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FEBRUARY 15, 2011

Tuesday, February 15, 2011 Updated Alinean Social Media ROI Calculator - New Graphics and Refined Research Weve just updated the Alinean Social Media ROI Calculator with some hot new graphics, and refined value quantification research and analytics. Your Sales & Marketing Ready to Do Business with F. Is Marketing Too Busy?

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The ROI Guy

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

Thursday, November 04, 2010 IDC: Economic Buyers, Digital Overload and Sales Enablement Define Marketing for 2011 I just had the pleasure of presenting a webinar with Randy Perry, VP Business Value at IDC. Let us examine each of these IDC trends in detail and what they mean to 2011 strategies and budgets.

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The ROI Guy

OCTOBER 22, 2010

Friday, October 22, 2010 Tech Marketers May Need to Rethink Budgets for 2011 according to new Harte-Hanks research Technology marketers are challenged today with handling proliferating marketing channels to reach and engage more overloaded, skeptical and frugal buyers than ever before.

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The ROI Guy

SEPTEMBER 4, 2007

Tuesday, September 04, 2007 The Business Value of Server Virtualization One of the key issues in IT today is that normal operating expenses consume way too much of the annual budget – 61% on average in most organizations is spent keeping the lights on, and 25% spent on regular migrations and upgrades. Reducing business risks 5.

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The ROI Guy

JANUARY 25, 2011

Later in the sales cycle, sales needs to be able to provide a ROI business case for the particular recommended solution, as well as quantify competitive advantage, often using total cost of ownership (TCO) comparisons. Your Sales & Marketing Ready to Do Business with F. CIO Priorities for 2011 Indicate Continued Frugaln.

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The ROI Guy

JULY 15, 2009

About Me Thomas Pisello Orlando, Florida, United States Tom Pisello is a serial entrepreneur, focused on building ventures to help companies get more business value from their IT and business investments. Your Sales & Marketing Ready to Do Business with F. CIO Priorities for 2011 Indicate Continued Frugaln.

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The ROI Guy

JANUARY 17, 2011

Monday, January 17, 2011 Value Selling Tools and the Buying Lifecycle With two economic downturns in the past ten years, buyers are more frugal than ever, demanding that each investment help them do-more-with-less, provide a bottom-line impact, and deliver superior value. Your Sales & Marketing Ready to Do Business with F.

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The ROI Guy

FEBRUARY 4, 2009

About Me Thomas Pisello Orlando, Florida, United States Tom Pisello is a serial entrepreneur, focused on building ventures to help companies get more business value from their IT and business investments. Your Sales & Marketing Ready to Do Business with F. CIO Priorities for 2011 Indicate Continued Frugaln.

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The ROI Guy

FEBRUARY 4, 2009

Never has cost-analysis been so critical for technology users to justify spending and for technology providers to prove the business case in order to assure that the proposed solutions are a priority and make the budget cut. Bullet-proof business cases need to be made for any money to change hands.

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Hubspot

JULY 22, 2015

Bucknell's website, which was nominated for Best Website Redesign at the Webby's in 2014, is a wonderful example of website personalization at work. The website was created in-house and launched in 2011, and it was a Webby Award honoree in the School/University category in 2012. 3) Bucknell University.

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The ROI Guy

FEBRUARY 4, 2009

About Me Thomas Pisello Orlando, Florida, United States Tom Pisello is a serial entrepreneur, focused on building ventures to help companies get more business value from their IT and business investments. Your Sales & Marketing Ready to Do Business with F. CIO Priorities for 2011 Indicate Continued Frugaln.

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The ROI Guy

NOVEMBER 8, 2006

Soft benefits are less easy to quantify and rely on in a business case. Reduce business risk from implementing new security systems, compliance management or disaster recovery solutions 4. We typically only include 10-40% of these indirect benefits in order to create a more reliable – take it to the bank – business case.

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The ROI Guy

NOVEMBER 8, 2006

More importantly, since innovation is only 10% of the typical IT budget today, reducing ongoing management costs can help reallocate precious resources and budgets to more innovative tasks and projects – delivering true business value. One of the most important infrastructure investments is a database platform.

