The ROI Guy

FEBRUARY 14, 2011

Facebook seems to have the most favorable ROI ratings so far, with 35% indicating superior or average ROI, but with so many not knowing for sure, it’s hard to tell what the results will be until clearer measurement systems are put in place. Alinean recognized by BtoB Magazine’s as one of To.

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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

Using an Alinean powered ROI calculator, he explained how customers can combine the cloud with existing applications and infrastructure, achieving IT cost savings, flexibility and an ability to get ideas to market rapidly. Alinean recognized by BtoB Magazine’s as one of To. Your Sales & Marketing Ready to Do Business with F.

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 15, 2010

Sure, I pay attention to where I’m ranked in the AdAge Power 150 (a broader ranking of all marketing blogs), and I look at my search rankings, etc. But I am incredibly delighted to top the list of content marketing blogs, because for me content marketing is becoming fundamental to business success at every level.

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 4, 2010

Imagine subscribing to a magazine that was about tennis one month, and about cooking the next month. This is especially misplaced with group written blogs, where the broad content focus and inconsistent tonality makes RSS subscription less likely. Very helpful post, Jay.

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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

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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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

there’s a schism coming in social media between companies using it for marketing, and companies using it for customer service and CRM. People coming from Google don’t know who you are yet, so you can’t treat them like a Facebook audience that’s already drinking your Kool-aid.

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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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Online Marketing Institute

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

Top Topics Twitter YouTube Facebook iPhone Google Video Google Buzz Social media Android Mobile 2.0 Contact Us Submit News Contact Us Write for Us Spark of Genius Series Mashable | The Social Media Guide Business Mashable on Facebook Join Us! The B2B Social Media Marketing Series is supported by IDG Enterprise.

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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.

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The ROI Guy

MAY 6, 2010

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. Posted by Tom Pisello at 10:33 AM Email This BlogThis!

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Social Media is “Viral Marketing&# False, in the same way that a square is also a rectangle, but a rectangle isn’t a square. You’re engaged in an advertising and marketing campaign that uses the Web as its distribution platform. Social media is not about Facebook or MySpace or Flickr or Twitter or blogs or YouTube.

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The ROI Guy

JANUARY 25, 2011

Alinean recognized by BtoB Magazine’s as one of To. The Big O – Outcome Selling The Demand Spectrum and Value-Based Sales & Market. Your Sales & Marketing Ready to Do Business with F. Content Marketing and the Forgotten Sales Professi. How Do You Get Started in Content Marketing?

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The ROI Guy

OCTOBER 22, 2010

Friday, October 22, 2010 Tech Marketers May Need to Rethink Budgets for 2011 according to new Harte-Hanks research Technology marketers are challenged today with handling proliferating marketing channels to reach and engage more overloaded, skeptical and frugal buyers than ever before.

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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. Most organizations continue to spend much more on branding and relationship management versus value-based sales and marketing initiatives.

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 3, 2010

An Enormous Opportunity The huge (and expanding) reach of social media, and its relatively low cost (at least from a production fees perspective) makes it an incredibly attractive proposition for marketers. Forrester Research shows that from 2009-2014, U.S. There’s a way to get your Facebook update seen in more news feeds.

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Convince & Convert

JUNE 11, 2010

We’ll be rolling out a Facebook page so that as many folks as possible can begin interacting around the issues covered in the book. We have some other craziness planned, too, and we’ll want to bounce ideas off of you, solicit your genius for marketing the book, and all that stuff. DebDrive We NEED this book.

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The ROI Guy

JANUARY 17, 2011

Alinean calls this new age-of-austerity Frugalnomics, and it forever changes the way B2B sales and marketing needs to connect with, engage and sell to buyers. Good argument that B2B marketing needs ROI. My post, which ran at ww.savvyb2b.com argued that B2B marketing is dull and boring - it lacks personality.

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Convince & Convert

JUNE 3, 2010

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The ROI Guy

DECEMBER 6, 2010

Monday, December 06, 2010 Predictions for 2011: The End of B2B Sales & Marketing as We Know It? These two market drivers will have important implications into 2011 and beyond for B2B sales enablement and marketing strategies and budgets. of respondents), and peers (28.7%), especially early in the lifecycle.

