Heinz Marketing

OCTOBER 23, 2018

Marketing planning season is here for the top performing B2B marketers. Yes, just one month into Q4 the most proactive B2B marketers are starting their 2019 planning process. Accountability requires detailed planning and preparation on how to use resources for the greatest effect.

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Martech

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Eighty-four percent of B2B buyers start the purchasing process with a referral, and peer recommendations influence more than 90% of all B2B buying decisions. We live in a peer-bound world,” says Chandar Pattabhiram, CMO for business spend management platform Coupa. to 2.9%) than the previous year, according to a Duke CMO survey.

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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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Litmus

JANUARY 26, 2021

Your new CMO or other marketing leader wants to move to a new platform. Why would your CMO care about the tool you’re using? .*. You have a CMO or marketing leader who “gets” the importance of email. Did you know that 77% of marketers say email is one of their top 2 most effective marketing channels ?

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accelerate agency

DECEMBER 7, 2021

The job of the CMO is arguably the most difficult in the C-suite. The average CMO lasts just 20 months, so they have to move fast to make an impact. Read on to learn more about: What does a SaaS chief marketing officer do on a regular basis? Here, a CMO is likely to take a goal-driven approach to planning.

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accelerate agency

DECEMBER 7, 2021

The job of the CMO is arguably the most difficult in the C-suite. The average CMO lasts just 20 months, so they have to move fast to make an impact. Read on to learn more about: What does a SaaS chief marketing officer do on a regular basis? Here, a CMO is likely to take a goal-driven approach to planning.

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ClearVoice

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Content marketing teams love to focus on two key parts of the content creation process, the beginning and the end. The enthusiasm of creating content and the accomplishment of sharing that content overshadow the third part right in the middle… the content review process.

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accelerate agency

DECEMBER 7, 2021

The job of the CMO is arguably the most difficult in the C-suite. The average CMO lasts just 20 months, so they have to move fast to make an impact. The marketing industry, too, has become increasingly complex over the past two decades, and the CMO’s role has grown exponentially. . Commercialization.

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Heinz Marketing

JANUARY 29, 2019

I recently hosted our latest invite-only CMO Roundtable in Seattle. We partnered with Allocadia and our topic focused on Finance and Marketing Alignment with the CFO and CMO. Chris Pick , CMO from Apptio and Samantha Bannister , VP of Finance and Operations from Allocadia were the panelists who provided valuable insights.

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Hubspot

OCTOBER 14, 2019

Whether you interact daily with your company's CMO or are considering hiring one for your own company, it can be tricky to identify what a CMO does and why a CMO is critical to your company's success. To help you better understand the role and daily function of a CMO, keep reading. What is a chief marketing officer (CMO)?

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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 Advisor

NOVEMBER 29, 2019

This is imperative, so marketing drives business growth and delivers a great customer experience. There has been a shift in the CMO’s role – from being focused on external communications and new customer acquisitions traditionally, to owning the customer experience across all touchpoints today. How can this be achieved?

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Choozle

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

Jumping out of a plane, throwing the first pitch at a baseball game, or climbing all the 14ers in Colorado might be more daunting than creating a marketing budget. But, as a marketer, I can’t think of anything more unnerving than creating your very first marketing budget. How do I show what’s working?

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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.

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Envy

APRIL 29, 2018

Casting wide is only really feasible if you have substantial budgets, dedicated messaging, targeted marketing tools and processes per audience. Most companies do not and therefore the result is bland messaging and marketing tools that do not mean much to anyone. This is a marketing disaster. RSA Conference 2018.

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Terminus

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

For brand marketers, previously measured on nearly impossible to quantify metrics like impressions and visibility, this is a new challenge. In contrast, digital and demand gen marketers are nearly always responsible for pushing small (or large) marketing budgets to do more. Avoid shortcuts in the process.

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Content Marketing Institute

JULY 24, 2018

What would you do if your boss unexpectedly increased your annual content marketing budget? We asked the presenters at Content Marketing World 2018 to share what they would do. Often, this happens as the budget year nears its end and your team needs to spend the designated dollars or lose them.).

