Convince & Convert

MAY 25, 2010

Here are the highlights: A Colossal Opportunity According to Forrester research, from 2009 – 2014, the average annual growth rate in digital marketing expenditures in the U.S. I was there speaking at the Counselor’s Academy PRSA annual conference.

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

February 23rd, 2010 |Written By: Jay Baer | View Comments Tweet Is your social media program about asking, or answering? I’m constantly referring back to Forrester’s POST methodology when planning campaigns. Is this based on your experience or is there research to prove this? Also, I work mostly with nonprofits.

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The ROI Guy

DECEMBER 23, 2010

Thursday, December 23, 2010 CIO Priorities for 2011 Indicate Continued Frugalnomics Focus According to a survey from the National Association of State Chief Information Officers (NASCIO), there has not been much to cheer about this holiday season as a public sector CIO. Latest Research. Let the Good Times Roll? They do if they are.

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The ROI Guy

MAY 6, 2010

New Customers in Q1 2010 Alinean has been selected to develop and power value-based sales and marketing campaigns for Wipro , PGI , CSC , CiRBA , MokaFive , Shoretel , Informatica and OfficeMax. Estimate the Benefits of Windows 7 Professional Social Media ROI a Requirement for 2011 Alinean Research Reveals Best Practices to Fight F.

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The ROI Guy

JANUARY 20, 2011

Share to Twitter Share to Facebook Share to Google Buzz Labels: Alinean , Demand Generation , EMC , Pisello , TCO Calculator 0comments: Post a Comment Newer Post Older Post Home Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom) Search This Blog Loading. Latest Research. Frugalnomics in Full Effect: Forrester and Gartner. Powered by Blogger.

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The ROI Guy

FEBRUARY 14, 2011

Share to Twitter Share to Facebook Share to Google Buzz Labels: Alinean , Pisello , Social Media ROI 0comments: Post a Comment Newer Post Older Post Home Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom) Search This Blog Loading. Latest Research. Frugalnomics in Full Effect: Forrester and Gartner. Powered by Blogger.

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The ROI Guy

DECEMBER 6, 2010

Monday, December 06, 2010 Predictions for 2011: The End of B2B Sales & Marketing as We Know It? From our research and best practices work with leading B2B sales and marketing groups, Alinean provides its top 5 predictions for 2011: 1. of respondents), and peers (28.7%), especially early in the lifecycle.

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The ROI Guy

JULY 15, 2009

Share to Twitter Share to Facebook Share to Google Buzz 0comments: Post a Comment Newer Post Older Post Home Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom) Search This Blog Loading. Estimate the Benefits of Windows 7 Professional Social Media ROI a Requirement for 2011 Alinean Research Reveals Best Practices to Fight F. Latest Research.

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 3, 2010

Forrester Research shows that from 2009-2014, U.S. Agencies should also be working with clients on using social media as a market research tool, by surveying fans or creating dedicated, invite-only brand communities that serve as a living focus group.

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The ROI Guy

JANUARY 25, 2011

Buyers, Fueled by the Internet, Firmly in Control With a wealth of information from vendors, analysts and peers, buyers are doing more research on-line. At the same time, buyers are indicating that sales is often not prepared for meetings, and not adding value above and beyond what they can research on their own. Latest Research.

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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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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Research: How do people talk about your industry and who are the influencers? I looked at Meltwater Buzz a couple of months back and thought it offered a better platform than Radian6 (which is a good option in itself and often used as the industry example). How can your brand participate in this space most effectively?

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The ROI Guy

FEBRUARY 4, 2009

Share to Twitter Share to Facebook Share to Google Buzz Labels: Information technology , IT , ROI , Server Virtualization , TCO , Virtual Desktop , VMware 0comments: Post a Comment Newer Post Older Post Home Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom) Search This Blog Loading. Latest Research. Frugalnomics in Full Effect: Forrester and Gartner.

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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

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. In this blog post, I present a few of the key research metrics and advice.

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The ROI Guy

FEBRUARY 4, 2009

Share to Twitter Share to Facebook Share to Google Buzz Labels: Alinean , Gartner , Green IT , Information technology , IT , Kirwin , ROI , TCO 0comments: Post a Comment Newer Post Older Post Home Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom) Search This Blog Loading. Latest Research. Frugalnomics in Full Effect: Forrester and Gartner.

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The ROI Guy

FEBRUARY 4, 2009

Share to Twitter Share to Facebook Share to Google Buzz Labels: Microsoft , ROI , Server Virtualization , TCO 0comments: Post a Comment Newer Post Older Post Home Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom) Search This Blog Loading. Latest Research. Frugalnomics in Full Effect: Forrester and Gartner. Powered by Blogger.

