markempa

JUNE 29, 2007

Their data shows that over 50% of tech buyers admitted to short listing a vendor after receiving a well timed and relevant phone call. Their data shows that over 50% of tech buyers admitted to short listing a vendor after receiving a well timed and relevant phone call.

Lead Generation 120

Lead Generation Work Management Generation Telemarketing 120

The ROI Guy

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

As well, the Tech Media publishers have seen a dramatic shift in B2B vendors, who are looking for innovative ways to break through marketing fatigue to attract, connect and engage ever more skeptical and frugal buyers. The age of Internet fueled buying decisions means that traditional print publications just don't meet buyer or seller needs.

Interactive Marketing 40

Interactive Marketing Advertising Agencies BtoB Peer-to-peer 40

markempa

MAY 9, 2006

In most cases, a company is a vendor and the expectation is that you pay them to do a certain job and they do said job. Critical Success Factor #9 Effectiveness 8 Critical Success Factors for Lead Generation 2.0 In the case of a lead.

Lead Generation 120

Lead Generation Ideal Customer Profiles Activities Marketing Qualified Leads 120

markempa

MAY 24, 2005

They concluded, "Leads get cold quickly, so it is vital that vendors implement prompt, effective lead follow-up processes." They concluded, "Leads get cold quickly, so it is vital that vendors implement prompt, effective lead follow-up processes."

Lead Generation 120

Lead Generation Sales Qualified Leads B2B Sales Marketing Analytics Tools 120

markempa

JUNE 8, 2005

You’ll evolve from a vendor that is simply selling products and services to being an expert that is selling value. You’ll evolve from a vendor that is simply selling products and services to being an expert that is selling value. Critical Success Factor #9 Effectiveness 8 Critical Success Factors for Lead Generation 2.0

Lead Generation 120

Lead Generation Budget Programs Word of Mouth B2B Thought Leadership 120

The ROI Guy

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

For the IT buyer, business benefit assessments (34%) and financial assessments (26%) were both highly important to making a purchase decision, greatly exceeding, by more than 2x, the vendor relationship (14%) as a decision driver. Content may indeed be king. We call this the “Internet fueled buying cycle.&#

Work Management 40

Work Management ROI Marketing Management Marketing Budget 40

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.

Enterprise Management 40

Enterprise Management Work Management Marketing Automation Services Marketing Management 40

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.

Enterprise Management 40

Enterprise Management Work Management Marketing Management Spending 40

The ROI Guy

MAY 6, 2010

Assessment tools enable vendors to engage with customers to realize and prioritize issues they may not even know they have, and provide intelligent product/solution roadmaps and recommendations. Alinean recognized by BtoB Magazine’s as one of To. IT vendors, are you. Provocation-Based Selling: Loosening the Status-Qu.

Work Management 40

Work Management Marketing Automation Services Marketing Management ROI 40

The ROI Guy

FEBRUARY 4, 2009

Wednesday, February 04, 2009 Microsoft Virtualization with Hyper-V - better value? Alinean recognized by BtoB Magazine’s as one of To. Money for Nothing, and Projects for Free How to Freeze a Market: Vista Obscures the View Another survey indicates IT budget cuts in 2009 How TCO is a common sense sales and marketing Tool.

Work Management 40

Work Management Marketing Management ROI Budget Programs 40

The ROI Guy

DECEMBER 6, 2010

During the B2C Internet revolution many a vendor’s world was turned upside down by failing to recognize and invest in the fundamental shift towards empowering consumers with content and buying tools. The influence of vendors as a trusted source of information lags dramatically, at only 8.1% this year, an increase from 3.1%

Work Management 40

Work Management Marketing Management ROI Marketing Automation Services 40

The ROI Guy

JANUARY 25, 2011

Buyers, Fueled by the Internet, Firmly in Control With a wealth of information from vendors, analysts and peers, buyers are doing more research on-line. Alinean recognized by BtoB Magazine’s as one of To. Provocation-Based Selling: Loosening the Status-Qu. ► February (8) Boost Sales 10% with an Investment in Sales Enable.

ROI 40

ROI Marketing Budget Work Management Budget Programs 40

The ROI Guy

OCTOBER 22, 2010

Overall, the focus of technology buyers is on value – and much less on where marketing often focuses, such as on building vendor-buyer relationships and on brand building campaigns. Alinean recognized by BtoB Magazine’s as one of To. Provocation-Based Selling: Loosening the Status-Qu.

Work Management 40

Work Management Marketing Management ROI Marketing Budget 40

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. Provocation-Based Selling: Loosening the Status-Qu.

