Buzz Marketing for Technology

MARCH 25, 2010

In my last post we discussed the 4 reasons why using Social Media pays to provide Support : Customers prefer a good customer experiences to low prices, helps aid in spreading WOM, makes customer less likely to defect and results in high profitability for the company. Share this on Facebook. Tweet This! Share this on Linkedin.

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Convince & Convert

JULY 28, 2010

When I discuss this concept with companies, however, too often I hear something in the realm of “we don’t know what to provide our customers that would be helpful.&# Diagnosing your potential helpfulness doesn’t have to have the complexity of drilling a relief well, learning the triangle offense, or even Mahjong.

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Online Marketing Institute

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

This blog draws on the heritage of my Forrester research. Disclaimer The views expressed on this blog are mine alone and do not necessarily reflect the views of my employer, Xerox Global Services, nor those of my former one, Forrester Research. Inside Sales And Telemarketing Help Boost B2B Brands: Really? Want to hear more?

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

87% of respondents had heard of Twitter, compared to 88% who had heard of Facebook. Compare that ratio to Facebook, where 88% have heard of it, and 41% have a profile (a conversion rate approaching 50%). Put another way, Twitter users are 3 times more likely to follow brands than Facebook users. 19% seek customer support.

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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?

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 19, 2010

The chart below from a research study done by Forrester illustrates this point very clearly. Leave a Comment Previous post: Successful Industrial Websites Require Part DiY and Part Professional Help Next post: Social Media with Email Marketing – is it the Super Combo? And they use different sources to get their information.

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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 can help with the website [link] Rich Barker RT @ScottHepburn: RT @LisaHoffmann @jaybaer: [link]. Interesting article about online marketing.

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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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Convince & Convert

MARCH 3, 2010

Forrester Research shows that from 2009-2014, U.S. Social is an Ingredient, not an Entree Help clients find ways to add social components to existing marketing (print, outdoor, broadcast, direct mail, email, search, live events) – rather than viewing social media as a freestanding silo.

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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. How to Measure and Present the Effectiveness of Yo. Posted by Tom Pisello at 10:33 AM Email This BlogThis! Latest Research.

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Online Marketing Institute

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Whether it’s a webinar or a multi-day conference, leveraging social media can help event organizers extend an event’s visibility, attendance and pre-event conversations. Facebook Events Facebook doesn’t have the most elegant option for managing events, but it can be effective. Use this to your advantage.

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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. How to Measure and Present the Effectiveness of Yo.

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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

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

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Having the right content and tools to help fuel buyer’s decision making process is essential. Matter of Trust - although the research indicates that buyers truly rely on vendor content to help drive purchase decisions, with so much noise, buyers have become skeptical of vendor claims.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

But I get a lot of questions about why I like particular tools better than others and how I decide to use which, so here’s a summary of my thought process that I hope will help you make a similar decision for your client or your organization. How can your brand participate in this space most effectively?

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The ROI Guy

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

Share to Twitter Share to Facebook Share to Google Buzz Labels: Alinean , Pisello , ROI Calculator , social media hierarchy of needs , Social Media ROI 0comments: Post a Comment Newer Post Older Post Home Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom) Search This Blog Loading. How to Measure and Present the Effectiveness of Yo. Latest Research.

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The ROI Guy

FEBRUARY 14, 2011

Facebook seems to have the most favorable ROI ratings so far, with 35% indicating superior or average ROI, but with so many not knowing for sure, it’s hard to tell what the results will be until clearer measurement systems are put in place. How to Measure and Present the Effectiveness of Yo. Latest Research.

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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? An empowered buyer means that the role of sales will dramatically be impacted, requiring sales enablement and marketing to help redefine and drive a new breed of value selling professional. Latest Research. Let the Good Times Roll?

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The ROI Guy

SEPTEMBER 17, 2010

The past decade has seen an exciting and dramatic increase in new digital marketing channels including Twitter, Facebook, e-mail, search engines, webinars, virtual trade shows and more. For example, the typical B2B prospect receives an average of 20.3 How fundamental is the shift from product / solution selling to value selling / marketing?

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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

JULY 15, 2009

A new tool developed by Alinean helps VMware quantify the savings and return on investment from VMware server virtualization. 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. Latest Research. Let the Good Times Roll?

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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. IDC’s most resent customer experience survey of over 200 key IT decision makers reveals that Frugalnomics is indeed in full effect.

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Hubspot

JULY 19, 2011

To help you better grasp this exciting industry, we have identified the 8 most significant mobile marketing trends of 2011 that are sure to change the mobile marketing world we know now. According to Forrester, mobile advertising in the U.S. million by year-end 2010, increasing by nearly 50 percent from 2009.

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The ROI Guy

JANUARY 25, 2011

Sales teams will need to analyze the buying cycle, understanding the key steps buyers take to make decisions, and implementing engagement methods and tools to help facilitate the process. IT Spending on the Rise, Sales Enablement and The Economic-Buyer ► 2010 (118) ► December (5) Social Media Hierarchy of Needs - Best Practices f.

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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.

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The ROI Guy

FEBRUARY 4, 2009

VMware has just released a new ROI / TCO calculator to help calculate the advantages of virtualization in not only reducing capital expenditures, but reducing on-going operating expenses as well. How to Measure and Present the Effectiveness of Yo. Value Selling Tools and the Buying Lifecycle Is there an ROI from Social Media?

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Online Marketing Institute

MARCH 13, 2011

It digs up information on Web visitors in real time, helping salespeople follow up on a visit with a cold call and a pitch. Just knowing that someone from IBM visited a website won’t help much, since Big Blue has offices all over the world. Together, this offers clues about what the visitor might be interested in buying.

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The ROI Guy

FEBRUARY 4, 2009

Today, it is a mature, widely accepted practice in both helping buyers analyze ways to reduce costs, and for vendors to make the case for change, or prove competitive advantage. IT Spending on the Rise, Sales Enablement and The Economic-Buyer ► 2010 (118) ► December (5) Social Media Hierarchy of Needs - Best Practices f.

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The ROI Guy

FEBRUARY 4, 2009

To help keep on-going costs lowe, Microsofts competitors have delivered some powerful management tools and utilities to help keep the cost of managing the virtual environment as low as possible (upgrade management, lifecycle management, live update, etc.). How to Measure and Present the Effectiveness of Yo. Latest Research.

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The ROI Guy

NOVEMBER 8, 2006

The hard benefits are also called direct benefits as they are typically directly tied to the impact of implementing the proposed solution – a first order, cause and effect. Improved up-sell / cross-sell is a good example of an indirect benefit from a new CRM system that helps the call center improve its interaction with customers.

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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. by 2010 [2]. How to Measure and Present the Effectiveness of Yo. Latest Research.

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Webbiquity

JANUARY 17, 2011

Which social media platforms are most effective at influencing buyer behavior? Facebook is the world’s most visited social media brand with 54% of the worlds internet population visiting the brand. Americans spent nearly a quarter of their time online on social networking sites and blogs in 2010, up from 15.8 by eMarketer.

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Webbiquity

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

If 2009 was the year many marketers puzzled over, poked at and pondered incorporating social media into their marketing mix, 2010 was the year of diving in. Facebook added more than 200 million users last year, and Twitter more than doubled in size, adding 115 million. Adoption soared. 85% of Inc. by iMedia Connection.

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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. How to Measure and Present the Effectiveness of Yo. The Bottom Line: A Split Decision?

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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. Facebook Insights. Twitter for B2B Marketing - MI6 Marketing Agency , November 18, 2010 Author: Chris Herbert.

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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. You heard me right.

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