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CDP Overview: How We Got Here, Where We're Going, and What Could Get in the Way

Customer Experience Matrix

But, fairly soon, vendors realized that there was more value in the database building features, which were rare, than in the applications themselves, which were fairly common. It took the big martech vendors including Salesforce and Adobe several years to accept that. Originally they were used primarily in retail and media.

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

The ROI Guy

In this session we discussed some important value selling and content marketing research for technology marketers, much of which extends to other B2B segments, with trends and advice you need to excel in 2011. Let us examine each of these IDC trends in detail and what they mean to 2011 strategies and budgets.

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3 prevailing themes pointing to a martech reset

Martech

We saw great diversity in enterprise needs and maturity (and fortunately, a wide range of vendor offerings to meet those), plus some common questions which I’ve also fielded at recent conferences and webinars. E.g., email touchpoints with website personalization and commerce recommendations? Our WCM/CRM/social/ecommerce/etc.

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

The ROI Guy

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. Updated Alinean Social Media ROI Calculator - New. ► January (10) Is The End of the Social Media Story Already Writt.

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

The ROI Guy

Although enterprise technology budgets were trending upward, the progression was slight, in 2010 compared with 2009. The 2011 Trends Looking forward, TechTargets recent 2011 IT Priorities Survey (2,300 respondents) points to a continued increase in IT spending to 2.8%

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

The ROI Guy

At the same time, B2B buyers are taking advantage of the wealth of information available via the Internet and social media to become more empowered, taking charge of the buying cycle. Many vendors will also need to consider adding “buy it now&# options for solutions they would never have thought to have this for in years past.

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Tom Pisello: The ROI Guy: Tech Marketers May Need to Rethink.

The ROI Guy

In researching technology buyer trends, it is important to know how technology buyers become aware in new solutions. Surprisingly least effective, considering the growing budgets and efforts put forth in new channels, awareness is less often generated via social media, blogs and banner advertising.