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Suit over Gartner's Magic Quadrant Big Marketing Ploy

The Effective Marketer

The Effective Marketer Effectiveness is a discipline and it can be learned Home About the Effective Marketer Books Speaking Suit over Gartner’s Magic Quadrant Big Marketing Ploy In an earlier post I wrote about ZL Technologies lawsuit over Gartner Group’s Magic Quadrant, over what it considered “multitude of illegalities&#.

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Interview with Brian Hansford

Onalytica B2B

I feel like the more I learn and do, the more I need to learn and do to keep up with great ideas and practices in B2B marketing. My very first professional job was an inside sales rep for a PC-based software company that sold developer tools in the early 90’s. I love what I do and working with other B2B marketing pros.

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Magic Quadrant or Magic Numbers? A Judge Will Decide. « The.

The Effective Marketer

Gartner Group is known in the technology industry as a heavyweight analyst group that influences a lot of purchasing decisions. Big companies all turn to Gartner’s reports to help them on emerging trends and technologies. Gartner's Magic Quadrant is now on trial The problem? A Judge Will Decide. A Judge Will Decide.

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Why Sales and Marketing Don't Get Along « The Effective Marketer

The Effective Marketer

According to a recent chart published by MarketingSherpa (below), 80% of marketers don’t spend time qualifying leads before sending them to sales. It is interesting that back in 2009, MarketingSherpa had published a chart showing the key challenges marketers faced and “generating high quality leads&# was the top one.

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PowerViews with Dave Munn: The Transformed Marketing Organization

ViewPoint

My guest today is Dave Munn who has been President and CEO of ITSMA since 2000, having led ITSMA's global expansion to become the leading B2B marketing association for technology, professional services, and telecom companies. 2012 Trending: Significant Transformation for Marketing Groups. Who are we trying to reach.

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Tom Pisello: The ROI Guy: Seeing ROI in the Cloud?

The ROI Guy

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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Tom Pisello: The ROI Guy: Updated Alinean Social Media ROI.

The ROI Guy

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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