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. Frugalnomics in Full Effect: Forrester and Gartner.

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The ROI Guy

DECEMBER 9, 2010

Thursday, December 09, 2010 Seeing ROI in the Cloud? IT Spending on the Rise, Sales Enablement and The Economic-Buyer ▼ 2010 (118) ▼ December (5) Social Media Hierarchy of Needs - Best Practices f. Alinean joins Content Marketing Institute (CMI) Trend Micro Risk and Compliance Assessment tool (p. Latest Research.

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The ROI Guy

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

IT Spending on the Rise, Sales Enablement and The Economic-Buyer ► 2010 (118) ► December (5) Social Media Hierarchy of Needs - Best Practices f. Alinean joins Content Marketing Institute (CMI) Trend Micro Risk and Compliance Assessment tool (p. Frugalnomics in Full Effect: Forrester and Gartner. Powered by Blogger.

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The ROI Guy

JANUARY 20, 2011

IT Spending on the Rise, Sales Enablement and The Economic-Buyer ► 2010 (118) ► December (5) Social Media Hierarchy of Needs - Best Practices f. Alinean joins Content Marketing Institute (CMI) Trend Micro Risk and Compliance Assessment tool (p. Frugalnomics in Full Effect: Forrester and Gartner. Powered by Blogger.

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The ROI Guy

FEBRUARY 14, 2011

IT Spending on the Rise, Sales Enablement and The Economic-Buyer ► 2010 (118) ► December (5) Social Media Hierarchy of Needs - Best Practices f. Alinean joins Content Marketing Institute (CMI) Trend Micro Risk and Compliance Assessment tool (p. 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? Sources: • SiriusDecisions B-to-B Buyers Survey 2010, on an online survey of more than 600 b-to-b marketers • IDC Executive Tele Briefing on Sales and Marketing Strategies for 2010 Posted by Tom Pisello at 8:55 AM Email This BlogThis!

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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

JULY 15, 2009

IT Spending on the Rise, Sales Enablement and The Economic-Buyer ► 2010 (118) ► December (5) Social Media Hierarchy of Needs - Best Practices f. Alinean joins Content Marketing Institute (CMI) Trend Micro Risk and Compliance Assessment tool (p. Frugalnomics in Full Effect: Forrester and Gartner. Powered by Blogger.

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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. Alinean recognized by BtoB Magazine’s as one of To.

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The ROI Guy

FEBRUARY 4, 2009

IT Spending on the Rise, Sales Enablement and The Economic-Buyer ► 2010 (118) ► December (5) Social Media Hierarchy of Needs - Best Practices f. Alinean joins Content Marketing Institute (CMI) Trend Micro Risk and Compliance Assessment tool (p. Frugalnomics in Full Effect: Forrester and Gartner. Powered by Blogger.

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The ROI Guy

JANUARY 25, 2011

IT Spending on the Rise, Sales Enablement and The Economic-Buyer ► 2010 (118) ► December (5) Social Media Hierarchy of Needs - Best Practices f. Alinean joins Content Marketing Institute (CMI) Trend Micro Risk and Compliance Assessment tool (p. Frugalnomics in Full Effect: Forrester and Gartner. Powered by Blogger.

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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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Online Marketing Institute

AUGUST 14, 2011

Will send you a ping.

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The ROI Guy

FEBRUARY 4, 2009

IT Spending on the Rise, Sales Enablement and The Economic-Buyer ► 2010 (118) ► December (5) Social Media Hierarchy of Needs - Best Practices f. Alinean joins Content Marketing Institute (CMI) Trend Micro Risk and Compliance Assessment tool (p. Frugalnomics in Full Effect: Forrester and Gartner. Powered by Blogger.

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The ROI Guy

FEBRUARY 4, 2009

IT Spending on the Rise, Sales Enablement and The Economic-Buyer ► 2010 (118) ► December (5) Social Media Hierarchy of Needs - Best Practices f. Alinean joins Content Marketing Institute (CMI) Trend Micro Risk and Compliance Assessment tool (p. Frugalnomics in Full Effect: Forrester and Gartner. Powered by Blogger.

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The ROI Guy

SEPTEMBER 4, 2007

by 2010 [2]. For a personal quantification as to the potential value of server virtualization, visit: [link] [1] Anthes, Gary, “Data Centers Get a Makeover&# , Computerworld news article, published November 1, 2005. Alinean joins Content Marketing Institute (CMI) Trend Micro Risk and Compliance Assessment tool (p.

