The ROI Guy

JANUARY 10, 2011

Tom Pisello: The ROI Guy This blog is dedicated to the strategies and tools used by solution providers to better prove and improve the value of B2B solutions to frugal buyers - using diagnostic assessments, interactive white papers, ROI calculators and TCO comparisons. Monday, January 10, 2011 Let the Good Times Roll?

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The ROI Guy

AUGUST 15, 2010

A new role has emerged at many leading B2B companies, Sales Enablement, and recent research from Forrester and IDC proves this new sales enablement practice as the key linchpin required to help a B2B company bridge the gap between their business strategies and how they execute in the field. Sales Enablement Defined What is Sales Enablement?

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The ROI Guy

JANUARY 13, 2010

All major analyst firms are predicting better times ahead for technology vendors in 2010, with many estimating a modest 3% growth. Forrester however thinks these estimates are low and is indicating that 6.6% In sentiment, Forrester indicates that formal IT budgets do not point the way to the upward revision in growth estimates.

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The ROI Guy

MAY 6, 2010

Tom Pisello: The ROI Guy This blog is dedicated to the strategies and tools used by solution providers to better prove and improve the value of B2B solutions to frugal buyers - using diagnostic assessments, interactive white papers, ROI calculators and TCO comparisons. Tom then served Gartner as a Managing VP.

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The ROI Guy

NOVEMBER 12, 2009

According to the latest Enterprise IT Services Survey by Forrester Research, buyers of IT services are taking a variety of measures to get more value for the money spent on IT services. Services organizations have traditionally underinvested in the research and tools to make it easy to include an ROI analysis as part of the services proposal.

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Customer Experience Matrix

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

It includes five pages of properly sourced industry statistics from Aberdeen , Forrester , Gartner and SiriusDecisions. Eloqua “ The Business Case for Integrated Demand Generation ” offers data from Forrester, CSO Insights and several Eloqua clients. The data is a couple of years old but still valid. Statistics include: • 16.5%

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The ROI Guy

FEBRUARY 14, 2011

Tom Pisello: The ROI Guy This blog is dedicated to the strategies and tools used by solution providers to better prove and improve the value of B2B solutions to frugal buyers - using diagnostic assessments, interactive white papers, ROI calculators and TCO comparisons. Tom then served Gartner as a Managing VP.

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The ROI Guy

DECEMBER 23, 2010

Tom Pisello: The ROI Guy This blog is dedicated to the strategies and tools used by solution providers to better prove and improve the value of B2B solutions to frugal buyers - using diagnostic assessments, interactive white papers, ROI calculators and TCO comparisons. Updated Alinean Social Media ROI Calculator - New.

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The ROI Guy

JULY 15, 2009

Tom Pisello: The ROI Guy This blog is dedicated to the strategies and tools used by solution providers to better prove and improve the value of B2B solutions to frugal buyers - using diagnostic assessments, interactive white papers, ROI calculators and TCO comparisons. Updated Alinean Social Media ROI Calculator - New.

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The Effective Marketer

MAY 9, 2011

Larger organizations may even start thinking of a higher level role, of Chief Content Officer , created in order to plan, coordinate the execution, and report on content ROI. The power of marketing automation is the ability to target your marketing database with specific content based on their behavior and stage in the purchasing process.

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The ROI Guy

DECEMBER 6, 2010

Tom Pisello: The ROI Guy This blog is dedicated to the strategies and tools used by solution providers to better prove and improve the value of B2B solutions to frugal buyers - using diagnostic assessments, interactive white papers, ROI calculators and TCO comparisons. Updated Alinean Social Media ROI Calculator - New.

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The ROI Guy

JANUARY 20, 2011

Tom Pisello: The ROI Guy This blog is dedicated to the strategies and tools used by solution providers to better prove and improve the value of B2B solutions to frugal buyers - using diagnostic assessments, interactive white papers, ROI calculators and TCO comparisons. Updated Alinean Social Media ROI Calculator - New.

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Online Marketing Institute

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

Social Media – according to a study early this year by Forrester Research, 91% of technology b2b decision makers use social media in some form (blogs, video, customer reviews, social networking sites, Twitter, etc.). unemployment rate still near 10%, and uncertain prospects for a quick recovery , marketers need to keep two things in mind.

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The ROI Guy

FEBRUARY 4, 2009

Tom Pisello: The ROI Guy This blog is dedicated to the strategies and tools used by solution providers to better prove and improve the value of B2B solutions to frugal buyers - using diagnostic assessments, interactive white papers, ROI calculators and TCO comparisons. Updated Alinean Social Media ROI Calculator - New.

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The ROI Guy

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

Tom Pisello: The ROI Guy This blog is dedicated to the strategies and tools used by solution providers to better prove and improve the value of B2B solutions to frugal buyers - using diagnostic assessments, interactive white papers, ROI calculators and TCO comparisons.

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The ROI Guy

JANUARY 25, 2011

Tom Pisello: The ROI Guy This blog is dedicated to the strategies and tools used by solution providers to better prove and improve the value of B2B solutions to frugal buyers - using diagnostic assessments, interactive white papers, ROI calculators and TCO comparisons. Updated Alinean Social Media ROI Calculator - New.

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The ROI Guy

OCTOBER 22, 2010

Tom Pisello: The ROI Guy This blog is dedicated to the strategies and tools used by solution providers to better prove and improve the value of B2B solutions to frugal buyers - using diagnostic assessments, interactive white papers, ROI calculators and TCO comparisons. Tom then served Gartner as a Managing VP.

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 28, 2010

In Search of Mass Influencers In a fascinating new Forrester Research study about online peer influence, Augie Ray and Josh Bernoff determine that consumers generated more than 500 billion online impressions about products and services in 2009. Eat 10 sandwiches, get the 11th free. Let’s also assume that you have a Facebook fan page.

