Seismic

DECEMBER 20, 2022

The global telecom market has experienced unprecedented growth and change over the last few decades. In such a saturated and evolving marketplace, telecom providers are realizing that they need to expand and improve upon their current go-to-market (GTM) strategies. So, how can telecom companies achieve these goals?

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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? Why Your Solutions?

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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. Economically Focused – today’s IT buyer is more frugal, with over 95% of technology purchase decisions now requiring a formal business case, with quantifiable ROI and fast payback (IDC).

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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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ViewPoint

MARCH 6, 2012

Stephanie Tilton is a content-marketing consultant who helps B2B companies craft content that engages prospects and customers, nurtures leads and advances the buying cycle. She is a founding member of the Savvy B2B Marketing blog , and contributes regularly to the Content Marketing Institute blog.

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The ROI Guy

JANUARY 25, 2011

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.

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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. Why Your Solutions?

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The ROI Guy

JANUARY 16, 2014

Frugal – with over 95% of IT decisions now requiring a solid business case with significant ROI and fast payback according to IDC. Most importantly, you need to take Frugalnomics into account as you evolve your sales and marketing strategies and investments to meet the challenge. Click here to learn more. #2

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The ROI Guy

APRIL 8, 2014

Frugal – with over 95% of IT decisions now requiring a solid business case with significant ROI and fast payback according to IDC. Most importantly, you need to take Frugalnomics into account as you evolve your sales and marketing strategies and investments to meet the challenge. Click here to learn more. #2

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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.

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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.

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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. In order to connect and engage with “Do Nothing” buyers, through their decision making journey, you need to help them realize: Why Change? –

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The ROI Guy

OCTOBER 15, 2014

Forrester indicates that for each typical sales rep, $130,000 is spent annually on sales enablement, training and support, trying to make each rep smarter, faster and more powerful. Join the discussion and share your valuable ideas with the community in the Value Marketing and Selling Discussion Group. The buyer is now in control.

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The ROI Guy

JANUARY 19, 2015

Excited to be launching a new book: The Frugalnomics Survival Guide - How to Use Your Unique Value to Market Better, Stand Out and Sell More. Based on our popular blog articles, the book provides a definitive view of value marketing and selling. Keep your eye out for the launch site and pre-order opportunity from Amazon.

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SpotMe Blog

JUNE 13, 2023

It is not a comprehensive list, and the companies are listed alphabetically, not in order of preference. Promotion and marketing: Spreading the word about your event to the right audience is key. Get detailed proposals from different companies to compare what is included in the fees. It may change in the future.

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The ROI Guy

NOVEMBER 8, 2006

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. Some examples of direct (hard) benefits are: 1.

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The ROI Guy

FEBRUARY 4, 2009

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. Posted by Tom Pisello at 1:36 PM Email This BlogThis!

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The ROI Guy

JANUARY 5, 2011

The reign of the economic-buyer is called Frugalnomics, where buyers require significant ROI, fast payback and superior value from each purchase. 3) Differentiate Your Value - According to analyst Scott Santucci of Forrester, “We are in the middle of a major transformation in the B2B sales model. April 2009.

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The ROI Guy

OCTOBER 31, 2011

So, how can you make sure you are viewed as strategic, or can migrate your relationship quickly from tactical to strategic in order to earn their precious time and attention, maintain and grow CIO opportunities? Goal : Use this research on goals and opportunities to develop and prioritize your proposals to help address strategic goals.

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The ROI Guy

MARCH 30, 2011

If you are in sales and marketing, there is another forecast that is just as promising, especially if you recognize the pending fertile business opportunity and prepare accordingly. Marketing luminary Seth Godin indicates that "No business buys a solution for a problem they don't have." And this is not just a temporary change.

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The ROI Guy

JUNE 24, 2014

Unfortunately, only 1 in 10 sales reps have made the transition from pitching products to engaging prospects with value according to Forrester Research, and 60 percent of buyers disengage with sales because reps do not communicate compelling value according to Qvidian’s recent Sales Execution Trends report.

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The ROI Guy

NOVEMBER 30, 2011

Frugalnomics is in full effect, leaving few resources to evaluate opportunities and the organization risk adverse to change, giving more control to finance and requiring more economic justification on each proposal. Serious budget constraints make even high ROI projects hard to get approved.

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The ROI Guy

SEPTEMBER 22, 2014

What your marketing and sales enablement teams might not fully realize is that: Product / service differentiators are fleeting, especially today where new product launches are faster than ever before and solutions are quickly commoditized. In order to navigate the decision making process, the buyer needs to understand “Why consider a change?”

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The ROI Guy

AUGUST 13, 2013

If this is the case, Gartner’s latest research indicates that many IT Sales and Marketing leaders may end up on the “endangered species” list, unless some serious realizations and changes occur sooner versus later. Although most of the sales and marketing executives may recognize the issue, change will not be easy.

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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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The ROI Guy

JANUARY 6, 2012

More control is in the hands of finance, requiring more economic justification on each proposal. Serious budget constraints make even high ROI projects hard to get approved. The final Decision is a best-value bake-off, where Forrester indicates that 35% of vendor selection decisions are made.

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The ROI Guy

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Marketers are scrambling to address the power shift and overcome lead generation and conversion issues by delivering more content and tools over more channels to actively engage ever more empowered, skeptical and frugal buyers. Having the right content and tools to help fuel buyer’s decision making process is essential. Death of a Salesman?

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The ROI Guy

OCTOBER 11, 2010

For marketers, the news is good overall. According to research from IDC and Forrester, marketing spending is anticipated to increase between 3 to 5% for 2011. In the current environment, marketers are still being asked to do-more-with-less, driving a significant change in strategies, campaigns and go-to-market channels.

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The ROI Guy

SEPTEMBER 17, 2010

The past decade has seen an exciting and dramatic increase in new digital marketing channels including Twitter, Facebook, e-mail, search engines, webinars, virtual trade shows and more. email pitches per week, up 32 percent from 2006 according to sales and marketing research firm SiriusDecisions.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

Marketing IT. To drive KM at Russell Reynolds, the company circulates a document every afternoon throughout its 32 offices worldwide that shows all outstanding proposals and projects. To combat this, Brad DeLong, CIO for Orix Capital Markets (a division of Orix USA), seeks out the people he calls the groups "emotional leaders.".

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The ROI Guy

MAY 4, 2006

Technology Sales & Marketing - Party Like its 1999? A Q&A with me on latest IT sales and marketing metrics, trends and best practices Is 2006 shaping up to be a good year for IT spending growth? Do the latest increases in IT spending mean good things for IT Sales and Marketing executives? percent of revenue on marketing.

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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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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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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

AUGUST 27, 2014

While at the same time, sales and marketing hasn’t evolved quickly enough to keep pace with a changed buyer. The framework was designed to help you develop the right conversation elements and articulate the value story elements in sequential order to communicate your value story. Today, it’s all about the Benjamins.

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Ambal's Amusings

AUGUST 27, 2009

B2B marketers are producing, managing, and distributing marketing content to reach prospects and turn them into customers. Recommended Resources from B2B Marketing Experts. Forrester Blog for Interactive Marketing Professionals. Forrester Blog for Interactive Marketing Professionals. Get Content.

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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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