Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

As marketers, we need to reach our customers where they are and social media’s potential in that regard is unquestionable. But marketers have always reached out to communities in many forms, and each new medium has taken its turn as Holy Grail for customer influence. Group them into personas related to the tagged characteristics.

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The ROI Guy

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

Thursday, November 04, 2010 IDC: Economic Buyers, Digital Overload and Sales Enablement Define Marketing for 2011 I just had the pleasure of presenting a webinar with Randy Perry, VP Business Value at IDC. Most organizations continue to spend much more on branding and relationship management versus value-based sales and marketing initiatives.

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The ROI Guy

FEBRUARY 4, 2009

Wednesday, February 04, 2009 How TCO is a common sense sales and marketing Tool for Today’s Chaotic Economy My friend and board member Bill Kirwin, original father of TCO analysis with Gartner, put it best when he wrote this article for us on the power of using TCO as a sales and marketing advantage to win deals in these tough economic times.

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The ROI Guy

JANUARY 10, 2011

Although Forrester was predicting 8-9% IT budget growth earlier in the year, its latest survey of 2,800 global CIOs and other IT decision-makers, revealed that their predictions, as were others, were overly optimistic, with the vast majority of respondents indicating that their budgets remained the same in 2010 as they were in 2009.

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The ROI Guy

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Two economic downturns over the past decade have made buyers more spendthrift, and more skeptical of vendor claims. 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.

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The ROI Guy

MAY 6, 2010

New Customers in Q1 2010 Alinean has been selected to develop and power value-based sales and marketing campaigns for Wipro , PGI , CSC , CiRBA , MokaFive , Shoretel , Informatica and OfficeMax.

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The ROI Guy

FEBRUARY 4, 2009

Wednesday, February 04, 2009 Microsoft Virtualization with Hyper-V - better value? The Big O – Outcome Selling The Demand Spectrum and Value-Based Sales & Market. Your Sales & Marketing Ready to Do Business with F. White Papers are Influence Kings, But Need Persona.

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The ROI Guy

OCTOBER 22, 2010

Friday, October 22, 2010 Tech Marketers May Need to Rethink Budgets for 2011 according to new Harte-Hanks research Technology marketers are challenged today with handling proliferating marketing channels to reach and engage more overloaded, skeptical and frugal buyers than ever before.

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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. The Death of a Salesman?

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The ROI Guy

JANUARY 25, 2011

Buyers, Fueled by the Internet, Firmly in Control With a wealth of information from vendors, analysts and peers, buyers are doing more research on-line. The Big O – Outcome Selling The Demand Spectrum and Value-Based Sales & Market. Your Sales & Marketing Ready to Do Business with F.

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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. For most buyers it’s easier to do-nothing, than to change. Even with a continued recovery and more financial optimism, the shift to frugality is fundamental and permanent.

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The ROI Guy

SEPTEMBER 4, 2007

The Big O – Outcome Selling The Demand Spectrum and Value-Based Sales & Market. Your Sales & Marketing Ready to Do Business with F. White Papers are Influence Kings, But Need Persona. Content Marketing and the Forgotten Sales Professi. How Do You Get Started in Content Marketing? by 2010 [2].

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LeadSloth

JANUARY 12, 2010

2009 was the year in which Marketing Automation really took off. Several new vendors appeared on the market, many existing vendors experienced rapid growth, and Marketing Automation as a term gained popularity among B2B marketers. Sales & marketing alignment. Renewed focus on data quality.

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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. Marketo's Modern B2B Marketing.

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accelerate agency

AUGUST 1, 2021

Go-to-market strategy. Moving from the SMB market and targeting enterprise customers is one way to maximize revenue and reduce churn, and this could be the perfect time to start. Moving from the SMB market and targeting enterprise customers is one way to maximize revenue and reduce churn, and this could be the perfect time to start.

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The ROI Guy

DECEMBER 14, 2005

Projects in this category include supply chain management, human capital management, ERP, sales force and marketing automation and other business process automation projects. The Big O – Outcome Selling The Demand Spectrum and Value-Based Sales & Market. Your Sales & Marketing Ready to Do Business with F.

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Online Marketing Institute

JUNE 22, 2009

I presented a webinar the other day where I stated that while white papers are still the staple of content marketing, they’re getting really stale as a communications vehicle for B2B. The book of the webinar of the movie: The Velocity B2B Content Marketing Workbook. The new B2B marketing is Content Marketing.

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The ROI Guy

JULY 22, 2010

The tool analyzes TCO, including upfront acquisition costs management and support, for ShoreTel, legacy TDM systems and various competing UC vendors. The Big O – Outcome Selling The Demand Spectrum and Value-Based Sales & Market. Your Sales & Marketing Ready to Do Business with F.

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B2B Marketing Zone Posts

AUGUST 3, 2010

Best of B2B Marketing. The 20 craziest things you can do on Twitter - grow - Practical Marketing Solutions , July 7, 2010 OK, we’ve heard all the great business success stories about connecting and learning through Twitter. July 1, 2010 to July 31, 2010. Featured Sources. Like hooking their toilet up to Twitter. Bloody great idea.

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The ROI Guy

SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

The good news is that the second half of 2010, projections are in line with Gartner’s survey in the fourth quarter of 2009 when CIOs reported IT budgets would increase, on average, by only 1.3%, and spending outlooks are more positive than earlier surveys. for 2009, showing that a spending recovery is in place, but marginally.

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The ROI Guy

AUGUST 4, 2010

Wednesday, August 04, 2010 Can a Value Selling / Marketing Program Improve Your Business? This permanent shift towards frugal buyers has forced B2B vendors to fundamentally change the way they reach prospects and convert them to customers. Here are the top six benefits: 1.

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Webbiquity

JANUARY 24, 2012

Of course, there’s no single cookie-cutter approach to social media marketing that works for every enterprise. Social Media Marketing Tips and Tactics. Social Media, What Matters Most for Marketers by iMedia Connection. ” 50 Social Media Marketing Tips and Tactics by Jeff Bullas.

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The ROI Guy

SEPTEMBER 28, 2010

New digital marketing channels have made it more efficient than ever to broadcast marketing messages to prospects, but are the current strategies effective at connecting with and educating ever more skeptical and frugal buyers ? They do if they are Interactive! Do White Papers Still Rule?

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The ROI Guy

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

Sources: IDC Executive Tele Briefing on Sales & Marketing Strategies for 2010 Uncovering The Hidden Costs Of Sales Support, Forrester Research, Inc., April 2009 Sales Enablement: Measuring its Impact. The Big O – Outcome Selling The Demand Spectrum and Value-Based Sales & Market. SiriusDecisions Perspectives.

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