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Recession Planning: Should You Cut Your Marketing Budget?

Zoominfo

The constant pendulum swings give consumers and businesses little confidence for planning ahead, and the only thing we can probably agree on is that everything really is weird. All too often, marketing budgets are the first to be scaled back. Unfortunately, that’s not really an actionable business tactic. You get it.

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Why This Amount Is All the Marketing Budget You Need

Marketing Insider Group

Are you feeling pressure on your marketing budget? If you think you can’t stretch your dollars to meet all your marketing needs, you may actually need better allocation, not more money. The objective of marketing is to attract, engage, convert, and retain customers. Marketing Budgets Shifting and Changing.

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How to optimize your marketing budget: Do more with less

Sprout Social

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. Do your research You need to be aware of the market conditions to allocate the right marketing budget.

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Shift Happens! Making Adjustments to Your Marketing Budget

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Marketing Alternatives to In-Person Event. Like most professionals, startup marketers are still adjusting their marketing budget to the effects of COVID-19. As a result, marketing teams that once relied on trade shows for effective lead generation are scrambling to find alternatives that garner the same success.

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Why Display Ads Are a Waste of Money—And What You Should Do Instead

Contently

So why are marketers still pumping nearly $100 million in display ads this year? While traditional advertising—television, billboards, radio, sponsorships—could only be correlated with sales, display advertising promised marketers the dream of something that had long eluded them: precision. I have a theory.

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How to Manage Your Entire Marketing Budget [Free Budget Tracker Templates]

Hubspot

If only there were a way to organize your answers to all of these questions -- a place where you could enter in estimated costs for all of your line items, and then compare your projected marketing budget to what you actually end up spending. Included in our eight budget templates bundle is a template to manage your website redesign.

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13 simple ways to promote your YouTube videos (without spending a fortune)

ConvertKit

Why YouTube video promotion is so important. Step #1: Optimize and promote your YouTube videos. Step #2: Promote your YouTube channel. Step #3: Promote your channel outside of YouTube. Fortunately, there are still plenty of ways to promote your YouTube videos and grow your audience without spending a fortune.

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