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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The ROI Guy

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

Tuesday, February 15, 2011 Updated Alinean Social Media ROI Calculator - New Graphics and Refined Research Weve just updated the Alinean Social Media ROI Calculator with some hot new graphics, and refined value quantification research and analytics. Alinean recognized by BtoB Magazine’s as one of To. Latest Research.

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The ROI Guy

JANUARY 20, 2011

Alinean recognized by BtoB Magazine’s as one of To. Estimate the Benefits of Windows 7 Professional Social Media ROI a Requirement for 2011 Alinean Research Reveals Best Practices to Fight F. Latest Research. Frugalnomics in Full Effect: Forrester and Gartner. Forrester: Understand and Drive Outcomes for Sales.

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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

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

FEBRUARY 14, 2011

Alinean recognized by BtoB Magazine’s as one of To. Estimate the Benefits of Windows 7 Professional Social Media ROI a Requirement for 2011 Alinean Research Reveals Best Practices to Fight F. Latest Research. Frugalnomics in Full Effect: Forrester and Gartner. Forrester: Understand and Drive Outcomes for Sales.

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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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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

DECEMBER 15, 2009

University of Missouri Researchers Find Search Process Affects Cognition and Emotion. 40% of Marketers plan to increase their budgets in 2010. Forrester Predicts Huge Growth for Social Media Marketing. Internet surveys combined with traditional research methods are becoming the norm. Magazine Ad Pages Decline.

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The ROI Guy

JULY 15, 2009

Alinean recognized by BtoB Magazine’s as one of To. Estimate the Benefits of Windows 7 Professional Social Media ROI a Requirement for 2011 Alinean Research Reveals Best Practices to Fight F. Latest Research. Frugalnomics in Full Effect: Forrester and Gartner. Forrester: Understand and Drive Outcomes for Sales.

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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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Online Marketing Institute

MARCH 13, 2011

Laura Ramos , a principal analyst at Forrester Research who focuses on business-to-business marketing trends and technology, says that services like Demandbase could prove useful, but adds that it may be hard to measure its impact on sales and marketing. “How do you leverage otherwise anonymous traffic? ERP Internet Cust.

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B2B Marketing Traction

JULY 12, 2009

©2000-2010 New Incite. Home | Services | Blog | About | Resources | Contact. Strategic marketing consulting, implementation, and results measurement services for (B2B) technology, manufacturing and green companies. All Rights Reserved.

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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

Alinean recognized by BtoB Magazine’s as one of To. Estimate the Benefits of Windows 7 Professional Social Media ROI a Requirement for 2011 Alinean Research Reveals Best Practices to Fight F. Latest Research. Frugalnomics in Full Effect: Forrester and Gartner. Forrester: Understand and Drive Outcomes for Sales.

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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

FEBRUARY 4, 2009

Alinean recognized by BtoB Magazine’s as one of To. Estimate the Benefits of Windows 7 Professional Social Media ROI a Requirement for 2011 Alinean Research Reveals Best Practices to Fight F. Latest Research. Frugalnomics in Full Effect: Forrester and Gartner. Forrester: Understand and Drive Outcomes for Sales.

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The ROI Guy

FEBRUARY 4, 2009

Alinean recognized by BtoB Magazine’s as one of To. Estimate the Benefits of Windows 7 Professional Social Media ROI a Requirement for 2011 Alinean Research Reveals Best Practices to Fight F. Latest Research. Frugalnomics in Full Effect: Forrester and Gartner. Forrester: Understand and Drive Outcomes for Sales.

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The ROI Guy

SEPTEMBER 4, 2007

by 2010 [2]. Alinean recognized by BtoB Magazine’s as one of To. Estimate the Benefits of Windows 7 Professional Social Media ROI a Requirement for 2011 Alinean Research Reveals Best Practices to Fight F. Latest Research. Frugalnomics in Full Effect: Forrester and Gartner. Let the Good Times Roll?

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The ROI Guy

NOVEMBER 8, 2006

Alinean recognized by BtoB Magazine’s as one of To. Estimate the Benefits of Windows 7 Professional Social Media ROI a Requirement for 2011 Alinean Research Reveals Best Practices to Fight F. Latest Research. Frugalnomics in Full Effect: Forrester and Gartner. Forrester: Understand and Drive Outcomes for Sales.

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The ROI Guy

NOVEMBER 8, 2006

Alinean recognized by BtoB Magazine’s as one of To. Estimate the Benefits of Windows 7 Professional Social Media ROI a Requirement for 2011 Alinean Research Reveals Best Practices to Fight F. Latest Research. Frugalnomics in Full Effect: Forrester and Gartner. Forrester: Understand and Drive Outcomes for Sales.

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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. 6 Key Metrics for a Social Media Measurement Dashboard [Best of SEW 2010 #4] by Search Engine Watch. Adoption soared. 85% of Inc. How to Use Social Media for B2B Marketing by Inc.

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The Effective Marketer

JULY 5, 2009

The Copywriting Wimp The workshop instructor was Sandra Blum, a renowned copywriter, columnist for Dynamic Graphics magazine , and more recently one of the judges for DMA’s Echo Award. That in itself is a good indication that the material was above average. United States License. United States License.

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The ROI Guy

DECEMBER 14, 2005

Alinean recognized by BtoB Magazine’s as one of To. Estimate the Benefits of Windows 7 Professional Social Media ROI a Requirement for 2011 Alinean Research Reveals Best Practices to Fight F. Latest Research. Frugalnomics in Full Effect: Forrester and Gartner. Forrester: Understand and Drive Outcomes for Sales.

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Industrial Marketing Today

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

Took a leap of faith by investing $70,000 in hiring Forrester to thoroughly research their target audience; implemented every single recommendation for building a community around the audience. Exhibit #2: Indium Corporation Blogs. Tactics: Their mantra — Learn, Laugh, Share and Connect. Results: 2.7 Results: 2.7

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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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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

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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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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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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Webbiquity

JUNE 6, 2011

Senior Analyst at Forrester ( @TomGrantForr ) “You don’t build a community. Contributor to the Social Media Marketing Magazine – B2B Column. Chuck is Director of the Center for Media Research, MediaPost Communications, a NY Times Business best-selling author, CEO of Mobile Future Institute and mobile advocate.

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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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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. cut in operating budgets.

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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? 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 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., So how much is spent on sales enablement?

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

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

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