B2B Marketing Directions

AUGUST 15, 2021

Last month, Gartner released the findings of its CMO Spend Survey, 2021. The survey produced 400 responses from marketing decision makers and influencers located in North America, Europe and the UK. The mean percentage of revenue allocated to marketing in 2021 is about the same in both B2B and B2C companies.

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Heinz Marketing

JANUARY 29, 2019

I recently hosted our latest invite-only CMO Roundtable in Seattle. We partnered with Allocadia and our topic focused on Finance and Marketing Alignment with the CFO and CMO. Chris Pick , CMO from Apptio and Samantha Bannister , VP of Finance and Operations from Allocadia were the panelists who provided valuable insights.

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Drew Neisser

JANUARY 27, 2023

It’s no secret that marketing budgets are often the first to be cut when things get tight, but Forrester analysts Barbie Mattie and Nick Buck are here with the cold hard data about why marketing spend correlates directly to business growth. If you want to get involved, you can apply at cmohuddles.com.

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KoMarketing Associates

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

With the loss of in-person events, marketers saw an opportunity to use that budget elsewhere – with many deciding to put more budget towards their content strategies. This could result in more budget being allocated to content marketing in the future. 2021 B2B Marketing Mix Report.

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Top Rank Marketing

JUNE 30, 2023

media spending came from the digital sector during May, 2023 — up from 56 percent a year earlier, as the overall ad spending level increased for the first time in 11 months, according to recent ad index data. MarketingCharts U.S. Ad Index Expands For First Time In 11 Months In May 60 percent of overall U.S.

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B2B Marketing Directions

SEPTEMBER 15, 2019

The findings of the August edition of The CMO Survey by Duke University's Fuqua School of Business, the American Marketing Association, and Deloitte were published a few days ago. The latest results are based on responses from 341 marketing leaders at U.S. Marketing Spending On average, marketing expenses amount to 9.8%

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Terminus

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Strengthen your “finance speak” — the better you can translate finance to GTM, the better you can tell the story of the middle layer (marketing). Create a strong dialogue with partners in finance to understand the details of what they need to see to understand success with marketing spend.

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Sword and the Script | B2B

APRIL 16, 2024

The authors set out to understand “whether or not” startups “allocate scarce resources to conduct systematic marketing.” Sword and the Script Media can help with B2B marketing, PR and social media. There’s less noise in your niche (or market, if you are setting out to create one).

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Marketing Insider Group

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

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. Image: CMO Survey. billion in 2019.

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Crimson Marketing

NOVEMBER 10, 2014

Your company conducts quarterly budget reviews to determine how well projections aligned with performance. The problem is, by the time you analyze those results, you’ve likely already spent too much—or too little—on marketing. Lance Walter is Chief Marketing Officer for Host Analytics and leads the company’s global marketing efforts.

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Martech

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Marketers are placing less emphasis on traditional analytics in favor of operations. “Marketing analytics actually went from #2 to #4 in the last year,” said Hurley, citing Gartner’s CMO Spend Survey. “But it still makes up a large percentage of where marketing teams are allocating their budgets.

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KoMarketing Associates

DECEMBER 5, 2017

It’s clear advances in cloud data and data visualization is quickly becoming invaluable to B2B marketers. Samantha Stone , Author, Founder & CMO, The Marketing Advisory Network. As we go into 2018 marketers must make data integrity a higher priority. Jason Hsaio , Co-Founder and Chief Video Officer, Animoto.

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Allocadia

MARCH 31, 2019

Our marketers have become more accountable and better stewards of the dollars allocated to them. We can show progress and results in real time.” – Charles Schwab executive in charge of marketing technology. The Problem: No Budget Control. Allocadia Investment Analytics view. Read now.

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Allocadia

APRIL 3, 2019

When Jeremie joined Hitachi Vantara, marketing operations was in charge of data quality and spend tracking – but no one was tasked with managing the marketing department’s strategic planning and investments. As he recalls, “Marketing needed a reset to determine whether or not it was effectively delivering on its mission.

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Allocadia

JUNE 13, 2019

While what goes on in Marketing has often been somewhat of a mystery to Finance executives, in recent years we’re seeing more collaboration and partnership between Finance and Marketing. Today’s strategic CFO wants to be seen as more than the office of “no” when engaging the CMO. Annual Budgeting Expense Management Process.

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SmartBug Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

The combination of brand positioning, lead generation, digital marketing, local advertising, and paid media helps franchisees maximize their marketing efforts while adhering to established brand standards. For this article, we spoke to franchise business expert Jenn Foster , fractional CMO and founder of Foster Marketing.

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Digilant

OCTOBER 21, 2021

As a result, diversifying media budgets to keep your brand in front of audiences everywhere is critical. . The CMO’s Chase for Perfection. . In today’s environment, CMOs have to be nearly perfect when it comes to marketing spend management. Future-Proofing Your Marketing Strategy. .

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ViewPoint

MAY 13, 2016

How to define a lead and gain agreement is the first of 7 Truths about Sales and Marketing that CEOs need to know. This post is part of a series about the CEO’s role in eliminating wasted marketing spend and increasing sales results. In that post I quoted a client and friend who at the time was CMO for a Fortune 100 company.

