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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. Here are seven specific best practices to get there.

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5 Contingent Workforce Advantages for B2B Marketing

Ledger Bennett

With enterprise businesses facing mounting challenges in recruiting and sustaining the top digital marketing talent required for optimal performance, many are turning to a contingent workforce model as an effective staff augmentation pathway to bring the necessary skills into their businesses. What is a Contingent Workforce?

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11 Tips for Manufacturing Marketers Dealing with the Coronavirus Crisis

Brandpoint

If you’re in charge of marketing for a manufacturer , you’ve likely had to shift your entire strategy to work around store closings, trade show interruptions and other effects caused by the COVID crisis. Most likely, you’re focusing on digital marketing more than ever before. Redirect marketing money. Broadcast webinars.

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To see marketing differently, we need to turn the spotlight on social

Sprout Social

I think back to when I started in the field and my role was all about creating one-sheets, building presentation decks, planning events and helping to support advertising and awareness goals. Now, the role of marketing has fundamentally evolved, changed and grown. Marketing strategies should start with social.

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THE HACKIES: How leading marketing executives tackle martech

chiefmartech

For marketing executives and their teams, building an effective marketing technology stack is a daunting prospect. I’ll touch on three practical approaches that marketing leaders and their teams take to MarTech strategy: How do we decide which martech bets to make? Strategy shapes the decision-making process.

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Differentiated Marketing for Professional Services

Hinge Marketing

What is the best way to grow your professional services firm? Should you specialize and zero in on a specific market niche? For many professional services firms the answer is neither. They choose a strategy that combines elements of both approaches. They choose a strategy that combines elements of both approaches.

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Marketing Planning Process for Professional Services

Hinge Marketing

Any firm that wants to succeed needs a marketing plan. The alternative is a haphazard, start-and-stop, inefficient effort that wastes time and money – two valuable resources no professional services firm can afford to squander. Creating a marketing plan takes more than just writing down some ideas about how to promote your firm.