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How to make the jump from product-market fit to platform-market fit

Martech

Jason, director of product marketing at a global cybersecurity company, celebrates a big win. His product ranks as the third-fastest growing in the company. But there’s a problem — the company operates in silos, treating all products as separate cost centers. Product-market fit. Platform-market fit.

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How a Bottom-Up Budget Can Transform Your Company From Bottom to Top

Hubspot Marketing

A bottom-up budget is a budgeting methodology where individual departments propose their own budgets to be consolidated by the centralized finance team. Finance leaders don’t have an in-depth knowledge of the day-to-day functions, needs, and constraints of each unit. Follow along as I create a product marketing budget proposal.

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3 tips to tackle the annual marketing budget challenge

Martech

Creating the annual marketing budget is notoriously challenging. Trying to justify every line item to finance teams that don’t understand marketing can be frustrating and overwhelming. I’ve personally experienced this utopia, but most marketers have not. In a lot of companies, budgeting is a hot mess.

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2025 GTM forecast: Key shifts redefining the future of go-to-market strategy

Martech

Without clear data to back up these improvements, teams will struggle to demonstrate their value to finance and risk missing out on the credit they deserve. Dig deeper: Is product-led growth a GTM silver bullet? The post 2025 GTM forecast: Key shifts redefining the future of go-to-market strategy appeared first on MarTech.

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I Raised $463,000 With Equity Crowdfunding: What I Wish More Business Owners Knew About This Funding Path

Buffer Marketing

  At the same time, we had built a dedicated customer base during our first couple of years on the market. We found strong product-market fit with women navigating perimenopause and post-menopause, had high lifetime value from these customers, and found they were bringing in their friends.

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How to make revenue generation a company-wide effort

Martech

Beyond marketing, sales and customer success, your product, finance, operations and executive teams are invaluable partners. This article tackles frequently discussed revenue strategies and what marketing leaders can do to work with colleagues to generate customer revenue more efficiently and effectively.

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How marketing ops improves ROI through campaign performance and budget management

Martech

Marketing ops is the control center for your martech stack across all marketing activities to campaign performance and profitability,” said James Delande, BrandMaker’s Director of Product Marketing, at our recent MarTech conference. This allows campaigns and other marketing efforts to be monitored and measured.