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Pardot Offers Refined Demand Generation at a Small Business Price

Customer Experience Matrix

While last week’s post found that Marketbright aims at more sophisticated clients, Pardot explicitly targets small and midsize businesses (or SMBs as we fondly acronymize them [yes, that’s a word, at least according to [link] ]). What’s odd about the SMB vs. Enterprise dichotomy is that both sets of systems are quite similar.

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Tom Pisello: The ROI Guy: Value Selling Tools and the Buying Lifecycle

The ROI Guy

Diagnostic Example: Microsoft Infrastructure Optimization Assessment Microsoft wanted to provide analysis and roadmap advice to help get more C-level engagements, engage earlier in the sales cycle, and shift customer perceptions from tactical product provider to strategic partner.

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Tom Pisello: The ROI Guy: How TCO is a common sense sales and.

The ROI Guy

Never has cost-analysis been so critical for technology users to justify spending and for technology providers to prove the business case in order to assure that the proposed solutions are a priority and make the budget cut. Bullet-proof business cases need to be made for any money to change hands.

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Tom Pisello: The ROI Guy: Predictions for 2011: The End of B2B.

The ROI Guy

As a common example, an Internet empowered prospect will often self-diagnose their issues, but may not do so completely or accurately. About Me Thomas Pisello Orlando, Florida, United States Tom Pisello is a serial entrepreneur, focused on building ventures to help companies get more business value from their IT and business investments.

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Tom Pisello: The ROI Guy: Tech Marketers May Need to Rethink.

The ROI Guy

Going overboard on humorous content, or spending a ton on creative to create edgy / cool programs may not have the desired impact, and fall flat with the serious business of technology buyers. Finding ways to help buyers Fight Frugalnomics is essential to attracting attention and engaging frugal buyers.

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Tom Pisello: The ROI Guy: Hard and Soft ROI - The differences and.

The ROI Guy

Some examples of direct (hard) benefits are: 1. Soft benefits are less easy to quantify and rely on in a business case. Improved up-sell / cross-sell is a good example of an indirect benefit from a new CRM system that helps the call center improve its interaction with customers.

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9 call analytics platforms for marketing teams to consider

Martech

More and more enterprise marketers are using call analytics platforms to collect, analyze and act upon the growing volume of caller data now being captured from the billions of inbound calls to businesses. A careful and comprehensive internal evaluation of business goals and resources is the first step in the decision-making process.