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How to optimize your marketing budget: Do more with less

Sprout Social

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. Do your research You need to be aware of the market conditions to allocate the right marketing budget.

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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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How to tune your GTM strategies to cope with budgetary headwinds

Martech

Even the most successful sales teams, with the best incentive plans, cannot fill the gap when marketing is constrained, let alone deliver the customer experience and convince the audience of brand value. Reducing marketing budgets while facing business headwinds debilitates revenue goals and depresses network effects.

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

Pam Didner

The answer is that you’ll need to modify your existing processes and initiate a new protocol, a Marketing Continuity Plan. Identify the potential factors inhibiting you from moving quickly Before you can do that, you need to understand the factors that prevent marketers from moving quickly.

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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?

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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.