The ROI Guy

JANUARY 10, 2011

IT Spending on the Rise, But Executives Remain Economic-Focused A recent IT spending survey from Forrester confirms that 2010 remained a tough year for IT. As could be expected, Forrester indicates that the majority of 2010 IT spending went to support existing operations – essentially “keeping the lights on&#.

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Marketing Insider Group

SEPTEMBER 2, 2010

Now I’m not sure most B2B marketers truly consider lead generation as their primary focus but I do agree that we B2B Marketers spend considerable amounts of time and money on tracking and measuring lead generation metrics. Follow Me: Twitter LinkedIn Facebook Recent Tweets Have any B2B examples?

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Marketing Insider Group

SEPTEMBER 2, 2010

Now I’m not sure most B2B marketers truly consider lead generation as their primary focus but I do agree that we B2B Marketers spend considerable amounts of time and money on tracking and measuring lead generation metrics. Follow Me: Twitter LinkedIn Facebook Recent Tweets Have any B2B examples?

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

FEBRUARY 9, 2012

Relatedly, many B2B companies have believed that the social media phenomenon is mainly about networking and sharing likes and photos with friends on sites like Facebook – not about driving inbound interest and improving demand generation. For example, think about Facebook’s IPO and its potential $100-billion valuation.

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MLT Creative

MARCH 2, 2012

Well, according to Cliff Langston, marketing often spends an unfair amount of time reminding everyone in operations, finance and sales exactly what marketing does. The clock is ticking on Facebook Timeline for B2B marketers. The day-to-day operation gets the product out the door. Finance pays the bills. Sales bring in new business.

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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. As CMOs seek to optimize their spending, doing more with less, it is important to learn which channels reveal the greatest payback. Latest Research.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

AUGUST 30, 2011

web users have Facebook accounts (Source iStrategy Labs). Some 43 percent of users will “like” a brand on Facebook, and there is at least a 17 percent likelihood of purchase (Source: MarketingProfs). 71 percent of U.S. This is about finding the ideas that change organizations and products.”.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 7, 2010

Organizations are spending considerable amounts of time and money on tracking and measuring lead generation metrics. The recently released B2B Marketing Skills Survey jointly done by Genius and BtoB Magazine reveals some new trends and contradicts certain popular beliefs.

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Marketing Insider Group

AUGUST 10, 2010

This is IMC 101 but as you pointed out we often witness BtoBs illustrating “wasted effort, tactical thinking and reactionary measures.&# They spend too much time thinking about what should be in the plan rather than writing/building the plan itself. Follow Me: Twitter LinkedIn Facebook Recent Tweets Have any B2B examples?

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Marketing Insider Group

AUGUST 10, 2010

This is IMC 101 but as you pointed out we often witness BtoBs illustrating “wasted effort, tactical thinking and reactionary measures.&# They spend too much time thinking about what should be in the plan rather than writing/building the plan itself. Follow Me: Twitter LinkedIn Facebook Recent Tweets Have any B2B examples?

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

DECEMBER 3, 2009

ckburgess : Hotel websites are built around product |so are most BtoB websites | build around buyer personas instead. Genius_com : Some stats: 72% of marketers have used social media for 6 months or more & 64% spend 5+ hours a week. (Here is my cool paper on B2B Mobile Email Marketing ). Think big, start small, move quickly!

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The ROI Guy

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

Share to Twitter Share to Facebook Share to Google Buzz Labels: Alinean , Pisello , ROI Calculator , social media hierarchy of needs , Social Media ROI 0comments: Post a Comment Newer Post Older Post Home Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom) Search This Blog Loading. Alinean recognized by BtoB Magazine’s as one of To.

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The ROI Guy

DECEMBER 9, 2010

Spending on IT cloud services will triple in the next 5 years, reaching $42 billion and capturing 25% of IT spending growth in 2012." - IDC Much of the adoption is driven by the promise of what cloud can do to help transform IT services and drive important cap-ex and op-ex cost savings. Latest Research. Let the Good Times Roll?

