Ambal's Amusings

APRIL 29, 2010

Which content should be gated to genereate leads? We asked B2B Marketing experts: " How should B2B marketers balance the need for free content (helpful for prospects decision making) Vs. the need to have content that produces a steady flow of good leads (that can directed to sales team)? Which content should be free?

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Ambal's Amusings

AUGUST 27, 2010

The focus of the IT decision maker is about how to achieve that level of collaboration without adverse effects to the network infrastructure while minimizing disruptions to user processes. Leading Lights: Marketing and PR Strategist David Meerman Scott – video interview. Process is an important element. Tom Pick's Tip.

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The ROI Guy

JANUARY 5, 2011

As a result of Frugalnomics and other market drivers: 62% of B2B vendors indicated they needed more leads in order to generate the same amount of sales, 72% indicated an increase in buying cycle time over the past 6 month, The buying cycle timeframe has increased over 10% in the past 12 months. April 2009.

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The ROI Guy

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

As a result, sales is being invited later into the decision making process, sales cycles are extending and deals are stalling. Within digital marketing, analyzing the allocations from 2009 to 2010, IDC found that 2010 spending on digital marketing programs is not changing dramatically year over year. Content may indeed be king.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

Personal IT Organization Enterprise Partner/Vendor. Process Improvement. Partner/Vendor. Vendor Management. We included him in the process, showed him how this was going to help him do his job. Five things the legacy ERP vendors dont want you to know about on-demand ERP. Advice & Opinion. TECHNOLOGY.

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The ROI Guy

MAY 6, 2010

“Leading B2B solution providers recognize that old sales and marketing techniques must evolve to meet these new economic buyer demands, and as a result, they are recognizing the need to connect and sell to economic buyers with Alinean -developed assessment, ROI and TCO demand-generation and sales enablement tools.&#

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The ROI Guy

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Two economic downturns over the past decade have made buyers more spendthrift, and more skeptical of vendor claims. Marketers are scrambling to address the power shift and overcome lead generation and conversion issues by delivering more content and tools over more channels to actively engage ever more empowered, skeptical and frugal buyers.

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The ROI Guy

DECEMBER 6, 2010

From our research and best practices work with leading B2B sales and marketing groups, Alinean provides its top 5 predictions for 2011: 1. 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.

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Online Marketing Institute

MARCH 13, 2011

Laura Ramos , a principal analyst at Forrester Research who focuses on business-to-business marketing trends and technology, says that services like Demandbase could prove useful, but adds that it may be hard to measure its impact on sales and marketing. But Longo says that Demandbase does a better job of integrating relevant data.

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Ambal's Amusings

SEPTEMBER 17, 2009

Forrester Blog for Interactive Marketing Professionals. Brian Carroll's blog B2B Lead Generation Blog. Mac McIntosh's Sales Lead Insights: A B2B marketing Blog. Brian Carroll's book Lead Generation for the Complex Sale. B2B Lead Generation Benchmark Study 2009. Sales Lead Expert’s Learning Center.

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The ROI Guy

OCTOBER 11, 2010

According to research from IDC and Forrester, marketing spending is anticipated to increase between 3 to 5% for 2011. This represents substantial growth when compared to 2009 cut-backs; however, even with the 2010/2011 snap-back in spending, most marketing budgets will remain below pre-recession levels.

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Online Marketing Institute

JULY 31, 2009

Home Forrester Research « Getting Up Close and Personal | Main | Social Technographics Data Now Available » March 20, 2008 B2B Lead Management Market Heats Up [Posted by Laura Ramos ] Since the start of this year, I’ve been receiving a boatload of briefing requests from companies wanting to show me their lead generation and management solutions.

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Online Marketing Institute

JULY 31, 2009

Home Forrester Research « We’re renaming the blog | Main | New networks in the news » April 16, 2008 Numeric Scoring: The Key To Lead Management Success [Posted by Laura Ramos ] Recently I saw a preview of Eloqua’s spring release and it got me thinking about the role lead scoring plays in determining campaign effectiveness.

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The ROI Guy

DECEMBER 14, 2005

As well, personal productivity applications such as word processing, e-mail and messaging could be considered commodities. IT solutions are indeed evolving from basic infrastructure, through business process optimization and information management. Network servers, storage and printers have moved towards commoditization as well.

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The Effective Marketer

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

Some have even suggested that marketing automation market is floundering , but it is such a new market and offering that is innevitable to have doubts, especially with these many vendors in the space. You may spot some companies that were not considered to be “marketing automation&# players just a year or so ago.

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Ambal's Amusings

AUGUST 27, 2009

Forrester Blog for Interactive Marketing Professionals. Brian Carroll's blog B2B Lead Generation Blog. Mac McIntosh's Sales Lead Insights: A B2B marketing Blog. B2B Lead Generation Benchmark Study 2009. Sales Lead Expert’s Learning Center. Recommended Resources from B2B Marketing Experts. Get Content.

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Ambal's Amusings

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

Forrester Blog for Interactive Marketing Professionals. Brian Carroll's blog B2B Lead Generation Blog. Mac McIntosh's Sales Lead Insights: A B2B marketing Blog. Brian Carroll's book Lead Generation for the Complex Sale. B2B Lead Generation Benchmark Study 2009. Sales Lead Expert’s Learning Center.

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Online Marketing Institute

OCTOBER 1, 2010

Expect this trend to continue and most major consumer lead corporate websites will have one form or another of Social Sign On within a few years –the trend that the ‘power shift to consumer’ continues. Plus, building in some checks to the login process should further help keep personal information in sync. "We

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

She specializes in social media strategies that lead to actionable plans to achieve real world objectives. davidalston Radian6 [link] David Alston Katie, great post on outlining a process to selecting the right tool. davidalston Radian6 [link] David Alston Katie, great post on outlining a process to selecting the right tool.

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Webbiquity

JANUARY 17, 2011

How are consumers and b2b decision makers using social media in their buying processes? At its current rate, Twitter will process almost 10 billion tweets in 2010. 54% of small and midsize businesses (SMBs) were using social media to promote their businesses as of September 2010, double the number using these sites in December 2009.

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The ROI Guy

JULY 22, 2010

This easy-to-use tool is accessible through ShoreTel’s public Web site and is based on the TCO industry standards that Alinean has established, incorporating independent third party research from leading firms. Frugalnomics in Full Effect: Forrester and Gartner. Forrester: Understand and Drive Outcomes for Sales.

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Webbiquity

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

But after rapid growth in 2009 and 2010, the study found that “There has been little or no change in the number of companies using corporate blogs (0%), Facebook (2%) and Twitter (2%) in the last year.” The most rapid increase in adoption has been in the use of social networking, which has nearly doubled since 2009. •

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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

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

According to a recent study from Psychster, “Among the seven most common formats, sponsored content ads — in which consumers viewed a page that was “brought to you by&# a leading brand — are the most engaging, but produced the least purchase intent. 2009 Twitter Demographics and Statistics Report by iStrategyLabs.

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Webbiquity

JANUARY 24, 2012

Forrester: 5 Stages Of Social Media Growth by MediaPost Online Media Daily. Gavin O’Malley reviews research from Forrester on the five stages of social media maturity that corporations typically pass through, starting with the dormant stage (“one in five companies still don’t use any social media.

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 2, 2010

And the fact that Forrester Research projects social media spend in the U.S. At Genius.com, we understood relatively early (we announced our gURLs to track traditional and Social Media in July 2009) that while most B2B marketers are engaging in Social Media, very few are actually measuring it. It is Mobile on the radar?

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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. Frugalnomics in Full Effect: Forrester and Gartner.

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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.

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