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How to optimize your marketing budget: Do more with less

Sprout Social

Marketers are finding it increasingly difficult to set the right budget, optimize it and keep the leads flowing. Managing social media and other marketing channels in this economy can be challenging. You’ll need a plan to address top budget concerns to provide clarity and control over every dollar spent.

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How to Write a Marketing Budget Your CFO Will Enthusiastically Support

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

Does it feel like presenting your marketing budget to the CFO is like pulling teeth? If you want a less painful budgeting process, my best piece of advice is to build a budget that your CFO will understand and agree with from the get-go. Before taking your plan and budget to the CFO, run it by your sales counterparts.

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Need to Move Faster in Marketing? Improve Your Decision-Making Process and Build A Marketing Continuity Plan

Pam Didner

The COVID-19 pandemic put marketers (me included) to the test. After talking to many marketers, we all agree that we need to start thinking about how to do marketing differently in order to react fast as a team. The question is: “How can marketing move quickly in fast-changing situations?” What is appropriate to do?

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Marketing Planning Process for Professional Services

Hinge Marketing

Any firm that wants to succeed needs a marketing plan. However, the marketing planning process that works well for consumer products, industrial goods or not-for-profits is not well suited for professional services. Creating a marketing plan takes more than just writing down some ideas about how to promote your firm.

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5 tactics to get the 2023 email marketing funding you deserve

Martech

Because retail and email marketers on the front lines know that the holiday season is going to happen a lot sooner this year than it has in the past. I also could have told that talking head that holiday campaigns aren’t the only things stressing us marketers right now. Friends, it’s budget time. . Why the spit-take?

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Differentiated Marketing for Professional Services

Hinge Marketing

Should you specialize and zero in on a specific market niche? This strategy is called differentiated marketing. Differentiated Marketing Defined. Differentiated Marketing Defined. In Differentiated Marketing a firm pursues multiple target markets using different marketing strategies for each.

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Every Founder Interview on the B2B Marketing Blog (So Far)

Webbiquity

How do we enable the people who need data to make decisions within their area of expertise—finance, operations, sales, marketing, supply chain, whatever—but who aren’t experts in data analytics, to use data effectively? Some marketing dashboard tools are easy to use but very limited in scope.