WriteSpark

FEBRUARY 18, 2009

The key findings:  Tech buyers are increasing their participation in social media, with content provided by technology vendors receiving high rankings for use during the sales process.          February 18, 2009 in Social Media | Permalink. TrackBack URL for this entry: [link]. DIY Marcom Resources.

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The Effective Marketer

FEBRUARY 25, 2009

The Effective Marketer Effectiveness is a discipline and it can be learned Home About the Effective Marketer Books Speaking Getting Stuff Done with MS Outlook Note: the tips I give below work in MS Outlook 2003 as well as 2007 version. An Effective Marketer gets things done. Easy, simple, and efficient! Like Be the first to like this post.

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Customer Experience Matrix

APRIL 28, 2009

As of April 29, I've received 40 responses, of which I've discarded two as incomplete and two because they related to vendors I considered irrelevant ( Zoho and Ad Giants PitchRocket). One measure of this is the distribution of vendors reported by the respondents, which clearly doesn't reflect the installed base of the industry.

Demand Generation 120

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Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 4, 2009

I do recognize that they are the best known vendors in the space (with apologies to Vtrenz , whose identity is somewhat blurred since its purchase by Silverpop ). To be fair, many of the vendors below charge an installation of that can be several thousand dollars or more, while Marketo doesn't. I did publish a real review in July 2009.]

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Customer Experience Matrix

OCTOBER 22, 2009

The system can cap the number of points earned by any one type of event, although this takes some configuration by the vendor. The latter is an unusual feature for Software-as-a-Service systems like SalesFusion, since most vendors are concerned that ad hoc queries could harm system performance.

Enterprise Management 120

Enterprise Management Work Management Marketing Management Marketing Automation Services 120

Online Marketing Institute

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

In a typical scenario, content syndication leads are received by the media vendor hosting the registration forms, and then shipped weekly to a client in batch form. Unfortunately, this means that some leads could be as much as a week old by the time your sales reps even see them.

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Ambal's Amusings

OCTOBER 12, 2009

Joe, founder of client-vendor matching site Junta42 , is co-author of the highly praised book Get Content Get Customers , recognized as THE handbook for content marketing. Joe Pulizzi: Content marketing seems to be the buzz word for 2009. Most of the case studies were provided by Junta42 certified content vendors. Get Customers.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

As I wrote way back in 2007, there are plenty of things wrong with social media for B2B marketing. It is not uncommon for a prospect to read a vendor's blog for 6 months or even longer before engaging that vendor, or for a lead to require seven or eight marketing touches before being sales ready.

Social Media 48

Social Media Social Marketing B2B Marketing Peer-to-peer 48

markempa

JUNE 8, 2005

You’ll evolve from a vendor that is simply selling products and services to being an expert that is selling value. You’ll evolve from a vendor that is simply selling products and services to being an expert that is selling value. Critical Success Factor #9 Effectiveness 8 Critical Success Factors for Lead Generation 2.0

Lead Generation 120

Lead Generation Budget Programs Word of Mouth B2B Thought Leadership 120

The ROI Guy

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

For the IT buyer, business benefit assessments (34%) and financial assessments (26%) were both highly important to making a purchase decision, greatly exceeding, by more than 2x, the vendor relationship (14%) as a decision driver. Content may indeed be king. We call this the “Internet fueled buying cycle.&#

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The ROI Guy

FEBRUARY 4, 2009

Wednesday, February 04, 2009 How TCO is a common sense sales and marketing Tool for Today’s Chaotic Economy My friend and board member Bill Kirwin, original father of TCO analysis with Gartner, put it best when he wrote this article for us on the power of using TCO as a sales and marketing advantage to win deals in these tough economic times.

Enterprise Management 40

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Online Marketing Institute

JULY 9, 2009

skip to main | skip to sidebar Strategic Guy Timely views and best practices in the world of technology public relations Sunday, April 12, 2009 Three Phases of Social Media Maturation At Strategic Communications Group (Strategic) weve been through the cycle. April 13, 2009 12:55 PM Axel Schultze said. Very insightful.

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Social Media Media Budget Programs B2B Thought Leadership 40

The ROI Guy

JANUARY 10, 2011

Although Forrester was predicting 8-9% IT budget growth earlier in the year, its latest survey of 2,800 global CIOs and other IT decision-makers, revealed that their predictions, as were others, were overly optimistic, with the vast majority of respondents indicating that their budgets remained the same in 2010 as they were in 2009.

