Addressing Overblown Concerns Among Customer Marketers on LinkedIn About Budget Cuts

·Mar 06, 2026 03:21 PM·

There is so much chatter from customer marketers on LinkedIn that feel very Chicken Little. Yes, budgets and headcount are being impacted. But that's happening across the org chart - not uniquely affecting us. Why are we amplifying this to be much bigger than it is? ETA: this is a genuine open invite for conversation

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Amanda Peacock
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no because its interesting .. i feel like i see that on linkedin but then in this slack channel even i see so many people who are investing in tools or growing their teams so it does seem to be a bit of a mismatch
Gabrielle Herrera
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Exactly
Joel (Salesforce)
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OR launching new programs
Gabrielle Herrera
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I'm seeing the same sort of discourse across community too, which sits next to customer marketing, but close enough. (Unless you're me and you're a customer marketer on the community team lol)
Thomas Derek Melrose
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Gabrielle Herrera I'm one of those too 😆
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Amanda Peacock
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no because its interesting .. i feel like i see that on linkedin but then in this slack channel even i see so many people who are investing in tools or growing their teams so it does seem to be a bit of a mismatch
Gabrielle Herrera
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Exactly
Joel (Salesforce)
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OR launching new programs
Gabrielle Herrera
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I'm seeing the same sort of discourse across community too, which sits next to customer marketing, but close enough. (Unless you're me and you're a customer marketer on the community team lol)
Thomas Derek Melrose
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Gabrielle Herrera I'm one of those too 😆
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