Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 14, 2010

BTW, it recently won BtoB Magazine’s BtoB Social Media Awards 2010 in the blog category. I’d like to produce research with some metrics but that too costs quite a bit, especially from someone reputable like Forrester. Do you have any strategies for this?

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markempa

JUNE 7, 2005

They measured their response - used phone qualification - worked closely with their sales team - sent on only sales ready leads - closed the loop on each lead - increased revenue - cut costs - gave remarkable reports. Critical Success Factor #9 Effectiveness 8 Critical Success Factors for Lead Generation 2.0 Now look like heroes.

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markempa

JUNE 13, 2007

You can research new business opportunities based on trigger events, for little to no cost, by leveraging press releases, websites and news wires. Critical Success Factor #9 Effectiveness 8 Critical Success Factors for Lead Generation 2.0 Develop an intelligent system to identify when your trigger events happen.

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The ROI Guy

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

In the recent BtoB magazine article, " Tech Media Evolution a Bellwether ", the major technology publishers were examined to understand how quickly the shift to interactive marketing was occurring. Looking at the top three technology publishers: IDG generated 43% of its revenue from print in fiscal year 2008 and 39% in fiscal year 2009.

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markempa

JUNE 23, 2005

But AV would not tell me what it costs. Critical Success Factor #9 Effectiveness 8 Critical Success Factors for Lead Generation 2.0 Call for speakers: MarketingSherpa’s B2B Marketing Summit 5 dials to tune in your lead generation process Recent Comments Copyright This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License.

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markempa

MAY 28, 2005

I can’t imagine what the campaign cost in dollars but I can only guess at the soft costs of wasting their sales people’s time. I can’t imagine what the campaign cost in dollars but I can only guess at the soft costs of wasting their sales people’s time. That’s not someone who wants the "free" expensive gift.

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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

FEBRUARY 4, 2009

Wednesday, February 04, 2009 Microsoft Virtualization with Hyper-V - better value? Server virtualization is one of the best ways for IT managers to meet cost savings goals, and most are well underway with thier virtualization programs. Advantage Microsoft, but not by much.

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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.

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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.

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The ROI Guy

DECEMBER 23, 2010

Cost saving consolidation, optimization and services, combined with security and regulations, are driving the budgets. Frugalnomics, the focus on bottom-line value and cost savings, remains in full effect. Alinean recognized by BtoB Magazine’s as one of To. Provocation-Based Selling: Loosening the Status-Qu.

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The ROI Guy

DECEMBER 9, 2010

." - IDC Much of the adoption is driven by the promise of what cloud can do to help transform IT services and drive important cap-ex and op-ex cost savings. Indeed, early cloud computing case studies reveal the potential for better cost savings, scalability, agility, performance and more.

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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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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

MARCH 25, 2010

Yet according to CSO Insight’s 2010 Sales Performance Optimization study, only 52% of sales reps met quota in 2009, and companies achieved only 78% of their revenue plans. Any revenue-focused executive who can’t reliably deliver on his or her revenue commitments will soon be out of a job. Information that prospects wanted (e.g. Learn More.

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The ROI Guy

JANUARY 25, 2011

Therefore, sales must engage early to quantify the “cost of doing nothing&# and to “make the case for change&# in order to loosen the status quo. Alinean recognized by BtoB Magazine’s as one of To. In order to fight Frugalnomics, successfully selling to these economic-buyers, requires new skills, processes, and tools.

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The ROI Guy

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

Research on what drives IT purchase decisions indicates that decisions are predominantly made based on financial requirements, such as enabling business growth (29%), improving profitability (25%), and reducing costs (22%). Alinean recognized by BtoB Magazine’s as one of To. Provocation-Based Selling: Loosening the Status-Qu.

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Work Management ROI Marketing Management Marketing Budget 40

The ROI Guy

JANUARY 17, 2011

view the tool Differentiate Sales and marketing has worked hard to make the case for change and convinced the buyer that the solution is justified, but now the buyer has a choice: purchase your solution, or perhaps find a lower cost alternative. Alinean recognized by BtoB Magazine’s as one of To.

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The ROI Guy

MAY 6, 2010

Alinean recognized by BtoB Magazine’s as one of To. New Customers in Q1 2010 Alinean has been selected to develop and power value-based sales and marketing campaigns for Wipro , PGI , CSC , CiRBA , MokaFive , Shoretel , Informatica and OfficeMax. Provocation-Based Selling: Loosening the Status-Qu.

