Hinge Marketing

JUNE 7, 2021

This is why for the 5th time, the Association for Accounting Marketing (AAM) joined forces with the Hinge Research Institute to conduct the industry’s most comprehensive study on CPA marketing budgets. The timing of this study allows accounting marketers to see the many ways these changes have impacted the industry.

CPA 117

CPA Cost per Acquisition Marketing Budget Marketing Budget Creation 117

chiefmartech

NOVEMBER 26, 2017

Gartner recently released their CMO Spend Survey 2017-2018. The headline of their report: Budgets Recede Amid Demand For Results. After three consecutive years of growth, average marketing budgets at enterprise companies (most of the companies Gartner surveyed have more than $1 billion in revenue) have slipped from 12.1%

Enterprise Management 88

Enterprise Management Budget Programs Budget Management Spending 88

B2B Marketing Directions

AUGUST 15, 2021

Last month, Gartner released the findings of its CMO Spend Survey, 2021. The Gartner survey was conducted from March through May of this year. The survey produced 400 responses from marketing decision makers and influencers located in North America, Europe and the UK. Image Source: Gartner, Inc. in 2020 to 5.8%

Marketing Budget Creation 98

Marketing Budget Creation Marketing Budget Budget Programs Allocation 98

Valasys

JANUARY 2, 2024

However, modern challenges can be conquered by adopting solutions like HR Software or HRMS in your organization. With a consistent flow of HR in the Digital age , new digital tools and technologies, such as HR software, it has transformed the way HR leaders function. HR software reduces the administrative burden on HR leaders.

Enterprise Management 40

Enterprise Management Work Management Budget Programs Software 40

B2B Marketing Directions

MARCH 13, 2022

(This month's Research Round-Up features the latest ABM benchmark study by ITSMA and the ABM Leadership Alliance, Winterberry Group's latest forecast of marketing and advertising spending, and a survey examining the future of marketing events by the CMO Council and Cvent.)

Account Based Marketing 52

Account Based Marketing ABM Spending Budget Management 52

Webbiquity

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

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. Simple cost-saving strategies can go a long way in reducing spending on everything from day-to-day operations to business marketing.

Marketing Budget 241

Marketing Budget Marketing AI Work Management Budget Programs 241

Top Rank Marketing

JANUARY 5, 2024

B2B Marketers Own the Customer Journey, Now What? percent of overall digital ad spending in the U.S., and MediaPost recently took a look at the gains LinkedIn has made on the top ad market shares of Meta and Google.

Paid Search Agency 132

Paid Search Agency Demand Generation Agencies B2B Marketing Linkedin 132

Top Rank Marketing

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Social Media Today Ad Market Expands For Fourth Consecutive, October Climbs 3.2% advertising market recorded a rise in year-over-year ad spending, with a 3.2 MarketingProfs ON THE LIGHTER SIDE: A lighthearted look at “Word-of-Mouth Marketing” by Marketoonist Tom Fishburne — Marketoonist Why Are We Still Doing What Simon Says?

B2B Marketing 129

B2B Marketing Search Marketing B2B Multi-Channel 129

Top Rank Marketing

JUNE 30, 2023

MarketingWeek Forrester: Nearly One-Third Of Ad Agency Jobs Will Be “At Risk” From Automation By 2030 Despite almost of third of advertising agency jobs being at risk from automation by 2030, double-digit growth for market research and marketing specialists is expected by 2030, according to recent Forrester and U.S.

Paid Search Agency 62

Paid Search Agency Budget Programs CMO Advertising Agencies 62

Marketing Insider Group

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

In a new report that collected data from hundreds of B2B marketing professionals, the ways in which B2B marketing teams across the nation operate as a majority were brought to light. Have a Formal Marketing Plan. Partner with a Marketing Agency. Partner with a Marketing Agency. Spend 10% of Revenue on Marketing.

Resource Management 359

Resource Management Demand Generation Agencies CMS Development Work Management 359

Engagio

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

One of the first items on your list: get budget for your ABM program. We get questions around budgeting all the time. Where should this budget come from? That’s why in this edition of Behind the Brilliance, I asked Sam Melnick , VP of Marketing at Allocadia, to join me in a conversation about this important topic.

Budget Programs 84

Budget Programs Account Based Marketing ABM Allocation 84

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JANUARY 5, 2018

The Marketing team at Marketo asked marketers in the Marketing Nation a series of questions regarding their marketing plans for 2018. Question #1: In 2018, I expect my Marketing budget to…. Key takeaways: It’s good for everyone in Marketing when investment goes up, especially for half of all respondents.

