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. That’s the strategy used at GE Digital.

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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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Marketing Insider Group

APRIL 26, 2021

The challenges we are facing have changed how we communicate with consumers and market our products and services. How can chief marketing officers empower their organizations to remain nimble in changing times? Make Short-Term Plans. One key strategy is planning for a shorter term than you have in the past.

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Content Standard

JULY 14, 2021

Each offers a unique set of product and service packages, industry specialties, and track records. 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.

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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. 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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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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The Marketing Blender

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

Our Services. 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.

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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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sagefrog

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

With the onset of the new year, marketers are urged to assess the current state of their strategies. As businesses embrace the dynamic nature of online platforms, staying ahead of the curve with the right social media experts, tech tools, and solutions becomes vital. of overall company revenue. [1]

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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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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

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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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. That’s the strategy used at GE Digital.

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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. That’s the strategy used at GE Digital.

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Martech

AUGUST 19, 2022

Technical debt in the case of marketing technology is similar to that of software development projects. Forging a mutually beneficial relationship between marketing and IT is vital. The CMO and CTO didn’t have much in common a decade ago. Team experiments help you discover new strategies or validate existing ones.

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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

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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ClickZ

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

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. Are martech budgets increasing, decreasing, or static? Just 4% anticipate a decrease.

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Kabbage

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

Over the span of the year the number of MarTech vendors has nearly doubled, over $1 billion in venture capital has been invested in marketing technology, and marketing budgets have grown exponentially (“ Walker Sands State of Marketing Technology 2017 Closing the Gap Between Martech Innovation and Adoption,” 2016 ).

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Martech

OCTOBER 20, 2022

At the risk of being nostalgic, it was a simpler time for our industry: the martech landscape was comprised of a mere 1,000 solutions and nobody had even heard of Cambridge Analytica. Fast forward to today, that martech landscape now has over 10,000 solutions , with new product launches and integrations happening daily.

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Onalytica B2B

JANUARY 8, 2019

I feel like the more I learn and do, the more I need to learn and do to keep up with great ideas and practices in B2B marketing. My very first professional job was an inside sales rep for a PC-based software company that sold developer tools in the early 90’s. I love what I do and working with other B2B marketing pros.

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Martech

MARCH 14, 2022

With that said, let’s begin the journey to unlock the power of your marketing technology with this advice: Do not purchase another platform, point solution, service, or analyst report until you read this article and share it with the rest of your marketing organization.

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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. Tip #3 – Invest in the Best.

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Content Standard

OCTOBER 23, 2017

This estimated $40 billion market is eager to find enterprise customers seeking to build out their marketing technology stack, and the demand for these services is steadily increasing. Additions to your stack will depend on your available marketing budget and what business goals you are hoping to achieve.

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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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Marketing Insider Group

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

As we look ahead, the future of marketing is shaping up to be an exhilarating swell, filled with evolving challenges and opportunities. Keen to see how your marketing playbook compares with the industry’s best? Or maybe you’re itching to find out the latest strategies keeping top marketers on their toes?

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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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Allocadia

APRIL 26, 2019

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! Marketing is a revenue driver for the organization, but they need the right tools to speak the C-suite’s language.

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Allocadia

JANUARY 17, 2019

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! They can do this by demonstrating alignment between marketing activities and corporate-level strategies and goals.

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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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Parse.ly

OCTOBER 7, 2021

As businesses gear up for 2022, executives are looking to invest in strategies that yield the biggest results and cut funding to the ones that don’t. Now’s the time to evaluate how content has impacted your bottom line and leverage that data to secure budget for next year. Lindsey: “There is quite a bit still being figured out.

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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. This strategy dovetails with another good, commonsense tactic.

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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. Therefore, B2B marketers also need to abide by certain practices to optimize their marketing endeavors.

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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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Zoominfo

JULY 14, 2023

As competition intensifies and buyer expectations evolve, the need for a well-defined and comprehensive B2B marketing strategy becomes paramount. Here’s how to make sure your B2B marketing strategy gets results. What is B2B Marketing? How Does a B2B Marketing Strategy Differ from a B2C Marketing Strategy?

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