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Q&A with Kasper Skou, CEO and Co-Founder of Semasio

ClickZ

A brand exercising true data-driven differentiation is intelligently absorbing, processing, synthesizing and acting on data to achieve a sophisticated understanding of itself and its environment, thus enabling it not only to adapt to but also change itself and its environment in ways which are advantageous to it.

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Alinean Challenges Frugalnomics to Drive Record 2012 Q1 Performance

The ROI Guy

Alinean interactive value selling and marketing tools help B2B sales professionals and prospects fight Frugalnomics, by provoking prospects to take action, tallying the “cost of doing nothing” and cost-justifying proposed solutions. and “Why the Proposed Solution?”

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50+ Statistics Designed to Influence B2B Marketing Budgets in the New Year

KoMarketing Associates

Hopefully, the performance metrics associated with your organization’s marketing programs have yielded success and validation for tactics proposed at the beginning of the year. For the proposing new tactics and ideas, it is critical to have resources on hand in the investigative process and to provide support in development.

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Sales and Marketing Alignment in 2013? Not so Fast!

The ROI Guy

The result: More competitive losses, as Buyers don’t properly frame your differentiating value and commoditize the offerings, Longer decision cycles as Buyers struggle to properly understand the “cost of doing nothing” and value of change, More discounting, as purchase price becomes the key differentiator.

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Are ROI Calculators Dead? Not so Fast.

The ROI Guy

According to IDC’s annual 2012 Buyer Experience Study published in November it was not Product Information, Peer/Customer References, Industry Trends, Competitive Comparisons and Case Studies, but by a large margin, Financial Justification / ROI. First, the demand for financial justification has never been higher. Solution Agnostic?

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B2B Buyers: It’s all about the Benjamins

The ROI Guy

Sales and marketing a higher-priced supplier requires proactive transparency, differentiating the higher initial price versus a superior solution with lower costs over the useful lifecycle, more business value / bottom-line benefits, and / or lower risks.

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Happy New Year! Maybe not for IT Sales & Marketing

The ROI Guy

The New Year’s cheer didn’t last long for IT, as Gartner was quick to lower its global technology spending forecast, barely a week into 2012. Looking beyond 2012, Gartner also estimates continued headwinds, lowering future forecasts for 2015 downwards to 5% growth from earlier 5.4% growth forecasts. predictions.