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The ROI Guy

JANUARY 20, 2011

Share to Twitter Share to Facebook Share to Google Buzz Labels: Alinean , Demand Generation , EMC , Pisello , TCO Calculator 0comments: Post a Comment Newer Post Older Post Home Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom) Search This Blog Loading. Alinean recognized by BtoB Magazine’s as one of To. Latest Research. Powered by Blogger.

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The ROI Guy

DECEMBER 23, 2010

Share to Twitter Share to Facebook Share to Google Buzz Labels: Alinean , CIO Insight , Frugalnomics , IT Budgets , Pisello 0comments: Post a Comment Newer Post Older Post Home Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom) Search This Blog Loading. Alinean recognized by BtoB Magazine’s as one of To. Latest Research. Let the Good Times Roll?

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The ROI Guy

JULY 15, 2009

Share to Twitter Share to Facebook Share to Google Buzz 0comments: Post a Comment Newer Post Older Post Home Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom) Search This Blog Loading. Alinean recognized by BtoB Magazine’s as one of To. ► November (8) Five Reasons You May Not Be Spending Enough on Con. Latest Research.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

DECEMBER 6, 2009

For the next post in our series of B2B marketing thought leader interviews , we interviewed Matthew Schwartz, an independent journalist with more than 20 years’ experience working in the media, who is currently a contributing a writer at Crain’s BtoB and BtoB’s Media Business magazines.

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Hubspot

JANUARY 19, 2011

Social media can also be a very helpful tool in the sales process when Sales is following up with leads and opportunities, especially considering the fact that, SiriusDecisions projects that by 2015, 71% of initial BtoB inquiries will be web-driven, and "a sound social media strategy is key to driving this inbound interest.".

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The ROI Guy

MAY 6, 2010

Share to Twitter Share to Facebook Share to Google Buzz 0comments: Post a Comment Newer Post Older Post Home Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom) Search This Blog Loading. Alinean recognized by BtoB Magazine’s as one of To. ► November (8) Five Reasons You May Not Be Spending Enough on Con. Latest Research.

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Hubspot

NOVEMBER 25, 2011

And a good chunk of B2B marketers are on top of this: According to BtoB Magazine , 48.9% If someone is following your brand on Facebook, it’s probably to see what valuable content and offers you can offer them. Create special offers for Twitter followers that are different from your offers to your Facebook fans.

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The ROI Guy

FEBRUARY 4, 2009

Share to Twitter Share to Facebook Share to Google Buzz Labels: Information technology , IT , ROI , Server Virtualization , TCO , Virtual Desktop , VMware 0comments: Post a Comment Newer Post Older Post Home Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom) Search This Blog Loading. Alinean recognized by BtoB Magazine’s as one of To.

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The ROI Guy

FEBRUARY 4, 2009

Cold, hard decisions are being made on where to trim personnel, hardware and software spending. Never has cost-analysis been so critical for technology users to justify spending and for technology providers to prove the business case in order to assure that the proposed solutions are a priority and make the budget cut.

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The ROI Guy

JANUARY 25, 2011

Alinean recognized by BtoB Magazine’s as one of To. IT Spending on the Rise, Sales Enablement and The Economic-Buyer ► 2010 (118) ► December (5) Social Media Hierarchy of Needs - Best Practices f. ► November (8) Five Reasons You May Not Be Spending Enough on Con. Latest Research. Let the Good Times Roll?

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The ROI Guy

OCTOBER 22, 2010

Going overboard on humorous content, or spending a ton on creative to create edgy / cool programs may not have the desired impact, and fall flat with the serious business of technology buyers. Advice - Marketers should focus more spending on communicating the value of solutions, and less on brand development and buiding.

