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7 Strategies for Using Content to Market Industrial Products

Industrial Marketing Today

BTW, it recently won BtoB Magazine’s BtoB Social Media Awards 2010 in the blog category. I’d like to produce research with some metrics but that too costs quite a bit, especially from someone reputable like Forrester. Do you have any strategies for this? Try polls and surveys to gather data.

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Tom Pisello: The ROI Guy: Microsoft Virtualization with Hyper-V.

The ROI Guy

What we did do is model the licensing and implementation cost advantage claims independently, comparing typical environments and using list price for all competitive licenses and Open pricing for Microsoft (available to most organizations). Do these features yield cost savings that make the purchase price savings moot?

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Tom Pisello: The ROI Guy: Value Selling Tools and the Buying Lifecycle

The ROI Guy

But up-front purchase price isn’t everything. Alinean recognized by BtoB Magazine’s as one of To. Frugalnomics in Full Effect: Forrester and Gartner. Forrester: Understand and Drive Outcomes for Sales. Provocation-Based Selling: Loosening the Status-Qu. Accelerate Slow Sales Cycles with More Sales Enabl.

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

The ROI Guy

The consumer is now in charge: researching specifications, configuring and customizing solutions, getting peer reviews and advice, comparing prices, and “buying now&#. Alinean recognized by BtoB Magazine’s as one of To. Frugalnomics in Full Effect: Forrester and Gartner. They do if they are. Is Marketing Too Busy?

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Tom Pisello: The ROI Guy: The Business Value of Server Virtualization

The ROI Guy

Alinean recognized by BtoB Magazine’s as one of To. Frugalnomics in Full Effect: Forrester and Gartner. Forrester: Understand and Drive Outcomes for Sales. Consolidate to 7 x 4 CPU virtualized servers (net 93 server savings), a 14.3 to 1 consolidation ratio. Deliver $575,000+ in average net TCO savings per year 3.

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Tom Pisello: The ROI Guy: The IT Hierarchy of Needs: Categorizing.

The ROI Guy

Indeed, if one examines basic IT infrastructure like servers, storage and basic applications such as e-mail, Mr. Carr’s assertions are completely correct - that indeed most infrastructure solutions have become commodities with uniform products, standardization and little pricing power for the IT solution providers. They do if they are.

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Numeric Scoring: The Key To Lead Management Success

Online Marketing Institute

Home Forrester Research « We’re renaming the blog | Main | New networks in the news » April 16, 2008 Numeric Scoring: The Key To Lead Management Success [Posted by Laura Ramos ] Recently I saw a preview of Eloqua’s spring release and it got me thinking about the role lead scoring plays in determining campaign effectiveness.