Marketing Insider Group

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

At the same time, it is just another marketing channel. The reason I believe marketers are so confused about social media is because of this paradox. So I thought it was best to identify a clear framework for marketers to use to create successful social media strategies. Channel: not every marketer belongs on Facebook.

Social Media 100

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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.

Work Management 40

Work Management Marketing Management ROI Marketing Automation Services 40

markempa

DECEMBER 7, 2006

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. No one except the sales team knows what is going on inside the black box until a proposal or sale happens. So what can be done about it?

Lead Generation 120

Lead Generation B2B Sales B2B Marketing Generation 120

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. But up-front purchase price isn’t everything.

Budget Programs 40

Budget Programs Marketing Automation Services Enterprise Management ROI 40

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.

ROI 40

ROI Marketing Budget Work Management Budget Programs 40

Marketing Insider Group

OCTOBER 12, 2010

Telemarketing services are continuing to grow in popularity, due to the low cost and high ROI; however, the difficulty lies in which telemarketing tactic to utilize. Michaels B2BMarketingInsider blog is dedicated to sharing the ideas, topics and marketing strategies that drive real results like sales, leads, and higher customer loyalty.

Sales Management 100

Sales Management Telemarketing Work Management Campaigns 100

The Effective Marketer

JANUARY 25, 2009

The Effective Marketer Effectiveness is a discipline and it can be learned Home About the Effective Marketer Books Speaking Effective Marketer Principle 7: Run Productive Meetings Meetings are a necessity of today’s work environment. Who did we decide will take care of the action items?

Planning 100

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Content Marketing Institute

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

Editor’s note: Explaining content marketing is a never-ending challenge. The concept of content marketing has been around for hundreds of years ( see an example from 1672 ), and the discipline has gained incredible popularity since 2010, according to Google Trends. Content marketing as your family would understand.

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The ROI Guy

AUGUST 24, 2010

Leading Value-Based Sales and Marketing Tool Provider Continues Record Growth in Q2 2010 Alinean, the leading creator of value-based interactive sales and marketing tools for B2B vendors, today announced the addition of six new customers in the second quarter of 2010, expanding its marquee list of leading B2B vendors.

B2B 40

B2B Demand Generation Agencies Marketing Proposals Buying Cycle 40

The ROI Guy

OCTOBER 21, 2009

According to Garner’s Peter Sondergaard, Senior Vice President at Gartner and Global Head of Research, “While the IT industry will return to growth in 2010, the market will not recover to 2008 revenue levels before 2012.” According to Peter, “2010 is about balancing the focus on cost, risk, and growth.

Gartner 40

Gartner Marketing Management Terms and Conditions Marketing Proposals 40

The ROI Guy

OCTOBER 26, 2012

For the typical IT decision, the average number of stakeholders has risen steadily from five per average decision in 2010, to over 7 in 2012. Each stakeholder expects your sales professionals to deliver just the right information they need to help them make a decision, and each perceives the value of your proposed solutions uniquely.

Marketing Proposals 40

Marketing Proposals Sales Cycle Marketing & Strategy ROI 40

markempa

MAY 21, 2007

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. They must, in one way or another, generate their own leads to meet their revenue and sales targets that’s independent of corporate marketing programs.

Lead Generation 120

Lead Generation Ideal Customer Profiles B2B Sales Sales Qualified Leads 120

Convince & Convert

AUGUST 24, 2010

Drive Results with Content Marketing &# can be voted for here. Meanwhile, we’re hitting the road to present the core concepts of The Now Revolution to businesspeople and marketers everywhere. Go to [link] If you don’t have an account, please make one. “ Your Content Stinks! You’ve got my vote!

Paid Search Agency 111

Paid Search Agency PR Advertising Agencies Word of Mouth 111

The ROI Guy

MAY 3, 2010

Mr. Colony discussed the positive IT spending growth of 2010, and more importantly, that we are at the start of a 4 th innovation wave- a potential 7 to 10 year cycle of technology innovation. With regard to IT spending growth for 2010, Forrester has been the most aggressive in their projections, with a view that IT spend would grow 8.4%

Forrester 40

Forrester Allocation Marketing Proposals Gartner 40

The ROI Guy

JANUARY 13, 2010

In Gartner's 2010 trends report, Daryl Plummer, managing vice president and chief Gartner fellow indicates that "For many organizations, the economic and budgetary challenges of 2009 drove important changes in the general governance of IT investment decisions, accelerating the trend toward greater accountability and transparency.

Marketing Management 40

Marketing Management Vendors Gartner Business 40

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.

ROI 40

ROI Marketing Budget Budget Programs Work Management 40

markempa

MAY 23, 2005

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. Rigorously qualify - every sales opportunity to make sure they fit your ideal client/customer profile before you develop a proposal or agree to do work.

Lead Generation 120

Lead Generation Sales Qualified Leads Generation Leads 120

The ROI Guy

JULY 11, 2011

Surprisingly, CIOs alone have authorized only 5% of IT investments , confirming what many IT sales and marketing professionals already know, that the vast majority of IT purchase approvals involve more stakeholders, as well as significant executive scrutiny. To this end, we recommend the following best practices: 1.

Enterprise Management 40

Enterprise Management Gartner Work Management Marketing Management 40

The ROI Guy

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

IDC has just completed their annual Tech Marketing Benchmarks Survey, and the news is good for tech marketing teams. The latest survey (completed 9/10) reveals that large technology vendors have increased their marketing budgets by 3.7% in 2010 compared to 2009 levels. market spending growth. compared to 2008.