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The ROI Guy

OCTOBER 22, 2010

According to Harte-Hanks, technology buyers are serious about their decisions, and are most engaged by factual content, and content focused on cost / value / benefits and bottom line impact. Next as a criteria, with Frugalnomics in full effect, cost of the solution is a close second, followed by return on investment (ROI).

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The ROI Guy

DECEMBER 6, 2010

To fight Frugalnomics, savvy marketers will need to make even more investments in 2011 towards content and tools that help buyers assess and quantify the economic impact of implementing the proposed solutions, quantify the cost of “doing nothing&# , and prove competitive cost advantages and value.

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The ROI Guy

SEPTEMBER 4, 2007

To help address the lack of innovation spending, server virtualization is being considered and implemented in data centers as one means to drive “keeping the lights on&# costs lower, so as to provide more budget to innovation. This can yield significant cost savings and benefits including: 1. Improving IT productivity 4.

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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. One of the most important infrastructure investments is a database platform.

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The ROI Guy

NOVEMBER 8, 2006

Moving the task from a highly skilled expensive resource to less expensive resources The direct benefits are often easy to quantify, and as such there is usually little risk in considering 100% of the expected cost avoidance or productivity improvements in the ROI calculation (ROI = net benefits / cost).

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Webbiquity

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

It’s direct, cost-efficient, and, done properly, still an effective channel for lead generation, nurturing and sales. Avoid mistakes that will cost you readers? 3 items that should be in your 2010 email budget by BtoB Magazine. It costs virtually nothing (if we are only looking at the hard costs).

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The ROI Guy

DECEMBER 14, 2005

Classifying Investments to Minimize Costs and Maximize Returns To gain visibility into current spending, and make better decisions on future investments, it is recommended that organizations categorize their current IT spending and planned investments according to the IT Hierarchy of Needs. Provocation-Based Selling: Loosening the Status-Qu.

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Ambal's Amusings

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

B2B Lead Generation Benchmark Study 2009. He holds the Certified Business Communicator (CBC) designation awarded by the Business Marketing Association and was designated by BtoB magazine as one of its “Top 100 in BtoB Marketing.” B2B Lead Generation Benchmark Study 2009. MarketingSherpa. MarketingSherpa.

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Ambal's Amusings

AUGUST 27, 2009

B2B Lead Generation Benchmark Study 2009. He holds the Certified Business Communicator (CBC) designation awarded by the Business Marketing Association and was designated by BtoB magazine as one of its “Top 100 in BtoB Marketing.” Offer demos or low-cost or free needs assessments. Get Content. Get Customers.

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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% Posted by: Pam Sichenze | January 14, 2009 at 05:08 PM The comments to this entry are closed. Keep the conversation going -- I appreciate hearing the different perspectives! Posted by: Laura Ramos | May 06, 2008 at 05:33 PM Great thread, and timely.

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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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Webbiquity

AUGUST 18, 2012

Not only do leads generated through social and content marketing cost half as much as traditional outbound-generated leads (see below), they also close at higher rate (again, see below). BtoB Magazine ). BtoB Magazine ). BtoB Magazine ). Social media and inbound marketing techniques have been a boon for marketers.

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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

AUGUST 5, 2010

Thursday, August 05, 2010 Risk-Adjusted ROI Defined A variation on the traditional ROI formula, Risk Adjusted ROI is calculated as the ratio of the net gain from a proposed project, divided by its total costs - represented in net present value terms to account for project risk. Alinean recognized by BtoB Magazine’s as one of To.

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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. Alinean recognized by BtoB Magazine’s as one of To. Frugalnomics: Business Productivity and Cost Reduc.

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The ROI Guy

SEPTEMBER 17, 2010

Alinean recognized by BtoB Magazine’s as one of To. Frugalnomics: Business Productivity and Cost Reduc. Provocation-Based Selling: Loosening the Status-Qu. The Big O – Outcome Selling The Demand Spectrum and Value-Based Sales & Market. ► February (8) Boost Sales 10% with an Investment in Sales Enable.

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The ROI Guy

AUGUST 4, 2010

Value selling focuses on the benefits and payback of the proposed solution, shifting the focus from cost of the product, to value of the solution. Another way to prove value is to prove that the solution has a lower Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) – lower up-front / over lifecycle costs than the competition.

Budget Programs 40

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The ROI Guy

SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

Alinean recognized by BtoB Magazine’s as one of To. Frugalnomics: Business Productivity and Cost Reduc. Provocation-Based Selling: Loosening the Status-Qu. The Big O – Outcome Selling The Demand Spectrum and Value-Based Sales & Market. ► February (8) Boost Sales 10% with an Investment in Sales Enable.

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