Tony Zambito

MAY 1, 2011

  Morgan Stanley (2010) recently reported in a study that there are now more social network users than email users.    An even more profound and sobering fact is that 80% of business buyers today say that they found their vendors as opposed to vendors finding them. 

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B2B Marketing Traction

OCTOBER 18, 2010

I recently did a presentation to a group of managers called Marketing: The New Normal , in which I discussed what marketing action must be taken in the “new normal.” ” Here’s what I believe B2B marketers need to do to attract qualified buyers and retain existing customers.

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B2B Marketing Traction

OCTOBER 18, 2010

I recently did a presentation to a group of managers called Marketing: The New Normal , in which I discussed what marketing action must be taken in the “new normal.” ” Here’s what I believe B2B marketers need to do to attract qualified buyers and retain existing customers.

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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. To paraphrase Tina Turner , we don’t need another acronym.

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The Effective Marketer

JUNE 21, 2009

Free Marketing Training from IMU After watching the classes, my take on the University is: Positives: Online archives from each class including slides available on-demand helps a lot when you have busy schedules like mine, and also allows watching at your own pace (i.e.

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chiefmartech

APRIL 11, 2016

The following is a guest post by Bertrand Hazard of TrustRadius , who attended MarTech last month and interviewed a number of vendors exhibiting there about their perspective on “hot” categories within the marketing tech landscape. Account-based marketing (ABM) was one of the biggest topics at the MarTech conference.

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Industrial Marketing Today

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website Content Auditing and Mapping it to the Industrial Buy Cycle by Achinta Mitra on September 3, 2010 in B2B Lead Generation , Content Marketing , Industrial Marketing Strategies , Integrated Industrial Marketing These days it is popular to say “Content is marketing currency.”

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Online Marketing Institute

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

B2B Marketing POSTs by Laura Ramos About the Author About this blog High tech marketers face incredible challenges building awareness, developing demand, enabling sales, and demonstrating marketings impact on the business in an increasingly digital world. This blog draws on the heritage of my Forrester research.

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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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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2009

This year’s MarketingSherpa B2B Marketing Summit was a great success. Those that attended the event could tell from the minute it started that they would be leaving with actionable ideas to improve their marketing program. The vendors I chatted with at the event were talking more about thought leadership than their products.

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ANNUITAS

OCTOBER 6, 2010

It seems that most of my recent conversations with prospects, customers and others in the B2B marketing industry are centered on lead nurturing. My personal experience is that marketers definitely want to (and in some cases, are planning to) deploy lead nurturing of some kind.

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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

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. Although enterprise technology budgets were trending upward, the progression was slight, in 2010 compared with 2009. Monday, January 10, 2011 Let the Good Times Roll?

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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. In this post I want to focus on the trends in Marketing Automation for 2010.

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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

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.

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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

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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B2B Marketing Zone Posts

JUNE 9, 2010

Best of B2B Marketing. Great stuff in the world of B2B Marketing this month. 9 Social Listening & Tracking Tools - Marketing Genius Blog , May 7, 2010 Here is a list of 9 social media tracking and monitoring tools. Is The White Paper Dead for B2B Marketing? Want your posts included here? come at a price.

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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. Latest Research.

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The ROI Guy

FEBRUARY 4, 2009

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? Latest Research.

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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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B2B Marketing Zone Posts

AUGUST 3, 2010

Best of B2B Marketing. July 1, 2010 to July 31, 2010. 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. Featured Sources. Like hooking their toilet up to Twitter.

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The ROI Guy

SEPTEMBER 4, 2007

by 2010 [2]. by 2010 [2]. 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. Latest Research.

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EveryoneSocial

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

We think so, but the reality is that it’s still the minority of early adopters and market leaders that have invested in employee advocacy. Since the beginning (approximately 10 years ago), social media marketing has centered on brands (e.g., Sounds like something every company should support and be engaged in doing, don’t you think?

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Convert

APRIL 25, 2023

“Artificial intelligence is the study of how to create computer programs that can perform tasks that would require human intelligence to complete” (Nilsson, 2010, p. For a while now, we’ve seen CRO tools powered by artificial intelligence, while other vendors simply incorporated AI features into their core products.

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Lenny's Newsletter

AUGUST 8, 2023

If you’re not a subscriber, here’s what you missed this month: How today’s top consumer brands measure marketing’s impact How Shopify builds product What is good free-to-paid conversion Subscribe to get access to these posts, and every post. ” Hunter Walk has a great framework called LUV.

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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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The ROI Guy

JULY 22, 2010

Thursday, July 22, 2010 ShoreTel And Alinean Launch Online TCO Tool for Unified Communications Business Case Easy-to-use online calculator analyzes the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) of competing unified communications systems to determine true costs and business value SUNNYVALE, Calif., Your Sales & Marketing Ready to Do Business with F.

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Hubspot

AUGUST 2, 2010

The following is guest post by Paul Roetzer, founder and president of PR 20/20, an inbound marketing agency and PR firm specializing in search marketing, social media, content marketing and public relations. The basic theory is, “outspend your competition to gain market share.” But first you need a plan.

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Convince & Convert

JUNE 21, 2012

I am your host, Jay Baer, joined today again for the second week in a row, here on episode number 21, the official reaching drinking age episode, the marketing manager for Argyle Social, Ms. I guess I’ll just come out and say it, playing favorites with individual vendors. Jay : We are back with Social Pros. Jill Carlson.

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Webbiquity

FEBRUARY 14, 2011

Sometimes it’s essential to step back from everyday marketing tactics to ask the bigger questions: not just “ how do we get more people to `like’ us on Facebook? &# or “what apps should we be adding to our Facebook page?&# What are our key objectives for social media marketing? You decide.

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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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The ROI Guy

SEPTEMBER 28, 2010

Tuesday, September 28, 2010 Do White Papers Still Engage? 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!

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The ROI Guy

SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

Friday, September 10, 2010 IT Budgets into 2011 - Robbing Peter to Pay Paul? in 2010, essentially flat in 2010. More good news is that 2010 is far better than 2009, with a weighted global average reduction in IT budgets of 8.1% The Big O – Outcome Selling The Demand Spectrum and Value-Based Sales & Market.

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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., 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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