![Budget Allocations By Customer Journey Stage, September 2015 [CHART]](https://trends.e-strategyblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/TheCMOClubIBM-Enterprise-CMO-Budget-Allocations-Customer-Journey-Sept2015.png "Chart - Budget Allocations By Customer Journey Stage")
CMOs are no longer investing the majority of their budgets to customer acquisition, instead spreading their spending more evenly across the customer journey, says The CMO Club in a recent study [PDF] conducted in collaboration with IBM. The survey of 100 CMOs with annual marketing budgets of at least $1 million found 57% predicting an increase in overall budgets over the next 2-3 years, with spending growth expected across all stages of the customer journey. Read the rest at MarketingCharts.
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