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markempa

AUGUST 30, 2007

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

JANUARY 17, 2011

Tom Pisello: The ROI Guy This blog is dedicated to the strategies and tools used by solution providers to better prove and improve the value of B2B solutions to frugal buyers - using diagnostic assessments, interactive white papers, ROI calculators and TCO comparisons. Good argument that B2B marketing needs ROI.

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The Effective Marketer

MARCH 9, 2010

Design #6 Email Sender: SPSS Email Title: What if you had the power to increase campaign response rates and ROI? What I Don’t Like: The ‘download’ button with the Forrester logo on top and right next to the image looks a bit out-of-place, maybe it’s just me? Not copy intensive and good use of bullet points.

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The ROI Guy

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

As a result, according to research a few years back from Forrester, the 4-Ps of marketing are outdated and in need of a major rethink. The 4-Ps of Outcome / Value Marketing / Selling proposed by Forrester include: Problem - What are the customer’s business objectives and challenges –you are helping them to solve.

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The ROI Guy

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

As defined by Forrester, "Sales enablement is a strategic, ongoing process that equips all client-facing employees with the ability to consistently and systematically have a valuable conversation with the right set of customer stakeholders at each stage of the customer's problem-solving life cycle to optimize the ROI of the selling system.”

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The ROI Guy

FEBRUARY 4, 2009

Tom Pisello: The ROI Guy This blog is dedicated to the strategies and tools used by solution providers to better prove and improve the value of B2B solutions to frugal buyers - using diagnostic assessments, interactive white papers, ROI calculators and TCO comparisons. Updated Alinean Social Media ROI Calculator - New.

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Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 3, 2010

Some B2B marketers are using more sophisticated ROI measurement tools to track activities over the entire life cycle of a lead. Defining B2B Customer Engagement Forrester Research has proposed a definition of customer engagement that makes a lot of sense to me. Copyright © 2010 Tiecas, Inc.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Using the Forrester Social Technographics Ladder, understand how your target audience (as defined by gender, age, and geography) uses social media. Love the slides, worksheet and Forrester tool. Sessions start October 5. Go to [link] to save 50% for a limited time. Are you ready to add some “Why&# to your “How&# ?

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The ROI Guy

FEBRUARY 4, 2009

Tom Pisello: The ROI Guy This blog is dedicated to the strategies and tools used by solution providers to better prove and improve the value of B2B solutions to frugal buyers - using diagnostic assessments, interactive white papers, ROI calculators and TCO comparisons. Updated Alinean Social Media ROI Calculator - New.

Enterprise Management 40

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The ROI Guy

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

As defined by Forrester, "Sales enablement is a strategic, ongoing process that equips all client-facing employees with the ability to consistently and systematically have a valuable conversation with the right set of customer stakeholders at each stage of the customer's problem-solving life cycle to optimize the ROI of the selling system."

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The ROI Guy

MAY 12, 2010

SearchCIO's latest survey on IT budgets and spending priorities confirms reports from Forrester, Gartner and other analysts, that the IT spending recovery in 2010 is upon us. As a sales professional, are you proactively prioritizing your projects ahead of others with a solid ROI business cases? Quantification is king.

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The ROI Guy

NOVEMBER 8, 2006

Tom Pisello: The ROI Guy This blog is dedicated to the strategies and tools used by solution providers to better prove and improve the value of B2B solutions to frugal buyers - using diagnostic assessments, interactive white papers, ROI calculators and TCO comparisons. Updated Alinean Social Media ROI Calculator - New.

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 10, 2010

link] [link] Hervé Weytens Integrating Email and Social Media with Flowtown [link] #socialmedia #email [link] Chuck Forrest Integrating Email and Social Media with Flowtown [link] [link] Nelson Wee Cool Tool to integrate Email and Social Media (Have you heard of Flowtown?)

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The ROI Guy

JANUARY 5, 2011

The reign of the economic-buyer is called Frugalnomics, where buyers require significant ROI, fast payback and superior value from each purchase. 3) Differentiate Your Value - According to analyst Scott Santucci of Forrester, “We are in the middle of a major transformation in the B2B sales model. April 2009.

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The ROI Guy

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

According to Forrester, companies are spending worldwide, on average, 19% of their SG&A costs, some $135,262 per quota-carrying salesperson, in sales support-related activities. Sources: 1) SiriusDecisions B-to-B Buyer's Survey 2010 2) New Realities about B2B Buying, Jeff Ogden, SandHill.com Blog, Jun. April 2009.

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The ROI Guy

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Analysts such as Forrester and Gartner are highlighting “consumerization” of business as a key trend for the next several years, and B2B marketing is one area that will face the ‘consumerization” change, making content marketing and interactive decision support tools more important than ever before. Death of a Salesman?

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The ROI Guy

SEPTEMBER 4, 2007

Tom Pisello: The ROI Guy This blog is dedicated to the strategies and tools used by solution providers to better prove and improve the value of B2B solutions to frugal buyers - using diagnostic assessments, interactive white papers, ROI calculators and TCO comparisons. by 2010 [2]. Tom then served Gartner as a Managing VP.

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The ROI Guy

MARCH 15, 2011

Quantified savings, tangible bottom-line impact, low risk, significant return on investment (ROI), and fast payback are the new language of the economic-focused buyer. Key financials such as return on investment (ROI) and payback can help summarize the value the proposed investments have compared to alternatives under consideration.

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Convince & Convert

MAY 5, 2010

Responding to Forrester’s research about the need for agencies to become “connected&# – to be the bridge between brands and their consumers, St. In addition to being Chief Jane of JaneNation, Lisa is also the Cultural Strategist for St. “We recognized the need to step up our game,&# says Lisa.

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