The ROI Guy

APRIL 14, 2015

We think there is a more systemic issue in the predictions: a major "sea change" in technology spending and purchase decision-making – one that could put a significant chill in your organizations‘ sales and marketing strategy. Frugalnomics in Effect So what are the real reasons behind the continued slow growth?

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The ROI Guy

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

If you’ve taken a marketing course over the past few decades you were likely schooled on the 4-Ps: Product, Place, Promotion and Price. Developed in the early 60s by the marketer E. As a result, according to research a few years back from Forrester, the 4-Ps of marketing are outdated and in need of a major rethink.

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Integrated B2B

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

While applauding these achievements, however, we also can’t help wondering how much stronger results companies similar to these could achieve if they adopted 10X sales and marketing practices! More systematic in their approach to key markets and accounts? Use of traditional marketing tools and approaches that limit scaleability.

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The ROI Guy

NOVEMBER 10, 2014

Moreover, a major "sea change" has occurred in technology spending and purchase decision-making - with significant implications for your organizations sales and marketing strategy. More importantly, you need to take Frugalnomics into account as you evolve your sales and marketing strategies and investments to meet the challenge.

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The ROI Guy

MARCH 1, 2016

If you’re marketing or selling technology, this decline could have a significant impact, with buyers becoming even more cautious and economic focused. You need to factor Frugalnomics prominently into your sales and marketing strategies and investments. YoY increase from 2015. 2) Central IT is Irrelevant?

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The ROI Guy

JANUARY 16, 2014

Most importantly, you need to take Frugalnomics into account as you evolve your sales and marketing strategies and investments to meet the challenge. So how well does your current content marketing help answer these key decision making questions for your buyers in a compelling and quantified way?

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The ROI Guy

JULY 15, 2015

If you’re marketing or selling technology, this decline could have a significant impact, stiffer competition, and even more headwinds to meeting your ambitious revenue growth goals. You need to factor Frugalnomics prominently into your sales and marketing strategies and investments. YoY decline from 2014 levels.

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Hinge Marketing

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

For AEC firms with government contracts, is your AEC marketing—strategy and implementation—up to the challenge? Good marketing and business development professionals will tell you that it’s about being relevant and demonstrating how an agency’s problems can be solved by firm expertise. Is the firm visible?

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The ROI Guy

JANUARY 8, 2013

As a result, IT Sales and Marketing will again be tasked to deliver incremental revenue regardless of challenging market conditions and despite the historically low spending growth. According to Forrester, less than 12% of sales engagements are focused on customer value. Click here to learn more.

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The ROI Guy

APRIL 8, 2014

Most importantly, you need to take Frugalnomics into account as you evolve your sales and marketing strategies and investments to meet the challenge. So how well does your current content marketing help answer these key decision making questions for your buyers in a compelling and quantified way?

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The ROI Guy

JULY 9, 2013

As such, it is important to recognize that growth will in the near term remain historically low, below the 6% average annual IT spending increases of the last decade, but that your sales and marketing strategy can be adjusted to drive competitive success. Click here to learn more.

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The ROI Guy

MARCH 15, 2011

Skeptical Buyers: Inundated with more carpet-bombing marketing campaigns than ever before, buyers are suffering from information overload, making it difficult, if not impossible, to use legacy strategies to break through the noise to connect and engage with decision makers, and moreover, gain their trust.

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Paul Gillin

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Make Marketing a Service to Customers - I didn’t write down who said this, but the comment stuck with me long after the conference was over. The traditional role of marketing has been to create an image or deliver a message. Marketers need to ask themselves a new question: “How can I help?”. and Twitter.

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Sword and the Script | B2B

JULY 19, 2022

Buyers of B2B software want published pricing: according to a study by McKinsey, 68% want prices published online without negotiation (and other useful B2B marketing statistics). Regular readers know I frequently dive into surveys and studies about B2B marketing, sales and PR. The cost of B2B marketing content. Case in point?

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Sword and the Script | B2B

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Communicators found their influence grew with executives, even as the functions they performed evolved in 2022; PR and marketing alike battled to win trust amid clutter, noise and skepticism. Every year I read and write about dozens of reports on B2B marketing and PR. 66% said conferences (including virtual).

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Vidyard

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

It’s now clear that embracing a digital-first strategy for marketing, sales, and employee engagement is a must for any business. This will be the most important theme for 2021, and video will emerge as one of the most critical elements of these new go-to-market and employee engagement strategies. Contents 1. Embrace Analytics 6.2

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The ROI Guy

JULY 8, 2014

For IT solution providers who may be using these forecasts and were expecting a turnaround in 2014 spending levels, another slower than expected year has significant implications for your organizations'' sales and marketing strategy. Frugalnomics in Effect So what are the real reasons behind the continued slow growth?

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Salesforce Marketing Cloud

JANUARY 11, 2024

About $3 trillion — that’s Forrester’s estimate for B2B sales by 2027, almost double what it was in 2021. Sales and marketing teams identify potential customers, either via ads that attract interested prospects or via outreach based on research (more on that below). Proposal and quote. Lead qualification.