Customer Surveys 134

Customer Surveys Account Based Marketing Marketo Thought Leadership 134

Allocadia

MARCH 31, 2019

Less than five weeks after signing the contract, we had deployed Allocadia to manage almost 200 budgets across 230 users distributed around the globe. – Eric Andrews, VP Global Marketing Operations, Juniper Networks. How can we achieve better return on our marketing investments? The Challenge. The Solution.

Budget Programs 40

Budget Programs Enterprise Management Work Management Marketing Budget 40

Martech

JULY 25, 2022

Without demonstrable proof that marketing initiatives are driving business results, marketers’ budgets are easy pickings for leaders seeking to improve profitability or just keep the business afloat during challenging times. And it’s not just marketing department jobs and media budgets that are at stake.

Marketing Attribution 103

Marketing Attribution Enterprise Management Work Management Marketing Management 103

DealSignal

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

What does this mean for digital marketing spend in 2021-2022, and how should you plan to allocate your B2B marketing budget for the best ROI? Here, we explore insights and walk through three tips you should keep in mind when creating your B2B marketing budget. What does this mean for marketing teams?

Allocation 52

Allocation Marketing Budget Marketing Budget Creation Budget Programs 52

Martech

DECEMBER 11, 2023

It has resulted in years of investment in scalable martech tools that have left marketing able to create and execute massive outreach campaigns, producing marginal results. On the other side of the house, the output of those marketing efforts has to be sorted through like panning for gold. Click here to take the survey 4.

Ideal Customer Profiles 114

Ideal Customer Profiles Budget Programs Ad Frequency Work Management 114

PureB2B

JUNE 14, 2021

Marketing budgets, a critical element in any marketing campaign but difficult to generate, and getting approval seems like an arduous task. That is a general notion, and it comes from what marketing directors have noticed over the years. Such stats only go to prove that justifying a marketing budget to the CFO is hard.

Budget Programs 62

Budget Programs Paid Search Agency Optimization Advertising Agencies 62

The ABM Agency

JANUARY 15, 2021

For some B2B companies, the 2021 marketing budget has increased due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Dollars usually spent on trade shows, in-person events, and travel expenses are up for grabs; the sales team is working virtually, spending less cash on entertaining potential clients. Before You Spend: Campaign Planning.

Budget Programs 52

Budget Programs Paid Content Paid Search Agency Marketing Budget Creation 52

Sword and the Script | B2B

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Another edition of the bi-annual survey of CMOs published by Christine Moorman , a professor at the business school at Duke University, was published at the end of August. I’ve read and written about the survey since about 2013 and have found it to be an interesting indicator of industry benchmarks. Actual budgets have grown by 6.3%

CMO 65

CMO Advertising Benchmark Customer Surveys B2B Marketing 65

The Point

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

In uncertain economic times, Market Development Funds (MDF) can be a precious resource for channel partners (resellers, distributors, ISVs) looking for budget to fund sales and marketing activity. Yet industry surveys report that as much as 60 percent of available MDF funds go unused. Define your message. Be realistic.

Demand Generation Agencies 147

Demand Generation Agencies Advertising Agencies CMS Development Work Management 147

Sword and the Script | B2B

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

The “Brand Finance Investment Analyst Survey” polled more than 200 financial analysts who “cover publicly listed companies in the United States and United Kingdom.” To understand how analysts factor marketing into their assessment and valuation of the companies they cover. The survey had three findings that stood out to me: 1.

Cost 95

Cost B2B Thought Leadership Paid Search Agency Customer Surveys 95

Sword and the Script | B2B

APRIL 11, 2020

You can’t control the constraints imposed by the Coronavirus, but you can make a case to keep your marketing budget It’s a challenging time to be a marketer. Second, the business is chasing after your budget with a saw. And that’s the theme for this week’s Unscripted Marketing Links [UML]. Give our services a try.

Paid Content 62

Paid Content Marketing Budget Marketing Budget Creation Budget Programs 62

accelerate agency

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

It doesn’t matter how big or small your business is; creating a SaaS marketing budget takes a lot of time and effort. All good SaaS marketing budgets go beyond the numbers alone. Join us as we look at how to build a SaaS marketing budget that’s tailored to you. How much do SaaS companies spend on marketing?

Marketing Budget 52

Marketing Budget Marketing Budget Creation Advertising Benchmark Budget Programs 52

accelerate agency

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

It doesn’t matter how big or small your business is; creating a SaaS marketing budget takes a lot of time and effort. All good SaaS marketing budgets go beyond the numbers alone. Join us as we look at how to build a SaaS marketing budget that’s tailored to you. How much do SaaS companies spend on marketing?