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Contently

AUGUST 15, 2016

Content marketing job listings have grown 350 percent since 2011. So, too, has investment in content marketing. In 2011, content marketing spend was $100 billion; by 2019, this figure is expected to rise to $319 billion—more than Finland’s entire 2015 GDP. How to secure and allocate your content budget.

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Hubspot

AUGUST 31, 2010

Twice a year Professor Christine Moorman at Duke's Fuqua School of Business surveys hundreds of CMOs to get an overall measure of what is happening in marketing as part of a project aptly called The CMO Survey. Marketing Spending Should Increase. Internet Marketing Spending to Grow. What do you think?

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The ABM Agency

JANUARY 15, 2021

It’s simple: by allocating their budget (no matter how limitless or strained) wisely, and spending money only on channels and tools that meet their specific set of goals. Luckily, digital marketing channels result in the most direct ROI in terms of conversions or revenue—just make sure your reporting is set up properly. .

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NetLine

JUNE 22, 2023

It means greater use of sales enablement tools and content that marketing provides which leads to more effective qualification. More efficient use of paid marketing spend with greater ROI Another advantage of buyer-level intent data is that it allows for more efficient and dynamic deployment of paid media.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

OCTOBER 15, 2008

Do you know how much to spend on your B2B marketing budget in 2009? How to allocate your budget across programs and headcount? Or how to split marketing programs budget between investments such as events, advertising, and PR? For example: Marketing Investment Trends. Marketing Staff Efficiency.

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The Effective Marketer

AUGUST 10, 2014

A while ago Microsoft went through a big marketing reorganization as well because, as then-CEO Steve Ballmer said, the company wasn’t getting enough ROM (return on marketing spend).. The Right Marketing Structure.

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Metadata

JANUARY 27, 2021

CMO’s had more funds than they needed to deliver their goals, so they focused on the freedom to explore new approaches and experiment with new marketing strategies – but most did that inefficiently and wasted money. It was 2020’s microscope that finally put a probe into where budgets were being allocated.

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Allocadia

APRIL 16, 2019

Plan and budget strategically and predict revenue performance. When your CMO sits at the boardroom table, they need to answer tough questions about marketing investments and returns, ROI and impact on revenue. Next, get on the same page about what success looks like and how Marketing Performance will be judged.

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Single Grain

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

Small Business Administration recommends spending 7-8% of your company’s revenue on marketing, but in reality, businesses typically spend more than that. Gartner’s 2018 CMO Survey found that marketing budgets actually averaged about 11% of their revenue: Click here to download it for free right now!

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SnapApp

JANUARY 29, 2015

Here’s what you missed in great reads for modern marketers this week: Marketo Blog: Flaunt Your Humanity. Jim Stengel, former CMO of Procter & Gamble, gave one of a series of interviews of marketing thought leaders by the Economist Intelligence Unit (sponsored by Marketo) and shared some very interesting insights.

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Content Standard

JUNE 12, 2017

” The two primary ways to address this are to demonstrate the value of your team’s work through ROI, and to put budgetary demands into the context of ongoing marketing spending trends. As for why spend has continued to trend upward, marketing technology is largely to blame. Keeping Up With The Joneses.

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The ABM Agency

APRIL 10, 2023

Reading Time: 11 minutes As a leading strategy for B2B SaaS marketing, account-based marketing (ABM) has become increasingly important in today’s rapidly changing landscape.

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Allocadia

APRIL 23, 2019

I believe core marketing investment (spend) data is just as fundamental. First, it’s the simplest and clearest type of marketing measurement — there can be very little uncertainty about methodology or approach. Second, having your marketing spend data in order is essential to your organization’s big-picture health.

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Allocadia

JANUARY 31, 2018

First, it’s the simplest and clearest type of marketing measurement — there can be very little uncertainty about methodology or approach. Second, having your marketing spend data in order is essential to your organization’s big-picture health.

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Webbiquity

APRIL 26, 2010

A CMO’s guide to picking the right market research by iMedia Connection. Web Strategy in 2010 by baekdal.com. Thomas Baekdal offers a 22-point checklist for maximizing the way the web works today, from content generation and social media to calls to action. Preparing for a world without salespeople by iMedia Connection.

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Single Grain

JULY 6, 2021

The Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) is a crucial position for every organization, but hiring a CMO is more challenging than any other C-level position. In this article, I will discuss what a CMO is, the different skills needed to become a great CMO, and how you can hire the perfect CMO for your organization.

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The ROI Guy

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

In perhaps a great sign that the economy may be in better shape than many are realizing, Duke’s Fuqua School of Business bi-annual marketing spending report reveals that marketing budgets are back on the rise. The latest survey in August 2010 indicates that CMOs are anticipating dramatic marketing spending increases of 9.2%

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Engagio

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Marketing programs are often the first thing to get cut, leaving many teams with shrunken program budgets. This hampers company growth, and if not managed well, can trigger a cycle of cuts and stagnant growth. We recently explored the challenge of defending marketing budgets at the Demandbase Smarter CMO Forum.

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Martech

APRIL 27, 2022

The people involved in measuring a company’s marketing activities use technology and software that gathers marketing data, aggregates it, and provides visualizations to help them understand what tactics are working and how best to optimize marketing spend. Types of marketing analytics models.

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