B2B companies often build marketing budgets on guesswork, last year’s numbers, or competitor activity—leading to wasted spend and missed revenue goals. The most common mistakes include focusing on lead volume instead of revenue, ignoring sales enablement, underestimating martech and personnel costs, and leaving no buffer for change. Strong budgets start with revenue goals and funnel math.
Learn how to set your B2B marketing budget in under 30 minutes. A step-by-step guide that ties spend directly to revenue goals and pipeline.
The manufacturing industry has changed. Buyers no longer make decisions based on generic pitches or product-heavy presentations. With more information at their fingertips, they expect tailored, insight-driven engagement that addresses their specific challenges and buying criteria.
Marketing to manufacturers comes with unique challenges, and many businesses fall into the same pitfalls. Whether you’re a seasoned expert or novice, avoiding common mistakes can significantly impact your manufacturing marketing success.
Are you keeping up with the changes in this industry? Too often, manufacturers focus only on their products or rely on outdated marketing techniques (like trade shows) that may no longer resonate with today’s B2B buyers. To create an effective marketing strategy for manufacturers, you must adapt to industry shifts and prioritize engagement through modern digital strategies.
Long sales cycles, complex decision-making processes, and the constant need to prove ROI often create confusion in the marketing world about what works—and what doesn’t. Let’s cut through the noise. This blog tackles five persistent myths about marketing and reveals how addressing these misconceptions can help unlock measurable growth opportunities for your business.
Customer acquisition tactics are crucial for business strategy. Many companies fail to use them well. It’s key to understand why these tactics don’t work within the broader customer acquisition process. Entrepreneurs and marketers who want to expand their customer base must investigate this topic. This post looks at common mistakes in targeting and messaging.
If you’re a marketer struggling to understand where to allocate resources, this post will help you make better decisions to achieve your business goals. A comprehensive approach to budgeting can be the difference between a marketing strategy that works and one that falls flat.
Budgeting for marketing is no small task. There are many moving parts, and it can be difficult to know where to begin. In this post, we’ll focus on the part of your marketing budget that’s directly tied to generating revenue. Other critical aspects, like staff costs, agency fees, and MarTech expenses, will be covered in a future post.
You’re staring at ambitious growth targets for 2024, and the task of shaping a marketing budget to hit these numbers lands squarely on your desk. Where do you even begin? It’s like standing at the foot of a mountain, knowing you must reach the summit, but the path is shrouded in fog. In the tumultuous … Read more
At Grey Matter, we hear and read a lot about marketing best practices, whether that is via a blog post like our own or one of the many marketing conventions we attend. While we completely agree that every marketing organization should be incorporating best practices for their clients, and we agree with the definition of … Read more