PLANNING & BUDGETING

Are you ready to

budget for shifting customer demand?

planning

and

budgeting

Be ready for what’s next with

You can only be as fluid as your customers if you’re agile enough to meet their changing needs.

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and the CMO

between the CFO


between the CFO

and the CMO.

That kind of agility requires a strong relationship

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TALENT, TEAMS & CULTURE

The most future-facing CFOs really understand

the power of marketing

to have a measurable

impact on business performance, which

means they don’t view it as a cost center anymore.”

CEO, TINUITI

ZACH MORRISON

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growth

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While CMOs and CFOs are both trying to

attain the same goal...


efficient

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...CFOs have traditionally seen marketing as a fixed cost and something to be reined in at the first sign of uncertainty.


But capped marketing budgets place an artificial limit on growth.

efficient

profitable outcomes?

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Why limit budgets

if they’re delivering

empower marketing.

it's the CFO’s job to


without taking big risks,

unlock growth

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If the CMO can show

how marketing can

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With flexible budgets, marketers can swiftly respond to shifts in customer demand and capture every valuable conversion.

SEBASTIAN KLAPDOR

EVP AND CHIEF DATA OFFICER, VISTAPRINT

The ability to calibrate investment levels with

our machine learning data products in real time has helped us continue to drive profitability.”

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that have the potential to scale into always-on strategies.

Working together, the CMO and CFO can also design

low-risk experiments

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TALENT, TEAMS & CULTURE

We typically see 2.5X more impact from campaigns that started with an experiment versus those that didn’t.”


GLOBAL DIRECTOR OF GROWTH LAB, GOOGLE


MATTHIEU PELLERIN

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but today, only 26% of senior managers strongly agree that their KPIs are aligned with their organization’s

strategic objectives.

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The key to a strong

working relationship lies

in shared language and success metrics,

1

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CMOs and CFOs

can promote collaboration by setting departmental goals aligned with those of the wider business

and expressed

in commonly understood language.

marketing’s value

to the CFO, and to the wider C-suite.


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Achieving those shared goals can demonstrate

Being ready to keep up with shifting customer demand means

treating planning and budgeting not as a

siloed annual event,

but as a collaborative

daily exercise.

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