budget

by: Alain Thys

In the 20 years I've been in business, keeping score has been simple.  When I hit double-digit growth and profit numbers for Mexx or Reebok ... times were good. When my dot-com incubator imploded ... times were bad.  Yet for the years I've had "marketer" on my business card, I've never been able to figure out whether the near € 100 million I've helped burn, really made a difference.  And that bothers me.

by: Dominic Basulto

by: Jon Miller

by: Ilya Vedrashko

by: Jon Miller

I recently received this email from a colleague who runs marketing for a security software company:

I’m getting some pushback from my CFO on the size of my proposed total marketing budget as % of forecasted revenue… Do you have any sources with basic credibility with this info that I can cite?

by: Alain Thys

By now you should be close to having all of your top-line budgets approved and be heavily into the detail of spending the marketing funds you've just been entrusted with. Yet before you rush off to fill the pockets of agency wizards and media-moguls, I'd like to stir things up a bit. For this post, I have come up with 7 budget recommendations against which to benchmark your decisions.

by: Jon Miller

In my last post, I argued that Marketing needs to stop being seen a cost center and start earning a seat at the revenue table. Fundamentally, this requires B2B marketers to:

by: Jon Miller

Too many CEOs and CFOs think of marketing as a cost center. Left unchanged, this attitude makes it almost impossible for a CMO to succeed. Take the following example, courtesy of Anne Holland at MarketingSherpa:

By: Guy Kawasaki