The ROI Guy

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

Tom Pisello: The ROI Guy This blog is dedicated to the strategies and tools used by solution providers to better prove and improve the value of B2B solutions to frugal buyers - using diagnostic assessments, interactive white papers, ROI calculators and TCO comparisons.

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The ROI Guy

MAY 6, 2010

Tom Pisello: The ROI Guy This blog is dedicated to the strategies and tools used by solution providers to better prove and improve the value of B2B solutions to frugal buyers - using diagnostic assessments, interactive white papers, ROI calculators and TCO comparisons. Tom then served Gartner as a Managing VP.

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Ambal's Amusings

OCTOBER 15, 2009

Read these interesting blog posts on B2B marketing ROI: Kevin Joyce's Untangling B2B Marketing Campaigns ROI , Jon Miller's Improving B2B Marketing ROI: Thought Leadership With Merry Elrick , Tom Scearce's Three metrics that are more useful than Cost per Lead. Forrester Blog for Interactive Marketing Professionals.

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The Effective Marketer

MARCH 9, 2010

This is the first post of a series that will show you some marketing emails (webinar invitations, whitepaper downloads, product announcements, etc.) Side banner is a good way to try “sell&# additional product and increase registrations. I was looking for some real-life good looking HTML emails I could use as a reference.

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The ROI Guy

JANUARY 25, 2011

Tom Pisello: The ROI Guy This blog is dedicated to the strategies and tools used by solution providers to better prove and improve the value of B2B solutions to frugal buyers - using diagnostic assessments, interactive white papers, ROI calculators and TCO comparisons. Tom then served Gartner as a Managing VP.

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The ROI Guy

JANUARY 17, 2011

Tom Pisello: The ROI Guy This blog is dedicated to the strategies and tools used by solution providers to better prove and improve the value of B2B solutions to frugal buyers - using diagnostic assessments, interactive white papers, ROI calculators and TCO comparisons. Good argument that B2B marketing needs ROI.

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The ROI Guy

FEBRUARY 4, 2009

Tom Pisello: The ROI Guy This blog is dedicated to the strategies and tools used by solution providers to better prove and improve the value of B2B solutions to frugal buyers - using diagnostic assessments, interactive white papers, ROI calculators and TCO comparisons. Updated Alinean Social Media ROI Calculator - New.

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The ROI Guy

OCTOBER 22, 2010

Tom Pisello: The ROI Guy This blog is dedicated to the strategies and tools used by solution providers to better prove and improve the value of B2B solutions to frugal buyers - using diagnostic assessments, interactive white papers, ROI calculators and TCO comparisons.

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The ROI Guy

DECEMBER 6, 2010

Tom Pisello: The ROI Guy This blog is dedicated to the strategies and tools used by solution providers to better prove and improve the value of B2B solutions to frugal buyers - using diagnostic assessments, interactive white papers, ROI calculators and TCO comparisons. Updated Alinean Social Media ROI Calculator - New.

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Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 3, 2010

However, it is not so simple to measure customer engagement in situations with long sales cycles that’s commonplace with manufacturers, sellers of technical products and B2B consultative solution providers. Some B2B marketers are using more sophisticated ROI measurement tools to track activities over the entire life cycle of a lead.

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The ROI Guy

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

As defined by Forrester, "Sales enablement is a strategic, ongoing process that equips all client-facing employees with the ability to consistently and systematically have a valuable conversation with the right set of customer stakeholders at each stage of the customer's problem-solving life cycle to optimize the ROI of the selling system.”

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The ROI Guy

NOVEMBER 8, 2006

Tom Pisello: The ROI Guy This blog is dedicated to the strategies and tools used by solution providers to better prove and improve the value of B2B solutions to frugal buyers - using diagnostic assessments, interactive white papers, ROI calculators and TCO comparisons. Some examples of direct (hard) benefits are: 1.

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Ambal's Amusings

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

Sewell is president of Spear Marketing Group , a full-service agency with offices in Silicon Valley and Seattle that specializes in demand generation, lead management, and ROI-based marketing. Forrester Blog for Interactive Marketing Professionals. B2B Lead Generation Benchmark Study 2009. Howard Sewell's Tip. MarketingSherpa.

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Ambal's Amusings

JANUARY 21, 2010

The mindset shift is that marketing isn’t a series of campaigns but rather an ongoing, consistent process that educates prospects about what they need to know; showcases your company’s expertise to add value to the product offering; and proves that what you say is true. Forrester Blog for Interactive Marketing Professionals.

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Online Marketing Institute

AUGUST 14, 2011

View Comments patrickdh Look forward to reading it – more than ROI – a holistic view as to where you should be taking social media activities – is fundamental. Esp with high consideration set products and long sales cycle, it makes it difficult to track. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0

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Ambal's Amusings

AUGUST 27, 2010

The business decision maker may be trying to solve the problem how to have global product development teams get products to market faster. The main goal in this scenario is getting products to market faster. The focus of the business person is facilitating faster, more informed decisions in relation to product design.

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Online Marketing Institute

JULY 31, 2009

However, many tech buyers visit vendor Web sites many times to learn about and compare products, yet few register or leave evidence of their activity. link] Posted by: Mike Volpe | August 27, 2008 at 12:45 AM Is anyone else bothered by the surreptitious nature of the DemandBase product? So, take my comments with a grain of salt.

