5 Critical Steps for Planning Your 2017 Marketing Budget

The first half of 2016 is over and it is time to begin planning your marketing budget for 2017. With the upcoming New Year comes a new set of challenges for marketers and next year’s budget will need to accommodate addressing those challenges.

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NCC Media is the ad sales, marketing and technology organization that represents every U.S. market. NCC Media is the media solution that meets marketers’ needs to target consumer prospects efficiently and effectively in the communities where they live. Jointly owned by three of the nation's largest MSOs – Comcast Cable, Cox Communications and Time Warner Cable – NCC Media is constantly evolving to maintain its status as the industry’s most effective multi-platform sales organization.

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BUILD YOUR DATA-LED INFLATION STRATEGY

whitePaper | October 17, 2022

One unifying statement can be made about 2022 – inflation was terrible. As Figure 1 highlights, the consumer price index increased by more than 7 percent each month this year – and that’s on top of 5%+ growth for most months in 2021.

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The Definitive Guide to Building and Growing Profitable Sales Channels using Automation

whitePaper | November 1, 2022

For many industries that rely on indirect sales channels, managing their partners effectively is a frustrating challenge. Most of these organizations develop partner programs to structure policies and procedures that enable them to scale revenues through these partners more rapidly and cost effectively than building a direct sales operation. Technology solutions for PRM are rapidly solving the problems associated with scaling partner programs.

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Digital Marketing Packages Customize and Build Your Own Way

whitePaper | July 29, 2020

Digital Marketing is an ever-evolving bundle of marketing strategies that help businesses reach their audience in this wide vast digital space. While the marketing trends around the industries keep changing, it’s very important for every business to also go with the flow, try and test different strategies and stick to what works well for their niche.

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VMware Partner Marketing Catalog

whitePaper | September 6, 2022

Use the campaign guide and blueprint to plan and run a successful campaign leveraging VMware partner marketing materials and programs as well as your own content. Campaign materials indicated below can be executed via Partner Demand Center or your own marketing platform.

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2022 State of Marketing to Engineers

whitePaper | October 5, 2022

Welcome to the 2022 State of Marketing to Engineers Report. This marks the fifth consecutive year GlobalSpec and TREW Marketing have partnered to better understand how engineers and technical buyers find the information they need to make critical work-related decisions. Each year, we’ve empathized with the industrial marketer’s need to justify their marketing spend. They’ve long needed to make informed decisions on resources – including people, time, and budget – to deliver maximum ROI. This year, our survey contains a mix of popular topics asked consistently to monitor trends, along with fresh questions that take a deeper dive into particular channels and buying behaviors. This year’s research examines valued sales behavior, LinkedIn interaction, and a few new webinar and podcast questions.

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Five Ways Distribution Unleashes the Power of the Channel

whitePaper | October 3, 2022

International expansion is the right path for any business seeking to grow exponentially and a proven way to do this, for technology vendors in particular, is to use Distributors. A recent report published by the Global Technology Distribution Council (GTDC) finds that almost two-thirds of vendors surveyed said they would increase investments in indirect Channel Programs managed in collaboration with Distributors in 2019.

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NCC Media

NCC Media is the ad sales, marketing and technology organization that represents every U.S. market. NCC Media is the media solution that meets marketers’ needs to target consumer prospects efficiently and effectively in the communities where they live. Jointly owned by three of the nation's largest MSOs – Comcast Cable, Cox Communications and Time Warner Cable – NCC Media is constantly evolving to maintain its status as the industry’s most effective multi-platform sales organization.

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