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Give Us Freedom! Lessons for Corporate America

Digital B2B Marketing

In the enterprise software market, we see the rise of SaaS or Anything-as-a-Service offerings competing with traditional enterprise providers. In late 2009, Bob Evans, then with Information Week, wrote an open letter to Larry Ellison , taking Oracle to task for not allowing companies the freedom to control their own expense structures.

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B2B Lead Generation Blog: Podcast: What Sales Really Needs From Marketing

markempa

This podcast was conducted for the marketing alliance partners for Sage Software , makers of ACT!, Peachtree and SageCRM software. John originally hoped that Jill and I would debate or lock horns (Jill from the sales viewpoint and me from the marketing viewpoint). Peachtree and SageCRM software. It’s great.

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better time management with smart calendars

The Effective Marketer

Make your calendar available to your direct reports and your peers : companies differ on their network policies and who has access to what, so you may not need to do this but just in case your company locks down access to other people’s calendar you should proactively let your direct reports (those who work for you) and your peers see your schedule.

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Net-Results Simplifies Demand Generation for Small Business

Customer Experience Matrix

Net-Results argues that its approach avoids the “vendor lock-in” that comes from using forms hosted by the demand generation vendor. But on reflection I realized that Net-Results offers a full set of demand generation functions. The demonstration was short because the system uses only a few features to deliver them.

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Don’t They Know Who You Are? Why Reputation Management is Crucial

Webbiquity

One executive I know, the president of a software company, shares the first page of Google with a biomedical researcher, a diplomat, a (not exactly best-selling) author, and the Facebook page of a college student from North Dakota. This Time, It’s Personal. A few examples. For examples, see the Pitches section on TechCrunch.

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2010 Tech spending to increase > 5%

The ROI Guy

trillion in 2009). Forrester has the more aggressive predictions of annual US IT spending growth of 8.4%, with the revision driven by higher than expected investments in communications hardware and software such as networking and Unified Communications. trillion in 2010, (growing from $3.2

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Building a ROMI Calculator

Online Marketing Institute

The spreadsheet they provide is not “locked”, so you can modify it at will. Please contact Gossamar for credentials. Better ROMI (Return-On-Marketing-Investment) is one of the many reasons that more and more b2b marketers are turning to Inbound Marketing and Marketing Automation. To start, download Lenskold’s free Basic ROI Spreadsheet.

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