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50% -- marketing and sales cost share of total expenditures for B2B SaaS companies (2025)
Marketing and sales costs account for approximately 50% of total SaaS expenditures.
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50%
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Data Vintage
2025
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20
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30
Methodology
45
Freshness
95
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McKinsey
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Why read our B2B SaaS blog posts? Your customers need your B2B SaaS company and your product(s), but they may not know about it or be aware of it yet. How do you get them to sit up, notice, and act? Two simple words. Your story. Your marketing and sales collateral, such as your website, emails, news…
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B2B SaaS companies: 50% marketing and sales cost share of total expenditures. Source: McKinsey (2025). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/saas-marketing-sales-cost-share-50pct
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