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Social media ROI sucks! (Or, you can prove anything if you send out a survey)

ViewPoint

Social distribution of content and messages isn’t considered all that effective in providing business value to companies, according to a recent analysis by Forrester Research. In last place: Facebook, whose problem (according to Forrester VP and principal analyst Nate Elliott) is poor targeting and static-image ad units.

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38 Handy Stats to Prove the Value of Personas

Cintell

We need ROI. Using Personas increases email open rate 2-5 times (Forrester). Without personas, organizations waste $ on irrelevant content: On average, 60-70% of b-to-b content goes unused, representing hundreds of thousands if not millions of dollars wasted (SiriusDecisions). But empathy is hard to put a dollar value to.

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Tom Pisello: The ROI Guy: Predictions for 2011: The End of B2B.

The ROI Guy

Tom Pisello: The ROI Guy This blog is dedicated to the strategies and tools used by solution providers to better prove and improve the value of B2B solutions to frugal buyers - using diagnostic assessments, interactive white papers, ROI calculators and TCO comparisons. Updated Alinean Social Media ROI Calculator - New.

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B2B spending on interactive marketing will double by 2014

The ROI Guy

According to a report released Thursday by Forrester Research, B2B interactive spending is expected to double by 2014, reaching an anticipated $4.8B,from from 2009's $2.3B Reference: [link].

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Death of the B2B Sales Rep? An Interview with the Sales Enablement Lab

The ROI Guy

Forrester reports that this shift to digital buying is real, and as a result, there will be a 22% decline in the number of B2B sales reps over the next 5 years. Andy Hoar, Principal Analyst at Forrester , reported these findings at their last Sales Enablement conference and Thierry, you and I were both there.

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Sales Enablement Effectiveness?

The ROI Guy

According to Forrester, companies are spending worldwide, on average, 19% of their SG&A costs, some $135,262 per quota-carrying salesperson, in sales support-related activities. Sources: 1) SiriusDecisions B-to-B Buyer's Survey 2010 2) New Realities about B2B Buying, Jeff Ogden, SandHill.com Blog, Jun. April 2009.

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Five Reasons You May Not Be Spending Enough on Content Marketing

The ROI Guy

Analysts such as Forrester and Gartner are highlighting “consumerization” of business as a key trend for the next several years, and B2B marketing is one area that will face the ‘consumerization” change, making content marketing and interactive decision support tools more important than ever before. Death of a Salesman?