Ways to Ensure Optimized Marketing and MarTech Budget Spent

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    According to a recent report by Gartner titled “What Marketing Budgets Look Like in 2022,” average marketing expenditures have increased from 6.4% to 9.5% of the organization’s revenue in most industries.

    Enterprises are increasing their marketing spending to penetrate a new total addressable market and scale their business globally. CMOs should consider implementing the most efficient marketing operations and robust MarTech stack to make the most out of their budgets.

    There will be various opportunities that CMOs can grab to improve the ROI of the marketing and MarTech budgets. Identifying all such opportunities and making strategic changes to the budget will enable enterprises to enhance all areas of marketing operations and drive desired results.

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    Following are some ways that businesses can embrace to ensure their marketing and MarTech budget is spent effectively:

    Digital marketing shouldn’t consume most of the budgets

    Today’s customers expect more authenticity, relevance, and personalization during every interaction. As a result, CMOs should consider designing an effective marketing strategy that creates impact rather than spending all the budget that does not relate to the total addressable market. Once the marketing leaders embrace this approach, they can make it a basis to select the most effective marketing channel with an advanced MarTech stack to propel the marketing campaigns across the best online channels. It is the best approach to optimize the marketing and MarTech budget expenditure. CMOs should consider integrating the marketing channels and IT infrastructure that enables the enterprise to meet short and long-term business goals.

    More isn’t always efficient

    Once the presales teams get a budget allocation for their marketing and MarTech stack, they need not spend all of it. CMOs should consider allocating some budget to accomplish the current business goals and utilize the rest for other MarTech upgrades to enhance the organization’s capabilities. Marketing teams need to evaluate the performance, processes, and marketing tech tools in real-time to analyze if they serve their purpose. It isn’t always true that new means more efficient. Today the MarTech marketplace of flooded with advanced tools and solutions that the current system might even have; enterprises just need to upgrade their tech stack.

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    Evaluate the ROI first before allocating more Marketing and MarTech Budget

    Another effective approach to getting better ROI on the marketing and MarTech budget is by allowing access to the budget for a certain period of time to evaluate the results. Once the marketing campaign starts delivering the desired ROI, they can allow access to the rest of the allocated budget.

    Embracing more effective marketing measurement metrics

    It is crucial to strike a balance between where to curb the marketing expenditures and which areas to allocate funds to. Striking a perfect balance between these two is the key to ensuring optimized marketing and Martech’s budget spent.

    CMOs should consider designing and implementing marketing measurement metrics that help them to calculate the ROI of the presales campaigns.

    Assigning the responsibility to a team that can maintain the MarTech stack and is able to drive actionable insights through comparing behavioral data for multiple campaigns will streamline the process to optimize the marketing and MarTech budget spent. An enterprise that has a centralized dashboard will simplify the work for marketers to get the most relevant insights to reimagine the entire marketing budget. Moreover, the dashboard will also offer insights into what works and what doesn’t to make necessary changes in the marketing and MarTech budget to optimize the expenditure and increase the ROI.

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