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How to optimize your marketing budget: Do more with less

Sprout Social

With an economic downturn looming, it’s not surprising around 75% of CMOs report being asked to do more with less in a Gartner survey. Managing social media and other marketing channels in this economy can be challenging. Marketers are finding it increasingly difficult to set the right budget, optimize it and keep the leads flowing.

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Suit over Gartner's Magic Quadrant Big Marketing Ploy

The Effective Marketer

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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Magic Quadrant or Magic Numbers? A Judge Will Decide. « The.

The Effective Marketer

Gartner Group is known in the technology industry as a heavyweight analyst group that influences a lot of purchasing decisions. Big companies all turn to Gartner’s reports to help them on emerging trends and technologies. Gartner's Magic Quadrant is now on trial The problem? A Judge Will Decide. A Judge Will Decide.

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Why Sales and Marketing Don't Get Along « The Effective Marketer

The Effective Marketer

The Effective Marketer Effectiveness is a discipline and it can be learned Home About the Effective Marketer Books Speaking Why Sales and Marketing Don’t Get Along Talk to marketing mangers and sales managers about their biggest complaint and you will likely hear “They don’t follow up on leads!&# from the sales guy.

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Top 50 B2B Marketing Influencers On Twitter

Marketing Insider Group

Hubspot – HubSpot – Hubspot in all-in-one marketing software that brings your whole marketing world together in one powerful, integrated system. Marketo – Marketo.com – Marketing software. Home of Chief Content Office Magazine and THE event Content Marketing World. Cambridege, MA – [link].

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Tom Pisello: The ROI Guy: IDC: Economic Buyers, Digital Overload.

The ROI Guy

Most organizations continue to spend much more on branding and relationship management versus value-based sales and marketing initiatives. Tom’s ROI and TCO experience began in 1993 with his first entrepreneurial venture, Interpose (acquired by Gartner in 1998). Tom then served Gartner as a Managing VP.

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A Guide to Allocating Your B2B Startup Marketing Budget

Sage Marketing

With tightening budgets and increased pressure from management to demonstrate performance, finding the right balance becomes even more critical. Remember, the management team will review your plan and make the necessary adjustments. When it comes to B2B startups, budget allocation is crucial.