Industrial Marketing Today

OCTOBER 2, 2010

Are you interested in lead generation, lead nurturing and/or building authority and brand awareness? Let’s look at two case studies to see how industrial marketers are using email to reach and engage with industrial buyers. Social Media with Email Marketing – is it the Super Combo?

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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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Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 17, 2010

I am referring to optimizing customer engagement in B2B marketing. BtoB marketers need to create and deliver content that is relevant to those searching for their solution while mapping it to the prospect’s buying cycle. Source: IDC Analyst Connection: Coordinating Marketing and Sales across the Entire Revenue Cycle.)

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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.

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The ROI Guy

JANUARY 20, 2011

To address this growing market opportunity, Alinean developed the EMC SMB Virtual Solutions Advisor, a TCO calculator at the heart of this new SMB virtualization marketing campaign. Alinean recognized by BtoB Magazine’s as one of To. The Big O – Outcome Selling The Demand Spectrum and Value-Based Sales & Market.

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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? These two market drivers will have important implications into 2011 and beyond for B2B sales enablement and marketing strategies and budgets. Alinean recognized by BtoB Magazine’s as one of To. Latest Research.

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The ROI Guy

JANUARY 17, 2011

Alinean calls this new age-of-austerity Frugalnomics, and it forever changes the way B2B sales and marketing needs to connect with, engage and sell to buyers. The tool suite results in over 1,000 leads per month, with estimated 4 to 5% conversion rate of leads to sales. Exciting time to be a marketer, but challenging as well!

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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. Alinean recognized by BtoB Magazine’s as one of To. Tailwinds for Marketing Automation Software - Insi.

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The ROI Guy

FEBRUARY 4, 2009

Quite often arbitrary cost-cutting leads to inflated costs in the IT ecology. Alinean recognized by BtoB Magazine’s as one of To. The Big O – Outcome Selling The Demand Spectrum and Value-Based Sales & Market. ► October (8) Tech Marketers May Need to Rethink Budgets for 201. Latest Research.

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The ROI Guy

NOVEMBER 8, 2006

Most revenue benefits like improving lead conversion rates or reducing sale cycle length 2. Productivity benefits where there is not a direct automation or elimination of a process step or task 3. Alinean recognized by BtoB Magazine’s as one of To. ► October (8) Tech Marketers May Need to Rethink Budgets for 201.

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The ROI Guy

NOVEMBER 8, 2006

Two of the leading choices are Microsoft SQL 2005 and Oracle Database 10g. Alinean recognized by BtoB Magazine’s as one of To. The Big O – Outcome Selling The Demand Spectrum and Value-Based Sales & Market. ► October (8) Tech Marketers May Need to Rethink Budgets for 201. Latest Research.

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The ROI Guy

DECEMBER 14, 2005

. • Level 2: Process and Transaction Optimization - these investments in the business seek to deliver operating expense reductions by automate key business processes or streamline supply chain and customer transactions. Following such generalized advice can lead to spending misallocation and competitive disaster. Latest Research.

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Marketing Insider Group

SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

In this post I will provide some of the latest thinking along with my own thoughts on how to better align marketing with sales. In BtoB Magazine , Karen J. Bannan wrote “ Creating a true partnership between marketing and sales ”. In the article, she offered this call to action for marketing and sales: “Partner or Perish”.

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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., Tailwinds for Marketing Automation Software - Insi.

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B2B Marketing Zone Posts

JULY 7, 2010

Best of B2B Marketing. 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.

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The ROI Guy

SEPTEMBER 28, 2010

Tuesday, September 28, 2010 Do White Papers Still Engage? New digital marketing channels have made it more efficient than ever to broadcast marketing messages to prospects, but are the current strategies effective at connecting with and educating ever more skeptical and frugal buyers ? 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? Leading B2B vendors are implementing value selling / marketing programs, and have received dramatic benefits as a result. Alinean recognized by BtoB Magazine’s as one of To. Here are the top six benefits: 1.

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

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Webbiquity

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

Content Sharing Trends in 2010 [Infographic] by Pamorama Pam Dyer reports on data from AddThis showing the top methods for sharing information from more than 300 options. Facebook (71%) and Twitter (67%) are close behind…Other channels used by B2B marketers include YouTube (48%), blogging (44%) and online communities (22%).”

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