Budget Programs 40

Budget Programs Marketing Automation Services Enterprise Management ROI 40

The ROI Guy

SEPTEMBER 4, 2007

Alinean recognized by BtoB Magazine’s as one of To. Power, cooling and data center space issues are gorwing. Today, constructing a new data center costs an estimated $400 to $1,000 per sq ft. 1,2} For powering and cooling a server, IDC estimates $0.50 for each $1 in server capital spending, increasing to $0.70 by 2010 [2].

ROI 40

ROI Enterprise Management Work Management Marketing Management 40

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. kdewitte27 : # sds09 trend in channel demand gen strategy: let the partner create his leads and have the vendor support them with the right tools. chadhorenfeldt Tweet This!

B2B Marketing 100

B2B Marketing Work Management Trends Lead Ranking 100

Ambal's Amusings

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

B2B Lead Generation Benchmark Study 2009. Her clients who are technology vendors and venture firms leverage her strategic marketing and go-to-market expertise. B2B Lead Generation Benchmark Study 2009. Brian Carroll's book Lead Generation for the Complex Sale. Kristina Halvorson's Content Strategy for the Web. MarketingSherpa.

Work Management 100

Work Management Marketing Management Demand Generation Agencies Paid Search Agency 100

The ROI Guy

DECEMBER 14, 2005

Alinean recognized by BtoB Magazine’s as one of To. Vendor ROI: Can it be trusted? 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. Does Size Matter in ROIT?

ROI 40

ROI Work Management Marketing Management Budget Programs 40

Ambal's Amusings

AUGUST 27, 2009

B2B Lead Generation Benchmark Study 2009. Her clients who are technology vendors and venture firms leverage her strategic marketing and go-to-market expertise. B2B Lead Generation Benchmark Study 2009. Cashing in With Content (a classic by David Meerman Scott). Get Content. Get Customers. By Joe Pulizzi and Newt Barrett.

Demand Generation Agencies 100

Demand Generation Agencies Demand Generation Demand B2B Marketing 100

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.

Lead Ranking 40

Lead Ranking Lead Scoring Enterprise Management Work Management 40

The ROI Guy

JULY 22, 2010

The tool analyzes TCO, including upfront acquisition costs management and support, for ShoreTel, legacy TDM systems and various competing UC vendors. Alinean recognized by BtoB Magazine’s as one of To. The ShoreTel TCO Tool leverages the significant resources of Alinean, including its worldwide metrics database.

Work Management 40

Work Management Marketing Management ROI Marketing Automation Services 40

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.

Paid Search Agency 40

Paid Search Agency Demand Generation Agencies Advertising Agencies B2B Marketing 40

Webbiquity

AUGUST 18, 2012

BtoB Magazine ). One-third of global b2b buyers use social media to engage with their vendors, and 75% expect to use social media in future purchases processes. Between mid-2009 and late 2011, “messaging friends declined 12%, searching for new contacts fell 17% and joining a group of Facebook users dropped 19% in the U.S.”

Paid Content 100

Paid Content Social Media Social Marketing Statistics 100

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.

Budget Programs 40

Budget Programs Marketing Budget Work Management Marketing Management 40

The ROI Guy

AUGUST 4, 2010

This permanent shift towards frugal buyers has forced B2B vendors to fundamentally change the way they reach prospects and convert them to customers. Leading B2B vendors are implementing value selling / marketing programs, and have received dramatic benefits as a result. Alinean recognized by BtoB Magazine’s as one of To.

Budget Programs 40

Budget Programs Work Management Marketing Management Marketing Automation Services 40

The ROI Guy

SEPTEMBER 28, 2010

The good news is that todays buyer wants to be engaged, with 9 out of 10 actively relying on vendor provided information on their way to making a purchase decision. This results in a slower buying process and the continual carpet bombing of buyer inboxes with the same static, mass-distributed whitepapers that every vendor sends out.

Enterprise Management 40

Enterprise Management Paper Work Management Marketing Budget 40

The ROI Guy

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

April 2009 Sales Enablement: Measuring its Impact. Alinean recognized by BtoB Magazine’s as one of To. Organizations with a focus on measurement are more able to meet changing customer challenges, grow sales enablement programs, and as a result drive better sales efficiency and effectiveness. SiriusDecisions Perspectives.

Work Management 40

Work Management Marketing Management Marketing Budget ROI 40

Webbiquity

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

And nearly two out of three executives have visited a vendor’s website after viewing an online video elsewhere. companies are currently using blogs for marketing purposes, up from 29% in 2009 and just 16% in 2007. In addition, 12% of respondents were using blogs as a social tactic, nearly double the figure from fall 2009.”

Paid Content 100

Paid Content Social Media Statistics Paid Search Agency 100