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Tom Pisello: The ROI Guy: IDC: Economic Buyers, Digital Overload.

The ROI Guy

When we look at marketing budgets however, we find that marketing spending is not aligned in most cases with this financial decision making criteria. Most organizations continue to spend much more on branding and relationship management versus value-based sales and marketing initiatives.

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Technology Sales & Marketing - Party Like its 1999?

The ROI Guy

Our partner IDC's CMO Advisory Practice projects that the global marketing budgets of IT vendors will increase by 7% on average in 2006. [1] 1] This is the greatest year-on-year increase in spending in five years. How is IT spending changing for small and medium enterprises?

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Best Social Media Stats, Facts and Marketing Research of 2010

Webbiquity

You’ll learn from this fascinating infographic that Forrester Research estimates that $716 million was spent on social media marketing in 2010, and the figure will reach $3.1 Study: Social Media Affects SMB Purchasing Decisions by HubSpot Blog. According to IDC, “tech companies will allocate 19.3%