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The ROI Guy

JANUARY 17, 2011

Share to Twitter Share to Facebook Share to Google Buzz Labels: Alinean , Executive Assessment Tools , Frugalnomics , Pisello , ROI Calculator , TCO Calculator , Value Marketing , Value Selling 3comments: Jeff Ogden said. Alinean recognized by BtoB Magazine’s as one of To. Provocation-Based Selling: Loosening the Status-Qu.

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The ROI Guy

DECEMBER 6, 2010

Share to Twitter Share to Facebook Share to Google Buzz Labels: Alinean , B2b marketing , Frugalnomics , IDC , Pisello , SiriusDecisions , Value Marketing , Value Selling 0comments: Post a Comment Newer Post Older Post Home Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom) Search This Blog Loading. Alinean recognized by BtoB Magazine’s as one of To.

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The ROI Guy

FEBRUARY 4, 2009

Share to Twitter Share to Facebook Share to Google Buzz Labels: Microsoft , ROI , Server Virtualization , TCO 0comments: Post a Comment Newer Post Older Post Home Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom) Search This Blog Loading. Alinean recognized by BtoB Magazine’s as one of To. Provocation-Based Selling: Loosening the Status-Qu.

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The ROI Guy

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

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. Content is King?

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The ROI Guy

NOVEMBER 8, 2006

Share to Twitter Share to Facebook Share to Google Buzz 0comments: Post a Comment Newer Post Older Post Home Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom) Search This Blog Loading. Alinean recognized by BtoB Magazine’s as one of To. ► November (8) Five Reasons You May Not Be Spending Enough on Con. Latest Research.

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The ROI Guy

SEPTEMBER 4, 2007

To help address the lack of innovation spending, server virtualization is being considered and implemented in data centers as one means to drive “keeping the lights on&# costs lower, so as to provide more budget to innovation. for each $1 in server capital spending, increasing to $0.70 by 2010 [2]. Latest Research.

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The ROI Guy

NOVEMBER 8, 2006

Since labor costs and equivalent outsourced services dominate most IT budgets -- over 56% of IT spending on average -- selecting platforms with lower implementation and ongoing management costs can significantly improve overall IT efficiency. Alinean recognized by BtoB Magazine’s as one of To. Latest Research.

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ViewPoint

MAY 2, 2012

He is a regular contributor to BtoB Magazine and was founding editor of TechTarget and editor-in-chief of Computerworld. ” Marketers are making major financial commitments to grow their presence in social media as digital media closes in on traditional media as the largest source of funds in B2B spending. “So focus.

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Webbiquity

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

According to recent research , 92% of marketers consider email to be one of their “most important marketing tools” and 54% plan increased spending on it in the coming year. Email marketing remains one of the top spending priorities for online, after search and display advertising. by BtoB Magazine. Share this on Facebook.

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The ROI Guy

DECEMBER 14, 2005

As a result, Mr. Carr asserts that most IT spending be minimized based on the lack of bottom-line impact which can ultimately be derived from such investments. Following such generalized advice can lead to spending misallocation and competitive disaster.

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Paul Gillin

MARCH 24, 2011

I’ve spent some time over the last week judging the finalists in BtoB magazine’s annual social media awards. Blogs may be declining in importance in the consumer realm as Facebook and Twitter grow in popularity, but they are still the most valued social platforms for B2B marketers as evidenced by recent research (see p.

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B2B Marketing Zone Posts

JUNE 9, 2010

How Facebook’s privacy disasters will change B2B marketing - Chris Koch , May 21, 2010 Have you ever noticed that your Facebook profile page looks like one of those horrible qualification forms that we make our customers fill out? Can you trust Facebook? Facebook (122). come at a price. One person is. May 4, 2010.

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The ROI Guy

JULY 22, 2010

Share to Twitter Share to Facebook Share to Google Buzz Labels: Alinean , IP Telephony ROI , IP Telephony TCO , Pisello , ShoreTel , UC ROI , UC TCO 0comments: Post a Comment Newer Post Older Post Home Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom) Search This Blog Loading. Alinean recognized by BtoB Magazine’s as one of To. Latest Research.

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