markempa

DECEMBER 21, 2006

cost center, rather than viewing it as an asset that creates revenue. Invest in marketing automation from Modern B2B Marketing In my last post, I argued that Marketing needs to stop being seen a cost center and start earning a seat at the revenue table. cost center, rather than viewing it as an asset that creates revenue.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

DECEMBER 8, 2010

Around this time last year I wrote about the 10 B2B Marketing Predictions for 2010 and while I would say 7 out of 10 have already materialized and the others are on their way. Then we can really change the dynamic from marketing as a cost center to marketing as a profit center! Email this to a friend? Share this on Facebook.

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markempa

MARCH 8, 2006

cost center rather than viewing it as an asset that creates revenue. cost center rather than viewing it as an asset that creates revenue. Critical Success Factor #9 Effectiveness 8 Critical Success Factors for Lead Generation 2.0 Does this describe your current situation? Does this describe your current situation?

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Lead Generation Generation B2B Thought Leadership Leads 120

Industrial Marketing Today

OCTOBER 2, 2010

However, there’s no denying the low cost of email marketing. Today, the customer split is 55/45 in favor of B2B clients Read the full case study on BtoB Online at [link] Case study #2: Driving qualified traffic and growing in-house list using emails with videos links Business challenge: Milwaukee Electric Tool Corp.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 14, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website 7 Strategies for Using Content to Market Industrial Products by Achinta Mitra on May 14, 2010 in Content Marketing , Industrial Marketing & Web 2.0 , Industrial Marketing Blog I am a big fan of Content Marketing or as some people like to refer to it as Inbound Marketing.

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markempa

JUNE 13, 2007

You can research new business opportunities based on trigger events, for little to no cost, by leveraging press releases, websites and news wires. Critical Success Factor #9 Effectiveness 8 Critical Success Factors for Lead Generation 2.0 Develop an intelligent system to identify when your trigger events happen.

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markempa

JUNE 7, 2005

They measured their response - used phone qualification - worked closely with their sales team - sent on only sales ready leads - closed the loop on each lead - increased revenue - cut costs - gave remarkable reports. Critical Success Factor #9 Effectiveness 8 Critical Success Factors for Lead Generation 2.0 Now look like heroes.

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The ROI Guy

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

In the recent BtoB magazine article, " Tech Media Evolution a Bellwether ", the major technology publishers were examined to understand how quickly the shift to interactive marketing was occurring. The age of Internet fueled buying decisions means that traditional print publications just don't meet buyer or seller needs.

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markempa

JUNE 23, 2005

But AV would not tell me what it costs. Critical Success Factor #9 Effectiveness 8 Critical Success Factors for Lead Generation 2.0 Call for speakers: MarketingSherpa’s B2B Marketing Summit 5 dials to tune in your lead generation process Recent Comments Copyright This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License.

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The ROI Guy

AUGUST 9, 2010

2) Quantify the issues and opportunities the customer has via benchmarking tools, comparing their profile or costs versus competitors and leaders. 4) Validating that your solutions represent the best value, quantifying lifecycle cost savings and competitive advantage that they can uniquely gain from your solution versus the competition.

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markempa

MAY 28, 2005

I can’t imagine what the campaign cost in dollars but I can only guess at the soft costs of wasting their sales people’s time. I can’t imagine what the campaign cost in dollars but I can only guess at the soft costs of wasting their sales people’s time. That’s not someone who wants the "free" expensive gift.

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Lead Generation Creativity Lead Ranking Lead Scoring 120

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

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ROI Enterprise Management Marketing Budget Budget Programs 40

The ROI Guy

DECEMBER 9, 2010

Thursday, December 09, 2010 Seeing ROI in the Cloud? Spending on IT cloud services will triple in the next 5 years, reaching $42 billion and capturing 25% of IT spending growth in 2012." - IDC Much of the adoption is driven by the promise of what cloud can do to help transform IT services and drive important cap-ex and op-ex cost savings.

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The ROI Guy

JANUARY 10, 2011

IT Spending on the Rise, But Executives Remain Economic-Focused A recent IT spending survey from Forrester confirms that 2010 remained a tough year for IT. Although enterprise technology budgets were trending upward, the progression was slight, in 2010 compared with 2009. Monday, January 10, 2011 Let the Good Times Roll?

Enterprise Management 40

Enterprise Management Work Management Marketing Management Spending 40

The ROI Guy

JANUARY 20, 2011

Thursday, January 20, 2011 New TCO Calculator: EMC SMB Virtual Solutions Advisor EMC wanted a quick way for small / medium business IT executives and buyers to quantify how virtualized data center solutions could help drive capital cost savings, operations and application management savings and improved resiliency. Latest Research.

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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. Alinean recognized by BtoB Magazine’s as one of To. Provocation-Based Selling: Loosening the Status-Qu. Latest Research.

Work Management 40

Work Management Marketing Automation Services Marketing Management ROI 40

Webbiquity

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

It’s direct, cost-efficient, and, done properly, still an effective channel for lead generation, nurturing and sales. Avoid mistakes that will cost you readers? 3 items that should be in your 2010 email budget by BtoB Magazine. It costs virtually nothing (if we are only looking at the hard costs).

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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

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.

