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Gartner CIO Study Highlights Need for Outcome-Based Technology Sales & Marketing Strategies

The ROI Guy

Gartner's latest CIO study, "Reimagining IT: The 2011 CIO Agenda" highlights several important trends that will have significant impact on technology marketing and sales enablement into 2011 and beyond. According to Gartner, this requires CIOs re-imagine IT and lead it through a process of “creative destruction.

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Hard Data to Justify Your Marketing Automation Investment

Customer Experience Matrix

A client asked yesterday if I had some benchmark information to justify the cost of her marketing automation project. It includes five pages of properly sourced industry statistics from Aberdeen , Forrester , Gartner and SiriusDecisions. Summary: So you want some hard numbers to prove the value of marketing automation? Here's a bunch.

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Gartner highlights importance of business cases to address budget woes at its annual IT Symposium in Orlando

The ROI Guy

According to Gartner’s latest research, the IT industry is exiting its worst year ever in 2009, as worldwide IT spending is on pace to decline 5.2 Barbara Gomolski, managing vice president at Gartner highlights this, as “IT leaders need a new type of budget, a rolling forecast that supports the return to growth.

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ClickInsights: Biggest roadblock to converting marketing leads

Ambal's Amusings

in January 2008. B2B Lead Generation Benchmark Study 2009. Seamus Walsh. Blog B2BContentMarketing Twitter SeamusWalsh. "Disconnect between sales and marketing" Seamus Walsh's Bio. Seamus Walsh founded VAZT Global Inc. Seamus resides in Essex Junction, VT with his wife and four children. MarketingSherpa.

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Tom Pisello: The ROI Guy: Value Selling Tools and the Buying Lifecycle

The ROI Guy

These buyers need a reason to engage – and delivering personalized, proprietary and consultative benchmarks, insight and advice is essential. Tom’s ROI and TCO experience began in 1993 with his first entrepreneurial venture, Interpose (acquired by Gartner in 1998). Tom then served Gartner as a Managing VP.

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ClickInsights: How B2B marketers should forge customer relationships by providing compelling content?

Ambal's Amusings

B2B Lead Generation Benchmark Study 2009. Eccolo Media 2008 B2B Technology Collateral Survey. Eccolo Media 2008 B2B Technology Collateral Survey. in January 2008. Velocity's The B2B Content Marketing Workbook. MarketingSherpa. Sales Lead Expert’s Learning Center. B2B Marketing Fundamentals Don't Change. Get Content.

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ClickInsights: What was your "Aha" moment in 2009? - Part 2

Ambal's Amusings

B2B Lead Generation Benchmark Study 2009. in January 2008. Kristina Halvorson's Content Strategy for the Web. Mapping Content to the Buying Process - Slidecast. Velocity's The B2B Content Marketing Workbook. MarketingSherpa. Sales Lead Expert’s Learning Center. B2B Marketing Fundamentals Don't Change. " Seamus Walsh's Bio.