The 2 Week Peek
The 2 Week Peek
What is the state of your marketing?
Strengths. Weaknesses.
Costs. Results.
Our 2 Week Peek measures the costs versus results of your marketing.
We compare your efforts and results to what’s working in your market space.
Campaigns Blueprint
We will examine your past marketing campaigns and create a new blueprint for campaigns going forward.
Digital Marketing
At least 80% of your prospect’s solution reconnaissance is done online. How do you stack up?
MQL v. SQL
Is your marketing generating enough SQLs to keep the sales team busy?
Target Marketing
Market segmentation, ideal customer profiles and customized messaging are key to breaking through the B2B marketing clutter.
Skillsets & Capabilities
We will identify where you can improve internally and with outsourced resouces like agencies. And we’ll calculate the costs, if any.
Budget & Metrics
What’s the return on your marketing investment compared to other companies in your market space? We’ll calculate your CAC, M%CAC, MOP and ROI.
Budget
B2B Marketing Budgets by Industry
Marketing investment varies greatly by industry. On average this is how industry sectors spend:
> Manufacturing companies devote about 9% of their overall budget to marketing, which is about 5.7% of revenue.
> Technology/software companies devote 9.3% of the overall budget to marketing, which is about 10.7% of revenue.
Marketing budgets got slashed in 2020
Forty-four percent of CMOs reported mid year budget cuts in 2020.
The results? In half the cases they discovered a lot of fluff in their budgets.
The got painfully clear on what activities and tactics were actually driving sales. In addition, they learned to do a lot of the best activities themselves.
Your best next step
We recommend taking a good hard look at what brought in business last year. Look closely at the touchpoints that influenced closed business.
- Make a list of the top 10 activities that brought in leads over the past year.
- Identify every customer you currently have and what brought them in.
- Take the top 2-3 sources/influence points and concentrate your efforts around them.
Budget
What are the top spending priorities?
B2B companies continue to shift spending toward digital marketing and away from traditional. B2Bs on average will spend 50%+ on digital efforts in 2021.
- Growing SEO/organic presence 61%
- Blog/content creation 55%
- Marketing automation 50%
- Content distribution/amplification 47%
- Interactive content creation 36%
- Longform (ebooks, whitepapers) 35%
- Visual content creation (infographics) 30%
- Online tools 28%
- Product how-to videos 26%
- Webinars 24%
- Freemium trials 9%
- Other 5%
Key metrics for the CEO
Marketing department metrics are different from CEO metrics.
B2B marketers typically look forward. Their important metrics include marketing touches, click-throughs and conversions. As a rule, however, CEOs don’t care about these.
CEOs typically look backward because they are accountable to investors and others for reporting financial results. Their metrics are almost always financial and historical.
You need to know both types of metrics. The better sales and marketing automation platforms help with this a great deal.
TESTIMONIALS
What People Are Saying
“The change required by our sales team and leadership was significant. DSG has accelerated our time to results through playbooks, training events, and collaboration with each of our vertical VPs and sales managers to drive change. They have become a trusted ‘insider’ within Panasonic.”
“Our business unit is moving to both an industry-specific approach and integrated solutions platform at the same time. C-level conversations that communicate a unified message have become a critical success factor. We collaborated with DSG to develop sales messaging playbooks and video-enabled training to accelerate progress in the field.”
“One of the things I like the most about the DSG approach is that they don’t prescribe how you should do your business. They advise you on best practices and methodologies that they’ve seen work with other relevant clients. DSG has clearly perfected their approach and tools over the years, but the key was how we customized it to fit Korn/Ferry.”
Contact us
Location – Nashville, TN (U.S. Central Time)
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Harris CMO Partners
32306 N. Course VW
Franklin, TN 37067
(615) 200-6336