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Recession Planning: Should You Cut Your Marketing Budget?

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All too often, marketing budgets are the first to be scaled back. We surveyed nearly 250 marketers , and while 59% of respondents said they either were not adjusting their budgets or weren’t making significant changes, almost 40% said they were cutting back on marketing spend in anticipation of a recession. You get it.

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Influencer Marketing: How To Make Real Connections

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Author: Brandon Brown Today, most marketers and salespeople agree that we need to build relationships with our customers. But many of those same marketers and salespeople are implementing old-school marketing tactics that bombard consumers with unwanted ads and clickbait. Two words: influencer marketing.

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Taking the Lead: Why Q4 Is the Time for Small Businesses to Get Aggressive

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Sales and marketing teams have been slashed, and pipelines are running dry. Census Small Business Pulse Survey estimates that less than 20% of businesses have enough cash reserves to cover three months of operations. A SalesHacker survey of a variety of sales professionals highlights the depth of the issue. in the next year.

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Building GenAI for Business? Data Infrastructure Comes First

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Coupled with the inherent speed of GenAI, you have the very real possibility that even small errors could quickly spread throughout a go-to-market motion, leading your team in wildly wrong directions. The same surveys show that 55% of corporate leaders distrust their own data assets.

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July 2019 B2B Blog Post Round-Up

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Customer reviews and testimonials have been a staple in nearly every marketing strategy for decades. Consider these statistics: 89 percent of marketers say that customer testimonials and case studies are the most effective content forms for influencing purchases ( source ). 5 Key Considerations for a Data-Driven Retail Strategy.

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Making Sense of a ‘Weird’ Labor Market — What Recruiters Need to Know

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While these are encouraging signs that indicate a strong labor market, other trends indicate economic weakness — making it hard to agree on a cohesive narrative about where the economy is headed. It could be that the gains we’ve seen in the labor market are self-perpetuating. However, in August, average hourly wages rose 0.3%

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Culture vs. Quota: How the ‘Great Resignation’ is Changing Sales

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The apparel retail sector, for example, suffered employee attrition rates of almost 20%, along with fast-food and specialty retail (11%), casual restaurants (10%), and general and grocery retail (9%). Like their counterparts in sales, advertising and marketing professionals also routinely experience toxicity in the workplace.

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