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How to Triumph Over Budget Cuts and Prove Your Marketing ROI

C3Centricity

As we all know and, unfortunately, have probably also experienced, every dollar in our marketing expenditure must be justified, and we have to prove our marketing ROI or risk budget cuts! Marketing Budget Allocation Gartner’s most recent (2023) CMO Spend Survey reported that marketing budgets fell from 9.5%

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How to Power up Your B2C Marketing Strategies with Surprising B2B Secrets

C3Centricity

As has been claimed for decades, there are differences between B2C marketing strategies and those of business-to-business (B2B). As companies strive to navigate the complexities of their respective markets, the learnings one can gain from examining the nuances of both B2B and B2C marketing become self-evident.

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The New Strategic Growth Blueprint for Successfully Reimagining Market Research

C3Centricity

It is a well-known fact that when budgets get tight, marketing is usually one of the first departments to suffer cuts, and market research in particular! I believe it is because their ROI is longer-term and often difficult to prove. years), with B2B companies (4.4 Why is this? years) slightly better off than B2C (4.1

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The CMO Strategic Growth Blueprint for Successfully Reimagining Market Research

C3Centricity

It is a well-known fact that when budgets get tight, marketing is usually one of the first departments to suffer cuts, and market research in particular! I believe it is because their ROI is longer-term and often difficult to prove. years), with B2B companies (4.4 Why is this? years) slightly better off than B2C (4.1

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ABCs of Data Normalization for B2B Marketers

It’s not a far stretch to suggest that the topic isn’t exactly what gets marketers excited in their day-to-day workflow. However, if lead generation, reporting, and measuring ROI is important to your marketing team, then data normalization matters - a lot. Well, marketers rely on this grouping to reach their goals.

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How to Inject Humanity into B2B Marketing

Merkle

B2B buyers will be, and always have been humans with emotions. Despite this, B2B marketers have not always woven this information into their strategies. All of us have learned what makes a smart business purchase: ROI. ROI is serious. ROI isn’t fun, engaging, adventurous, or inspirational.

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B2B Customer Surveys 101

Lumoa

B2B companies often struggle with common hurdles when it comes to surveying customers. Conducting B2B customer surveys should be an illuminating process, but instead, they become a nightmare that makes you want to tear your hair out. It becomes tempting to make wild guesses that just aren’t bringing ROI. Don’t worry, though.

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Your Guide to Using Conversational Marketing to Drive Demand Generation

Enter conversational marketing — the new paradigm to tackling your business deals and converting prospects in minutes. Studies show the return on investment (ROI) of conversational marketing helps your marketing team drive revenue.

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Why B2B Contact and Account Data Management Is Critical to Your ROI

64% of successful data-driven marketers say improving data quality is the most challenging obstacle to achieving success. However, investing in new technology isn’t always easy, and commonly, it’s difficult to show the ROI of data quality efforts. The digital age has brought about increased investment in data quality solutions.

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9 Award-Winning Customer Advocacy Success Stories

Influitive's annual BAMMIES - Best Advocate Marketing Awards - eBook has been read by 2,000+ savvy B2B marketers and business leaders. These 9 short, easy-to-read success stories will teach you new strategies to mobilize your advocate community to drive ROI. How Ceridian alleviated more than 1,500 support ticket costs.