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The ROI Guy

NOVEMBER 8, 2006

IT Spending on the Rise, Sales Enablement and The Economic-Buyer ► 2010 (118) ► December (5) Social Media Hierarchy of Needs - Best Practices f. Alinean joins Content Marketing Institute (CMI) Trend Micro Risk and Compliance Assessment tool (p. Frugalnomics in Full Effect: Forrester and Gartner. Powered by Blogger.

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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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Webbiquity

JANUARY 17, 2011

Americans spent nearly a quarter of their time online on social networking sites and blogs in 2010, up from 15.8 70% of bloggers are organically talking about brands on their blog, and 38% of them post brand or product reviews. At its current rate, Twitter will process almost 10 billion tweets in 2010. 40 percent of U.S.

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The ROI Guy

NOVEMBER 8, 2006

IT Spending on the Rise, Sales Enablement and The Economic-Buyer ► 2010 (118) ► December (5) Social Media Hierarchy of Needs - Best Practices f. Alinean joins Content Marketing Institute (CMI) Trend Micro Risk and Compliance Assessment tool (p. Frugalnomics in Full Effect: Forrester and Gartner. Powered by Blogger.

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B2B Marketing Zone Posts

APRIL 5, 2010

March 2010. Great stuff in the world of B2B Marketing for March 2010. What are the latest trends in search? 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.

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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. Alinean joins Content Marketing Institute (CMI) Trend Micro Risk and Compliance Assessment tool (p. 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., Frugalnomics in Full Effect: Forrester and Gartner.

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B2B Marketing Zone Posts

MAY 3, 2010

April 2010. Five Big Shifts in Social Media Marketing - Webbiquity , April 19, 2010 Social media reflects a larger trend toward buyer empowerment that has changed not only the practice but the underlying philosophies of marketing over the past several years. But it’s not enough just to support bloggers. I like numbers.

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Online Marketing Institute

OCTOBER 1, 2010

The Techcrunch acquisition dispels those myths 2 days ago « People on the Move in the Social Business Industry: Sept 21, 2010 Upcoming Research Teaser: What do Employers Want in a Corporate Social Media Strategist? View Comments Bas Reus This is truly a trend like you have written about some time ago. or something to that effect.

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Online Marketing Institute

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

Corrected now :) 4 days 10 hours ago More tweets » This blog reflects the personal opinions of individual contributors and does not represent the views of Futurelab, Futurelabs clients, or the contributors respective employers or clients. One of the best sources of information is industry statistics. Powered by Logic In Motion.

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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. Senior marketing execs see their companies moving to social media in 2010 by The Viral Garden.

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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. Alinean recognized by BtoB Magazine’s as one of To.

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Online Marketing Institute

DECEMBER 13, 2010

Brian Solis Home Articles Business – Marketing PR 2.0 – New Communications Social Media Speaking Books Appearances About The State of the Blogosphere 2010 December 13, 2010 View Comments The question we ask ourselves when examining the state of the blogosphere is whether or not the cup is half full or half empty?

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Webbiquity

JUNE 6, 2011

Senior Analyst at Forrester ( @TomGrantForr ) “You don’t build a community. Blogger for Huffington Post and @op_editorial , Marketer, Do-Gooder, Master Surfer! An avid search marketing blogger, he’s written extensively for SearchEngineWatch, SearchEngineLand, SEORoundTable and others. According to Tom Grant , Ph.D,

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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. Latest Research.

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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? Using value marketing tools, users can be presented with tools that help them to analyze their opportunities, and obtain more personalized and intelligent advice. Alinean recognized by BtoB Magazine’s as one of To. Latest Research.

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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., IT Spending on the Rise, Sales Enablement and The Economic-Buyer ▼ 2010 (118) ► December (5) Social Media Hierarchy of Needs - Best Practices f. Latest Research.

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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. Frugalnomics in Full Effect: Forrester and Gartner.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

August 12th, 2010 |Written By: Jay Baer | View Comments Tweet We built our own Frankenstein. Overwhelmingly, respondents in the study prefer interacting with official, branded accounts rather than personal accounts from employees. But yet so many companies are using Twitter as a post-modern headline news service. Wrong approach.

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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. Alinean joins Content Marketing Institute (CMI) Trend Micro Risk and Compliance Assessment tool (p.

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