Planning can be a dirty word in any aspect of business, especially marketing. Planning is difficult. It takes time and resources to be done right. It takes skills, tools and a solid process to execute. And it takes data, data that must be cleaned and aggregated into consumable insights for it to be usable for the planners.
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Topics: Marketing Planning, Financial Planning, Budgeting, Revenue Attribution, Marketing Budgeting, Hive9, Effective Planning, Marketing Insights, ABM, marketing data, Marketing Performance
It is time to trade up from personal productivity to organizational productivity.
The spreadsheet can be a very powerful tool, especially for personal productivity, problem solving and modeling scenarios. It is where most organizations first develop their marketing plan. Four or five marketers sharing the same room determine that it is time to write down the plan, share it with others, use it to meet with finance, assign ownership to tasks, and generally feel good that the plan is in one place.
Read MoreTopics: Marketing Planning, Revenue Attribution, Integrated Marketing, Campaigns, ABM, Marketing Performance
Webinar Recap: Planning & Performance in an ABM World
Our recent webinar on Marketing Planning and Performance in an ABM World covered a lot of territory. With three experts in the field each bringing insights from their particular background and specialty, attendees got a heaping dose of knowledge in exchange for the hour they spent.
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For a lot of B2B businesses, an account-based marketing strategy represents an effective way to target and win the customers that are most valuable to you. 84% of the businesses that do account-based marketing and measure how well it works cite a higher ROI from an ABM strategy than from the other types of marketing conducted.
Read MoreTopics: Hive9, ABM, Best Practices