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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? I can’t tell you how many times I see marketing leaders develop a plan and budget without any context for the business or division’s overall goals. 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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Best Practices When Requesting Ideas and Pitches From Creatives

ClearVoice

Part of what many marketers want from content creators is an instant ramp-up of ideas and different windows into the subject matter. A point of clarification for the marketers reading this: Story ideation is considered a part of the process of proving one’s salt, for writers or video producers. Provide feedback on your needs.

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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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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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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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Strategic Marketing for Professional Services

Hinge Marketing

Strategic marketing sounds like it would be a good idea for a professional services firm. That’s where strategic marketing comes in. Strategic Marketing Defined. Strategic Marketing is the use of marketing disciplines to achieve organizational goals by developing and maintaining a sustainable competitive advantage.