Tag: personal-finance
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Making the Most of Your Budget
How to build and how to manage a budget are skills that no one teaches you as a marketing leader. The very first time I managed a budget I went over budget by $12,000. I didn’t know what I didn’t know. I survived that moment and vowed to never let it happen again. Carrie Phillips…
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Essential Free MarComm Tools and Communities for Budget-Conscious Professionals
For those of us on a fiscal year, it’s a new budget year. While many of our budgets have reset, chances are, more is asked of us than ever before. As our budgets become tighter, and things just cost more, free and low cost resources become more important than ever. I started this tradition now…
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Budget Basics
The budget. It may not be fun, but it is so important to do our work well. Truth moment, as a new MarComm leader, I did not understand the seriousness of the budget and the budgeting process. I had been in the role for about a month before I had the budget codes, and even…