Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 14, 2010

The primary ways industrial companies participate in social media today are through community/discussion sites for customers as well as similar internal sites for employees whereas adoption of newer social media tools like Twitter is very low at only 9% (Source: Social Media Use in the Industrial Sector by GlobalSpec ).

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The ROI Guy

JANUARY 20, 2011

Thursday, January 20, 2011 New TCO Calculator: EMC SMB Virtual Solutions Advisor EMC wanted a quick way for small / medium business IT executives and buyers to quantify how virtualized data center solutions could help drive capital cost savings, operations and application management savings and improved resiliency. Is Marketing Too Busy?

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The ROI Guy

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

Share to Twitter Share to Facebook Share to Google Buzz Labels: Alinean , Pisello , ROI Calculator , social media hierarchy of needs , Social Media ROI 0comments: Post a Comment Newer Post Older Post Home Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom) Search This Blog Loading. Alinean recognized by BtoB Magazine’s as one of To.

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The ROI Guy

JULY 15, 2009

Wednesday, July 15, 2009 VMware launches Realized ROI toolkit, powered by Alinean Provides quantifiable proof to customers of the realized ROI from prior VMware deployments. Share to Twitter Share to Facebook Share to Google Buzz 0comments: Post a Comment Newer Post Older Post Home Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom) Search This Blog Loading.

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The ROI Guy

DECEMBER 23, 2010

Share to Twitter Share to Facebook Share to Google Buzz Labels: Alinean , CIO Insight , Frugalnomics , IT Budgets , Pisello 0comments: Post a Comment Newer Post Older Post Home Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom) Search This Blog Loading. Alinean recognized by BtoB Magazine’s as one of To. Is Marketing Too Busy?

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The ROI Guy

DECEMBER 9, 2010

Share to Twitter Share to Facebook Share to Google Buzz Labels: Alinean , Cloud ROI , Microsoft Windows Azure , Pisello , ROI Calculator 0comments: Post a Comment Newer Post Older Post Home Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom) Search This Blog Loading. Alinean recognized by BtoB Magazine’s as one of To. Is Marketing Too Busy?

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The ROI Guy

FEBRUARY 14, 2011

Share to Twitter Share to Facebook Share to Google Buzz Labels: Alinean , Pisello , Social Media ROI 0comments: Post a Comment Newer Post Older Post Home Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom) Search This Blog Loading. Alinean recognized by BtoB Magazine’s as one of To. Your Sales & Marketing Ready to Do Business with F.

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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. Alinean recognized by BtoB Magazine’s as one of To. Is Marketing Too Busy?

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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.

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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

FEBRUARY 4, 2009

Wednesday, February 04, 2009 Microsoft Virtualization with Hyper-V - better value? Share to Twitter Share to Facebook Share to Google Buzz Labels: Microsoft , ROI , Server Virtualization , TCO 0comments: Post a Comment Newer Post Older Post Home Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom) Search This Blog Loading. Is Marketing Too Busy?

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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. IDC’s most resent customer experience survey of over 200 key IT decision makers reveals that Frugalnomics is indeed in full effect.

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The ROI Guy

MAY 6, 2010

“Today’s business buyers are more conservative than ever, demanding that any investment they make drive tangible savings and provide quantified business advantages – a fundamental change called Frugalnomics ,“ says Tom Pisello , CEO and founder of Alinean. Your Sales & Marketing Ready to Do Business with F.

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The ROI Guy

JANUARY 25, 2011

Later in the sales cycle, sales needs to be able to provide a ROI business case for the particular recommended solution, as well as quantify competitive advantage, often using total cost of ownership (TCO) comparisons. Alinean recognized by BtoB Magazine’s as one of To. Your Sales & Marketing Ready to Do Business with F.

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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. Reducing business risks 5.

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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). Alinean recognized by BtoB Magazine’s as one of To. Your Sales & Marketing Ready to Do Business with F.

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The ROI Guy

DECEMBER 6, 2010

It’s Only a Matter of Trust – B2B buyers will rely more and more on your on-line presence to make judgments as to whether they will do business with you, and this presence needs to overcome typical vendor skepticism, convey credibility and gain trust. Alinean recognized by BtoB Magazine’s as one of To.

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The ROI Guy

OCTOBER 22, 2010

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. Alinean recognized by BtoB Magazine’s as one of To. Posted by Tom Pisello at 10:33 AM Email This BlogThis!

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The ROI Guy

NOVEMBER 8, 2006

Soft benefits are less easy to quantify and rely on in a business case. Reduce business risk from implementing new security systems, compliance management or disaster recovery solutions 4. We typically only include 10-40% of these indirect benefits in order to create a more reliable – take it to the bank – business case.

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The ROI Guy

NOVEMBER 8, 2006

More importantly, since innovation is only 10% of the typical IT budget today, reducing ongoing management costs can help reallocate precious resources and budgets to more innovative tasks and projects – delivering true business value. One of the most important infrastructure investments is a database platform.

