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SMB IT Spending Recovers: Looking for ROI and Diagnostic Guidance

The ROI Guy

released its second annual Microsoft SMB/Partner Insight Report and the study shows that although SMBs remain concerned about the business climate, most will increase technology spending in 2010, highlighting the role of IT as a strategic business tool in this crucial sector of the global economy. Microsoft Corp.

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SMB a New Year Bright Spot for IT Sales and Marketing?

The ROI Guy

According to SpiceWorks latest State of SMB IT report, there was a 9% increase in second half 2011 budget forecasts, the highest planned budget uptick over the past two years. 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.

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Tom Pisello: The ROI Guy: New TCO Calculator: EMC SMB Virtual.

The ROI Guy

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 Science of Email Marketing « The Effective Marketer

The Effective Marketer

Also, MailChimp is now known to be used by large corporations (they focus on SMB market) therefore the data may not take into account larger organizations. It’s easy to say that B2B and B2C email patterns are similar, but without seeing the data underlying that assumption I’m very skeptic. United States License.

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Marketing Automation Monday is Here!

The Effective Marketer

Buyer personas and content creation The interaction was great and the fact that we had people from both SMB and large companies was great, we could hear both sides of the story and how different size companies work with marketing automation. One of the interesting points raised during the discussion was about content creation.

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Blog: Conversica Proudly Shares Two New Executive Appointments

Conversica

Jobvite is a SaaS company that has undergone a transformation from an SMB-focus to a MM/ENT-focus business model, similar to what we are now doing at Conversica. Before Jobvite, Peter helped E2Open (a cloud-based, on-demand software company for supply chains) go public.

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Is Your Social Strategy Proactive or Reactive | Social Media.

Convince & Convert

February 23rd, 2010 |Written By: Jay Baer | View Comments Tweet Is your social media program about asking, or answering? RT @jaybaer [link] [link] Frank Lee CRM 4 SMB Is Your Social Strategy Proactive or Reactive? Like Sonny divorcing Cher (or was it the other way around?) Jaybaer Is Your Social Strategy Proactive or Reactive?[link]