Marketing Budget 40

Marketing Budget Marketing Budget Creation Budget Programs Planning 40

The ROI Guy

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

Gartner's latest CIO study, "Reimagining IT: The 2011 CIO Agenda" highlights several important trends that will have significant impact on technology marketing and sales enablement into 2011 and beyond. According to Gartner, this requires CIOs re-imagine IT and lead it through a process of “creative destruction.

Gartner 40

Gartner Enterprise Management Marketing Management Studies 40

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.

Work Management 40

Work Management Marketing Management ROI Budget Programs 40

The Effective Marketer

MARCH 12, 2009

The Effective Marketer Effectiveness is a discipline and it can be learned Home About the Effective Marketer Books Speaking Better Time Management with Smart Calendars Use your calendar to your advantage Using calendar the smart way I’ve noticed throughout the years that if something is not on my task list it won’t get done.

Marketing Budget 100

Marketing Budget Work Management Marketing Management Allocation 100

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

Enterprise Management Work Management Marketing Automation Services Marketing Management 40

The ROI Guy

JANUARY 13, 2010

Gartner just released their list of 2010 trends, and one of the top 9, the importance of providing carbon remediation / Green IT business case, has a significant impact on IT solution provider marketing / sales strategies for the coming year.

Gartner 40

Gartner Marketing Proposals ROI Statistics 40

Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 3, 2010

I have written about this problem in my previous post, “The Disconnect Between B2B Content Marketing and Customer Engagement.” Some B2B marketers are using more sophisticated ROI measurement tools to track activities over the entire life cycle of a lead. The trick is to learn how to use all its power.

B2B 60

B2B Marketing Analytics Tools Web 2.0 Buying Cycle 60

The ROI Guy

OCTOBER 20, 2010

IT solution providers must recognize this change in order to succeed over the next 5 years - moving from product / solution selling to value sales / marketing strategies - helping buyers quantify the business benefits, return on investment and value advantages of proposed solutions to frugal, economic focused buyers.

Gartner 40

Gartner Forrester Spending Budget Programs 40

The ROI Guy

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Marketers are scrambling to address the power shift and overcome lead generation and conversion issues by delivering more content and tools over more channels to actively engage ever more empowered, skeptical and frugal buyers. Having the right content and tools to help fuel buyer’s decision making process is essential. Death of a Salesman?

Peer-to-peer 40

Peer-to-peer Marketing Automation Services Spending Marketing Budget 40

ANNUITAS

OCTOBER 6, 2010

It seems that most of my recent conversations with prospects, customers and others in the B2B marketing industry are centered on lead nurturing. My personal experience is that marketers definitely want to (and in some cases, are planning to) deploy lead nurturing of some kind. Map content types to buying phases.

Lead Ranking 100

Lead Ranking De-duping Work Management Lead Qualification 100

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.”

Allocation 40

Allocation Budget Programs Forrester Bundling 40

The ROI Guy

MAY 3, 2010

The 2010 Gartner / FERF technology study received 482 responses to approximately 50 questions that covered senior finance managers' views of technology. The survey was conducted from late October 2009 through January 2010. For the CFO, most we talk to indicate that: 1) Proposals won't be considered a priority without a business case.

Gartner 40

Gartner Marketing Proposals Marketing Management Advertising Agencies 40

Convince & Convert

APRIL 1, 2010

Doing so reveals finely honed, groan-inducing marketing copy that clumsily tries to build a bond via forced humor and shared humiliation. The chronically bad Minnesota Timberwolves NBA franchise has this sign in the Twin Cities airport: Bravo. The ad asks us to visit timberwolves.com/manifesto. But then it gets even worse.

Social Media 121

Social Media Paid Search Agency Media Advertising Agencies 121

The ROI Guy

JULY 5, 2011

This has led to a snapback in hardware spending in both 2010 (12.1% Dollars) 2010 Spending 2010 Growth (%) 2011 Spending 2011 Growth (%) Computing Hardware 375 12.1 An ROI business case is now a requirement, to prove the benefits to an ever increasing cadre of decision stakeholders. growth) and now again in 2011.

Enterprise Management 40

Enterprise Management Marketing Management Spending Allocation 40

Convince & Convert

MAY 11, 2010

And if possible, I’d recommend having employees closest to the product (designers, engineers, product marketing, customer service) be the stars of the show, not executives or marketers. Now you’re combining content with marketing, social media with customer service. Give this a try will you?

FAQ 139

FAQ Top of Funnel Paid Search Agency Social Media 139

The ROI Guy

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

IT solution providers are quickly reacting to the pessimistic forecasts with a sales and marketing strategy rethink – trying to appeal to today’s more stressed and frugal buyer. Hiring demands are increasing at the same time, from a low of only 20% planning staff additions in the latter half of 2010, to 31% currently planning staff additions.

SMB 40

SMB Enterprise Management Marketing Management Planning 40

Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Turning your customers into advocates and marketers on behalf of your brand pays off a lot more when you’re selling $10,000 pieces of manufacturing equipment, than it does when you’re selling $3 cans of Pringles. What this means is that in reality, B2C and B2B marketers are largely using the same social tactics.

Social Media 150

Social Media Media Webinar Metrics Marketing & Strategy 150

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. And this trend is not expected to end, even as the recovery takes hold. driven by customer's "enterprise-wide strategic procurement initiatives. April 2009.

Allocation 40

Allocation Forrester Buying Cycle Sales Cycle 40

The ROI Guy

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

As well, the Tech Media publishers have seen a dramatic shift in B2B vendors, who are looking for innovative ways to break through marketing fatigue to attract, connect and engage ever more skeptical and frugal buyers. The company said that percentage has dropped even more in its current fiscal year, which ends Sept.

Interactive Marketing 40

Interactive Marketing Advertising Agencies BtoB Peer-to-peer 40