DAGMAR Marketing

MARCH 12, 2024

Every year, HubSpot releases a State of Marketing Report, which shares several helpful new industry trends and insights to help your business thrive all year. Since Google still rewards original, quality content, this approach can help you stay ahead of the game this year. Personalization is key.

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The ROI Guy

APRIL 14, 2015

Gartner has revised worldwide IT spending down for 2015, predicting a 1.3% This latest estimate comes on the heels of Gartner RAISING forecasts to kickoff the New Year, expecting a 2.4% This latest estimate comes on the heels of Gartner RAISING forecasts to kickoff the New Year, expecting a 2.4% YoY decline from 2014.

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Gartner Forecasting Planning Marketing Proposals 40

The ROI Guy

JULY 15, 2015

Gartner recently published their latest worldwide IT spending forecasts with a sharp downward revision, now projecting a 5.5% This latest estimate from Gartner is a further downward revision of the overly optimistic forecast published to kickoff the New Year, where Gartner was anticipating a 2.4% YoY decline from 2014 levels.

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Gartner Spending Effectiveness Marketing Proposals 40

The ROI Guy

NOVEMBER 10, 2014

According to Gartner, worldwide IT spending growth has been revised upwards to 2.6% This is good news, and is the first time in three years that Gartner is revising its growth predictions up versus down mid-year. Although the current forecast is lower than the original 3.2% Although the current forecast is lower than the original 3.2%

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The ROI Guy

APRIL 8, 2014

According to Gartner, worldwide IT spending is on pace to reach $3.8 Although the forecast predicts healthy growth for 2014, these same Gartner forecasts have been overly optimistic the past two years. Examining their 2013 predictions, Gartner indicated IT spending would grow 4.2% trillion in 2014, a 3.2% for the year.

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Gartner Forecasting Spending Marketing Proposals 40

The ROI Guy

JULY 9, 2013

To kick off 2013, Gartner predicted that the reigns on worldwide IT spending would loosen, forecasting an increase of 4.2% Sure enough, Gartner has had to once again lower expectations , cutting in half their earlier growth estimates, now predicting only a 2% rise. Sometimes you don’t want to be right, and this is one of those times.

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The ROI Guy

JANUARY 16, 2014

According to Gartner, the annual release of their New Year’s spending forecast predicts global IT spending growth of 3.1% Examining their 2013 predictions, Gartner indicated IT spending would rise 4.2% We don’t buy it, and believe that Gartner has missed a major sea change in IT spending and decision-making in their forecasts.

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Gartner Forecasting Spending Marketing Proposals 40

Martech

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Processing. Its ROI is an impressive $36 for every $1 spent , which outperforms virtually any other digital channel. But its Prime membership program sets the ecommerce benchmark for establishing and maintaining relationships with consumers. Processing. Get MarTech! In your inbox. B2C digital marketing strategies.

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Digital Asset Management Work Management Marketing Management Digital Experience Platform 112

The ROI Guy

APRIL 5, 2018

Be First to Add Value First, since a large part of the software buying efforts are not planned, it is vital to proactively engage with buyers to help them diagnose issues, prioritize challenges and budgets, and collaboratively set the buying requirements. This means helping the buyer clarify the priority of known challenges.

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Budget Programs Allocation Software Buy 45

nDash

MAY 26, 2022

For example, Gartner’s research reveals that 44% of millennials prefer not to work with sales reps in the B2B space – suggesting that there are swift moves toward digital channels and away from in-person interactions. Improve ROI. No one can know “for sure” how customer behaviors OR technologies could change.

Work Management 52

Work Management Marketing Management Marketing Automation Services B2B Marketing 52

The ROI Guy

JANUARY 8, 2013

Gartner highlights that “business uncertainty is nearing resolution”, and that this is one of the key reasons for increasing their spending outlook. But is Gartner being overly optimistic? First, Gartner’s latest outlook mirrors similar rosy predictions from analysts at the beginning of the past three years.

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Gartner Spending Marketing Proposals Terms and Conditions 40

The ROI Guy

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

Gartner's latest CIO study, "Reimagining IT: The 2011 CIO Agenda" highlights several important trends that will have significant impact on technology marketing and sales enablement into 2011 and beyond. According to Gartner, this requires CIOs re-imagine IT and lead it through a process of “creative destruction.