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The ROI Guy

MAY 6, 2010

Assessment tools enable vendors to engage with customers to realize and prioritize issues they may not even know they have, and provide intelligent product/solution roadmaps and recommendations. IT vendors, are you. VDI can save you big! Don't count the savings just. Social Media have an ROI? It needs to.

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The ROI Guy

FEBRUARY 4, 2009

Wednesday, February 04, 2009 Microsoft Virtualization with Hyper-V - better value? Money for Nothing, and Projects for Free How to Freeze a Market: Vista Obscures the View Another survey indicates IT budget cuts in 2009 How TCO is a common sense sales and marketing Tool. Forrester: Understand and Drive Outcomes for Sales.

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The ROI Guy

DECEMBER 6, 2010

During the B2C Internet revolution many a vendor’s world was turned upside down by failing to recognize and invest in the fundamental shift towards empowering consumers with content and buying tools. The influence of vendors as a trusted source of information lags dramatically, at only 8.1% this year, an increase from 3.1%

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The ROI Guy

SEPTEMBER 4, 2007

Tuesday, September 04, 2007 The Business Value of Server Virtualization One of the key issues in IT today is that normal operating expenses consume way too much of the annual budget – 61% on average in most organizations is spent keeping the lights on, and 25% spent on regular migrations and upgrades. by 2010 [2].

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The ROI Guy

JANUARY 25, 2011

Buyers, Fueled by the Internet, Firmly in Control With a wealth of information from vendors, analysts and peers, buyers are doing more research on-line. Sales teams will need to analyze the buying cycle, understanding the key steps buyers take to make decisions, and implementing engagement methods and tools to help facilitate the process.

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The ROI Guy

OCTOBER 22, 2010

Overall, the focus of technology buyers is on value – and much less on where marketing often focuses, such as on building vendor-buyer relationships and on brand building campaigns. Advice - Marketers should focus more spending on communicating the value of solutions, and less on brand development and buiding.

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The ROI Guy

JANUARY 17, 2011

Now, over 90% of B2B buyers require quantifiable proof of bottom-line impact from any significant purchase, and over 81% expect vendors to create and deliver the financial business case for most proposed purchases (IDC). For most buyers it’s easier to do-nothing, than to change.

Budget Programs 40

Budget Programs Marketing Automation Services Enterprise Management ROI 40

Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 7, 2009

million in 2007 and, presumably, has since spent it all. When I spoke with them again in October 2008, the number was 50 and it was still at 50 when we spoke in April 2009. Presumably other on-demand BI vendors can run more cheaply. These must have been substantial, since the company raised $15.6

Marketing Management 120

Marketing Management Salesforce.com Ideal Customer Profiles Budget Programs 120

Customer Experience Matrix

OCTOBER 10, 2011

But unlike most vendors, Beanstalk typically builds the scoring rules for its clients rather than leaving the clients on their own. The Beanstalk camp argues that marketers should build substantial marketing automation plans in advance, either by themselves or with help from a marketing automation vendor, agency, or consultant.

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The ROI Guy

OCTOBER 7, 2010

To no surprise, a substantial decline occurred following the bursting of the technology bubble and recession in 2001, with a second more severe decline into the Great Recession in 2009. The bad news is that even with this growth, most organizations annual IT budgets will remain below 2007 levels.

Budget Programs 40

Budget Programs Enterprise Management Marketing Management Marketing Automation Services 40

Customer Experience Matrix

DECEMBER 29, 2009

I didn't write about them because the vendor was planning some major improvements and it made more sense to publish a review after these in place. The process to set up multi-step campaigns (which the vendor calls “lead flows”) is now quite straightforward. We reconnected in December and the product is now ready for its close up.

Loopfuse 120

Loopfuse Demand Generation Agencies Demand Generation Demand 120

Online Marketing Institute

MARCH 30, 2011

Content Marketing Playbook Content Marketing University Content Marketing Spending Junta42 Top Blogs Elance vs. Junta42 Find us © 2009 - 2011 Z Squared Media, LLC | All Rights Reserved Admin Blog WebMastered by All in One Webmaster.

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Customer Experience Matrix

MARCH 29, 2010

Indeed, the briefing slides the company showed me in mid-2009 were nearly identical its slides from 2007. The system can also import external predictive models from vendors such as SAS and SPSS. The company was founded in 1996 to offer K.wiz data mining software and had reached pretty much its current form by the early 2000’s.

