The Effective Marketer

MAY 27, 2015

Competitive Battle Cards (BTW I’ve seen them spelled together, battlecards, and separate – battle cards) are a staple of product marketing. So for the purposes of this post I will focus on the marketer or product marketer that has been tasked with coming up with a competitive analysis to help sales. Presentation.

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Marketing Insider Group

JULY 22, 2015

Content marketing is the key to open the door to your social selling success. Don’t See The Connection Between Content Marketing and Social Selling? Forrester research shows 90% of customers start their purchase with a search engine. However, we do all of that with content. However, we do all of that with content.

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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). So it’s clearly beneficial to you to get (or stay) on board the content train, but it should also be rewarding to your buyers. Yes, of course you want to get something in return for your efforts.

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Mereo

JULY 27, 2022

As it is, according to Forrester Research , B2B buyers believe only 8% of salespeople are focused on driving valuable end results. Including project management, technical services, communication (marketing to their users) and education as part of the onboarding solution. Help them communicate and drive user adoption.

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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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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. What about the millions spent on new methodologies and sales training each year? You are not alone if you are getting mixed results.

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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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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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Markempa

AUGUST 12, 2021

Are you using empathy in your marketing? Because marketing isn’t something you do to people; it’s something you do with people. The problem with modern sales and marketing. I see with marketing (and sales) this: we get clinical and treat our customers as objects to convert rather than people who need help.

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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 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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SpotMe Blog

JUNE 13, 2023

Promotion and marketing: Spreading the word about your event to the right audience is key. Pharma meeting planners are experts in social media marketing, email campaigns, media partnerships, and more to maximize HCP attendance and participation. Get detailed proposals from different companies to compare what is included in the fees.

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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

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. Not so fast.

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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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Martech Advisor

DECEMBER 16, 2019

After three weeks of research, David Ogilvy proposed the iconic headline that simply read, “ At 60 miles an hour the loudest noise in the new Rolls-Royce comes from the electric clock. Marketers are using sophisticated tools powered by AI and machine learning (ML) to deliver personalized experiences to their target audience.

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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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The ROI Guy

JANUARY 17, 2011

Alinean calls this new age-of-austerity Frugalnomics, and it forever changes the way B2B sales and marketing needs to connect with, engage and sell to buyers. Even with a continued recovery and more financial optimism, the shift to frugality is fundamental and permanent. But up-front purchase price isn’t everything.

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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. and Twitter.

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The ROI Guy

DECEMBER 6, 2010

Monday, December 06, 2010 Predictions for 2011: The End of B2B Sales & Marketing as We Know It? These two market drivers will have important implications into 2011 and beyond for B2B sales enablement and marketing strategies and budgets. of respondents), and peers (28.7%), especially early in the lifecycle.

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Pam Didner

JANUARY 20, 2021

As a marketing professional, successfully supporting sales takes tact, experience, perseverance, conviction and imagination. . In one of my various marketing roles, I worked very closely with the sales team, even though I reported to the marketing group. . What is Sales Training. What is Channel Partner Marketing.

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The ROI Guy

APRIL 12, 2013

And you are not alone, as SiriusDecisions reports that the average company now spends a whopping $43K on marketing content and sales tools per salesperson per year. To help improve awareness, a series of attention grabbing programs should be implemented to make sales cognizant that new tools are available.

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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

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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Hubspot

APRIL 3, 2012

His top-rated business blog, Understanding the Sales Force , is read by thousands of sales and marketing leaders. Consider the following circumstances that were infrequent or nonexistent just a few years ago, and are now a constant scourge for sales and marketing professionals. 3) Remember that blogging isn't just for marketers.

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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

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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Rev

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

Look no further than the market caps of the top five companies in the world, according to Fortune: Three of the five—Amazon, Alphabet (formerly Google), and Facebook—have used big data and data science to catapult above corporate giants like JP Morgan, ExxonMobil, Berkshire Hathaway, and Johnson & Johnson. Want proof? That’s a shame.

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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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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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Rev

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

Look no further than the market caps of the top five companies in the world, according to Fortune: Three of the five—Amazon, Alphabet (formerly Google), and Facebook—have used big data and data science to catapult above corporate giants like JP Morgan, ExxonMobil, Berkshire Hathaway, and Johnson & Johnson. Want proof? That’s a shame.

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The ROI Guy

MAY 19, 2015

Last week we had the pleasure of attending our 10 th SiriusDecisions Summit in Nashville, a gathering of over 2,300 sales and marketing professionals. These findings directly contradict the other analyst findings that b-to-b sales reps’ roles and importance are declining due to a disintermediation by B2B marketing and digital resources.

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