B2B Marketing Directions

AUGUST 15, 2021

Image Source: Gartner, Inc. Last month, Gartner released the findings of its CMO Spend Survey, 2021. The Gartner survey was conducted from March through May of this year. The survey produced 400 responses from marketing decision makers and influencers located in North America, Europe and the UK.

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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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Envy

DECEMBER 23, 2020

Pandemic aside, this is not the first time B2B marketers will face drastic changes to their best intended budget plans. Here are some practical tips to keep you on the right marketing budgeting (and planning) track. Yet B2B marketers have been complaining about “not having enough budget” since the dawn of time.

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Sword and the Script | B2B

MAY 30, 2023

The tech analyst likens CMOs spending and utilization of martech to gambling with the marketing budget but the real culprit may well be short-term thinking in business CMOs are buying and implementing marketing technology (martech) that their marketing teams aren’t using. Ergo, CMOs invest martech.

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chiefmartech

AUGUST 29, 2021

But it is why I always look forward to Gartner’s annual CMO Spend Survey report. Allocation of budget is a CMO’s way of “voting with their wallet” for what they think is most important. of the budget. Closely related, marketing analytics was ranked #4 with 11% mean budget allocation.

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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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Martech

AUGUST 28, 2023

Marketers are using only one-third of their martech stack’s capability, according to Gartner’s 2023 Martech Report. Utilization has been declining amid huge increases in spending on marketing technology: up 35% from $15.3 Organizations are spending 25.4% of their marketing budget on technology, says Gartner.

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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. Martech continues to be a strong category in which CMOs are spending. Read more here.

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chiefmartech

NOVEMBER 26, 2017

Gartner recently released their CMO Spend Survey 2017-2018. The headline of their report: Budgets Recede Amid Demand For Results. After three consecutive years of growth, average marketing budgets at enterprise companies (most of the companies Gartner surveyed have more than $1 billion in revenue) have slipped from 12.1%

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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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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

DECEMBER 20, 2017

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. How much are you spending on trade shows? What did we get for this spend?

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B2B Marketing Directions

OCTOBER 9, 2022

Source: "The CMO Survey" (Christine Moorman, 2022) (This month's Research Round-Up continues my review of selected B2B findings from the September 2022 edition of "The CMO Survey." In this post, I'm discussing what the survey found pertaining to the growth and impact of marketing analytics and "working from home" in B2B marketing.)

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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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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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chiefmartech

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

Looking for the latest data on enterprise marketing technology spend? Gartner recently released their CMO Spend Survey 2016-2017. It’s already been in the news because their report showed that marketing budgets climbed for another consecutive year, now up to 12% of total company revenue.

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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.” But first… A Brief Rant.

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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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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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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

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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Content Standard

JUNE 12, 2017

Cassandra is a marketing executive for a mid-size B2B tech company. As she watches her employees pack their bags for Florida, she knows she has to stick around and report on the current state of their marketing budget. When it comes to budget conversations, the essential question to answer is: “Was this spending justified?”

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KoMarketing Associates

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Content marketing can be a powerful way to build a foundation for your overall marketing strategy, create lead generation opportunities, and engage with your target audience. So it’s critical to take the time to create a strong content marketing strategy that can deliver relevant content to your audience.

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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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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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KoMarketing Associates

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

Looking ahead to 2018, CMOs already have an idea of how they intend to spend their marketing budget, according to new research. A focus on existing customers, analytics and digital marketing is emerging. In terms of the type of marketing CMOs are leaning toward, digital reigns supreme.

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Martech

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

“Year over year we’ve seen marketing analytics at the top of marketing budgets,” said John Hurley, Head of Product Marketing at Amplitude, in his recent MarTech session. “It’s a big spend for a lot of teams.” New marketing analytics tools for a new era.

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Golden Spiral

APRIL 1, 2022

The average tenure for a CMO has fallen further, to just 40 months , the shortest in the C-Suite. The Changing Role of the CMO. The Impact of Marketing Automation on Marketing and Sales. CEB , a subsidiary of Gartner, put the average around 7. The Data-Driven CMO. Think About This. months, a loss of 1.5

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ClickZ

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

Many marketers (39%, the largest group) report spending 10-25% of their marketing budgets on martech. 50% of marketers said their biggest frustration around purchasing is the volume of solutions in the market. Are martech budgets increasing, decreasing, or static? Just 4% anticipate a decrease.

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ClickZ

AUGUST 26, 2020

30-second summary: With more marketing budgets being spent on marketing technology than on people, and with an increasing number of marketing technology there is a whirlwind of confusion around martech. Marketers are spending more on martech than on people. The conundrum.

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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. What now, you ask? I have three words for you.

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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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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. There are so many incredibly smart and generous people I learn from.

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Allocadia

DECEMBER 22, 2017

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. • How much are you spending on trade shows? • What did we get for this spend?

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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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Convince & Convert

JANUARY 8, 2014

The most extraordinary statistic in this report is that marketers appear to be almost universally bullish on digital marketing , and are planning to throw gobs of cash at every conceivable digital tactic. It’s like an expensive game of musical chairs, with each seat comprised of a different type of digital marketing savior.

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Allocadia

APRIL 16, 2019

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. How much are you spending on trade shows? What did we get for this spend?

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