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3 benchmarks for the B2B marketing budget as a percentage of revenue

Sword and the Script | B2B

Several credible studies conducted in 2023 put the average benchmark for B2B marketing budgets at about 10% of revenue How much money should a company invest in B2B marketing? As companies plan their budget for 2024, here’s a look at three credible benchmarks for B2B marketing budgets.

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How to find a fractional CMO for your business

The Marketing Blender

What is the fractional CMO scope of work? For a fractional CMO, scope of work is usually determined by a few different factors, including: The budget you have assigned to spend on marketing. The nature of your current and future marketing initiatives. Marketing Strategy. Marketing plan or roadmap.

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How Large Companies Can Minimize Content Creation Costs

Marketing Insider Group

Even larger companies need to cut corners when it comes to their marketing budget. Learn how to minimize content creation costs for your company here. Just because you’re with a large company doesn’t mean that you have an unlimited budget for content marketing. CMO, tear down that wall. I paraphrase.

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Lance Walter, Host Analytics CMO: Quarterly Financial Planning: How to Budget Better By Understanding Marketing Intelligence [Podcast]

Crimson Marketing

The problem is, by the time you analyze those results, you’ve likely already spent too much—or too little—on marketing. As Lance Walter, CMO of financial intelligence technology company Host Analytics suggests, there is a better way. Marketing Technology Podcasts'

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The Vital CMO-CFO Relationship

Terminus

For brand marketers, previously measured on nearly impossible to quantify metrics like impressions and visibility, this is a new challenge. In contrast, digital and demand gen marketers are nearly always responsible for pushing small (or large) marketing budgets to do more.

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3 marketing motions successful B2B software companies do differently than peers

Sword and the Script | B2B

Yet a new study by Bain and Google brings something new to the conversation. The two organizations teamed up to survey “sales and marketing executives at about 1,100 US software and cloud hosting companies.” Years ago, when I was studying for an MBA, the company 3M was a case study here.

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How to Foster Harmony During the Content Review Process

ClearVoice

Content marketing teams love to focus on two key parts of the content creation process, the beginning and the end. 90 percent of employees, HR professionals, and CEOs said empathy is important in Businesssolver’s 2020 State of Workplace Empathy study. Clarifying content creation resources and roles.

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