The ROI Guy

FEBRUARY 4, 2009

Tom Pisello: The ROI Guy This blog is dedicated to the strategies and tools used by solution providers to better prove and improve the value of B2B solutions to frugal buyers - using diagnostic assessments, interactive white papers, ROI calculators and TCO comparisons. Updated Alinean Social Media ROI Calculator - New.

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WebMarketCentral

JULY 23, 2009

MarketingSherpa just released its new search marketing benchmark report ($447) and companion executive summary (free PDF). paid click volume (is) up 18% from January 2007 to March 2009.In ROI is increasing because, with reduced competition on the b2b side, keyword costs are declining. Similar results + lower costs = higher ROI.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Private brand communities vs. Facebook. The range of Facebook usage is just 37% – 51%. Whether you’re spending millions per year on marketing, or less than $50,000, your proclivity toward being active on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin and YouTube is strikingly similar. Linkedin Groups vs. Twitter. Podcasts vs. YouTube.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Can those results be tied back directly to sales, and therefore ROI? Social media is not about Facebook or MySpace or Flickr or Twitter or blogs or YouTube. Too often, the humanization part gets overlooked in an effort to create a “user-generated video contest widget that we’ll launch on Facebook with support from Ustream.&#

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The ROI Guy

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

For example, this could include methodologies, presentations, white papers and assessment tools to help sales professionals identify and illuminate buyer issues, benchmark buyers versus competitors and best practice leaders, and create / drive solution roadmaps to help resolve the most pressing customer issues.

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Online Marketing Institute

DECEMBER 23, 2010

Mar 17, 2010 at 11:34am ET by Andy Komack B2B companies crave leads. The real test In the end, you should not benchmark your leads by Cost Per Lead. Just as you would measure cost/sale between lead gen channels like paid search and B2B hubs, you should also measure it within your paid search program in order to increase ROI.

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Online Marketing Institute

DECEMBER 23, 2010

MEMBER LOGIN > | BECOME A MEMBER > Column: Strictly Business 6 Tactics For Overcoming The High Cost Of Clicks In B2B PPC Jun 8, 2010 at 9:05am ET by Andy Komack For anyone involved in marketing their B2B companies via paid search, it’s painfully obvious that the cost of clicks can be prohibitively high. for B2C lead generators.

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Convince & Convert

JULY 8, 2010

I mean it in a 2010, gothic cool sort-of-way in which vampires are smart, sexy, bankable characters who can’t be killed and are making boatloads of cash for the people who channel them into books, TV shows & movies. March 2009. October 2009. The Wall Street Journal said email’s era had ended thanks to Facebook.

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

And in most cases, we’re willing converts, with Facebook’s ease-of-use and Twitter’s immediacy replacing letter writing and meeting up for lunch. I’ve now hit double digits on the number of people I have unfriended due to their apparent round-the-clock playing of pointless mafia, farming, or aquarium games on Facebook.

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The ROI Guy

AUGUST 4, 2010

Tom Pisello: The ROI Guy This blog is dedicated to the strategies and tools used by solution providers to better prove and improve the value of B2B solutions to frugal buyers - using diagnostic assessments, interactive white papers, ROI calculators and TCO comparisons. Tom then served Gartner as a Managing VP.

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