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How to optimize your marketing budget: Do more with less

Sprout Social

Marketers are finding it increasingly difficult to set the right budget, optimize it and keep the leads flowing. You’ll need a plan to address top budget concerns to provide clarity and control over every dollar spent. It’s all about knowing what’s working, and focusing in on activities and core channels that are delivering.

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High Growth Study 2024: What Drives Exceptional Growth in an Unpredictable Marketplace?

Hinge Marketing

In the chart below, you’ll see that the top three most impactful techniques identified by High Growth firms were 1) assessments and consultations, 2) live demos, and 3) business development materials, such as qualifications presentations, pitch materials, and proposals. Why the change? But that’s not the whole story. So what can you do?

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How to Write a Marketing Budget Your CFO Will Enthusiastically Support

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

Does it feel like presenting your marketing budget to the CFO is like pulling teeth? Do they ask countless questions and fail to understand, rationalize, or translate your work into business value? How can you write a marketing plan and budget without knowing what everything is building towards? Click To Tweet.

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Enhancing Trade Show Presence: Moving Beyond the Booth

Webbiquity

Try to offer a new or truly interesting twist on a topic to make your proposal seem topical, appealing, and fresh. It never hurts to ask for a little something extra, particularly if you are signing early or bringing a large contingent of employees. You truly will optimize your business’ participation in events.

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The 4 Best Responses to "I Need a Better Price"

Hubspot

So, how did they make it work? There are contingencies and cancelation terms added, payment terms extended, and additional product and services requests. If your first response is, “ Well, what’s your budget? This comes from the buyer who always asks for a price reduction because it’s worked in the past.

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Best Practices When Requesting Ideas and Pitches From Creatives

ClearVoice

It’s also why so many brands and agencies ask for potential new employees or contractors to present a strategy or even produce sample work as part of the application process. For the creative people who are interested in working with you, this can be an exciting and challenging opportunity to showcase their ideas.

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Need to Move Faster in Marketing? Improve Your Decision-Making Process and Build A Marketing Continuity Plan

Pam Didner

In IBM’s blog post, it went on to explain: “It’s more comprehensive than a disaster recovery plan and contains contingencies for business processes, assets, human resources and business partners – every aspect of the business that might be affected. How did we decide on budget allocation? Who were the decision-makers?