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Your B2B Marketing Budget Playbook for 2021 Success [Research]

Marketing Insider Group

Most companies have learned that B2B marketing budgets are much more important than they thought – and that their existing marketing strategies, well, kind of sucked. Look, we all knew B2B marketing had plenty of problems long before COVID-19: Generic, bland, and forgettable content.

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Why This Amount Is All the Marketing Budget You Need

Marketing Insider Group

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. Marketing Budgets Shifting and Changing.

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6 Decision Intelligence Tools You Should Be Using Right Now

Marketing Insider Group

While you have more data and tools than ever, the glut of information can create a paralysis of analysis. A McKinsey survey showed that most business leaders believe that most of the time they spend on decision-making is ineffective. What is decision intelligence, and which tools do you need to be using right now?

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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. Marketers are finding it increasingly difficult to set the right budget, optimize it and keep the leads flowing. How has AI impacted the market? Let’s look at these steps in detail.

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6 Questions to Ask When Creating Your Email Marketing Budget

Zoominfo

More than 86% of businesses surveyed in 2016 indicate that they plan to increase their upcoming email marketing budgets ( source )—and you should too. Before you can determine how much budget to allocate to email marketing, it’s important to establish your goals and priorities. How will you expand your reach?

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3 marketing motions successful B2B software companies do differently than peers

Sword and the Script | B2B

The two organizations teamed up to survey “sales and marketing executives at about 1,100 US software and cloud hosting companies.” Sword and the Script Media can help with B2B marketing, PR and social media. That’s how Post It notes were discovered and it went on to be a best-selling project.

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3 benchmarks for the B2B marketing budget as a percentage of revenue

Sword and the Script | B2B

Several credible studies conducted in 2023 put the average benchmark for B2B marketing budgets at about 10% of revenue How much money should a company invest in B2B marketing? As companies plan their budget for 2024, here’s a look at three credible benchmarks for B2B marketing budgets. The CMO Survey: 9.2%