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. The Gartner study produced several valuable data points, but I want to focus on three takeaways that I found particularly interesting.

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B2B Marketing Directions

NOVEMBER 1, 2020

Image Source: Gartner, Inc. Gartner recently published the findings of the 2020 Gartner Marketing Operations and Organization Survey. The survey results are described in two reports - the 2020 Marketing Operations Survey report, and the Marketing Organization Survey 2020 report.

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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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Porch Group Media

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Marketing departments are certainly no exception and have been forced to balance between cutbacks in spend while still maintaining acquisition and retention strategies to thrive during these difficult times. One change CMOs are making due to these budget pressures is shifting outside agency work to in-house employees.

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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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Crimson Marketing

NOVEMBER 10, 2014

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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Content Standard

JULY 14, 2021

As you weigh potential partners against one another, it’s also worth looking from a macro level: how each option fits with your organization’s overarching marketing goals, most pressing areas of need, and content marketing budget. What technology does the partner use to facilitate its content marketing services?

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Marketing Insider Group

APRIL 26, 2021

The most successful CMOs will be willing to reinvent their roles, get their hands a little dirty, think creatively, and challenge the status quo. Make Short-Term Plans. Likely, your messaging, offerings, how you run your marketing team, and how you interact with customers have all changed in some way. Remain flexible and nimble.

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Martech

MAY 22, 2023

Marketing budgets remain flat in 2023 having failed to climb back to pre-COVID levels. That’s one takeaway from Gartner’s latest CMO Spend and Strategy survey unveiled at the Gartner Marketing Symposium and Xpo in Denver. this year Catalytic marketing. The state of martech spend.

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sagefrog

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

AI tools reshape ad creation, providing innovative ways to reach wider audiences. Google’s 2023 update to Google Ads introduced semi-autonomous ad asset creation with Google’s Asset Creation for Performance Max, enabling marketers to generate custom content with minimal prompts. of overall company revenue. [1]

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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.” ” Here are five likely impacts of those budget cuts.

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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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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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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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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% 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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ClickZ

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

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. Top choices of types of martech where people plan to invest in the next year are email, automation, and social media.

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Martech

AUGUST 19, 2022

Forging a mutually beneficial relationship between marketing and IT is vital. The CMO and CTO didn’t have much in common a decade ago. Some 25% of marketing budgets are spent on marketing technology, according to the 2022 Gartner CMO Spend Survey. Martech skills.

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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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The Marketing Blender

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

How to calculate and allocate your marketing budget for the next fiscal year in 2020. Tips for planning next year’s marketing budget before the end of this quarter. In Q4, two different phenomena hit marketing departments—either belts get tightened or a “use it or lose it” mentality takes hold. Our Services.

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 4, 2016

According to Gartner, by 2017 the Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) will spend more on IT than the CIO. Validating the increase in spending on marketing technology, such as marketing automation and social media management, will require an even more specific understanding of each tool’s ROI. Aligned Goals.

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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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Martech

MARCH 14, 2022

I’m talking about a martech stack designed and implemented to help you create remarkable customer experiences, do more work in less time, and achieve your primary business and marketing goals. There are many possible reasons for this budget challenge. But you didn’t need to read a research study to know this.

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Martech

OCTOBER 20, 2022

“Gartner recently stated 26% of enterprise marketing budgets are being allocated toward martech,” said Brinker, “You need talented people to implement and harness all that technology, and there’s a lot of room for specialization.” ” What is a marketing technologist?

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ANNUITAS

DECEMBER 9, 2014

However, if there isn’t a focus on marketing skills or ongoing training from an organizational prospective for our marketing teams, these numbers sadly, make sense. According to the recent Gartner report, CMO Spend 2015 – Eye on the Buyer , marketing controls a fair amount of budget, approximately 10.2%

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Allocadia

APRIL 28, 2020

This spring, every marketing organization across the globe stepped back and reevaluated their plans. Marketing never sleeps – even during an economic crisis, marketers are tied to the mandate of moving the needle and driving impact for their organization. How limited are our resources?

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Parse.ly

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Now’s the time to evaluate how content has impacted your bottom line and leverage that data to secure budget for next year. What are the different roles of marketing and content throughout the customer journey? How can customer journey mapping and planning help us secure budget and buy-in for next year?

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Allocadia

APRIL 26, 2019

Marketers are increasingly asked to prove their impact. The difficulty to align marketing metrics with business priorities was highlighted in the 2018-2019 Gartner CMO Spend Survey. It’s not that marketers want to be seen as cost centers – the opposite! But how can they do this? But just one second….

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Allocadia

JANUARY 17, 2019

Marketers are increasingly asked to prove their impact. The difficulty to align marketing metrics with business priorities was highlighted in the 2018-2019 Gartner CMO Spend Survey. It’s not that marketers want to be seen as cost centers - the opposite! But how can they do this?

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B2B Marketing Directions

DECEMBER 18, 2016

By this point, most B2B marketers are well into their planning for 2017, and it appears that many marketers will have healthy marketing budgets in the coming year. Several research studies have found that a majority of marketers are expecting their budgets to increase in 2017.

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The Effective Marketer

MARCH 24, 2011

Sales keeps insisting on receiving better leads, marketing knows that is an issue, but still they are not delivering. In their “ CMO Perspectives on B2B Marketing Automation &# this challenge for high quality leads is shown as having increased from 69% in 2009 to 76% in 2010. Like Be the first to like this post.

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Hubspot

APRIL 5, 2017

When it comes to marketing, small businesses need a lot of bang for their buck. Basedon on a recent Gartner CMO Spend Survey , marketing budgets now account for 12% of company revenue, a steady increase from 2010. Nearly half of all marketing organizations have some aspect of sales hooked in, for example.

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Onalytica B2B

JANUARY 8, 2019

I also began working with CRM systems to enable database marketing efforts and lead results analytics. In 2009 I dove headlong into working with Eloqua and Salesforce and at that point I was hooked on designing demand generation workflow and measuring results.

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Allocadia

APRIL 5, 2019

On the Customer Success team here at Allocadia, we work day in and day out with hundreds of marketing operations practitioners at companies around the globe. Their efforts are often happening behind the scenes, as they strategize, plan, budget, and analyze results to make sure every dollar counts.

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Content Standard

OCTOBER 23, 2017

According to research from WARC , enterprise marketing technology budgets are projected to grow by an average of 10 percent next year, with technology accounting for 16 percent of overall marketing budgets. But it can often get overlooked in budget planning.

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ANNUITAS

MARCH 4, 2014

Things really started to get serious when Laura McClellan from Gartner said that thing about marketing technology. By 2017 the CMO will spend more on technology than the CIO. ”. Consider her first point on how marketing is becoming increasingly technology-based … absolutely true, but not necessarily a good thing.

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Valasys

JULY 12, 2019

A new study from marketing research firm Gartner revealed that despite the proliferation of digitization, 77% of B2B buyers still are under an impression that making a purchase is time-consuming & even painful. The conventional sales funnel has also changed for good.

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VisumCX

JANUARY 3, 2018

With this being the case, it is no wonder why Gartner is predicting the reduction of marketing budgets in the new year. Marketing is no longer in a position to get by with vanity metrics such as social shares, web visits, downloads and form fills disguised with the word leads.

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