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The ROI Guy

DECEMBER 14, 2005

IT solutions are indeed evolving from basic infrastructure, through business process optimization and information management. Projects in this category include supply chain management, human capital management, ERP, sales force and marketing automation and other business process automation projects.

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The ROI Guy

JULY 22, 2010

Thursday, July 22, 2010 ShoreTel And Alinean Launch Online TCO Tool for Unified Communications Business Case Easy-to-use online calculator analyzes the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) of competing unified communications systems to determine true costs and business value SUNNYVALE, Calif.,

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The ROI Guy

SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

Friday, September 10, 2010 IT Budgets into 2011 - Robbing Peter to Pay Paul? in 2010, essentially flat in 2010. More good news is that 2010 is far better than 2009, with a weighted global average reduction in IT budgets of 8.1% Your Sales & Marketing Ready to Do Business with F.

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The ROI Guy

SEPTEMBER 28, 2010

Tuesday, September 28, 2010 Do White Papers Still Engage? Although social media and blog content have the hype, when we look to which marketing content B2B buyers use more than any other in driving decisions, the white paper shines well above all others (MarketingSherpa and IDG 2010). They do if they are Interactive!

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The ROI Guy

AUGUST 4, 2010

Wednesday, August 04, 2010 Can a Value Selling / Marketing Program Improve Your Business? Frugalnomics, borne of the economic downturn, represents a fundamental shift in the way businesses make buying decisions, resulting in a scrutinizing of each investment to deliver quantified bottom-line accountability.

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The ROI Guy

AUGUST 5, 2010

Thursday, August 05, 2010 Risk-Adjusted ROI Defined A variation on the traditional ROI formula, Risk Adjusted ROI is calculated as the ratio of the net gain from a proposed project, divided by its total costs - represented in net present value terms to account for project risk. Your Sales & Marketing Ready to Do Business with F.

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The ROI Guy

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

Sources: IDC Executive Tele Briefing on Sales & Marketing Strategies for 2010 Uncovering The Hidden Costs Of Sales Support, Forrester Research, Inc., Estimate the Benefits of Windows 7 Professional Social Media ROI a Requirement for 2011 Alinean Research Reveals Best Practices to Fight F. SiriusDecisions Perspectives.

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The ROI Guy

SEPTEMBER 17, 2010

Friday, September 17, 2010 Leaders indicate Growing Investment in Smart Digital Content The migration of B2B marketing budgets from traditional marketing vehicles toward digital channels continues according to a study by Booz & Co. Your Sales & Marketing Ready to Do Business with F. Is Marketing Too Busy?

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The ROI Guy

SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

Thursday, September 09, 2010 Forrester announces Sales Enablement Conference focused on Selling into the New Economy We were excited to hear that Forresters first Sales Enablement Conference will be focused on Selling into the New Economy. Your Sales & Marketing Ready to Do Business with F. Is Marketing Too Busy?

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The ROI Guy

NOVEMBER 8, 2006

Wednesday, November 08, 2006 Is Return on Customer (ROC) a good business value metric? Most CRM ROI oriented business cases focus too much on the near term, counting only direct “hard&# benefits and ignoring the more important soft benefits that relate to customer satisfaction, retention and lifetime value optimization.

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The ROI Guy

AUGUST 5, 2010

Thursday, August 05, 2010 Net Present Value (NPV) Savings Defined NPV Definition: The sum that results when the discounted value of the expected costs of an investment are deducted from the discounted value of the expected returns. Your Sales & Marketing Ready to Do Business with F.

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The ROI Guy

AUGUST 5, 2010

Thursday, August 05, 2010 Return on Investment (ROI) Defined ROI Defined: A general concept referring to calculate the Earnings from the Investment of Capital, where the earnings are expressed as a proportion of the outlay. Your Sales & Marketing Ready to Do Business with F. CIO Priorities for 2011 Indicate Continued Frugaln.

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