The ROI Guy

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

As defined by Forrester, "Sales enablement is a strategic, ongoing process that equips all client-facing employees with the ability to consistently and systematically have a valuable conversation with the right set of customer stakeholders at each stage of the customer's problem-solving life cycle to optimize the ROI of the selling system."

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The ROI Guy

JANUARY 10, 2011

IT Spending on the Rise, But Executives Remain Economic-Focused A recent IT spending survey from Forrester confirms that 2010 remained a tough year for IT. Although enterprise technology budgets were trending upward, the progression was slight, in 2010 compared with 2009. Monday, January 10, 2011 Let the Good Times Roll?

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

February 23rd, 2010 |Written By: Jay Baer | View Comments Tweet Is your social media program about asking, or answering? I’m constantly referring back to Forrester’s POST methodology when planning campaigns. Like Sonny divorcing Cher (or was it the other way around?)

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Convince & Convert

MAY 25, 2010

Here are the highlights: A Colossal Opportunity According to Forrester research, from 2009 – 2014, the average annual growth rate in digital marketing expenditures in the U.S. I was there speaking at the Counselor’s Academy PRSA annual conference.

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 3, 2010

Forrester Research shows that from 2009-2014, U.S. corporate expenditures on social media will increase by an AVERAGE of 34% a year , and that by 2012, as much will be spent on social media as on email marketing. Yesterday, I gave a presentation in Tempe, AZ to Agencyside , a conference of advertising and PR agency owners.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Combined with their above average income and above average education, Twitter users’ propensity to interact with brands make them a huge potential source for Mass Influencers (although Forrester’s research says Facebook is a better pool ). I'm trying to quote Forrester here somewhere. population).

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The ROI Guy

FEBRUARY 14, 2011

Facebook seems to have the most favorable ROI ratings so far, with 35% indicating superior or average ROI, but with so many not knowing for sure, it’s hard to tell what the results will be until clearer measurement systems are put in place. Frugalnomics in Full Effect: Forrester and Gartner. Latest Research.

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The ROI Guy

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

Thursday, November 04, 2010 IDC: Economic Buyers, Digital Overload and Sales Enablement Define Marketing for 2011 I just had the pleasure of presenting a webinar with Randy Perry, VP Business Value at IDC. Declining from 2009 is budget allocations and spending for search ads and search engine optimization, as well as display ads.

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The ROI Guy

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Analysts such as Forrester and Gartner are highlighting “consumerization” of business as a key trend for the next several years, and B2B marketing is one area that will face the ‘consumerization” change, making content marketing and interactive decision support tools more important than ever before. Published: September 15, 2010, [link].

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The ROI Guy

FEBRUARY 4, 2009

Wednesday, February 04, 2009 VMware launches new version of ROI / TCO Calculator Virtualization is one of the key cost savings initiatives that IT executives are implementing in order to tighten their belts in these uncertain economic conditions. Frugalnomics in Full Effect: Forrester and Gartner. Latest Research.

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Hubspot

JULY 19, 2011

According to Forrester, mobile advertising in the U.S. million by year-end 2010, increasing by nearly 50 percent from 2009. Mobile Groove found that the average session time for a mobile browser user is 6 minutes, which they will perform continuously throughout the day. Trend 1 - Mobile Advertising Spend is on the Rise.

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The ROI Guy

FEBRUARY 4, 2009

Wednesday, February 04, 2009 Microsoft Virtualization with Hyper-V - better value? IT Spending on the Rise, Sales Enablement and The Economic-Buyer ► 2010 (118) ► December (5) Social Media Hierarchy of Needs - Best Practices f. Frugalnomics in Full Effect: Forrester and Gartner. Latest Research.

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The ROI Guy

OCTOBER 22, 2010

Friday, October 22, 2010 Tech Marketers May Need to Rethink Budgets for 2011 according to new Harte-Hanks research Technology marketers are challenged today with handling proliferating marketing channels to reach and engage more overloaded, skeptical and frugal buyers than ever before. Frugalnomics in Full Effect: Forrester and Gartner.

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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

OCTOBER 11, 2010

According to research from IDC and Forrester, marketing spending is anticipated to increase between 3 to 5% for 2011. This represents substantial growth when compared to 2009 cut-backs; however, even with the 2010/2011 snap-back in spending, most marketing budgets will remain below pre-recession levels.

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The ROI Guy

NOVEMBER 8, 2006

Since labor costs and equivalent outsourced services dominate most IT budgets -- over 56% of IT spending on average -- selecting platforms with lower implementation and ongoing management costs can significantly improve overall IT efficiency. to 1) than the Microsoft databases on average. Latest Research. Let the Good Times Roll?

