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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CMSWire

JUNE 9, 2025

The Gist New CMO role. Modern CMOs must blend data and storytelling to meet customer expectations. A decade ago, the chief marketing officer (CMO) was often seen as the brand's creative visionary who orchestrated campaigns that resonated with audiences. We've got you covered. AI and stories. It drives momentum.

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Martech

MAY 12, 2025

Marketing budgets flat-lined at 7.7% of revenue this year, according to The Gartner 2025 CMO Spend Survey released today. That is grim news in the face of a possible recession and the budget cuts that come with it. Paid media continues to dominate marketing spend, accounting for 30.6% of marketing budgets or 2.4%

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CMSWire

JUNE 10, 2025

The Gist Insufficient traditional CMO model. The CMO strategic super connector. The CMO role, when repurposed to integrate data, creativity and strategy with a relentless focus on the customer experience, drives lasting customer relationships. We've got you covered. It’s time to shift from brand manager to super connector.

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Martech

JANUARY 9, 2025

The most recent CMO Survey results have been released, offering fresh insights into the state of marketing strategies. A key theme emerges from the survey: the growing pressure on CMOs to demonstrate value and ROI amid a shifting marketing landscape. campaign creation and deployment), they can influence data quality.

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Sword and the Script | B2B

MAY 6, 2025

Spending on CX drops and so too does customer retention; marketing leaders aim to hire but hesitate on other marketing spend amid economic uncertainty Marketing budgets are beginning to inch up again. As a percentage of company revenue, marketing budgets rose to 9.4% up from 7.7% That sounds good.

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The Marketing Blender

AUGUST 23, 2024

What is an outsourced CMO? It’s a fractional or part-time marketing executive with the ability to build revenue, reputation, and resilience for your brand and your business. However, for many organizations, the cost and resource implications of hiring a full-time CMO may not be feasible or strategically necessary.

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Martech

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

The key metrics ‘Agile + Generative AI’ can impact This generative AI evolution makes marketing content development more productive. It also lowers customer acquisition costs (CAC), which is every CMO’s golden ticket to “doing more with less.” In the same vein, prompt design is different from prompt engineering.

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Martech

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

The problem is real — media spend is falling out of balance Companies are spending less on marketing overall, according to Gartner’s 2024 global CMO survey. The average marketing budget is 7.7% If you’re the CMO or VP of marketing, ask whether your transactional programs come close to that standard.

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Envy

DECEMBER 23, 2020

How do you plan when your marketing (and beyond) world spins at an unprecedented pace? 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.

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Marketri

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

As a business owner or CEO, you know that the changing seasons bring not only cooler breezes and football games but also the crucial task of setting your annual marketing budget. Over my many years of participating in the budgeting process, I’ve seen some great ways to approach it, and plenty of opportunities for refinement.

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KoMarketing Associates

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Whether you’re using content marketing to build up SEO , increase engagement on social media, or garner brand awareness, these 15 statistics will help guide you in the right direction. Content Marketing Budgeting Statistics. What’s Working in Content Marketing 2021. The State of Marketing Budgets 2021.

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Marketing Insider Group

APRIL 17, 2023

25 Best Marketing Articles No time to sift through Google SERPs? In this post from Convince & Convert , you’ll learn how to secure more clicks without pouring your marketing budget into paid search ads. Outsourcing your content creation will not only help you save time, but also publish consistently and gain expert advice.

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Orange Owl Blog

AUGUST 1, 2024

Fractional Marketing Top 10 Benefits of a Fractional CMO: Detailed Insights with B2B Examples Orange Owl August 1, 2024 Share : Table of Contents A fractional CMO can bring numerous benefits to a B2B business, offering the expertise and strategic insight of a full-time CMO without the associated costs.

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Single Grain

MAY 1, 2025

As we navigate through 2025, marketing leaders face unprecedented budget allocation challenges amid economic uncertainty, technological disruption, and evolving consumer behaviors. The latest CMO Survey, drawing insights from over 11,000 marketing executives, reveals critical trends shaping marketing budget decisions this year.

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KoMarketing Associates

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

As marketers look ahead to the remainder of the year, those in both the B2B services and B2B product sectors expect their budgets to grow in the coming months. The CMO Survey” from Deloitte, The Fuqua School of Business at Duke, and the American Marketing Association discovered that B2B product marketers expect a 9.3

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KoMarketing Associates

DECEMBER 8, 2015

As we wind down 2015, marketing budgets and planning for the new year begin to take focus. Hopefully, the performance metrics associated with your organization’s marketing programs have yielded success and validation for tactics proposed at the beginning of the year. It is that time in the year again. source ). >.

