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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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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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MarketingSherpa Marketing Summit, Richard Fouts of Gartner talks Social Media and Communications

Smashmouth Marketing

In the fourth of a series of Thought Leader interviews for MarketingSherpa's 6th Annual B2B Marketing Summit 2009 , we talk to Richard Fouts, research director at Gartner, Inc., Richard: Sure, there are a range of benefits to blogging that inform all phases of what we at Gartner call the marketing activity cycle.

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MarketingSherpa Marketing Summit, Richard Fouts of Gartner talks Social Media and Communications

Smashmouth Marketing

In the fourth of a series of Thought Leader interviews for MarketingSherpa's 6th Annual B2B Marketing Summit 2009 , we talk to Richard Fouts, research director at Gartner, Inc., Richard: Sure, there are a range of benefits to blogging that inform all phases of what we at Gartner call the marketing activity cycle.

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

The Effective Marketer

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. In their “ CMO Perspectives on B2B Marketing Automation &# this challenge for high quality leads is shown as having increased from 69% in 2009 to 76% in 2010.

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Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media.

Convince & Convert

I’ve linked to a recent post of mine about Gartner’s recent report that half of social media campaigns will fail. I’ve linked to a recent post of mine about Gartner’s recent report that half of social media campaigns will fail. That is the value to me of Web 2.0 That is the value to me of Web 2.0

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Crunchy, salty, nutritious news & views on B2B marketing for technology companies | Velocity - the B2B marketing acceleration agency for technology companies

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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.