Enterprise Management 120

Enterprise Management Ideal Customer Profiles Marketing Automation Services Marketing Management 120

Online Marketing Institute

OCTOBER 1, 2010

Primary Vendors Most social networks offer integration features such as Facebook, LinkedIn, Google Myspace, and Twitter, see my complete matrix list (I worked with these vendors to create this list). Furthermore the vendor should add new IDs to the options as time advances forward.

Social Networks 40

Social Networks Enterprise Management Marketing Websites Work Management 40

Online Marketing Institute

JUNE 22, 2009

So click here to find out whether they changed my mind… Read more… Stan Woods | June 16th, 2009 | one comment The Content Marketing Workbook It’s here. Read more… Doug Kessler | June 11th, 2009 | 3 comments Choose your patients carefully The most respected surgeons in the world have the best survival rates.

Paid Search Agency 40

Paid Search Agency Demand Generation Agencies Advertising Agencies B2B Marketing 40

chiefmartech

OCTOBER 29, 2017

The 2011 marketing technology landscape was my first attempt at organizing vendors in the martech space. .” I find some wry amusement in showing this progression and labeling it as A Brief History of Marketing Technology Consolidation : But a raw count doesn’t tell the full story of what’s actually happened.

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Market2Lead Reachforce Eloqua DemandBase 61

Smashmouth Marketing

SEPTEMBER 2, 2009

Nigel: For the first year 2006-2007 I was just talking to myself. The biggest change has come in 2009. Do you think that single nuance between vendors is "sales 2.0?" Mike: Having coined the phrase "Sales 2.0", and speaking at the Sales 2.0 can have for them. in 2010 (and starting this fall). is a massive project.

Conference 100

Conference Cold Calling B2B Sales Advertising Mediums 100

Smashmouth Marketing

SEPTEMBER 2, 2009

Nigel: For the first year 2006-2007 I was just talking to myself. The biggest change has come in 2009. Do you think that single nuance between vendors is "sales 2.0"? Mike: Having coined the phrase "Sales 2.0", and speaking at the Sales 2.0 can have for them. in 2010 (and starting this fall). is a massive project.

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The ROI Guy

DECEMBER 14, 2005

Vendor ROI: Can it be trusted? The ROI of Business Intelligence Ten Steps to High ROIT Don't just cut IT spending - Use IT to reduce SG&A. Does Size Matter in ROIT? Q&A for SearchCIO: The State of ROI from IT The ROI for Anti-Spam Front office investments vs. back office investmen. Here are a few Guidelines for High Tech.

ROI 40

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Webbiquity

JANUARY 17, 2011

Email open rates continue to decline from 14% in the second half of 2007 to just 11.2% 54% of small and midsize businesses (SMBs) were using social media to promote their businesses as of September 2010, double the number using these sites in December 2009. B2B vendors still on the fence about social media need to take the plunge.

Paid Content 100

Paid Content Stats Social Media Marketing Budget 100

The ROI Guy

JULY 22, 2010

The tool analyzes TCO, including upfront acquisition costs management and support, for ShoreTel, legacy TDM systems and various competing UC vendors. The ShoreTel TCO Tool leverages the significant resources of Alinean, including its worldwide metrics database.

Work Management 40

Work Management Marketing Management ROI Marketing Automation Services 40

Webbiquity

APRIL 27, 2021

Twitter made a splash at SXSW in 2007 and began to grow rapidly. According to Google Trends, search interest in social media marketing took off in late 2008 / early 2009. Many of those ex-business journalists moved into consulting roles or went to work writing content for vendors. YouTube got started in 2005.

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Single Grain

JULY 21, 2020

History: Dropbox was founded by MIT students Drew Houston and Arash Ferdowsi in 2007 after Drew constantly forgot to bring his USB flash drive to class. By 2007, the service was launched several more countries, and as of 2020 Amazon Prime has 150 million subscribers in seventeen countries. billion as of 2019. 13) Workday.

CMS Development 94

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The ROI Guy

SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

The good news is that the second half of 2010, projections are in line with Gartner’s survey in the fourth quarter of 2009 when CIOs reported IT budgets would increase, on average, by only 1.3%, and spending outlooks are more positive than earlier surveys. for 2009, showing that a spending recovery is in place, but marginally.

Budget Programs 40

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