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Ambal's Amusings

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

B2B Lead Generation Benchmark Study 2009. Blog Marketing Interactions Twitter Ardath421. Blog Phoenix Rising Twitter RebelBrown. Her blog is Phoenix Rising and her business is People Who Know. Blog Sales Leads Insights Twitter B2B_Sales_Leads. Brian Carroll's book Lead Generation for the Complex Sale. Ardath Albee.

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Webbiquity

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

3 items that should be in your 2010 email budget by BtoB Magazine. by BtoB Magazine. 2009 Email Marketing Metrics Benchmark Study by XDXY eMarketing Tips. Email Marketing Benchmarks for Small Business by MailChimp. Facebook and Twitter are the social tools most commonly integrated with email campaigns.

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The ROI Guy

DECEMBER 14, 2005

IT solutions are indeed evolving from basic infrastructure, through business process optimization and information management. Projects in this category include supply chain management, human capital management, ERP, sales force and marketing automation and other business process automation projects.

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Ambal's Amusings

AUGUST 27, 2009

B2B Lead Generation Benchmark Study 2009. Blog Marketing Interactions Twitter Ardath421. Guide: make sure they gain all the knowledge they need to confirm your company provides the best path to achieving their desired business result. Blog Phoenix Rising Twitter RebelBrown. MarketingSherpa. Ardath Albee. Rebel Brown.

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Anything Goes Marketing

MAY 17, 2009

What I have done is reviewed the tweets from the latest SiriusDecisions Summit 2009 and captured points that I thought were interesting and categorized them. but as you’ll see from the comments below, some great stats and thoughts have been captured by attendees via Twitter (yet another reason to use Twitter).

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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.

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The ROI Guy

JULY 22, 2010

Thursday, July 22, 2010 ShoreTel And Alinean Launch Online TCO Tool for Unified Communications Business Case Easy-to-use online calculator analyzes the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) of competing unified communications systems to determine true costs and business value SUNNYVALE, Calif.,

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Online Marketing Institute

JULY 31, 2009

BtoB magazine and the Sales Lead Management Association reported last week that 45.4% What is the core functionality that should be part of any good lead scoring methodology for a small business? Posted by: Pam Sichenze | January 14, 2009 at 05:08 PM The comments to this entry are closed. Alive and Kicking! All rights reserved.

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Webbiquity

AUGUST 18, 2012

The average midsize or large company (1000 employees or more) has 178 “social media assets” (Twitter handles, employee blogs, etc.)–yet –yet only 25% of companies offer social business training to their employees. BtoB Magazine ). 70% of local businesses use Facebook.The U.S. Marketingeasy ).

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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.

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The ROI Guy

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

April 2009 Sales Enablement: Measuring its Impact. 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. Alinean recognized by BtoB Magazine’s as one of To.

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The ROI Guy

SEPTEMBER 17, 2010

Share to Twitter Share to Facebook Share to Google Buzz Labels: Alinean , B2b marketing , content marketing , Custom Content Marketing , Marketing Spending , Pisello 0comments: Post a Comment Newer Post Older Post Home Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom) Search This Blog Loading. Alinean recognized by BtoB Magazine’s as one of To.

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The ROI Guy

AUGUST 5, 2010

Share to Twitter Share to Facebook Share to Google Buzz Labels: Alinean , Frugalnomics , Pisello , Risk Adjusted ROI , ROI Analysis , ROI tools 0comments: Post a Comment Newer Post Older Post Home Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom) Search This Blog Loading. Alinean recognized by BtoB Magazine’s as one of To. They do if they are.

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The ROI Guy

AUGUST 4, 2010

Wednesday, August 04, 2010 Can a Value Selling / Marketing Program Improve Your Business? Frugalnomics, borne of the economic downturn, represents a fundamental shift in the way businesses make buying decisions, resulting in a scrutinizing of each investment to deliver quantified bottom-line accountability.

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The ROI Guy

SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

Share to Twitter Share to Facebook Share to Google Buzz Labels: Alinean , Forrester , Frugalnomics , Pisello , Sales Enablement , Value Selling 0comments: Post a Comment Newer Post Older Post Home Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom) Search This Blog Loading. Alinean recognized by BtoB Magazine’s as one of To. They do if they are.

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The ROI Guy

SEPTEMBER 28, 2010

Share to Twitter Share to Facebook Share to Google Buzz Labels: B2b marketing , Frugalnomics , Information Overload , interactive white paper 1 comments: samuraiwriter said. Alinean recognized by BtoB Magazine’s as one of To. Your Sales & Marketing Ready to Do Business with F. Is Marketing Too Busy?

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The ROI Guy

NOVEMBER 8, 2006

Wednesday, November 08, 2006 Is Return on Customer (ROC) a good business value metric? Most CRM ROI oriented business cases focus too much on the near term, counting only direct “hard&# benefits and ignoring the more important soft benefits that relate to customer satisfaction, retention and lifetime value optimization.

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