MLT Creative

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

October 9-11, BOLO 2011 Scottsdale, AZ: Agencyside will be presenting this event where you’ll learn how to stay ahead of the curve in all things digital; from analytics and target marketing to social media and agency management, this event’s topics are cutting-edge and helpful to all marketing professionals. At the 2011 Sales 2.0

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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 Effective Marketer

FEBRUARY 15, 2010

The Effective Marketer Effectiveness is a discipline and it can be learned Home About the Effective Marketer Books Speaking The Danger of Email Marketing Benchmarks A recent article from BtoB Online about email deliverability reminded me of how dangerous this whole thing of email marketing deliverability numbers can be. Is this good?

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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? this year, an increase from 3.1%

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Marketing Insider Group

APRIL 21, 2011

The alignment problem is what drove me into here… BtoB Magazine recently reported on a Forrester survey that proves the point that this is huge challenge: only 8% of B2B companies say they have tight alignment between sales and marketing. As Joe Pulizzi recently exclaimed, “ Yes, We’re All Media Companies. What Now? ”

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Marketing Insider Group

DECEMBER 5, 2013

According to BtoB Magazine “Content Marketing” is one of the top priorities for marketing in 2014. And then in January 2011, a sharp increase began that shows content marketing is now 5 times more important to brands than ever before. Will you make 2014 the year of content marketing at your company? Don’t believe me?

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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? According to MarketingSherpa’s 2011 B2B Marketing Benchmark Report , the number one issue for B2B Marketers for 2 years running is generating quality leads.

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Marketing Insider Group

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

I mean we are all after the same goals for our companies: revenue, profit, happy customers. 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. So our company had to develop margin thresholds. 16th, 2011.

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Marketing Insider Group

SEPTEMBER 2, 2010

It not just driving revenues for the company, 44% of marketers said their own compensation was tied to sales. 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. This one has a puzzling contradiction (see #3).

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Marketing Insider Group

SEPTEMBER 2, 2010

It not just driving revenues for the company, 44% of marketers said their own compensation was tied to sales. 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. This one has a puzzling contradiction (see #3).

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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. Here are two examples of two mid-sized industrial companies that use e-commerce. Annual Sales: $1.5+

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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). Dreamforce 2011 Heralds the “Social Enterprise”™. Has your company?”. 71 percent of U.S. That is excellent question.

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Paul Gillin

JANUARY 24, 2013

Customers are taking their complaints about companies and products to the Internet in record numbers, and a new book tells what is driving this trend and how businesses can avoid being victims of customer attacks. Recent research has shown that 70% of large companies have experienced an attack on their reputations during last two years.“Decision-makers

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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.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

AUGUST 13, 2012

In fact, according to BtoB Magazine*, event marketing accounts for one fifth of the marketing budget. State of Event Marketing, July 2011). There are basically three main reasons why companies do events: To Generate Leads. We gave away concert style “Revenue Rockstar” t-shirts.

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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.

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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. Keyword research, meta-tagging and onsite SEO is exacting and exhausting, and even if the work is farmed out, the company still needs a sharp liaison.

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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. CIO Priorities for 2011 Indicate Continued Frugaln.

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Marketing Insider Group

AUGUST 10, 2010

You know that Social Media is Not a Strategy where the author comments: it’s not that companies tweet or post photos to flickr that is behind their success; it’s the fact that these efforts further their overall strategy of content creation, customer acquisition, and product positioning. Augmented Reality For B2B Marketing in 2011?"

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Marketing Insider Group

AUGUST 10, 2010

You know that Social Media is Not a Strategy where the author comments: it’s not that companies tweet or post photos to flickr that is behind their success; it’s the fact that these efforts further their overall strategy of content creation, customer acquisition, and product positioning. Augmented Reality For B2B Marketing in 2011?"

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The ROI Guy

JANUARY 10, 2011

Monday, January 10, 2011 Let the Good Times Roll? The 2011 Trends Looking forward, TechTargets recent 2011 IT Priorities Survey (2,300 respondents) points to a continued increase in IT spending to 2.8% over 2010 levels, anemic growth rates compared to the 5-7% annual growth that could be expected in a good year.

Enterprise Management 40

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The ROI Guy

JANUARY 25, 2011

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. CIO Priorities for 2011 Indicate Continued Frugaln.

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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. CIO Priorities for 2011 Indicate Continued Frugaln.

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The ROI Guy

MAY 6, 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. CIO Priorities for 2011 Indicate Continued Frugaln.

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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. Tom then served Gartner as a Managing VP.

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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. " So where does this leave traditional sales training companies.?

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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. CIO Priorities for 2011 Indicate Continued Frugaln.

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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. CIO Priorities for 2011 Indicate Continued Frugaln.

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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. CIO Priorities for 2011 Indicate Continued Frugaln.

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The ROI Guy

NOVEMBER 8, 2006

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. CIO Priorities for 2011 Indicate Continued Frugaln.

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The ROI Guy

SEPTEMBER 4, 2007

As companies worldwide become more environmentally conscious, carbon emissions costs supersede the annual power costs as a growing data center issue. Post Gartner, Tom was responsible for launching and maturing several innovative companies including FullArmor, Connotate Technologies, DigitalOwl, OurBeginning.com and PuertaBella.com.

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The ROI Guy

NOVEMBER 8, 2006

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. CIO Priorities for 2011 Indicate Continued Frugaln.

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The ROI Guy

DECEMBER 14, 2005

As computing infrastructure has moved towards commoditization it still needs to provide a solid infrastructure of service and performance in order for the company to achieve higher goals. Alinean recognized by BtoB Magazine’s as one of To. CIO Priorities for 2011 Indicate Continued Frugaln. Not exactly.

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Webbiquity

JANUARY 19, 2011

But fundamentally, 1) there are now far more online venues than just your website or blog where you and/or your company be found (social media pages and profiles, articles, videos, etc.), Social Media Affecting BtoB Buying Behavior by The Proactive Report. It can happen—negative commentary about you or your company gets posted online.

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The ROI Guy

JULY 22, 2010

SHORETEL TCO TOOL: SUMMARY OF KEY FEATURES Many companies have realized that complexity is now one of the most significant drivers of cost in their business. Post Gartner, Tom was responsible for launching and maturing several innovative companies including FullArmor, Connotate Technologies, DigitalOwl, OurBeginning.com and PuertaBella.com.

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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. Sales in most companies is an individual sport with clear leaders and also-rans.

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