Ambal's Amusings

MARCH 10, 2010

After a successful sales and management career with firms like IBM, StorageTek, Gartner Group, Intelliquest and Active Decisions, Michael is now a popular sales trainer, sales consultant and keynote speaker for companies internationally. Ambal Balakrishnan: What kind of projects (both personal and professional) are you involved in?

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Vidyard

JULY 9, 2019

For a financial services representative, video communication can be pivotal in establishing trust while meeting clients’ demands for a more personalized digital experience. This explains why a large percentage of meetings happen in-person, in order to develop an emotional connection and increase trust.

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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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The ROI Guy

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

Tom’s ROI and TCO experience began in 1993 with his first entrepreneurial venture, Interpose (acquired by Gartner in 1998). Tom then served Gartner as a Managing VP. Gartner CIO Study Highlights Need for Outcome-Base. Frugalnomics in Full Effect: Forrester and Gartner.

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The ROI Guy

JULY 15, 2009

Wednesday, July 15, 2009 VMware launches Realized ROI toolkit, powered by Alinean Provides quantifiable proof to customers of the realized ROI from prior VMware deployments. Tom’s ROI and TCO experience began in 1993 with his first entrepreneurial venture, Interpose (acquired by Gartner in 1998).

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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. Tom then served Gartner as a Managing VP.

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The ROI Guy

JANUARY 20, 2011

Tom’s ROI and TCO experience began in 1993 with his first entrepreneurial venture, Interpose (acquired by Gartner in 1998). Tom then served Gartner as a Managing VP. Gartner CIO Study Highlights Need for Outcome-Base. Frugalnomics in Full Effect: Forrester and Gartner.

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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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The ROI Guy

DECEMBER 23, 2010

Tom’s ROI and TCO experience began in 1993 with his first entrepreneurial venture, Interpose (acquired by Gartner in 1998). Tom then served Gartner as a Managing VP. Gartner CIO Study Highlights Need for Outcome-Base. Frugalnomics in Full Effect: Forrester and Gartner.

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The ROI Guy

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

From survey results of IDC’s Technology Marketing Barometer, comparing 2009 to 2010 marketing allocations, technology marketers indicated that digital would experience the most growth year-over-year, greatly exceeding traditional advertising, public relations and events in year-over-year growth. The End of Sales as we Know It?

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The ROI Guy

DECEMBER 9, 2010

Tom’s ROI and TCO experience began in 1993 with his first entrepreneurial venture, Interpose (acquired by Gartner in 1998). Tom then served Gartner as a Managing VP. Gartner CIO Study Highlights Need for Outcome-Base. Frugalnomics in Full Effect: Forrester and Gartner.

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The ROI Guy

FEBRUARY 14, 2011

Tom’s ROI and TCO experience began in 1993 with his first entrepreneurial venture, Interpose (acquired by Gartner in 1998). Tom then served Gartner as a Managing VP. Gartner CIO Study Highlights Need for Outcome-Base. Frugalnomics in Full Effect: Forrester and Gartner.

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Ambal's Amusings

JANUARY 21, 2010

Prior to forming VAZT, Seamus worked in sales and strategic account management for The Hackett Group, a strategic advisory and management consulting firm in Atlanta, For Gartner, a research, advisory and consulting company in Stamford, CT and Cambridge Technology Partners, a web development company, prior to its acquisition by Novell.

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The ROI Guy

FEBRUARY 4, 2009

Wednesday, February 04, 2009 Microsoft Virtualization with Hyper-V - better value? As TCO studies have taught us however from the time Bill Kirwin first developed these models for Gartner, it is important to look not only at purchase cost of the solution, but the ongoing costs over the entire ownership lifecycle. Advantage Microsoft.

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The ROI Guy

JANUARY 17, 2011

As today’s buyers are empowered by the Internet to do their own research and drive their own purchasing due diligence – engaging sales later than ever, or not at all – easy to use versions of these diagnostic tools need to be on-line, readily available, interactive and personalized to empower self-service research.

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The ROI Guy

MAY 6, 2010

Tom’s ROI and TCO experience began in 1993 with his first entrepreneurial venture, Interpose (acquired by Gartner in 1998). Tom then served Gartner as a Managing VP. Gartner CIO Study Highlights Need for Outcome-Base. Frugalnomics in Full Effect: Forrester and Gartner.

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Work Management Marketing Automation Services Marketing Management ROI 40

The ROI Guy

JANUARY 25, 2011

Tom’s ROI and TCO experience began in 1993 with his first entrepreneurial venture, Interpose (acquired by Gartner in 1998). Tom then served Gartner as a Managing VP. Gartner CIO Study Highlights Need for Outcome-Base. Frugalnomics in Full Effect: Forrester and Gartner.

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ROI Marketing Budget Work Management Budget Programs 40

The ROI Guy

DECEMBER 6, 2010

Better content targeting and personalization is required for 2011 to end “carpet bombing&# B2B marketing techniques, evolving to create a dialogue with buyers to guide them through the decision making process and buying lifecycle with personalized one-to-one advice. Tom then served Gartner as a Managing VP.

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The ROI Guy

OCTOBER 22, 2010

Tom’s ROI and TCO experience began in 1993 with his first entrepreneurial venture, Interpose (acquired by Gartner in 1998). Tom then served Gartner as a Managing VP. Gartner CIO Study Highlights Need for Outcome-Base. Frugalnomics in Full Effect: Forrester and Gartner.