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 10, 2010

Last week, I interviewed three men that are helping create an all-new field of marketing and customer service – the emerging discipline of influence mining. Influence mining makes the old school, direct marketing notions of sorting consumers by purchase history seem dinosaurian by comparison. Customer service?

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 18, 2010

What’s the best way to get the most possible Facebook “likes&# and Twitter followers? Better question: How can we find the existing customers that are already passionate about our client, and turn them into a volunteer marketing army? What’s the hot new trend in social media that we can bring to our clients?

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The ROI Guy

NOVEMBER 8, 2006

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. Alinean recognized by BtoB Magazine’s as one of To. The Big O – Outcome Selling The Demand Spectrum and Value-Based Sales & Market.

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The ROI Guy

SEPTEMBER 4, 2007

Share to Twitter Share to Facebook Share to Google Buzz Labels: ROI , Server Virtualization , TCO 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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Webbiquity

JULY 26, 2010

The B2B Marketing Zone has really taken off over the past few months with the recent addition of numerous great bloggers. For those not familiar with it, the B2B Marketing Zone (a.k.a. CK’s B2B Blog ( SMS Mobile Marketing Mix Audience ). Great B2B Marketing Stats (in a GREAT format!) , June 13, 2010. March 18, 2010.

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The ROI Guy

NOVEMBER 8, 2006

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. Alinean recognized by BtoB Magazine’s as one of To. The Big O – Outcome Selling The Demand Spectrum and Value-Based Sales & Market.

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Webbiquity

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

While social media is the flashy show horse of online marketing, email remains the solid workhorse. According to recent research , 92% of marketers consider email to be one of their “most important marketing tools” and 54% plan increased spending on it in the coming year. Email Marketing Tips and Tactics.

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The ROI Guy

DECEMBER 14, 2005

Wednesday, December 14, 2005 The IT Hierarchy of Needs: Categorizing IT Projects for Success The book written by Nicholas Carr, “Does IT Matter,&# continues to stir debate with various pundits, and certainly remains a hot topic in recent budget planning meetings between the CIO and Cx-level executives.

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Webbiquity

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

If 2009 was the year many marketers puzzled over, poked at and pondered incorporating social media into their marketing mix, 2010 was the year of diving in. According to a HubSpot study, 71% of marketers viewed Twitter as a useful marketing tool last year, up from just 39% in 2009. Adoption soared.

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 9, 2010

A recent study by Econsultancy called “ The Value of Social Media &# shows that companies are overwhelmingly using the “Big 4″ of Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and Linkedin for their social media efforts. Where twitter might be good for designers, facebook is perhaps better for small businesses.

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 8, 2010

It’s an almost magical device that can show incredibly crisp HD video, all the audio you can handle, Web pages, books, online magazines ( Zinio is great on the iPad), newspapers, tweets, Facebook, Linkedin, and just about anything else you’d want to digest. Would it work as a marketing and/or presentation device?

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Online Marketing Institute

JUNE 22, 2009

I presented a webinar the other day where I stated that while white papers are still the staple of content marketing, they’re getting really stale as a communications vehicle for B2B. The book of the webinar of the movie: The Velocity B2B Content Marketing Workbook. The new B2B marketing is Content Marketing.

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The ROI Guy

JULY 22, 2010

Share to Twitter Share to Facebook Share to Google Buzz Labels: Alinean , IP Telephony ROI , IP Telephony TCO , Pisello , ShoreTel , UC ROI , UC TCO 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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Webbiquity

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

Marketers, we’re told, need to think like publishers. How widespread, really, is the use of social media for marketing? How are B2B marketers using social media differently from their B2C counterparts? How are marketers measuring social media success? 71% of companies now have a presence on Facebook.

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 25, 2010

Skip to content Skip to navigation Skip to footer Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media Consulting Social Media Strategy Blog Social Media Consulting Blog Social Media Consulting Speaking Newsletter Free Social Media Tools Twitter Interviews About Lijit Search Is Starbucks the Most Dangerous Competitor to Facebook?

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Convince & Convert

JUNE 8, 2010

The ability of companies to win hearts and minds through contextually appropriate, just in time marketing is the hallmark of the Opportunity Economy, and it has never been healthier. Named One of Arizona’s Top 25 Restaurants by Arizona Highways Magazine, show this message for a discount on an appetizer.&#

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