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WebMarketCentral

DECEMBER 9, 2009

Forrester: B2B Marketers Need To Keep Up With Business Technology Buyers On Social Media by Forrester Research It's pretty rare to include a press release in a best of list here—actually, this is probably the first time ever—but this one includes key statistics on how b2b buyers use social media on the job.

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The ROI Guy

SEPTEMBER 4, 2007

Tom Pisello: The ROI Guy This blog is dedicated to the strategies and tools used by solution providers to better prove and improve the value of B2B solutions to frugal buyers - using diagnostic assessments, interactive white papers, ROI calculators and TCO comparisons. Improving IT productivity 4. Reducing business risks 5.

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Ambal's Amusings

JULY 22, 2010

Combine paths – Do you have a special conference or product launch coming up? Forrester Blog for Interactive Marketing Professionals. B2B Lead Generation Benchmark Study 2009. Keeping a Closer Eye on Content ROI – CMO Council. Laura Patterson's book Marketing Metrics in Action. MarketingSherpa.

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The ROI Guy

NOVEMBER 8, 2006

Tom Pisello: The ROI Guy This blog is dedicated to the strategies and tools used by solution providers to better prove and improve the value of B2B solutions to frugal buyers - using diagnostic assessments, interactive white papers, ROI calculators and TCO comparisons. Updated Alinean Social Media ROI Calculator - New.

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The ROI Guy

JUNE 16, 2009

The old way of pitching new products, features, function and price won't work. Investments in tools that will help marketing and sales change the connection with customers is key. to match customers needs will be required to meet the demands of the strong recovery.

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 28, 2010

In Search of Mass Influencers In a fascinating new Forrester Research study about online peer influence, Augie Ray and Josh Bernoff determine that consumers generated more than 500 billion online impressions about products and services in 2009. population. Let’s also assume that you have a Facebook fan page.

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Ambal's Amusings

MARCH 18, 2010

Successful viral campaigns also have to be consistent with what you do, and while they may not be substantive to your product/service, per se, they should still give insight into what type of organization you are. Craig Rosenberg is Vice President, Products and Services at lead generation company Tippit. Craig Rosenberg.

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Ambal's Amusings

APRIL 29, 2010

Enter into your information product funnel. Information products: (For a fee). Craig Rosenberg is Vice President, Products and Services at lead generation company Focus. Remember what I said in the beginning of this, buyers can find product info without you. Forrester Blog for Interactive Marketing Professionals.

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Online Marketing Institute

MAY 24, 2009

skip to main | skip to sidebar The Marketing Mélange A blog on all things Marketing with Strategy & Information Technology focus Blog Archive ▼ 2009 ( 22 ) ▼ June ( 2 ) Strategic Insights from Calculating Lifetime Custo. How to determine Lifetime Customer Value ► May ( 4 ) How do you measure Marketing ROI?

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The ROI Guy

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Marketing needs to develop content and assessment tools to help sales professionals add value earlier in the sales process, helping to morph current product / solution sales methodologies towards value selling engagements. The more buying organizations are forced to do-more-with-less they adopt different business patterns”, says Mr.

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The ROI Guy

DECEMBER 14, 2005

Tom Pisello: The ROI Guy This blog is dedicated to the strategies and tools used by solution providers to better prove and improve the value of B2B solutions to frugal buyers - using diagnostic assessments, interactive white papers, ROI calculators and TCO comparisons. Updated Alinean Social Media ROI Calculator - New.

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Webbiquity

JANUARY 10, 2010

ROI Is Dead by StraightUpSearch. This post suggests that marketers should focus on a different ROI when calculating the value of social media efforts: “return on insight.&# Forrester: B2B Marketers Need To Keep Up With Business Technology Buyers On Social Media by Forrester Research.

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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. 6) ERP (17) Internet Cust. 6) ERP (17) Internet Cust. ERP Internet Cust. b2bmarketing

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Online Marketing Institute

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

Social Media – according to a study early this year by Forrester Research, 91% of technology b2b decision makers use social media in some form (blogs, video, customer reviews, social networking sites, Twitter, etc.). unemployment rate still near 10%, and uncertain prospects for a quick recovery , marketers need to keep two things in mind.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

SEPTEMBER 17, 2009

Yesterday’s Fall 2009 MarketingProfs Digital Marketing World Virtual Conference was the perfect event to prepare for the planning of Q4 marketing programs. Twitter is a great resource to find leads, though it is also a great for product management, customer service, and branding You can use Twitter for lead generation.

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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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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

New Top-Level Domains Expected in 2009. How to Be a Supremely Productive Person: A Chat With John Halamka. Customer Case Study: 156 Percent ROI with HP. Forrester Wave: Service Desk Management Tools, Q2 2008. Webcast: Learn how Accenture, Avanade and Microsoft are helping organizations overcome productivity declines.

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Ambal's Amusings

SEPTEMBER 17, 2009

Forrester Blog for Interactive Marketing Professionals. B2B Lead Generation Benchmark Study 2009. Keeping a Closer Eye on Content ROI – CMO Council. Instead of talking endlessly about all the cool stuff your products do, share insights about why doing those things is important—from a business objective perspective.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Using the Forrester Social Technographics Ladder, understand how your target audience (as defined by gender, age, and geography) uses social media. link] Production Video Services Well, I must say…I found this blog post via Twitter. That would be two strategies, not one. How Does Your Audience Use Social Media?

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

We also find Facebook fan pages that try to explain product features (wrong again, as it’s unlikely that non-customers are going to fan your page, thus talking about features is preaching to the converted). I’m constantly referring back to Forrester’s POST methodology when planning campaigns.

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