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Valasys

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

According to the ITSMA survey, almost 85% of marketers measuring ROI say that ABM outperforms other marketing investments. A report from Google on display ad benchmarks shows that targeted campaigns underperform, having a mediocre click-through rate of 0.09%. Precise targeting can increase your marketing ROI.

Advertisements 59

Advertisements Advertising Account Based Marketing B2B 59

Valasys

JANUARY 13, 2020

According to new research from Gartner on B2B marketing strategies, in spite of the proliferation of digital access, 77% of B2B buyers feel that making a purchase is time-consuming as well as painful. 2) Understanding how your B2B marketing Strategies can help Modern Buyers: The modern B2B buyers are largely millennials.

Account Based Marketing 59

Account Based Marketing B2B Marketing Marketing Management Marketing & Strategy 59

The ROI Guy

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

Did you know … 67% of the buyer’s journey is done digitally, making your content more important than ever in facilitating buyer decision making (Gartner) 83% of buyers remain overwhelmed by the amount of content available, wanting quality personalized content over quantity. It’s clear. At this phase, you can provide.

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Customer Experience Matrix

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

A client asked yesterday if I had some benchmark information to justify the cost of her marketing automation project. It includes five pages of properly sourced industry statistics from Aberdeen , Forrester , Gartner and SiriusDecisions. Summary: So you want some hard numbers to prove the value of marketing automation? Here's a bunch.

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Lead Ranking Marketing Automation Marketing Qualified Leads 120

Allocadia

APRIL 28, 2020

65% of CMOs and marketing leaders are bracing for moderate to significant budget cuts according to Gartner. COVID-19 and the ensuing global economic crisis exposed deeply buried (and some not so deep) issues within marketing budgets and processes. We’re always thinking about ROI, we can’t help it – it’s who we are as marketers.

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Resource Management Marketing Budget Tips Budget Programs 52

The Lead Agency

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

By using AI technologies, marketers can automate their marketing processes and generate more data-led intelligence to inform their overall strategies. Gartner predicts that 75% of B2B sales organisations will use both AI and traditional sales solutions by 2025.

Work Management 62

Work Management Trends B2B Marketing Marketing Management 62

Biznology

DECEMBER 22, 2014

98% of sales reps with 5000+ LinkedIn connections achieve quota (source: Sales Benchmark Index ). 89% of customers begin their buying process with a search engine (source: Fleishman-Hillard ). 75% of customers say they use social media as part of the buying process (source: IBM ). SOCIAL SELLING. And that’s now.

Cold Calling 80

Cold Calling Peer-to-peer Search Engine Marketing Advertising Benchmark 80

SnapApp

JULY 2, 2019

B2B marketers rely heavily on marketing technologies to help streamline their daily workflows, improve productivity, and simplify complex tasks. The complexity of building a comprehensive martech stack without guaranteed ROI can quickly lead to martech burnout, if you’re not certain about which tools you really need.

Budget Programs 54

Budget Programs Tools Marketing Budget B2B Thought Leadership 54

Ambal's Amusings

OCTOBER 15, 2009

Read these interesting blog posts on B2B marketing ROI: Kevin Joyce's Untangling B2B Marketing Campaigns ROI , Jon Miller's Improving B2B Marketing ROI: Thought Leadership With Merry Elrick , Tom Scearce's Three metrics that are more useful than Cost per Lead. B2B Lead Generation Benchmark Study 2009. MarketingSherpa.

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ROI B2B Marketing Paid Search Agency Planning 100

The ROI Guy

DECEMBER 6, 2010

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. The Death of a Salesman?

Work Management 40

Work Management Marketing Management ROI Marketing Automation Services 40

The ROI Guy

OCTOBER 22, 2010

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.

Work Management 40

Work Management Marketing Management ROI Marketing Budget 40

Valasys

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

Marketers need to define the customer experience indexes for their brands so that they can evaluate the standards of their customer experience quality & can also competitively benchmark them. CXM is a goal equally important to marketers as the sales endeavors & runs simultaneously to the sales cycle optimization process.

Enterprise Management 49

Enterprise Management Marketing Management Marketing AI B2B Marketing 49

The ROI Guy

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

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. Content is King? Content may indeed be king.

