In March’s Advertising and Branding Month, we’ll go deep on agent branding and greatest practices for spending with Zillow, Realtor.com and extra. Prime CMOs of main corporations drop by to share their latest techniques, too. And to prime off this theme month, Inman is debuting a model new set of awards for branding and advertising and marketing leaders within the business known as Advertising All-Stars.

When it’s time to tighten your belt, you in all probability begin with the low-hanging fruit: Little-used tech platforms, irrelevant subscriptions and a moratorium on frivolous spending. While you dig somewhat deeper, you could find yourself having to make these actually painful cuts to staffers, infrastructure and advertising and marketing initiatives.

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Should you’re trimming the fats in your funds, we need to know: The place are you chopping again in your advertising and marketing spend? Are you merely forgoing new initiatives or ramping again your present methods? Are you basing your cuts on analytics or chopping again throughout the board? Are you lowering your use of out of doors distributors in favor of bootstrapped, DIY options? Tell us beneath.

We’ll put up our findings with the highest solutions subsequent week on Tuesday.