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. Ergo, CMOs invest martech. It’s 11.4%

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Webbiquity

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Running a business is expensive—especially a tech company that’s trying to provide the best services possible for clients. Despite growing demand for networking solutions, security software and IT services, these operations can still run into money problems, even when things are going well.

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accelerate agency

JANUARY 10, 2022

Whether you’re a brand new startup or an established business, building a SaaS marketing budget is a time-consuming project. As we’ll explore, building a SaaS marketing budget is about more than just figures. How much do SaaS companies spend on marketing? Does spending more on marketing equal more success?

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

DECEMBER 20, 2017

It’s planning season, marketers. Gartner recently found that marketing budgets are beginning to recede, dropping from their peak (12.1% According to Gartner, the drop is due in part to marketing leaders being too distracted by tactics and execution. That’s the strategy used at GE Digital.

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B2B Marketing Directions

NOVEMBER 1, 2020

Image Source: Gartner, Inc. Gartner recently published the findings of the 2020 Gartner Marketing Operations and Organization Survey. The survey results are described in two reports - the 2020 Marketing Operations Survey report, and the Marketing Organization Survey 2020 report.

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Hinge Marketing

DECEMBER 11, 2019

How is this relevant to marketers? When going through various stages of the buyer journey, purchasers of B2B and professional services have a list of criteria they use to evaluate service providers and vendors. . Relationships Between Research and Growth. This makes intuitive sense.

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Content Standard

JULY 14, 2021

Each offers a unique set of product and service packages, industry specialties, and track records. As you weigh potential partners against one another, it’s also worth looking from a macro level: how each option fits with your organization’s overarching marketing goals, most pressing areas of need, and content marketing budget.

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nDash

DECEMBER 14, 2020

My job as a B2B SaaS & enterprise software content strategist is to wrangle brands into champions in the eyes of their audience—and my approach has worked. I believe my team outperformed all others at Gartner Digital Markets at Capterra because they were encouraged to stay curious, test new ideas, reflect, and iterate.

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Contently

AUGUST 11, 2022

When these words start to appear, conventional wisdom tells businesses to cut their marketing budgets. As multiple researchers have found over decades of studies, stopping your marketing efforts during tough times is a mistake. There’s a really interesting contrast playing out in marketing right now.

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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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Salesforce Marketing Cloud

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Done the right way, commissions can be a powerful incentive to give your best and go beyond your comfort zone. In my 20-plus-year career, and as founder of the Harris Consulting Group, I’ve learned some valuable lessons, tips, and best practices when it comes to structuring sales commissions. Who’s it for?

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Top Rank Marketing

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Here are four reasons why B2B marketers will have to innovate to survive in 2023 – along with some analysis on how to turn these challenges into great opportunities to innovate. In fact, as the unstable economic climate continues, marketing budgets seem to be caught in the crosshairs once more.

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accelerate agency

APRIL 12, 2023

Finding the right SaaS marketing strategy for your company may seem challenging, but in such a competitive environment, it’s crucial. It’s estimated that the total value of the worldwide SaaS market will hit $195 billion in 2023, up 17% from 2022. Marketing of any kind is all about finding ways to stand out from the crowd.

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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. . Why is it such a problem?

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B2B Marketing Directions

OCTOBER 20, 2019

Gartner has just published the results of its 2019-2020 CMO Spend Survey. The research report is based on survey responses from 342 marketing executives in North America and the U.K. The Gartner study produced several valuable data points, but I want to focus on three takeaways that I found particularly interesting.

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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. this year Catalytic marketing. .” The state of martech spend.

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Allocadia

DECEMBER 22, 2017

It’s planning season, marketers. Gartner recently found that marketing budgets are beginning to recede, dropping from their peak (12.1% According to Gartner, the drop is due in part to marketing leaders being too distracted by tactics and execution. That’s the strategy used at GE Digital.

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Allocadia

APRIL 16, 2019

It’s planning season, marketers. Gartner recently found that marketing budgets are beginning to recede, dropping from their peak (12.1% According to Gartner, the drop is due in part to marketing leaders being too distracted by tactics and execution. That’s the strategy used at GE Digital.

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DiscoverOrg

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

According to Gartner, in 2007, spending on software rose 13% and overall IT spending grew 11% worldwide. The proliferation of software-as-a-service (SaaS) and cloud computing created huge changes to the software market. From January 1 to December 31 the size of our research team grew 77 percent.

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Porch Group Media

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Marketing departments are certainly no exception and have been forced to balance between cutbacks in spend while still maintaining acquisition and retention strategies to thrive during these difficult times. One change CMOs are making due to these budget pressures is shifting outside agency work to in-house employees.

