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[Research Round-Up] Insights From "The CMO Survey" and Nielsen's Annual Marketing Report

B2B Marketing Directions

(This month's Research Round-Up discusses some of the major findings found in the Spring 2024 edition of "The CMO Survey" and a set of interesting perspectives from the "2024 Annual Marketing Report" by Nielsen.) Source: Christine Moorman Spring 2024 edition of "The CMO Survey" A survey of 292 marketing leaders at U.S.

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Content Marketing and Social Media: 25 Insights and Stats from Three Research Reports

Webbiquity

Nearly three-quarters of companies plan to maintain or grow their content marketing teams over the next year. Those are among the findings from a trio of this year’s best research reports, from WordPress VIP , Hootsuite , and Metricool. How are goals and strategies for content marketing changing? Budgets are growing.

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Report: B2B Marketers Still Struggling with Account-Based Marketing

KoMarketing Associates

Although many B2B marketers have adopted account-based marketing (ABM) practices, new research indicates that they are struggling with messy data and measuring their strategy’s effectiveness. Most B2B marketers (55%) use their conversion of engaged account-to-opportunity rate to measure their ABM success.

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Report: Marketers to Spend Less on Customer Initiatives as Budgets Fall

KoMarketing Associates

Although marketers have shifted their focus to initiatives, such as the customer experience and customer relationship management (CRM), new research suggests that they will invest less in these areas in the coming months. This comes as marketing budgets as a percent of company budgets fall to 12.3%, on average, from 11.8%

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2020 Database Strategies and Contact Acquisition Survey Report

47% of marketers said they have a database management strategy in place, but there is room for significant improvement. Marketing and sales teams are feeling pressured to deliver authentic messaging to buyers at every point of their customer journey. New tactics to acquire data to reach marketing goals.

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Report: B2B Buyers Consuming More Marketing Content Before Making Purchases

KoMarketing Associates

As B2B marketers look for more impactful ways to resonate with their customers and prospects, new research indicates that content may be the key to making a lasting impression. The Increasing Value of B2B Marketing Content. We are only at the beginning of how this will play out for B2B content marketers.”.

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Report: Manufacturing Marketers Seeing Early Success with Content Marketing

KoMarketing Associates

Although manufacturing marketers have not always turned to content marketing in the past, new research shows that their strategies for this tactic are beginning to mature. That being said, there is still some work that needs to be done in terms of establishing content marketing strategies.

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Salesforce’s 8th State of Marketing Report

Discover today’s biggest marketing trends in the 8th edition of Salesforce’s “State of Marketingreport.

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The ABM Benchmark Survey

ABM gets better with age — but unfortunately, marketers don't have the luxury of pouring it into an oak barrel for a couple decades to let it mature. It’s clear there’s a maturity gap in ABM strategies, so how can marketers start closing it?

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How COVID-19 is Impacting B2B Marketing Plans

Speaker: Tom Pick, Chief Digital Marketing Consultant, Webbiquity

B2B Marketing Zone and Tom Pick, a well-known B2B Marketing expert, recently conducted a survey of over 450 senior B2B marketing professionals about the impact of COVID-19 on their B2B marketing plans. By registering, you will get access to the full survey report.