is marketing analytics so important as we move into planning our 2021 strategies.

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KoMarketing Associates

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

As detailed in coverage earlier this year, CMO’s remain committed to growing their investment in social media. The CMO Survey Highlights and Insights Report”, published in February 2017, found that even though B2B CMO’s currently spend 10.5 percent of their marketing budget within the next five years.

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SmartBug Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

The combination of brand positioning, lead generation, digital marketing, local advertising, and paid media helps franchisees maximize their marketing efforts while adhering to established brand standards. For this article, we spoke to franchise business expert Jenn Foster , fractional CMO and founder of Foster Marketing.

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KoMarketing Associates

MARCH 14, 2017

TrackMaven’s latest “Digital Marketing Analytics Performance” report took a look at how various industries’ digital marketing performance compares. For social media performance, the report findings showed B2B industries build audiences on LinkedIn. Another recent report found B2B product companies spend 9.4

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Kabbage

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

2016 has been a year of technological innovation and adoption in the B2B marketing world. With the growth in solutions, channels, and data, marketers have increasingly become more analytical and strategic when implementing campaigns to drive revenue. Marketing Budgets are Increasing. According to the SOPM report, 57.3%

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B2B Marketing Directions

SEPTEMBER 16, 2018

With the beginning of the fourth quarter less than a month away, many B2B companies have already started planning for 2019. Over the next several weeks, marketing leaders will be evaluating how well their existing marketing programs have performed and developing plans for the coming year.

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Sprout Social

MAY 3, 2023

The role of chief marketing officer (CMO) is changing dramatically. When I think about marketing leaders in my networks and our customers—whether it’s B2C or B2B—our roles encompass so much more than bringing awareness to our brand and positioning. Are you trying to expand into new markets?

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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. While there’s some level of uncertainty, the general consensus is there’s extra money that can be used on marketing, albeit in different ways than previous years. Before You Spend: Campaign Planning.

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Valasys

JUNE 27, 2023

On June 7, 2023, LinkedIn, the professional networking platform, released a new B2B research report and introduced several B2B tools, including generative AI ad copy features. These findings depict an industry facing mounting pressure, as outlined in LinkedIn’s first-ever B2B Marketing Benchmark study released on the same day.

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Martech

APRIL 5, 2023

When times get tough, marketing budgets get cut. We also know businesses that keep investing in email marketing are better off when the economy improves. They combine quick wins for short-term gains with longer-term strategic revisions designed to work now during economic uncertainty and later when times improve.

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B2B Marketing Directions

AUGUST 16, 2020

And second, they need to effectively communicate the value of marketing to the CEO and other senior leaders. In the 2020 Marketing Measurement & Attribution Survey Report by Demand Gen Report, 54% of the surveyed marketers said their ability to measure and analyze marketing performance and impact needs improvement or is poor/inadequate.

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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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Webbiquity

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

As noted in the 2016 B2B Marketing Trends report , B2B marketing strategies and practices are in the midst of significant change, driven by new technologies and evolving buyer expectations for more “consumer-like” experiences. B2B marketing budgets are shifting to digital and social. The CMO Survey ).

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Content Standard

JULY 1, 2022

We entered 2022 with marketing budgets finally climbing back from the pandemic’s record lows to an average of 9.5% Some CMOs I’ve recently spoken with are preparing for budget cuts as high as 30%. Current economic pressures aside, I’ve found that increased budget scrutiny is usually a good thing.

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ClickZ

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

The survey includes responses from both B2B and B2C marketers. Key findings include: 54% of marketers think martech budgets will increase next year. Many marketers (39%, the largest group) report spending 10-25% of their marketing budgets on martech. How much marketing budget goes to martech?

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Porch Group Media

JULY 6, 2021

Using data-based insights to make better marketing decisions requires a comprehensive view of. Nearly one-third (32%) of marketers surveyed by Ascend2 report that a strategy is. planned to have unified marketing data and 45% are already operating with a strategy in place ( Ascend2 , 2021). CMO Council).

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KoMarketing Associates

APRIL 7, 2021

For the marketers who were able to pivot quickly, many B2B demand generation best practices helped to ease the pain of 2020. As marketers lost access to traditional channels like live events and in-person meetings, many marketing budgets were redirected into demand generation campaigns. Use more storytelling.

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Allocadia

APRIL 16, 2019

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. Are you donning your boxing gloves?

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