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The median in-house marketing manager now costs more in salary alone than most full-service agency retainers cost all year, and that's before benefits, tools, or the six months it takes to get someone fully productive. bit.ly/4jIhIHZ

The answer isn't a percentage of revenue. It's a function of your pipeline gap. How much new revenue do you need? What does it cost to acquire a qualified customer through each channel? Where is your current spend producing attribution you can defend? thatagency.com/blog/how-much…

A marketing budget built on last year's spend is built around habit, not revenue goals. bit.ly/4yktnB1

Spreading budget evenly across channels feels safe. In practice, it's risk avoidance dressed up as planning. The businesses allocating limited budgets well are doubling down on what's generating qualified pipeline. thatagency.com/blog/marketin…

Most 2027 marketing budgets will be built on last year's numbers with a percentage adjustment added on top. That's not forecasting. That's guessing with a spreadsheet. The executives building predictable revenue plans aren't starting with budget. thatagency.com/blog/revenue-…

Awareness without conversion is wasted spend. Conversion without nurture leaves revenue on the table. Full-funnel marketing connects every stage, so the leads coming in are the same ones closing at the bottom. thatagency.com/blog/what-is-… Source: LinkedIn B2B Institute

Pipeline coverage tells you whether you have enough opportunity in play to hit your revenue target, not just whether leads are coming in. Most businesses don't track it. So when the quarter ends short, leadership is surprised. thatagency.com/blog/what-is-…

Impressions, clicks, and sessions tell you marketing is happening. They don't tell you whether it's working. The metrics that actually matter connect marketing activity to pipeline and most businesses aren't tracking them. thatagency.com/blog/what-is-…

Tropical Chevrolet has been putting South Florida drivers in Chevrolets since 1955. We're proud to be the agency they trust to grow their presence in one of the most competitive automotive markets in the country. Excited to get to work.

That gap isn't a personnel problem; it's a system problem. When definitions don't match, pipeline data can't be trusted, forecasts miss, and budget decisions get made on information nobody fully believes. thatagency.com/blog/sales-an…

Most businesses treat them as the same thing. They're not. Lead generation captures demand that already exists. Demand generation creates it before a prospect ever searches for you. thatagency.com/blog/demand-g…

The average business takes over 40 hours to respond to a new lead. By then, the prospect has already moved on — or worse, called a competitor who picked up faster. thatagency.com/blog/the-hidd…

Proud to welcome Tropical Collision Center to the THAT Agency family. We're excited to help them grow their presence and reach more drivers across Miami and Broward County who need a shop they can trust. #DigitalMarketingMiami #AutoBodyMarketing #SouthFloridaBusiness

Proud to welcome Universal Radiology Partners to the THAT Agency family. We're here to help them attract the radiologists that will fuel that expansion.

By the time a prospect reaches out, the decision is already leaning somewhere. If your marketing isn't credible and active during that window, you're not in the running when it closes. thatagency.com/blog/pipeline…

Proud to welcome QB Business Solutions to the THAT Agency family. With 75+ years of combined experience helping automotive dealerships maximize warranty reimbursements and streamline claims processing, QB Business Solutions has built a reputation on results.

Marketing sent the lead. Sales never worked it. That gap, the space between an MQL and an SQL is where most pipelines quietly fall apart. Not because the leads were bad. Because nobody owned what happened next. bit.ly/44VuslV

The biggest red flag isn't that you're using AI. It's believing AI is your entire marketing team. AI is an incredible starting point. It can speed up brainstorming, copywriting, and even design concepts. But speed doesn't replace strategy, experience, or a trained eye for detail.

A full pipeline and a controlled pipeline are not the same thing. The Lead Management Scorecard runs five tests against your current process and shows you exactly where leads are stalling, sitting, or slipping through. Get your scorecard: bit.ly/3T97KUv

A sales pipeline tracks where deals are. A revenue pipeline tracks where revenue actually comes from. Most businesses manage the first and ignore the second, and the blind spot shows up in forecasting, not in the CRM. Click the link below to understand the difference: