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Digital Marketing – What Are The Top Goals And Challenges?

Marketing Insider Group

In the 2021 Digital Marketing Survey from Gartner , CMOs and marketing leaders shared their thoughts. Image: Gartner. The priorities included acquiring new customers, increasing the share of spend and revenues, launching new products, developing brand reputation, and increasing brand awareness. Image: MarketingCharts.com.

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Visible and invisible tech stacks, and the upsides and downsides of “shadow IT” in martech and beyond

chiefmartech

The empirical stack data we recently shared from Zylo, a leading SaaS management platform, showed that even after a year of belt-tightening, the average SMB (500 employees or less) still has 162 SaaS apps. And they’re the majority (69%) of the spend. Tech stacks are large. Mid-market companies (500 to 2,500 employees) have 245.

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SMB IT Spending Recovers: Looking for ROI and Diagnostic Guidance

The ROI Guy

released its second annual Microsoft SMB/Partner Insight Report and the study shows that although SMBs remain concerned about the business climate, most will increase technology spending in 2010, highlighting the role of IT as a strategic business tool in this crucial sector of the global economy. Microsoft Corp.

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Future Forecast: Cybersecurity Trends in 2024

Bluetext

SMB Organizations are Investing More in Cybersecurity Managed services are becoming an increasingly important purchase for small and medium-sized businesses. Security attacks on SMBs are felt deeply throughout the organization, compared to large enterprises that may find more protection in silos and sheer size.

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We’ve Seen a 117% Increase in Small and Medium-Sized Businesses Researching AI Solutions. Here’s Why Marketers Need to Capture Their Attention

Madison Logic

According to Gartner , SMBs are defined as organizations with 100 to 999 employees. Another criterion commonly used to determine the SMB market is annual revenue: small businesses typically have less than $50 million in annual revenue, while midsize enterprises have annual revenue ranging from over $50 million to less than $1 billion.

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How Your Agency Can Add Value and Minimize Risk for Small Businesses

Hubspot

Basedon on a recent Gartner CMO Spend Survey , marketing budgets now account for 12% of company revenue, a steady increase from 2010. One of the best ways to work with a SMB is to determine the smallest amount of money required to obtain a new lead. Create a Great Friendship Between Your Agency and SMB.

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Tom Pisello: The ROI Guy: New TCO Calculator: EMC SMB Virtual.

The ROI Guy

Thursday, January 20, 2011 New TCO Calculator: EMC SMB Virtual Solutions Advisor EMC wanted a quick way for small / medium business IT executives and buyers to quantify how virtualized data center solutions could help drive capital cost savings, operations and application management savings and improved resiliency. Latest Research.

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