Marketing Budget 52

Marketing Budget Marketing Budget Creation Advertising Benchmark Budget Programs 52

B2B Marketing Directions

NOVEMBER 15, 2020

The first series of posts (available here , here , and here ) discussed the findings of a special edition of The CMO Survey that was fielded in May. In July, I published a post ( Research Highlights How COVID-19 Has Changed B2B Buyer Behavior s ) that described the results of an April survey conducted by Wunderman Thompson Commerce.

B2B Marketing 98

B2B Marketing Budget Programs Terms and Conditions Forecasting 98

Sword and the Script | B2B

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

58% of marketers say martech cybersecurity was the top consideration in procuring marketing software tools. I recently read an account by an executive summarizing his experience buying a marketing technology (martech) tool. What marketing hopes martech will help them improve. 38% said cost.

Differentiation 75

Differentiation Marketing Management Buy Budget Programs 75

illumin

MAY 9, 2024

Brand lifts are a simple tool for measuring how effective your brand and advertising efforts are. With ongoing integrations of AI in advertising and advanced marketing tools like journey advertising platforms, marketers and brands worldwide are constantly innovating and getting ahead of the game.

Advertisements 59

Advertisements Advertising Brand Identity Branding 59

ANNUITAS

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

The way many CMOs (and the CEOs who hire them) define the scope of the role, how they rationalize their organization and programs and the skill set they seek out to fill the role … are all fundamentally flawed. It’s an approach to organizational design akin to taking the Pragmatic Marketing chart and just circling all of the functions.

CMO 147

CMO Positioning Marketing Analytics Tools Peer-to-peer 147

Stevens & Tate

APRIL 18, 2024

The Role of Automation in Senior Living Marketing Modern marketing automation provides a variety of tools designed to enhance efficiency and efficacy in reaching potential clients. Social Media Management : Social media is an invaluable tool for building community and engaging with potential residents and their families.

Marketing Automation Services 52

Marketing Automation Services Communities Marketing Automation Automation 52

Martech

APRIL 12, 2023

Direct-to-consumer (DTC) marketers are flooding into connected TV (CTV) and over-the-top (OTT) digital TV advertising, according to a new survey from digital performance media company Digital Remedy and research firm Dynata. This is a significant jump in interest from the first half of 2022, when 43% of DTC expected to up their spend.

Planning 96

Planning Spending Marketing Plans Advertising Agencies 96

Convince & Convert

MAY 17, 2016

Facebook (and its sister network, Instagram) are beginning to dominate how social marketers spend their paid amplification budgets. When asked where they plan to spend the most money in the next year, survey participants were more likely to mention Instagram than Twitter.

Social Media 113

Social Media Budget Programs Facebook Research 113

KEO Marketing

FEBRUARY 26, 2015

In fact, the latest data suggests that email is more popular than ever among marketers. Not surprisingly, social media and mobile marketing are also high on the list. As businesses invest more money into their email marketing efforts, they also want more efficient systems that offer maximum results for the investment.

Budget Management 48

Budget Management Spending Email Marketing Budget Programs 48

Madison Logic

AUGUST 26, 2020

As B2B marketers enter planning season for 2021, they need to focus investment on programs that deliver the right results quickly. That’s not a new challenge: Marketers have always needed to deliver positive return on investment (ROI) and meet growth goals. Tool 1: Multichannel Media Programs for Full-Funnel Engagement.

Budget Programs 52

Budget Programs Paid Search Agency Tools Top of Funnel 52

Vision6

APRIL 30, 2024

ANZ SMBs are more likely than any other country polled to spend more time on marketing, increase their budgets, and the number of marketing channels they use in 2024. But the data tells us they intend to increase their marketing efforts in a bid to survive economic headwinds.”

Studies 52

Studies SMB Small Business Marketing Budget Programs 52

Martech

MARCH 2, 2023

And although marketing budgets, as a share of revenue, rebounded last year to more than 9%, according to the 2022 Gartner CMO Spend and Strategy Survey , they are still lower than they were in 2020, forcing CMOs to achieve more with less. This leads to a media mix that is more effective overall for the same budget.

Marketing Mix 102

Marketing Mix Marketing Attribution Lead Ranking Planning 102

B2B Marketing Directions

DECEMBER 18, 2016

By this point, most B2B marketers are well into their planning for 2017, and it appears that many marketers will have healthy marketing budgets in the coming year. Several research studies have found that a majority of marketers are expecting their budgets to increase in 2017. over the ensuing 12 months.

Budget Management 40

Budget Management Spending Account Based Marketing Planning 40

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. .

Work Management 108

Work Management Marketing Management Marketing Budget Budget Programs 108