MLT Creative

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

October 7, TAG Social Business Event Atlanta, GA: TAG Social Business Presents: Serious Gaming - Social Business Can Be Fun and Games. At the 2011 Sales 2.0 for running a business filled with unpredictability and opportunity. Sources: BtoB, Mashable, aima, AMA Atlanta, BMA Atlanta, DMA Atlanta, TAG, OMI.

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The ROI Guy

FEBRUARY 14, 2011

Monday, February 14, 2011 Social Media ROI a Requirement for 2011 With social media spending continuing to increase this year, CMOs are being tasked to justify the investment. Rising dramatically for 2011 is the quantification of conversion and revenue as a result of social media efforts.

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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? These two market drivers will have important implications into 2011 and beyond for B2B sales enablement and marketing strategies and budgets. The Death of a Salesman? of respondents), and peers (28.7%), especially early in the lifecycle.

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Marketing Insider Group

JANUARY 25, 2011

political environment and B2B Marketing in 2011. Last week Sean Callahan from BtoB Magazine asked Is B2B Marketing Really Obsolete? He stated that business people no longer separate their home and work lives. So what is the state of union in B2B Marketing? It seeks to demonstrate the vision and goals of our upcoming year.

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Marketing Insider Group

DECEMBER 5, 2013

And according to Harvard Business Review, “ Solution Selling is Dead ” because talking about our products and our solutions is no longer good enough. According to BtoB Magazine “Content Marketing” is one of the top priorities for marketing in 2014. It may even hurt us in the buying process. Because our buyers are too smart.

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Marketing Insider Group

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

Is it something bigger and ethereal like our business perspective or is it the time horizons we work in? Recently, BtoB Magazine provided a snapshot of a Forrester report that stated that only 8% of companies surveyed feel a tight alignment between marketing and sales. 16th, 2011. But something always gets in the way.

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Marketing Insider Group

SEPTEMBER 2, 2010

Augmented Reality For B2B Marketing in 2011?" And I certainly agree that the acceptance of our role as B2B marketers is changing and evolving more into revenue generation. Share your thoughts, post a comment. Follow Me: Twitter LinkedIn Facebook Recent Tweets Have any B2B examples?

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Marketing Insider Group

SEPTEMBER 2, 2010

Augmented Reality For B2B Marketing in 2011?" And I certainly agree that the acceptance of our role as B2B marketers is changing and evolving more into revenue generation. Share your thoughts, post a comment. Follow Me: Twitter LinkedIn Facebook Recent Tweets Have any B2B examples?

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 22, 2012

According to a survey conducted in 2011 by BtoB and Rainmarker Systems, while only 35% of B2B marketers are involved with selling directly online, 58% of those companies have an increasing commitment to the channel. Grainger – E-commerce business currently accounts for about $1.5 MRO distributor W.W.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

AUGUST 30, 2011

In the same time period, LinkedIn’s revenue was $121 million, an increase of 120 percent from a year ago (Source: LinkedIn August 4, 2011 second quarter earnings release , its first as a public company). The fact is – “social” has become inextricably linked to business. Dreamforce 2011 Heralds the “Social Enterprise”™.

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Paul Gillin

JANUARY 24, 2013

New Book Explores Recent Epidemic Of Online Customer Assaults on Businesses. ‘Attack of the Customers’ Helps Marketers and Business Owners Manage and Prevent Reputation Threats Carried on Blogs and Social Networks. Paul is a columnist for BtoB magazine and a director of the Society for New Communications Research.

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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. They do if they are.

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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. Is Marketing Too Busy?

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MLT Creative

DECEMBER 16, 2011

WEEK OF DECEMBER 12-16, 2011 December brings forecasts, advice and resolutions to improve in the new year. Take advantage of smartphone propularity by having booth visitors scan a QR with business card information. Harvard Business Review online. BtoB Magazine. Bold moves marketers can make to pull ahead in 2012.

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MLT Creative

JANUARY 20, 2012

WEEK OF JANUARY 16-20, 2011 This week in B2B marketing the B2B blogosphere is buzzing about mirroring leadership, mastering new innovation, and building relationships via new means. BtoB Magazine. Stay aware. It's 10 pm. Do you know where your B2B twitter message is?

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The ROI Guy

DECEMBER 9, 2010

About Me Thomas Pisello Orlando, Florida, United States Tom Pisello is a serial entrepreneur, focused on building ventures to help companies get more business value from their IT and business investments. Alinean recognized by BtoB Magazine’s as one of To. Your Sales & Marketing Ready to Do Business with F.

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Marketing Insider Group

AUGUST 10, 2010

It requires us to think with forethought to determine and to communicate our business goals. Flexibility is built in to accommodate an ever-changing business landscape. He made everyone write a business plan. If you wanted funding: write a business plan. Having a meeting to pitch a new idea: write a business plan.

