Budgeting/Resource Allocation

When it comes to budgeting, how do you get beyond the politics and the entrenched practices? Here are some ideas on how much to spend and how to allocate it more effectively.

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September 12, 2011

How to Mess Up your Marketing Plan in One Simple Step

Think the same process used in times of great continuity will still work now? Better take a closer look...

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July 1, 2011

Using Social Media to Understand the Topic of Marketing Finance

In a Web 2.0 world of interest-based communities and peer-to-peer communications, it is vital for companies to understand the nature of the customer universe in which their products & services compete for attention, preference and advocacy...

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June 17, 2011

Measure Your Leverage - A 3-Step Plan to Determine the Right Marketing Spend Level

Discussions with CMOs and CFOs seem to confirm that the most common methods of determining marketing spending levels are still based on how much was spent previously and average industry spending. CMO thoughts are once again turning to these metrics as they consider the prospect of spending increases...

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June 15, 2011

How to Get the Budget You Need

As 2012 planning season approaches, work your way down this checklist to increase the probability that you'll get the resources you need to help move your marketing initiatives along...

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May 11, 2011

Making the “Best” Business Case for Your Marketing Investments

More than ever before, the approval of any significant marketing initiative is dependent upon a compelling business case. A good one is meant to function as a logical framework for the organization of all of the benefit and cost information about a given project or investment...

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May 9, 2011

Strategic Marketing Resource Allocation: When Process Trumps Politics

Resource allocation processes are often very complex. This case study provides an overview of an effective solution that helped one global marketing organization align behind a SMRA framework across its entire business portfolio, working with limited data at hand...

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July 8, 2010

How Do You Know to Spend LESS or MORE? – Measure Your Leverage

Discussions with CMOs and CFOs seem to confirm that the most common methods of determining marketing spending levels are still based on how much was spent previously and average industry spending. CMO thoughts are once again turning to these metrics as they consider the prospect of spending increases...

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May 4, 2010

Accelerate Your Marketing Impact with Longer Term Thinking

Many marketing efforts are designed for long-term impact; advertisements build brand as well as a customer base and, in turn, market share...

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February 20, 2010

The Cost of NOT Branding

When saving money becomes the goal instead of a guideline, something big always suffers... usually the brand...

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December 14, 2009

Meeting of the Minds: Effective Marketing for the Economic Recovery

In the latest installment of our Meeting of the Minds webcast series, Professor Dave Reibstein shared his learnings on effective marketing during an economic recovery...

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October 16, 2009

Is your Mix Model Leading you Astray?

While mix models are well established, there are limitations to these tools that tend to be ignored. Now is the time for a closer look...

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October 15, 2009

How the Best Marketers Do More with Less

Why is it that "do more with less" seems to bring out the very best in some companies, while others find it a struggle against a downward spiral?

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June 16, 2009

10 New Resolutions for the 2010 Planning Process

Reflections on last year's planning cycle and thoughts on how to do better this year

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April 21, 2009

Marketing Investment “At Risk” – The Unsung Canary

We all know that some portion of our marketing investments won’t meet the targeted rate of return . Trouble is, it’s STILL difficult to pinpoint which investments will miss and by how much.
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March 23, 2009

What NOT to Cut: Use a Scalpel not a Chain Saw

Be sure you don't cut any of these marketing lifelines for competing effectively.

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March 23, 2009

Do More With Less – Five Patterns to Follow

Crawling around inside a few dozen large marketing and finance organizations these past months I’ve seen some evidence of five patterns of “do more with less” which seem to work best.

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March 1, 2009

Is There a Budget Cut in Your Future?

How can you tell how vulnerable your marketing budget is to the axe man?
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February 25, 2009

Thinking of Spending More on Marketing? Consider the Following...

Are you currently thinking about spending MORE on marketing? STOP. Consider the following

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