5 ways to secure marketing investment from your CFO

With CMO’s faced with ever increasing pressures on their budgets and to get more for less, the requirement to work closely with your Chief Financial Officer (CFO) is ever more important. In this guide we look at ways to work even more closely with finance to ensure goals are aligned and budgets maximised for the best results, ensuring CFO’s don’t just have a view of cutting marketing investment all the time.

In this guide we cover 5 ways to secure further marketing investment from your CFO including;

  • Understanding how value is created
  • Accepting accountability for the metrics that signify value creation
  • Using the language of value creation
  • Growing the understanding of value creation in your marketing team
  • Creating a mindset based on evidence

Discover more by downloading the full guide here.

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Welcome to the future: three key takeaways

Already, 2020 has been a challenging year. But with challenge, comes opportunity – a chance to stop, rethink and get creative. After all, some of the most innovative and successful businesses were born in a recession, including Netflix, Airbnb and Slack.

But what must businesses do to make sure they are one of the success stories?

Recently, we teamed up with acclaimed Futurist, Richard van Hooijdonk, to host an innovation webinar entitled ‘Welcome to the future: a new reality’. The session brought together more than 300 individuals to explore how businesses can stay successful in challenging times, as well as some of the technologies and trends we should be embracing in the near future. Here are our top three takeaways:

  • Don’t ignore changing trends
  • Invest in innovation
  • Embrace the future

At APS we have heavily invested in our own innovation programme designed to aide our range of clients. We work to help solve their operational and strategic challenges through a tailored programme of innovation that is designed to unlock new ways or thinking. To request a recording of the recent webinar or for more information on any of our services please contact us at [email protected]

Responding to the Coronavirus pandemic, 4 things the charity sector can do

The Coronavirus pandemic has hit almost every industry, forcing companies to tighten budgets, furlough staff and even reconsider the entire way in which they operate.

The third sector is no different. The pandemic has created numerous challenges for charities, from finding new ways to replicate physical fundraising events to keeping donors engaged.

This practical guide covers four key things your charitable organisation can be doing right now to help alleviate these immediate challenges, while also ensuring you remain sustainable for the future:

  • Communicating with your audience – clear, consistent communications that hit the right tone
  • Creating an omnichannel strategy – joining the dots between strategically crafted print and digital
  • Rethinking the charity shop – how to adapt for social distancing, or take it online
  • Taking events virtual – creating engaging, shareable events for your audience

Download the guide for more information, including practical examples and actionable ideas to make these four strategies work for your organisation.

Request a copy of our whitepaper – Responding to the Coronavirus pandemic – 4 things the charity sector can do

Partners in time: can marketing and procurement march to the same drum beat?

With CMO’s faced with ever increasing pressures on their budgets and to get more for less, the requirement to work closely with your Chief Financial Officer (CFO) is ever more important. In this guide we look at ways to work even more closely with finance to ensure goals are aligned and budgets maximised for the best results, ensuring CFO’s don’t just have a view of cutting marketing investment all the time.

In this guide we cover 5 ways to secure further marketing investment from your CFO including;

  • Understanding how value is created
  • Accepting accountability for the metrics that signify value creation
  • Using the language of value creation
  • Growing the understanding of value creation in your marketing team
  • Creating a mindset based on evidence

Discover more by downloading the full guide here.

Request a copy of our guide: ‘5 ways to secure marketing investment from your CFO’