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Unbound B2B

MAY 12, 2025

What is the difference between demand creation vs demand capture? How do you break down key differences and know which one to use in your B2B marketing strategy? UnboundB2B: How do you break down the key differences between demand creation and demand capture? And how do they fit into an effective B2B marketing strategy?

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Full Circle Insights

JULY 9, 2020

With no future current participation, we’re seeing a lot of restructuring and planning going on in B2B marketing organizations, where marketing teams are thinking about ways to allocate more of their budget to reinvestments in digital marketing. But what’s the best way to re-plan our B2B marketing budgets?

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Martech

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Creating the annual marketing budget is notoriously challenging. Trying to justify every line item to finance teams that don’t understand marketing can be frustrating and overwhelming. This article explores practical tips for navigating the annual budgeting process smoothly.

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Meerkat Marketing

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Virtual Chief Marketing Officers (Virtual CMO) are becoming increasingly popular as many businesses struggle to understand how they should be marketing during the pandemic. . A Strategic Marketer at a Fraction of the Cost. A Virtual CMO can act as a mentor and teacher to help grow your marketing talent already in place.

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Martech

OCTOBER 1, 2024

It showed me at the center of five interconnected circles representing different business functions: CEO, CFO, CRO, CMO and CDO. Nothing will reveal the truth of marketing as a powerhouse of effectiveness like the simple act of forecasting its business value. B2B marketing is a great example. headwinds and tailwinds).

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Martech

MAY 30, 2024

The latest edition of The CMO Survey shows contradictions which, in my view, hinder the realization of marketing technology benefits and ROI. The CMO Survey is conducted biannually since 2008. The spring 2024 report includes data collected during Q1 2024 from CMOs across various industries and company sizes.

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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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The Marketing Blender

MARCH 2, 2022

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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Marketri

MAY 28, 2025

Youre scrutinizing spending across every function, including marketing. How do you manage your marketing budget in 2025? How do you scale your marketing to drive growth with limited resources? Are there better alternatives to hiring a full marketing team? Few marketers are truly skilled at both.

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Contently

AUGUST 28, 2024

When we talk about marketing and technology, the conversation is all over the place. On the one hand, there’s buzz about B2B and B2C content marketing trends and AI that implies there will be explosive growth in tech adoption. It’s not that content marketers aren’t interested in tech.

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The Marketing Blender

MAY 4, 2021

What, exactly, does a fractional CMO do? or “It feels like we’re not getting the ROI out of our marketing,” it might be time to consider hiring a fractional Chief Marketing Officer. CEOs are looking for solutions when sales start to falter or marketing efforts are falling flat, especially when you need to stay within a budget.

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KoMarketing Associates

JANUARY 18, 2018

B2B marketers became more efficient at developing content and increased focus on strategy development. If you haven’t already, take a deeper look at your content creation process, as well as your overall strategy, to see where improvements can be made. 55% Use Lead Gen/Nurturing to Measure Content Marketing Success.

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ClickZ

OCTOBER 13, 2022

30-second summary: Erica Gunn, CMO at Canto, offers a guide to maximizing your marketing budget in tough economic circumstances. As marketers, we must be prepared for challenges to our budgets. However, marketers shouldn’t be afraid to make the case to future-proof their business, even in difficult times.

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The Marketing Blender

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

What is a fractional CMO? If you’re thinking about outsourcing some (or all) of your marketing responsibilities, you may have stumbled upon fractional CMO services. What is a fractional CMO, how are they different from a marketing agency, and how can they support your business? What is a fractional CMO?

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ClickZ

AUGUST 29, 2020

30-second summary: As of August, nearly 42% of marketers reported decreasing marketing budgets. Interestingly, 33% of marketing budgets are allocated to marketing technology. 44% of CMOs experienced mid-year budget cuts with 11% expecting significant budget cuts. Commerce & Sales.

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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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Marketri

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Instead, a fractional marketing agency applies the appropriate resources at any given point in your marketing journey, based on your goals and objectives. Fractional marketing is especially effective for mid-sized companies that can’t devote a disproportional amount of the marketing budget on FTEs.

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Sword and the Script | B2B

OCTOBER 31, 2023

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. Gartner: 9.1%

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Heinz Marketing

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Companies prioritized market share over profitability, pouring resources into customer acquisition without a clear path to sustainable returns. According to Gartner , global B2B marketing budgets hit 9.5% Budget Cuts and Restructuring: Gartners 2023 CMO Spend Survey showed that marketing budgets have dropped to 8.2%

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Navigate the Channel

APRIL 10, 2025

Reviewing Marketing budgets for 2025 It is that time of year when many of us in the building material industry are trying to figure out how much to spend on marketing next year. With 2025 being a year where things should finally be on the rebound in most of our market segments how should we plan for growth?

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