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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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Allocadia

JUNE 17, 2019

How can meaningful benchmarks ensure you spend your next marketing dollar in the right way? Marketing teams often have several sources of benchmark data to use for planning – but struggle with how to make this data actionable, diminishing the impact that benchmarking can have. Discover the path to actionable planning data!

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sagefrog

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Businesses are leveraging AI to streamline operations, analyze data, and automate processes. AI tools reshape ad creation, providing innovative ways to reach wider audiences. According to the Gartner 2023 CMO Spend and Strategy Survey, marketing budgets have remained flat year-over-year at 9.1%

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Launch Marketing

AUGUST 23, 2023

With an average tenure of lasting 1-2 years in this position , it becomes even more crucial to navigate the complexities of the hiring process to find the right fit for your organization. The ability to scale marketing efforts faster: After hiring internally, it will take time for a VP of Marketing to get acclimated.

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Marketing Insider Group

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

How much is marketing contributing to revenue? As a CMO or director of digital marketing, you can use a handful of B2B marketing metrics to answer them. Quick Takeaways: If you’re not tracking B2B marketing metrics, you are playing a guessing game, with a likelihood of more losses than hits. Website Traffic.

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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. Less stress.

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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. In essence, catalytic marketing is not about “more.” Why we care.

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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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SmartBug Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

The combination of brand positioning, lead generation, digital marketing, local advertising, and paid media helps franchisees maximize their marketing efforts while adhering to established brand standards. For this article, we spoke to franchise business expert Jenn Foster , fractional CMO and founder of Foster Marketing.

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6sense

JANUARY 3, 2022

So even companies that previously struggled to find marketing budgets now have money to spend on one of the best growth accelerators there is (marketing). . In marketing, we’re hiring for a vast diversity of skills — ranging from analytics to event planning to creative. . Product marketing? Graphic design?

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Martech

APRIL 5, 2023

When times get tough, marketing budgets get cut. We also know businesses that keep investing in email marketing are better off when the economy improves. They combine quick wins for short-term gains with longer-term strategic revisions designed to work now during economic uncertainty and later when times improve.

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Allocadia

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Annual marketing planning is an exciting time when marketing organizations chart their course for the year with the mindset of no goal is impossible and ready to overcome any challenge. In reality, marketing planning at enterprise organizations is rarely straightforward.

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The ABM Agency

JANUARY 15, 2021

For some B2B companies, the 2021 marketing budget has increased due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. While there’s some level of uncertainty, the general consensus is there’s extra money that can be used on marketing, albeit in different ways than previous years. Before You Spend: Campaign Planning.

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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. . Processing.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JUNE 7, 2019

Companies are allocating large sums of their marketing budgets for technology investments that promise to make their teams more productive and the business more profitable. But when it comes to marketing automation there is a whole lot more to it than just setting up emails and social media posts to be sent out on a scheduled time.

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Allocadia

MAY 25, 2021

It’s imperative that marketers remain agile in marketing planning and make strategic budget allocation decisions.

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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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Porch Group Media

JULY 6, 2021

Using data-based insights to make better marketing decisions requires a comprehensive view of. Nearly one-third (32%) of marketers surveyed by Ascend2 report that a strategy is. planned to have unified marketing data and 45% are already operating with a strategy in place ( Ascend2 , 2021). CMO Council). GlobalDMA).

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B2B Marketing Directions

NOVEMBER 1, 2020

All respondents were required to be involved in decisions regarding marketing operations and/or the alignment of marketing budgets, resources and processes. In fact, Gartner's 2019 Marketing Organizational Survey found that more than two-thirds of marketing organizations have a discrete marketing operations function.

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Allocadia

APRIL 8, 2019

There‘s a little secret most marketers know, but don‘t talk about. According to The CMO Survey of marketers, only 35 percent of decisions are made based on marketing analytics. Just one in three marketing decisions is data-driven. Better budgeting and planning are critical to improving marketing performance.

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