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The Danger of Email Marketing Benchmarks « The Effective Marketer

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The Effective Marketer Effectiveness is a discipline and it can be learned Home About the Effective Marketer Books Speaking The Danger of Email Marketing Benchmarks A recent article from BtoB Online about email deliverability reminded me of how dangerous this whole thing of email marketing deliverability numbers can be.

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Tom Pisello: The ROI Guy: Alinean Powers Eight More B2B Assessment.

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Assessment tools enable vendors to engage with customers to realize and prioritize issues they may not even know they have, and provide intelligent product/solution roadmaps and recommendations. Alinean recognized by BtoB Magazine’s as one of To. Content Marketing and the Forgotten Sales Professi. Is Marketing Too Busy?

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

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During the B2C Internet revolution many a vendor’s world was turned upside down by failing to recognize and invest in the fundamental shift towards empowering consumers with content and buying tools. The influence of vendors as a trusted source of information lags dramatically, at only 8.1% this year, an increase from 3.1%

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

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Thursday, November 04, 2010 IDC: Economic Buyers, Digital Overload and Sales Enablement Define Marketing for 2011 I just had the pleasure of presenting a webinar with Randy Perry, VP Business Value at IDC. In this blog post, I present a few of the key research metrics and advice. Content may indeed be king.

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Tom Pisello: The ROI Guy: Diametrically Opposed Forces: Selling.

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Buyers, Fueled by the Internet, Firmly in Control With a wealth of information from vendors, analysts and peers, buyers are doing more research on-line. Engaging earlier requires that sellers have the skills, processes and tools to “earn the right&# to present earlier, and deliver unique value during the dialogue.

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Tom Pisello: The ROI Guy: Let the Good Times Roll? IT Spending on.

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For the IT buyer, business benefit assessments (34%) and financial assessments (26%) were both highly important to making a purchase decision, greatly exceeding, by more than 2x, the vendor relationship (14%) as a decision driver. Alinean recognized by BtoB Magazine’s as one of To. How Do You Get Started in Content Marketing?

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Tom Pisello: The ROI Guy: How TCO is a common sense sales and.

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Today, it is a mature, widely accepted practice in both helping buyers analyze ways to reduce costs, and for vendors to make the case for change, or prove competitive advantage. Vendors of technology are competing not only with each other for new spending, but with the entrenched operating costs of the status quo. They do if they are.