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Five Impacts of CMO Budget Cuts – Gartner 2021 CMO Spend Survey

Webbiquity

According to Gartner’s annual CMO Spend Survey, as reported by Laurie Sullivan in MediaPost , “Marketing budgets as a percentage of revenue fell to their lowest level in recent history…Marketing budgets as a proportion of company revenue fell from 11% in 2020 to 6.4% Live Events Won’t Roar Back.

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Why CMOs Must Master Empathy Now

Marketing Insider Group

A modern CMO needs a lot more than just marketing skills. In Chapter 4 of Mean People Suck , I explore the problem that many brands are facing these days: Consumers are becoming increasingly turned off by traditional marketing and are abandoning brands that don’t have a mission bigger than trying to sell their products.

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Top Marketing Conferences in 2018

Brandpoint

That explains why industry movers and shakers are offering an increasing number of content marketing conferences aimed at helping them make the most of its possibilities. Attend the conference to sea! Don’t miss the LeadsCon Conference in Las Vegas , March 4-6, 2019. AMA Marketing Week Live. 2019 dates TBD.).

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How B2B Marketers Capitalize on Event Marketing Opportunities [Interview]

KoMarketing Associates

B2B marketers are still investing in conferences and tradeshows to expand their reach, but a survey conducted by Certain, Inc. found that their post-event follow-up is lagging. About 73 percent of marketers claimed that they still rely on manual data capture at events.

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Creating a Culture of Experimentation in the Event Marketing World: An Interview with Jody Guetter of Social Assurance

Brandpoint

One of the biggest question marks is still event marketing. Are people starting to finally push past lockdown fatigue and willing to venture out to in-person events as the year progresses? Or will much of this year play out like 2020 did, with Zoom meetings and webinar registrations, or even hybrid models for events?

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Six strategies behind the trend in B2B client conferences

Biznology

Have you noticed how so many B2B companies seem to be running their own proprietary conferences these days? I can’t turn around without another customer event popping up on the radar. Producing an event is expensive and risky. Should you launch a client conference of your own? This got me wondering. What’s the benefit?

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Events Marketing Analytics – A Game Changer

B2B Marketing Analytics

But there is 1 additional tactic in the marketing mix where the engagement times of customers span not just for a few seconds but over a couple of days. Yes, we are talking about events and field marketing, which includes customer user conferences and trade shows.