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Webbiquity

JANUARY 17, 2011

the sources below provide a vast wealth of data, statistics and research results, as well as a bit of interesting social media trivia. Discover the answers to all of these questions and more here in more than 40 of the best resources for social media and marketing stats, facts and research of the past year. 40 percent of U.S.

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The ROI Guy

NOVEMBER 8, 2006

Share to Twitter Share to Facebook Share to Google Buzz 0comments: Post a Comment Newer Post Older Post Home Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom) Search This Blog Loading. Estimate the Benefits of Windows 7 Professional Social Media ROI a Requirement for 2011 Alinean Research Reveals Best Practices to Fight F. Latest Research.

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The ROI Guy

SEPTEMBER 4, 2007

by 2010 [2]. Share to Twitter Share to Facebook Share to Google Buzz Labels: ROI , Server Virtualization , TCO 0comments: Post a Comment Newer Post Older Post Home Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom) Search This Blog Loading. Latest Research. Frugalnomics in Full Effect: Forrester and Gartner. Let the Good Times Roll?

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The ROI Guy

NOVEMBER 8, 2006

Share to Twitter Share to Facebook Share to Google Buzz 0comments: Post a Comment Newer Post Older Post Home Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom) Search This Blog Loading. Estimate the Benefits of Windows 7 Professional Social Media ROI a Requirement for 2011 Alinean Research Reveals Best Practices to Fight F. Latest Research.

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B2B Marketing Zone Posts

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Ten reasons to blog – even if nobody reads it - grow - Practical Marketing Solutions , November 7, 2010 Building an engaged community through a business blog can be extremely difficult — sometimes impossible. Twitter for B2B Marketing - MI6 Marketing Agency , November 18, 2010 Author: Chris Herbert. There better be. Why not use it?

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B2B Marketing Zone Posts

APRIL 5, 2010

March 2010. Great stuff in the world of B2B Marketing for March 2010. We’ve hit a new low: The shittiest social media marketing plan ever - grow - Practical Marketing Solutions , March 10, 2010 A local news and media company is getting into the social media consulting business. Best of B2B Marketing.

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The ROI Guy

DECEMBER 14, 2005

Share to Twitter Share to Facebook Share to Google Buzz 0comments: Post a Comment Newer Post Older Post Home Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom) Search This Blog Loading. Estimate the Benefits of Windows 7 Professional Social Media ROI a Requirement for 2011 Alinean Research Reveals Best Practices to Fight F. Latest Research.

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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., Latest Research. Let the Good Times Roll?

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Webbiquity

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

53% of employers now research candidates on social networks before hiring. • Researchers To Marketers: Go Social, Mobile by MediaPost Online Media Daily. Les Luchter looks at research showing that 10% of all website visits to the top 1,000 web properties come from social sharing, half as much as from search.

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Online Marketing Institute

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

One of the best sources of information is industry statistics. This is set to reach 12% by 2013 Source : AMR International B2B Online Marketing Assessment and Forecast to 2013 US business-to-business (B2B) advertising and marketing spending will increase by 0.8% this year, to $129 billion Interactive spending will climb 9.2%, to $51.5

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Webbiquity

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

Data junkies, stats addicts, web trivia buffs rejoice — here are a deluge of social media, search and other marketing research facts and figures from 50 articles and blog posts published so far in 2010. National Survey Finds Majority of Journalists Now Depend on Social Media for Story Research by Cision.

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 2, 2010

And the fact that Forrester Research projects social media spend in the U.S. link] Evo Terra That seems to be the angle Google has taken with Buzz. But Buzz DOES (heh, that rhymes) seem to overcome the hurdles you've set forth. to be larger than email by 2012 doesn’t hurt, either.

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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. according to Forrester.

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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% for 2009, showing that a spending recovery is in place, but marginally.

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The ROI Guy

AUGUST 4, 2010

Wednesday, August 04, 2010 Can a Value Selling / Marketing Program Improve Your Business? Research shows that customers do not want generic messages or the hard sell, but instead want relevant and consultative tips and advice. Less than 17% trust vendor provided business cases unless third party research / proof is provided.

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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

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

Research by IDC recognizes that sales enablement investments are significant, but may not be delivering on promises. Sources: IDC Executive Tele Briefing on Sales & Marketing Strategies for 2010 Uncovering The Hidden Costs Of Sales Support, Forrester Research, Inc., Latest Research. Let the Good Times Roll?

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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. Latest Research. Let the Good Times Roll?

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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. Latest Research. Frugalnomics in Full Effect: Forrester and Gartner. Let the Good Times Roll?

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

August 12th, 2010 |Written By: Jay Baer | View Comments Tweet We built our own Frankenstein. A new research study of 1,400 U.S. In fact, the research shows that 72% of daily Twitter users write a blog, 61% write at least one product review per month, and 53% upload videos. We just did it voluntarily. And for what?

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