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How to tune your GTM strategies to cope with budgetary headwinds

Martech

Executives can also convince themselves that sales will provide enough “air cover.” Eighty-four percent of B2B buyers start the purchasing process with a referral, and peer recommendations influence more than 90% of all B2B buying decisions. ” Here’s the problem with that mindset.

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Lead Nurturing Campaigns | 6 Tips From a Small, But Mighty Marketing Team

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

As Global Marketing Manager at LiteracyPlanet, my small but agile team faced this situation. LiteracyPlanet is an online gamified learning resource designed to help school-aged children of all ages and levels. That’s a lot of work for a marketing team of three, but we managed it with speed and confidence with Marketo Engage.

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Why Marketing Management Must Master Deep Digital Analytics

ViewPoint

It’s no longer enough, she realized, to just take the CRM or marketing automation system stats and determine where to spend the company’s growing marketing budget in order to find qualified leads and buyers. Of course, marketing analytics is not new and neither is digital analytics. So, my advice to this marketer?

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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? If you want a less painful budgeting process, my best piece of advice is to build a budget that your CFO will understand and agree with from the get-go. Get Sales Buy-In First. Most marketing budgets focus entirely on costs.

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How to plan the digital engagement of your content marketing strategy

Tomorrow People

Having well designed content isn’t good enough. You need to have an excellent digital content distribution strategy and your marketing agency has the experts who can help. A generation ago, digital was a rounding error in marketing budgets, with success measured in hundreds of pageviews rather than millions of customers.

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3 Ways to Ensure You Get the Marketing Budget You Need in 2018

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

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. Figure Out How Marketing Spend Aligns with Business Goals.

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Why VP Sales Leaders Need Social Media Engagement, Too

Oktopost

A VP Sales is a true sales leader who knows how to ignite a fire to invigorate sales managers to drive results. It’s no secret that VP Sales is responsible for: Leading their sales team to meet and exceed sales goals. Creating and executing sales strategies.