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5.5%

5.5% -- marketing budget share of revenue for Software vendors (2007)

2007  · n=95  · IDC

In 2007, IDC reported that software vendors spent an average of 5.5% of revenue on marketing.

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5.5%
Unit
Percentage
Data Vintage
2007
Entity
Software vendors
Sample Size
95
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Source Trust
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Citation Chain
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Independence
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Methodology
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Freshness
95
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http://www.dohertywhite.com/blogs/tag/b2b-marketing/ ↗
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IDC Marketing Investment Planner, subset of 95 large technology firms

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Software vendors: 5.5% marketing budget share of revenue. Source: IDC (2007). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/idc-software-vendor-marketing-spend-5-5pct-2007
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