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The ROI Guy

SEPTEMBER 4, 2007

In fact, according to Gartner’s white paper on Data Center Power and Cooling Scenario Options for the World Ahead, April 2007 during a 24 hour period less than 10% of the typical x86 /x64 server computing capacity is used. Tom then served Gartner as a Managing VP. Gartner CIO Study Highlights Need for Outcome-Base.

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The ROI Guy

NOVEMBER 8, 2006

Tom’s ROI and TCO experience began in 1993 with his first entrepreneurial venture, Interpose (acquired by Gartner in 1998). Tom then served Gartner as a Managing VP. Gartner CIO Study Highlights Need for Outcome-Base. Frugalnomics in Full Effect: Forrester and Gartner.

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Ambal's Amusings

SEPTEMBER 17, 2009

B2B Lead Generation Benchmark Study 2009. You fine tune and target your conversations so that they hit home with the right person at the right time. I added some specific details about this person (“Susie” was an amalgamation of clients I had worked with as an intern). By Joe Pulizzi and Newt Barrett.

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The ROI Guy

NOVEMBER 8, 2006

Tom’s ROI and TCO experience began in 1993 with his first entrepreneurial venture, Interpose (acquired by Gartner in 1998). Tom then served Gartner as a Managing VP. Gartner CIO Study Highlights Need for Outcome-Base. Frugalnomics in Full Effect: Forrester and Gartner.

ROI 40

ROI Marketing Budget Work Management Marketing Automation Services 40

Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

It is the natural progression in the market, and the signs are already showing up that we are approaching the climb up towards the “plateau of productivity&# as Gartner calls it. Top B2B marketing posts for 2009 (hint: social media) =-. This is when it starts to be fun. Nicely said, Esteban.-= Esteban Kolsky´s last blog.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

It’s about having a strategy for making your company or organization more like a person and less like a machine. I’ve linked to a recent post of mine about Gartner’s recent report that half of social media campaigns will fail. BTW, Jason, I am in awe of the way you answer everyone personally.

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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. As each need is met, personal achievement rises and purpose is fulfilled. Tom’s ROI and TCO experience began in 1993 with his first entrepreneurial venture, Interpose (acquired by Gartner in 1998).

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Martech Advisor

MARCH 30, 2020

If you ever need to brush up on or revisit certain marketing concepts, this is a must-have book in your personal library. It is written by Matthew Dixon, Nick Toman, and Rick DeLisi based on their research at CEB, a subsidiary of Gartner. Google AdWords for Beginners: A Do-It-Yourself Guide to PPC Advertising. In Web Analytics 2.0,

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The ROI Guy

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Better content targeting and personalization is required to end the “carpet bombing” techniques and make meaningful connections. One of the keys to cutting through the noise is to provide buyers with more personalized and meaningful content to transcend generic messaging to create an engaging dialogue.

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Outgrow

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Dan has previously worked with clients like GBH (Boston’s NPR), Harvard Business Review, NYTimes R&D, Gartner, Drift, Ring Doorbell and a lot more. And then went back in 2009, when I discovered Moz, Whiteboard Fridays with Rand Fishkin, and the beginner’s guide to SEO and all that stuff. So I think it’s smart.

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Outgrow

AUGUST 18, 2022

Like when you take the person-to-person aspects out of relationship building, which is part of marketing’s job, how do you still make it personal? And for those out there that work for founders, sometimes the brand is a representation of them personally as well. It’s hard, right? Sydney Sloan: Adobe.

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The ROI Guy

JULY 22, 2010

Tom’s ROI and TCO experience began in 1993 with his first entrepreneurial venture, Interpose (acquired by Gartner in 1998). Tom then served Gartner as a Managing VP. Gartner CIO Study Highlights Need for Outcome-Base. Frugalnomics in Full Effect: Forrester and Gartner. How to Break Free of the Pack?

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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.

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Ambal's Amusings

AUGUST 27, 2009

B2B Lead Generation Benchmark Study 2009. 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. Velocity's The B2B Content Marketing Workbook. MarketingSherpa. Sales Lead Expert’s Learning Center. Mac McIntosh Recommends.

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Demand Generation Agencies Demand Generation Demand B2B Marketing 100

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

MAY 3, 2011

The recession has been officially over (at least in the United States) since June, 2009 — but to many people, companies, and marketers, it still feels like hard times. According to Gartner, by 2020 customers will manage 85% of their relationship with an enterprise without interacting with a person.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

That's why I mentioned that even though I'm showing in my table my personal ranking of these tools, it's meant to be just a starting point. Personally, one gripe I have with popular solutions out there is the latency in acquiring the data posted live. In control. In control.

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B2B Marketing Zone Posts

MAY 3, 2010

In the end, you knew if you had briefings with Yankee Group, Gartner, Forrester, Jupiter and Meta Group, you had your bases covered. Unfortunately, we all don’t have the time and money to spend traveling to conferences to see them in-person. Best Search Engine Marketing Tips of 2009, Part 2 , April 7, 2010. April 12, 2010.

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The ROI Guy

SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

Gartner Executive Programs midyear survey indicates that IT budgets are growing at a paltry 1.1% More good news is that 2010 is far better than 2009, with a weighted global average reduction in IT budgets of 8.1% for 2009, showing that a spending recovery is in place, but marginally. in 2010, essentially flat in 2010.

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