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Marketing Insider Group

AUGUST 10, 2010

It requires us to think with forethought to determine and to communicate our business goals. Flexibility is built in to accommodate an ever-changing business landscape. He made everyone write a business plan. If you wanted funding: write a business plan. Having a meeting to pitch a new idea: write a business plan.

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The ROI Guy

JANUARY 10, 2011

Monday, January 10, 2011 Let the Good Times Roll? With the severity of the downturn and conservative budget increases, the relatively large new IT initiatives and projects percentage clearly shows that when there was a bottom-line business reason for upgrading, migrating or innovating, budget dollars were available.

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The ROI Guy

JANUARY 25, 2011

Later in the sales cycle, sales needs to be able to provide a ROI business case for the particular recommended solution, as well as quantify competitive advantage, often using total cost of ownership (TCO) comparisons. Alinean recognized by BtoB Magazine’s as one of To. Your Sales & Marketing Ready to Do Business with F.

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The ROI Guy

JULY 15, 2009

About Me Thomas Pisello Orlando, Florida, United States Tom Pisello is a serial entrepreneur, focused on building ventures to help companies get more business value from their IT and business investments. Alinean recognized by BtoB Magazine’s as one of To. Your Sales & Marketing Ready to Do Business with F.

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The ROI Guy

MAY 6, 2010

“Today’s business buyers are more conservative than ever, demanding that any investment they make drive tangible savings and provide quantified business advantages – a fundamental change called Frugalnomics ,“ says Tom Pisello , CEO and founder of Alinean. Your Sales & Marketing Ready to Do Business with F.

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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

SEPTEMBER 4, 2007

Tuesday, September 04, 2007 The Business Value of Server Virtualization One of the key issues in IT today is that normal operating expenses consume way too much of the annual budget – 61% on average in most organizations is spent keeping the lights on, and 25% spent on regular migrations and upgrades. Reducing business risks 5.

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

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The ROI Guy

FEBRUARY 4, 2009

About Me Thomas Pisello Orlando, Florida, United States Tom Pisello is a serial entrepreneur, focused on building ventures to help companies get more business value from their IT and business investments. Alinean recognized by BtoB Magazine’s as one of To. Your Sales & Marketing Ready to Do Business with F.

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The ROI Guy

FEBRUARY 4, 2009

Never has cost-analysis been so critical for technology users to justify spending and for technology providers to prove the business case in order to assure that the proposed solutions are a priority and make the budget cut. Bullet-proof business cases need to be made for any money to change hands.

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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. Let us examine each of these IDC trends in detail and what they mean to 2011 strategies and budgets.

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The ROI Guy

FEBRUARY 4, 2009

About Me Thomas Pisello Orlando, Florida, United States Tom Pisello is a serial entrepreneur, focused on building ventures to help companies get more business value from their IT and business investments. Alinean recognized by BtoB Magazine’s as one of To. Your Sales & Marketing Ready to Do Business with F.

Work Management 40

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The ROI Guy

NOVEMBER 8, 2006

Soft benefits are less easy to quantify and rely on in a business case. Reduce business risk from implementing new security systems, compliance management or disaster recovery solutions 4. We typically only include 10-40% of these indirect benefits in order to create a more reliable – take it to the bank – business case.

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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. Alinean recognized by BtoB Magazine’s as one of To. for Microsoft SQL Server 2005.

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The ROI Guy

DECEMBER 14, 2005

IT solutions are indeed evolving from basic infrastructure, through business process optimization and information management. Projects in this category include supply chain management, human capital management, ERP, sales force and marketing automation and other business process automation projects.

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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.,

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Webbiquity

JANUARY 19, 2011

Web presence optimization (WPO)—using tactics like SEO, PPC, online PR, social media, content marketing and reputation management in a coordinated fashion to maximize your online visibility and business results—is the core theme of this blog. Social Media Affecting BtoB Buying Behavior by The Proactive Report. Social Media and Search.

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Marketing Insider Group

SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

In BtoB Magazine , Karen J. Similarly, the Harvard Business Review wrote in Why Sales and Marketing Are at Odds — or Even War : The ongoing conflict between sales and marketing is the “elephant&# in the room at many companies. Are you open for business? Websites are store fronts.

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Hubspot

JUNE 12, 2013

For example, in 2011, we conducted a test to see if including a personal name in an email''s "from" field would increase email clickthrough rate. Ellie Mirman , Head of Marketing, Mid-Sized Business, HubSpot. confidence. Pain: Mobile Friendliness. Solution: Keep Your Emails Clean With a One-Column Layout.

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Webbiquity

AUGUST 18, 2012

–yet only 25% of companies offer social business training to their employees. BtoB Magazine ). Between mid-2009 and late 2011, “messaging friends declined 12%, searching for new contacts fell 17% and joining a group of Facebook users dropped 19% in the U.S.” 70% of local businesses use Facebook.The U.S.

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