Developing Your B2B Marketing Budget — An Introduction

Your strategic plan calls for aggressive growth. Competitors are suddenly nipping at your heels. Sales leads aren’t materializing like they used to. So you’ve decided to invest in marketing, but you’re not sure what to budget! How much to spend and how to allocate one’s spend on marketing is an old question that’s tough to answer. Ideally, a marketing budget is built upon a strategic marketing plan that aligns with company goals — a plan that includes the resources and tactics necessary to execute across myriad platforms to reach, engage and convert your target market to prospective customers. And hopefully, that’s all you’ll need to develop your budgets.

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Power is an independent marketing firm specializing in B2D2C sales channel marketing. Based in Louisville, KY, their position as a residential product authority spans four decades. With an integrated service portfolio built for an omnichannel world, Power has the proven expertise to help clients support their brand and distribution channels in smart, effective and relevant ways. See how Power can help clients navigate the connected world and reach their targets with laser focus. Visit poweragency.com for more information.

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Agile Account-Based Growth

whitePaper | August 31, 2022

We know you: you’re a business leader, a Rev-Ops practitioner, an innovator, and most importantly, a driven individual who is passionate about doing whatever it takes to get your organization to succeed. But what if we told you there’s still a missing piece to the puzzle? ...What if we told you that there’s still one thing that would positively transform the curve of your growth?

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B2B Trends: How Intent Data Can Boost Marketing Results

whitePaper | August 23, 2022

To achieve success in today’s digital world, marketers need to collect, analyze and master intent data. But what exactly is intent data and how can organizations use this information to close deals? To answer these questions, we’ve recruited a team of B2B marketing experts to share their tips, tricks and insights on intent data. The result is our free e-book, “B2B Trends: How Intent Data Can Boost Marketing Results.” In it, you’ll discover not only the trends behind intent data, but what actual marketers like you are doing to use it.

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Making insight intelligent for ABM

whitePaper | July 13, 2021

Insight is the difference between what makes ABM truly distinct from just ‘marketing to accounts.’ In truth, it can make or break the success of ABM in even the most mature of programs. But knowing how to extract the right insight at the right time from the sea of data available can often leave marketers feeling overwhelmed. Supported by ITSMA thinking throughout, our practical guide, "Making Insight Intelligent", offers best practice advice helping you demystify the effective gathering and use of insight across some of the most common use cases within ABM. Inside we'll cover: The need, the landscape and the opportunity for insight in 2021 How to build an insight-first program How to create the right structure and processes for success, and establish robust measurement The insight you should leverage to drive business outcomes Five typical use cases: examples of the types of insight used to drive tangible outcomes in ABM

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Discover the State of Account-Based Marketing in APAC

whitePaper | April 1, 2023

Account-Based Marketing (ABM) means many things to many people, but essentially it is a B2B marketing approach that aligns sales and marketing teams to work together on the same set of target accounts. It is a strategic approach to creating highly personalised marketing campaigns that lead to pipeline acceleration, higher closure rates and faster sales cycles. ABM has achieved transformative results in the US and UK, and is now being eagerly adopted across Asia-Pacific (APAC). However, the same approaches do not necessarily achieve the same results.

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ABM 2.0: 3 Paths to More Productive Revenue Capture in a Changing Interaction Landscape

whitePaper | September 12, 2022

With face-to-face touchpoints being replaced by virtual interactions, learn how to succeed in this new landscape. B2B marketers need to scale up ABM 1.0 principles to generate more revenue from a larger number of target accounts. In this white paper, ABM 2.0: 3 Paths to More Productive Revenue Capture in a Changing Interaction Landscape, we discuss how changes in B2B interaction are impacting relationship-creation and how you can use intent data to connect buyers to the solutions they need.

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2022 G2 Software Buyer Behavior Report

whitePaper | December 21, 2022

The B2B technology world is built on a foundation of trust. A glut of software options and a lack of credible content in a perpetual buying cycle of increasing complexity make building trust with buyers more difficult than ever. G2’s 2022 Software Buyer Behavior Report illustrates the crisis of trust in the market today and the avenues through which sellers can empower a diverse slate of buyers with the information they need.

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Power

Power is an independent marketing firm specializing in B2D2C sales channel marketing. Based in Louisville, KY, their position as a residential product authority spans four decades. With an integrated service portfolio built for an omnichannel world, Power has the proven expertise to help clients support their brand and distribution channels in smart, effective and relevant ways. See how Power can help clients navigate the connected world and reach their targets with laser focus. Visit poweragency.com for more information.

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