How to Keep Your Marketing Budget When Your CFO Comes Knocking

November 3 - 1:30pm to 2:15pm

Pass Type: All Access Pass, Main Conference Pass

Session Type: Concurrent Session

Session Topic: Measurement, Attribution, & ROI


When budgets tighten, marketing is often first on the chopping block. Why? Because most marketing teams can’t articulate ROI in CFO-friendly language.

Tarah Neujahr will share the measurement frameworks that protected—and grew—a marketing investment through an IPO and multiple budget cycles. You’ll learn why cutting demand generation for short-term lead gen ultimately hurts pipeline, how to present marketing as a revenue driver rather than a cost center, and specific metrics finance leaders actually care about (hint: it’s not MQLs).

This tactical session will give you the exact reports, dashboards, and talking points you need for your next budget conversation. And you’ll leave with a CFO presentation template you can customize for your next board meeting.

In Tarah’s session you’ll learn how to:

  • Identify the five metrics CFOs actually use to evaluate marketing investment
  • Build a “marketing magic number” dashboard that proves efficiency
  • Structure budget conversations that position marketing as growth investment

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