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How to Sell During a Trade War

SMEI

Actionable Steps: Explore export financing programs and tax incentives. He applied for export financing and used trade credit insurance to mitigate risks associated with international transactions. These programs can provide financial assistance, export credits, and market intelligence.

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Screenwriting Techniques for Marketers: Defining Your Customer's Problem

Hubspot Marketing

For example: "Our software helps small businesses manage their finances more efficiently.” For our financial software example: "Small business owners feel overwhelmed and stressed about managing their finances, worried they might be making costly mistakes.” Uncover the Internal Problem.

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Unlocking the power of marketing mix modeling solutions

Martech

MMM offers a compelling solution for marketing and enterprise functions like finance and supply chain, which use these models to articulate return on investment and optimize strategies. Nearly half of marketing leaders struggle to prove their value and gain recognition for their contributions, a recent Gartner survey found.

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Why marketing benefits when it provides forecasted guidance

Martech

Speaking different languages: A common disconnect Recently, I participated in a roundtable discussion with finance and data science leaders. For finance teams, predictive means causal forecasting — what’s expected to happen given specific variables.

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Marketing Operations in 2025: A New Framework for Success

Speaker: Mike Rizzo, Founder & CEO, MarketingOps.com and Darrell Alfonso, Director of Marketing Strategy and Operations, Indeed.com

Objectives: Understand and apply the 7 P Model 💡 Learn how each element contributes to marketing operations success, from strategic planning to resource prioritization Foster cross-functional collaboration 👥 Discover ways to strengthen partnerships with product, sales, and finance for better alignment Enhance efficiency and performance (..)

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Why the MQL model is failing B2B marketing and what to use instead

Martech

Finance teams have lost confidence in marketing-driven revenue forecasts. Marketing, sales and finance must align with the actual drivers of revenue, rather than using artificial engagement signals as a proxy. Sales teams have long disliked chasing low-intent MQLs. CEOs struggle to connect marketing spend with actual business growth.

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Marketing Operations Assessment Template - 7 P Model

The Marketing Operations Leader

Partnerships "Driving collaboration across product, sales, finance, and other teams to achieve shared goals." Questions to Ask: Are we aligned with sales, product, and finance teams on shared priorities? Recommendation: 1-2: Establish a KPI framework and create dashboards for key stakeholders.

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