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Webbiquity

JANUARY 17, 2011

The average visitor spends 66% more time on these sites than they did a year ago. Americans spent nearly a quarter of their time online on social networking sites and blogs in 2010, up from 15.8 At its current rate, Twitter will process almost 10 billion tweets in 2010. percent just a year earlier—a 43 percent increase.

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The Effective Marketer

JULY 5, 2009

That in itself is a good indication that the material was above average. This entry was posted on Sunday, July 5th, 2009 at 9:43 pm and is filed under Communication , Online Marketing. Regards [link] Reply Sandra Blum says: July 6, 2009 at 10:21 am Daniel — Great to read about the workshop and your takeaways.

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Webbiquity

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

If 2009 was the year many marketers puzzled over, poked at and pondered incorporating social media into their marketing mix, 2010 was the year of diving in. According to a HubSpot study, 71% of marketers viewed Twitter as a useful marketing tool last year, up from just 39% in 2009. Adoption soared. 85% of Inc. Related Post.

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B2B Marketing Zone Posts

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Ten reasons to blog – even if nobody reads it - grow - Practical Marketing Solutions , November 7, 2010 Building an engaged community through a business blog can be extremely difficult — sometimes impossible. Twitter for B2B Marketing - MI6 Marketing Agency , November 18, 2010 Author: Chris Herbert. There better be. Why not use it?

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

I’ve seen my average number of comments increase since I moved to Disqus. For example, how many views did your video get on each site, and how long on average did viewers watch your clip on each site? ChatCatcher This is a nice little tool that finds Tweets about your blog posts, and automatically adds them as comments.

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B2B Marketing Zone Posts

MAY 3, 2010

April 2010. Five Big Shifts in Social Media Marketing - Webbiquity , April 19, 2010 Social media reflects a larger trend toward buyer empowerment that has changed not only the practice but the underlying philosophies of marketing over the past several years. Best of B2B Marketing. Great stuff this month in the world of B2B Marketing.

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Webbiquity

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

times each, on average, across all sharing channels, so content shared by large groups of people reach a wider audience than content passed along from others.” Dan Nelms dives into a Comscore report which found that although Facebook engagement is increasing (the average time spent on the site per user per month increased from 4.6

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Webbiquity

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

Data junkies, stats addicts, web trivia buffs rejoice — here are a deluge of social media, search and other marketing research facts and figures from 50 articles and blog posts published so far in 2010. Senior marketing execs see their companies moving to social media in 2010 by The Viral Garden. goes to Facebook.

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Online Marketing Institute

OCTOBER 31, 2010

I’ve seen my average number of comments increase since I moved to Disqus. For example, how many views did your video get on each site, and how long on average did viewers watch your clip on each site? ChatCatcher This is a nice little tool that finds Tweets about your blog posts, and automatically adds them as comments.

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Online Marketing Institute

DECEMBER 13, 2010

Brian Solis Home Articles Business – Marketing PR 2.0 – New Communications Social Media Speaking Books Appearances About The State of the Blogosphere 2010 December 13, 2010 View Comments The question we ask ourselves when examining the state of the blogosphere is whether or not the cup is half full or half empty?

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The ROI Guy

SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

Friday, September 10, 2010 IT Budgets into 2011 - Robbing Peter to Pay Paul? in 2010, essentially flat in 2010. More good news is that 2010 is far better than 2009, with a weighted global average reduction in IT budgets of 8.1% for 2009, showing that a spending recovery is in place, but marginally.

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The ROI Guy

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

Sources: IDC Executive Tele Briefing on Sales & Marketing Strategies for 2010 Uncovering The Hidden Costs Of Sales Support, Forrester Research, Inc., April 2009 Sales Enablement: Measuring its Impact. Frugalnomics in Full Effect: Forrester and Gartner. So how much is spent on sales enablement? Latest Research.

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The ROI Guy

SEPTEMBER 28, 2010

Tuesday, September 28, 2010 Do White Papers Still Engage? Although social media and blog content have the hype, when we look to which marketing content B2B buyers use more than any other in driving decisions, the white paper shines well above all others (MarketingSherpa and IDG 2010). of IT buyers, consuming an average of 3.2

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Webbiquity

JUNE 6, 2011

Senior Analyst at Forrester ( @TomGrantForr ) “You don’t build a community. What’s most interesting is that Umair made this statement in June, 2009 when Twitter had recorded approximately 2.5 Since 2009, we have seen revolutionary wars and unspeakable natural disasters. It was at the Twitter Shorty Awards (NYC) in 2010.

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The ROI Guy

AUGUST 5, 2010

Thursday, August 05, 2010 Net Present Value (NPV) Savings Defined NPV Definition: The sum that results when the discounted value of the expected costs of an investment are deducted from the discounted value of the expected returns. . Frugalnomics in Full Effect: Forrester and Gartner. Gartner reduces IT Spending Outlook for 2010, but.

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