Work Management 40

Work Management ROI Marketing Management Marketing Budget 40

Valasys

APRIL 15, 2020

Your prospects might often not be in the immediate mood to buy; however, with the help of effective lead nurturing strategies you can effectively the prospects down the sales funnel. Read more on How to Assimilate Competitive Benchmarking in Social Media. Read more on How to Build Customer Loyalty with Content Marketing.

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Lead Nurturing Lead Scoring Lead Ranking Sales Qualified Leads 59

Valasys

JULY 12, 2019

A new study from marketing research firm Gartner revealed that despite the proliferation of digitization, 77% of B2B buyers still are under an impression that making a purchase is time-consuming & even painful. Is Elimination Possible – The first step in the thought process is whether an idea is really worth investing in?

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Cost ROMI Optimization B2B Marketing 40

SnapApp

MAY 29, 2018

No matter which way you skin it, an efficient sales process is what fuels the high-growth B2B companies. This is why companies obsess over building and optimizing large sales teams and processes. Content saturation and more educated buyers aren’t the only things making the sales process more difficult to manage.

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Sales Qualified Leads Lead Ranking High Quality Lead Top of Funnel 103

The ROI Guy

OCTOBER 31, 2011

Gartner says CIOs are spending too much time with vendors - laying down gauntlet to vendor sales to add more value, or get lost. Gartner thinks CIOs are spending too much of their precious time with vendors, and advises to significantly curtail this activity. of total IT time is spent on vendor management and procurement.

Allocation 40

Allocation Marketing Management Gartner Marketing Proposals 40

Directive Agency

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

According to Gartner , most marketers (81%) will compete solely based on customer experience differences. In this section, we will go over the best customer experience metrics and help you understand which ones you should use in your business: . Provide an easy onboarding process. 12 Best Customer Experience Metrics .

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Churn Rate Lead Ranking Lead Scoring Customer Satisfaction 72

The ROI Guy

JANUARY 6, 2012

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. growth forecasts. predictions.

Work Management 40

Work Management Marketing Management Gartner Forecasting 40

Ambal's Amusings

JANUARY 21, 2010

Her company Marketing Interactions helps companies with complex sales and quantify marketing effectiveness by using interactive e-marketing strategies driven by compelling content. If marketers want to overcome this roadblock, they need to create programs to match their prospects’ needs at every stage of the buying process.

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Sales Qualified Leads Lead Scoring Lead Ranking Marketing Leads 100

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JANUARY 20, 2017

To kick off an ABM strategy to support new customer acquisition, you should identify companies that use the specific marketing automation software and also meet other benchmarks that define your ideal customer profile (revenue, number of employees in a particular department, etc.). Engage All Key Decision-Makers in an Account.

Account Based Marketing 48

Account Based Marketing Budget Programs Marketing Automation Services Ideal Customer Profiles 48

Marketing Insider Group

JANUARY 24, 2013

Marketing automation, social campaigns, inbound marketing, sales apps, ROI reporting – all in one place. A curated production process + a fully-vetted community of creative pros = outstanding and affordable video content. TonyZambito – TonyZambito – Executive Consultant, Sales Benchmark Index.

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The ROI Guy

APRIL 18, 2018

Solution providers can address this continued IT Innovation Dilemma, positioning solutions to help overcome this continued challenge, and quantifying the value delivered. This means proving how your solution can help lower costs, free resources, and deliver innovation on a budget. Source: Connectivity Benchmark Report 2018 - [link].

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Allocation Digital Transformation Budget Programs Cost 45

Ambal's Amusings

DECEMBER 17, 2009

Mapping Content to the Buying Process - Slidecast. B2B Lead Generation Benchmark Study 2009. Keeping a Closer Eye on Content ROI – CMO Council. Her company Marketing Interactions helps companies with complex sales and quantify marketing effectiveness by using interactive e-marketing strategies driven by compelling content.

Marketing Automation Services 100

Marketing Automation Services Work Management Marketing Management B2B Thought Leadership 100

Content Standard

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

It also just goes to show the critical role that context plays in whether or not brands come off as helpful or creepy. According to Gartner , more than half of consumers will unsubscribe and over a third (38%) will stop doing business with the brand altogether if a personalized message is perceived to be “creepy.”

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