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B2B Marketing Directions

OCTOBER 3, 2021

It provides response data by four primary economic sectors (B2B product companies, B2B services companies, B2C product companies and B2C services companies), fifteen industry sectors, company size and volume of internet sales. In a recent post , I discussed some of the findings of Gartner's CMO Spend Survey, 2021.

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Oktopost

JANUARY 5, 2021

Over the past 30 years, I have been helping companies build and operate high performing go-to-market functions across the globe. In 1999, I moved from 11 years in financial services to my first role in fintech and my first role in product management and product marketing. The Role of Social in Your Go-to-Market Strategy.

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Kabbage

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

Over the span of the year the number of MarTech vendors has nearly doubled, over $1 billion in venture capital has been invested in marketing technology, and marketing budgets have grown exponentially (“ Walker Sands State of Marketing Technology 2017 Closing the Gap Between Martech Innovation and Adoption,” 2016 ).

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accelerate agency

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Software as a service (SaaS) is a business model which is becoming ever more popular. You need a SaaS marketing strategy that works. One which can help you with what is often the tough job of selling your service to prospective customers. What follows are 12 elements of a successful SaaS marketing strategy.

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The Effective Marketer

NOVEMBER 6, 2009

The Effective Marketer Effectiveness is a discipline and it can be learned Home About the Effective Marketer Books Speaking Suit over Gartner’s Magic Quadrant Big Marketing Ploy In an earlier post I wrote about ZL Technologies lawsuit over Gartner Group’s Magic Quadrant, over what it considered “multitude of illegalities&#.

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Martech

MARCH 14, 2022

Regardless of the source, there’s one thing the research has in common; the analysis reveals the success rate of digital transformations is horrible. Embarking on a journey to marketing technology transformation is also not without disappointments. There are many possible reasons for this budget challenge.

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Vision Edge Marketing

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

To “get things done”, Marketing like all functions in the organization runs on processes. Planning, reporting, model development, research, customer journey mapping, content creation, event management, campaigns, opportunity management, etc., are all examples of Marketing processes!

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Martech

OCTOBER 20, 2022

At the risk of being nostalgic, it was a simpler time for our industry: the martech landscape was comprised of a mere 1,000 solutions and nobody had even heard of Cambridge Analytica. Fast forward to today, that martech landscape now has over 10,000 solutions , with new product launches and integrations happening daily.

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Content4Demand

MAY 21, 2020

Written by Marjorie Romeyn-Sanabria & Michael Rodriguez Republished with permission from Demand Gen Report With in-person engagement on hold this spring and possibly into summer, B2B marketers continue to pivot their strategies to make up for lost leads, maintain relationships with clients and attract new business.

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Champion Communications

APRIL 30, 2020

Plans that were made months ago have been halted by lockdown, rendering many marketing strategies obsolete. Gartner ’s latest research ?has that technology and service providers spend?an an average of 11% of their marketing budget on third-party trade shows, and 6% on hosting events.

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Madison Logic

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Not all this time is spent talking to sales about solutions. Look at the graphic below from Gartner: most of the time spent by a B2B buying committee is away from solution providers. Buyer intent data is a collection of signals that reveal when a prospective customer is looking for or interested in learning about a solution.

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Litmus

MAY 4, 2021

Is your marketing organization ready for what’s next ? As marketing leaders, we often ponder this question during our annual planning season when we’re forecasting our goals, themes, campaigns, and budgets for the coming year. Marketing has never been more complex. Heart—DEI eats bitcoin for breakfast.

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Content Standard

OCTOBER 23, 2017

This estimated $40 billion market is eager to find enterprise customers seeking to build out their marketing technology stack, and the demand for these services is steadily increasing. Additions to your stack will depend on your available marketing budget and what business goals you are hoping to achieve.

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SmartBrief - Marketing

JULY 25, 2023

Essentially, marketing leaders are trying to optimize the resources they have while searching for creative ways to connect with their audiences without sabotaging their marketing budget. Another 32% said they were cutting TV and video advertising and 31% reduced their audio advertising budget.

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Marketing Insider Group

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

As we look ahead, the future of marketing is shaping up to be an exhilarating swell, filled with evolving challenges and opportunities. Keen to see how your marketing playbook compares with the industry’s best? Or maybe you’re itching to find out the latest strategies keeping top marketers on their toes?

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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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B2B Marketing Directions

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

The benefits of a strong B2B brand - and of investing in marketing programs that are specifically designed to build the brand - have been demonstrated in numerous research studies conducted over many years. This analysis covered 1,675 branding campaigns run on the TechTarget network from 2015 to 2017.

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