Work Management 40

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

MARCH 25, 2010

Yet according to CSO Insight’s 2010 Sales Performance Optimization study, only 52% of sales reps met quota in 2009, and companies achieved only 78% of their revenue plans. Any revenue-focused executive who can’t reliably deliver on his or her revenue commitments will soon be out of a job. Information that prospects wanted (e.g. Learn More.

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Sales Management Lead Ranking Work Management Sales Qualified Leads 48

The ROI Guy

FEBRUARY 4, 2009

Server virtualization is one of the best ways for IT managers to meet cost savings goals, and most are well underway with thier virtualization programs. However, in environments of 20 servers or more, 20 to 30% licensing and infrastructure cost savings was indeed the normal cost differential between Microsoft and the competition.

Work Management 40

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The ROI Guy

FEBRUARY 4, 2009

Wednesday, February 04, 2009 VMware launches new version of ROI / TCO Calculator Virtualization is one of the key cost savings initiatives that IT executives are implementing in order to tighten their belts in these uncertain economic conditions. Alinean recognized by BtoB Magazine’s as one of To.

ROI 40

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The ROI Guy

JANUARY 25, 2011

Therefore, sales must engage early to quantify the “cost of doing nothing&# and to “make the case for change&# in order to loosen the status quo. Alinean recognized by BtoB Magazine’s as one of To. In order to fight Frugalnomics, successfully selling to these economic-buyers, requires new skills, processes, and tools.

ROI 40

ROI Marketing Budget Work Management Budget Programs 40

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. Quite often arbitrary cost-cutting leads to inflated costs in the IT ecology.

Enterprise Management 40

Enterprise Management Work Management Marketing Automation Services Marketing Management 40

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. Alinean recognized by BtoB Magazine’s as one of To. Provocation-Based Selling: Loosening the Status-Qu.

Work Management 40

Work Management ROI Marketing Management Marketing Budget 40

The ROI Guy

JANUARY 17, 2011

view the tool Differentiate Sales and marketing has worked hard to make the case for change and convinced the buyer that the solution is justified, but now the buyer has a choice: purchase your solution, or perhaps find a lower cost alternative. Alinean recognized by BtoB Magazine’s as one of To. Latest Research.

Budget Programs 40

Budget Programs Marketing Automation Services Enterprise Management ROI 40

The ROI Guy

SEPTEMBER 4, 2007

To help address the lack of innovation spending, server virtualization is being considered and implemented in data centers as one means to drive “keeping the lights on&# costs lower, so as to provide more budget to innovation. This can yield significant cost savings and benefits including: 1. by 2010 [2].

ROI 40

ROI Enterprise Management Work Management Marketing Management 40

The ROI Guy

NOVEMBER 8, 2006

Since labor costs and equivalent outsourced services dominate most IT budgets -- over 56% of IT spending on average -- selecting platforms with lower implementation and ongoing management costs can significantly improve overall IT efficiency. One of the most important infrastructure investments is a database platform.

ROI 40

ROI Marketing Budget Work Management Marketing Automation Services 40

The ROI Guy

NOVEMBER 8, 2006

Moving the task from a highly skilled expensive resource to less expensive resources The direct benefits are often easy to quantify, and as such there is usually little risk in considering 100% of the expected cost avoidance or productivity improvements in the ROI calculation (ROI = net benefits / cost). Latest Research.

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The ROI Guy

DECEMBER 14, 2005

Classifying Investments to Minimize Costs and Maximize Returns To gain visibility into current spending, and make better decisions on future investments, it is recommended that organizations categorize their current IT spending and planned investments according to the IT Hierarchy of Needs. Provocation-Based Selling: Loosening the Status-Qu.

ROI 40

ROI Work Management Marketing Management Budget Programs 40

Industrial Marketing Today

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

Results: 25 percent reduction in marketing costs along with major account wins; number 1 ranking in Google for terms like “Dipping Flux,” “Pop Solder Paste” and “Tabbing Ribbon;” increased number of qualified leads and sales and won numerous industry awards. Exhibit #2: Indium Corporation Blogs. Results: 2.7 times increase in conversion; 5.3

Business Blogging 60

Business Blogging Enterprise Management Paid Search Agency ROI 60

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.,

Work Management 40

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B2B Marketing Zone Posts

JULY 7, 2010

A fascinating “hardcore” B2B social media success - grow - Practical Marketing Solutions , June 20, 2010 With many companies now engaged in social media marketing strategies for nearly two years or more, success stories are starting to emerge, even in the difficult marketing world of industrial B2B. Best of B2B Marketing. Seems doubtful.

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Social Media Inbound Marketing Enterprise Management Social Marketing 40

Webbiquity

AUGUST 18, 2012

Not only do leads generated through social and content marketing cost half as much as traditional outbound-generated leads (see below), they also close at higher rate (again, see below). BtoB Magazine ). Mobile commerce is projected to ten-fold from 2010 ($3 billion) to 2016 ($31 billion). BtoB Magazine ). TMGmedia ).

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Paid Content Social Media Social Marketing Statistics 100

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

ROI 40

ROI Budget Programs Marketing Budget Work Management 40

The ROI Guy

AUGUST 4, 2010

Wednesday, August 04, 2010 Can a Value Selling / Marketing Program Improve Your Business? Value selling focuses on the benefits and payback of the proposed solution, shifting the focus from cost of the product, to value of the solution. Less than 17% trust vendor provided business cases unless third party research / proof is provided.

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Budget Programs Work Management Marketing Management Marketing Automation Services 40

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

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