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KoMarketing Associates

MAY 19, 2014

I love these ideas but most importantly enjoy how they integrate much more cohesively with our client’s broader marketing initiatives. With link building still in mind, we need to be more focused on the business of helping others in their own online marketing endeavors. Search Engine Marketing Blog Search Engine Optimization'

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Vidyard

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

It’s now clear that embracing a digital-first strategy for marketing, sales, and employee engagement is a must for any business. This will be the most important theme for 2021, and video will emerge as one of the most critical elements of these new go-to-market and employee engagement strategies. Contents 1. Embrace Analytics 6.2

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chiefmartech

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

In the years that I’ve worked on the marketing technology landscape , I have often been surprised at the end of each iteration by the sheer scale of the thing. I’m experiencing that same sensation of awe now that we’ve launched the agenda for the next MarTech conference in San Francisco, May 9-11. Yes, and yes.

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B2B Digital Marketer

OCTOBER 19, 2020

In this episode of the B2B Digital Marketer Podcast, Raza Imam shares how you can publish your own book using content that you may have already published! Raza Imam is an entrepreneur, author, speaker, and coach with a passion for digital marketing and personal development. 15:53 – What’s overrated in B2B digital marketing.

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Vidyard

MARCH 23, 2021

We’ve compiled the top video marketing statistics that matter to businesses to help you make the best decision for your marketing needs. Video Marketing Statistics 2.1 Video Marketing Strategy 2.2 Video Content Marketing Statistics 2.11 Virtual Conference and Webinar Statistics 3. Video Marketing Strategy 2.2

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Lead Liaison

MARCH 7, 2018

To watch “How Training Companies Can Scale Marketing” in its entirety, click here. We’re talking about how to scale marketing, pass qualified leads to sales, and how to progress those leads through the sales funnel to revenue. How does marketing automation system fit into the overall ecosystem? Presenters.

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SnapApp

OCTOBER 3, 2017

Until recent years, the traditional selling process looked something like this: Marketing would hand leads off to the sales team. Marketing did their thing. Organizations with tightly-aligned sales and marketing had 36% higher customer retention rates and achieved 38% higher sales win rates – MarketingProfs.

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Hinge Marketing

APRIL 17, 2019

In this article, I’ll present six marketing automation use-cases to help you as you consider your own martech stack. I’ll also address the top benefits of marketing automation. I’d like to start first, though, with a definition of professional services marketing automation (MA). Marketing Automation Defined.

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The ROI Guy

SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

Thursday, September 09, 2010 Forrester announces Sales Enablement Conference focused on Selling into the New Economy We were excited to hear that Forresters first Sales Enablement Conference will be focused on Selling into the New Economy. according to Forrester.

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chiefmartech

AUGUST 3, 2017

We’ve been running The Stackies for three years now, where we’ve invited marketers to send in a single slide that visually illustrates their marketing tech stack. By itself, marketing technology is not a panacea. that show how different roles in marketing relate to each other.

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The ROI Guy

OCTOBER 24, 2014

This week, CEB held their annual Sales and Marketing Summit, with 1,200 celebrating all things and revealing some of the latest research on how to more effectively evolve your sales and marketing for a new breed of buyer. As one of the tweets from the conference indicated: “Today brand, product, service and price are table stakes.”

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The ROI Guy

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

Sources: IDC Executive Tele Briefing on Sales & Marketing Strategies for 2010 Uncovering The Hidden Costs Of Sales Support, Forrester Research, Inc., The Big O – Outcome Selling The Demand Spectrum and Value-Based Sales & Market. Your Sales & Marketing Ready to Do Business with F.

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The ROI Guy

SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

In both cases, frugal buyers will be looking for proactive help in guiding budgets, and any project proposal must quantify a significant return on investment and quick payback. The Big O – Outcome Selling The Demand Spectrum and Value-Based Sales & Market. Your Sales & Marketing Ready to Do Business with F.

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Heinz Marketing

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

By Matt Heinz , President of Heinz Marketing. The show is less than 30 minutes, fast-paced and full of actionable advice, best practices and more for B2B sales & marketing professionals. The show is less than 30 minutes, fast-paced and full of actionable advice, best practices and more for B2B sales & marketing professionals.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

By way of comparison, that’s approximately the same size as the Asian American population, and you certainly don’t see the media coverage, software development, conferences, and general hullabaloo about marketing to Asians. Can you imagine an “Illinois Marketing for Dummies&# book? Which do you believe?

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TrustRadius Marketing

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Recognizing the best software products based on their customer satisfaction, performance via reviews, and market size fit. Through harnessing the power of carefully crafted sales, marketing, customer service, content management, and operations tools, the software aims to make it easy to unify team strategy and drive conversion.

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TrustRadius Marketing

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Recognizing the best software products based on their customer satisfaction, performance via reviews, and mid-sized market fit. We took that list and broke it down to winners For Mid-sized Market by the reviewer’s business size. We took that list and broke it down to winners For Mid-sized Market by the reviewer’s business size.

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