The ROI Guy

OCTOBER 20, 2010

In the latest research from Gartner and Forrester, both IT research firms revised their annual spending projections over the next few years, predicting lower budgets and slower growth. Forrester Research: More Optimistic, But Less So Forrester Research has updated its U.S. IT spending predictions for 2010, estimating 8.1%

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Convince & Convert

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

After all, content marketing results in three times as many leads as other types of marketing (but costs 62 percent less). After all, testimonials use your customers as your mouthpiece, and case studies present your business’ value propositions—backed up by proof of historical success and data. Both are powerful.

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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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Champion Communications

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

HeleCloud’s CTO Walter Heck’s featured in Open Access Government where he proposed that the way to a greener post-COVID economy was sustainable IT. While this transition can offer greater efficiency and innovation it also presents dangers such as fragmentation which can result in compromising data quality and integrity.” HeleCloud .

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Marketing Insider Group

JULY 22, 2015

Content marketing is the key to open the door to your social selling success. Yes, helping to frame the business opportunity and presenting features and benefits are essential. Don’t See The Connection Between Content Marketing and Social Selling? Rest Forever Peacefully (or Request For Proposal). Are they finding you?

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Biznology

NOVEMBER 24, 2014

54% of consumers find a website through natural search (source: Forrester ). One way is to ask for a proposal. Fortunately, there are ingredients that distinguish great SEO proposals. What makes a great SEO proposal? Keyword Research is a foundation to an SEO proposal. How do you know?

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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. of pipeline to 13.2%

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The ROI Guy

MAY 1, 2014

We recently attended the SAVO Summit in Chicago, a gathering of over 600 leading sales enablement, sales and marketing analysts, executives and partners (including Alinean) to share the latest research, exchange ideas and learn new best practices. 2) Effectiveness – making sure that sales reps are doing the right things and doing them well.

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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?

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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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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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SpotMe Blog

JUNE 13, 2023

Content development: The content, from presentations and panel discussions to interactive workshops, is the heart of any pharma event. Promotion and marketing: Spreading the word about your event to the right audience is key. Promotion and marketing: Spreading the word about your event to the right audience is key.

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SalesIntel

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

In the pursuit of growth, many businesses sell into the accounts already in their CRM and marketing automation systems, oblivious to the large number of suitable prospects not in their data. In this article, you will learn more about what the total addressable market is and the best ways to calculate it.

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SalesIntel

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

In the pursuit of growth, many businesses sell into the accounts already in their CRM and marketing automation systems, oblivious to the large number of suitable prospects not in their data. In this article, you will learn more about what the total addressable market is and the best ways to calculate it.

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Martech Advisor

DECEMBER 12, 2019

Tim Yeaton, Chief Marketing Officer, Red Hat, shares his insights. So, marketers must ensure that engagement with their brands is authentic, personalized, and engaging. I witness this dynamic every day at Red Hat, the open-source software company where I'm chief marketing officer. But even marketers can use GitHub.

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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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chiefmartech

MAY 20, 2018

(As an aside, this is why machine learning can be so helpful in applying true data-driven marketing — our human biases really skew our perception of reality.). We most recently released the 2018 marketing technology landscape with the data showing nearly 7,000 martech-related vendors. Marketo acquired Bizible. Seismic acquired SAVO.

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Brandpoint

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

I was essentially now head of marketing and sales for a B2B sales organization and my marketing tech stack consisted of a tele phone. The industry has greatly advanced since then, but for many organizations, sales and marketing practices are not evolving and keeping pace. Read more: How Does Content Marketing Drive Sales?].

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Hubspot

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

I like to think of marketing and sales as the leads in a buddy cop movie. And marketing is the hot-headed rookie with a chip on their shoulder looking to prove to everyone that they have what it takes to become the department's first-ever bow-legged sergeant or something. Your marketing department only cares about MQLs.

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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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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. The key is to not present your solution and features too early.

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Kapost

APRIL 19, 2017

The Marketo Marketing Nation Summit is headed back to the city by the bay next week after a short detour in Las Vegas last year. As a data-driven marketer, I ask myself how I am going to maximize my ROI. Do I want a general overview of what’s new and happening in the marketing world? These three strategies deliver every time. #1:

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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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SmarkLabs

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

There’s a lot of debate about whether sales enablement is the responsibility of the sales team or the marketing team. Marketing provides sales with the resources they need to make sales, like videos, blogs, and other types of content marketing. Sales enablement doesn’t just consist of marketing assisting sales, though.

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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

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 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."

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The ROI Guy

JUNE 17, 2015

It's a highly personalized experience and unique to each company and stakeholder, involving sales and marketing at different stages throughout the process. In fact the #1 piece of content requested by buyers today is still a sales presentation, according to their research. People buy from people.

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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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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

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

AUGUST 17, 2011

The good news is that many marketers and sales enablement groups have realized the change in buyers over the past decade. This presents a substantial challenge for sales and marketing to prove that “doing nothing” has a cost, and that the proposed return on investment is worth the change risk.

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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

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

JANUARY 25, 2011

By not engaging early, sales is left responding to proposal requests versus helping to set strategy and recommend solutions – a sure recipe for smaller deal size and less competitive advantage. AT=pb&SP=EC&rID=44097752&rKey=ca6aa9fbfc4ad092 A downloadable presentation is also available via this link.

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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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