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Suit over Gartner's Magic Quadrant Big Marketing Ploy

The Effective Marketer

The Effective Marketer Effectiveness is a discipline and it can be learned Home About the Effective Marketer Books Speaking Suit over Gartner’s Magic Quadrant Big Marketing Ploy In an earlier post I wrote about ZL Technologies lawsuit over Gartner Group’s Magic Quadrant, over what it considered “multitude of illegalities&#.

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Gartner reduces IT Spending Outlook for 2010, but still predicts a positive 2.9% growth

The ROI Guy

Gartner's latest IT spending outlook for 2010 remains positive, but is less optimistic than prior forecasts, as worldwide growth stalled over the summer. percent in 2010 , to surpass $2.4 The 2010 growth forecasts, although positive, are lower than the original 4.1 trillion, a 5.9 percent decline from 2008. trillion, a 5.9

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Magic Quadrant or Magic Numbers? A Judge Will Decide. « The.

The Effective Marketer

Gartner Group is known in the technology industry as a heavyweight analyst group that influences a lot of purchasing decisions. Big companies all turn to Gartner’s reports to help them on emerging trends and technologies. Gartner's Magic Quadrant is now on trial The problem? A Judge Will Decide. A Judge Will Decide.

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Why Sales and Marketing Don't Get Along « The Effective Marketer

The Effective Marketer

It is interesting that back in 2009, MarketingSherpa had published a chart showing the key challenges marketers faced and “generating high quality leads&# was the top one. In their “ CMO Perspectives on B2B Marketing Automation &# this challenge for high quality leads is shown as having increased from 69% in 2009 to 76% in 2010.

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Hard Data to Justify Your Marketing Automation Investment

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It includes five pages of properly sourced industry statistics from Aberdeen , Forrester , Gartner and SiriusDecisions. The Heart of Growing Conversion Rates," 2008): Best in Class Average % higher Inquires to Marketing Qualified Leads (MQLs) nearly 10% 3.9% But lots of people do anyway.

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2010 Tech spending to increase > 5%

The ROI Guy

Both Forrester Research and Gartner independently released IT spending forecasts for the remainder of 2010, and both have adjusted their targets higher for the year. Gartner has accelerated its forecasts for 2010 spending increases from 3% to more than 5.3%, with worldwide IT spending is expected to reach $3.4

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Interview with Brian Hansford

Onalytica B2B

In 2009 I dove headlong into working with Eloqua and Salesforce and at that point I was hooked on designing demand generation workflow and measuring results. I started consulting in 2010 which really forced me to learn enough to provide the best advice and guidance for my clients.