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How to optimize your marketing budget: Do more with less

Sprout Social

Marketers are finding it increasingly difficult to set the right budget, optimize it and keep the leads flowing. Managing social media and other marketing channels in this economy can be challenging. You’ll need a plan to address top budget concerns to provide clarity and control over every dollar spent.

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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. Before taking your plan and budget to the CFO, run it by your sales counterparts.

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Need to Move Faster in Marketing? Improve Your Decision-Making Process and Build A Marketing Continuity Plan

Pam Didner

The COVID-19 pandemic put marketers (me included) to the test. After talking to many marketers, we all agree that we need to start thinking about how to do marketing differently in order to react fast as a team. The question is: “How can marketing move quickly in fast-changing situations?” What is appropriate to do?

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How to tune your GTM strategies to cope with budgetary headwinds

Martech

Continuing to navigate the “next normal” world, marketing and GTM teams have been under new pressures due to inflation, talent shortages, slowing economic conditions, possible renewed COVID restrictions, and the digital transformation hangover. The companies range from mid-market startups to large public enterprise companies.

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To see marketing differently, we need to turn the spotlight on social

Sprout Social

The marketing department used to be the mouth of an organization—developing content and communicating messages to support sales. I think back to when I started in the field and my role was all about creating one-sheets, building presentation decks, planning events and helping to support advertising and awareness goals.

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Best Practices for Marketing Budget Agility During Crisis & Disruption

Allocadia

Three actions marketing organizations can take and how Allocadia can help. As marketers we all wish that we could set our plan and budget at the beginning of the year or quarter and we are able to execute exactly as planned. But even in the best of times, priorities shift, programs fail, and change has to happen.

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5 Contingent Workforce Advantages for B2B Marketing

Ledger Bennett

With enterprise businesses facing mounting challenges in recruiting and sustaining the top digital marketing talent required for optimal performance, many are turning to a contingent workforce model as an effective staff augmentation pathway to bring the necessary skills into their businesses. What is a Contingent Workforce?