The ROI Guy

JANUARY 25, 2011

However, solving this problem will be difficult for most teams, as sales remains inwardly focused on the traditional funnel based selling process, rather than having a keen understanding of how customers make decisions and actually buy - the buying lifecycle.

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The ROI Guy

DECEMBER 6, 2010

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. This, to serve a new breed of B2B buyer that completely rejects salesperson involvement and wants to manage the purchase process all on their own.

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The ROI Guy

OCTOBER 22, 2010

Generating Awareness In order to start the engagement process with prospects, awareness needs to be created. 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.

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The ROI Guy

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

As a result, sales is being invited later into the decision making process, sales cycles are extending and deals are stalling. When asking over 200 IT buyers what they felt was most important part of the overall purchase process, over 1/3rd of the buyers indicated Vendor Content as key to the purchase decision. Content is King?

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The ROI Guy

NOVEMBER 8, 2006

Productivity benefits where there is not a direct automation or elimination of a process step or task 3. Alinean recognized by BtoB Magazine’s as one of To. Updated Alinean Social Media ROI Calculator - New. ► January (10) Is The End of the Social Media Story Already Writt. Latest Research.

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The ROI Guy

DECEMBER 14, 2005

As well, personal productivity applications such as word processing, e-mail and messaging could be considered commodities. IT solutions are indeed evolving from basic infrastructure, through business process optimization and information management. Network servers, storage and printers have moved towards commoditization as well.

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Industrial Marketing Today

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

Exhibit #1: Emerson Process Management Experts. A niche business blog run by Jim Cahill that targets process manufacturing engineers and professionals. Objective: Connect process manufacturing professionals with experts at Emerson Process Management who have valuable industry, application and technology expertise.

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Ambal's Amusings

AUGUST 27, 2009

Forrester Blog for Interactive Marketing Professionals. Eccolo Media 2008 B2B Technology Collateral Survey. When you create your content strategically, you have the ability to more accurately gauge how far along prospects are in their buying process based on which content they view. Read on to get their insights. Ardath Albee.

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Delivra

OCTOBER 23, 2018

If you aren’t already prioritizing it as one of the main ways to increase revenue, consider this statistic from BtoB Magazine: 59% of B2B marketers cite email as the most effective channel for generating revenue. And your prospects want you to connect with them through email, according to research by Forrester.

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Ambal's Amusings

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

Forrester Blog for Interactive Marketing Professionals. in Social Media Measurement – Anna O’Brien (Random Acts of Data blog). He holds the Certified Business Communicator (CBC) designation awarded by the Business Marketing Association and was designated by BtoB magazine as one of its “Top 100 in BtoB Marketing.”

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Online Marketing Institute

JULY 31, 2009

Home Forrester Research « We’re renaming the blog | Main | New networks in the news » April 16, 2008 Numeric Scoring: The Key To Lead Management Success [Posted by Laura Ramos ] Recently I saw a preview of Eloqua’s spring release and it got me thinking about the role lead scoring plays in determining campaign effectiveness.

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The ROI Guy

JULY 22, 2010

By making it easily accessible through our Web site, we’re confident more organizations will take advantage of the vital insight it provides to support the decision-making process.&# Alinean recognized by BtoB Magazine’s as one of To. Updated Alinean Social Media ROI Calculator - New. Latest Research.

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Hubspot

AUGUST 27, 2012

Little did he know when yearning for this marketing system that it was in the process of being built. Social Media and Social Lead Nurturing. 2) 37% of brands would like to use social media engagement to create customer-tailored marketing campaigns. Source: Forrester ) Tweet This Stat! of their budgets to social media.

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Hubspot

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

Marketing automation done wrong is just speeding up a broken process. “Companies rarely have enough of the right content to make marketing automation work,” Jeff Ernst, a principal analyst with Forrester Research , recently told BtoB, the magazine for marketing strategists. Process the Whole Thing. Align That!

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B2B Marketing Zone Posts

JULY 7, 2010

A fascinating “hardcore” B2B social media success - grow - Practical Marketing Solutions , June 20, 2010 With many companies now engaged in social media marketing strategies for nearly two years or more, success stories are starting to emerge, even in the difficult marketing world of industrial B2B. Best of B2B Marketing. Cost: Free.

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Online Marketing Institute

JUNE 22, 2009

It’s a wonderful example… Read more… Stan Woods | March 23rd, 2009 | no comments ROI and social media marketing for B2B One of our clients is talking to us about spending budget on creating online buzz. It’s not just that there are so many new ways to reach people. See it here. This recession is no different.

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The ROI Guy

AUGUST 4, 2010

Better competitive advantage was gained by helping the customer set the strategy and agenda, versus involvement later in decision process, such as responding to RFPs. Alinean recognized by BtoB Magazine’s as one of To. Updated Alinean Social Media ROI Calculator - New. Frugalnomics in Full Effect: Forrester and Gartner.

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The ROI Guy

SEPTEMBER 28, 2010

Todays buyers have more sources of information than ever including traditional, on-line and social media sources. Although social media and blog content have the hype, when we look to which marketing content B2B buyers use more than any other in driving decisions, the white paper shines well above all others (MarketingSherpa and IDG 2010).

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The ROI Guy

NOVEMBER 8, 2006

Using ROC as an important element in the CRM decision process can help the team maintain customer focus and better balance investments for long term value acheivement. Alinean recognized by BtoB Magazine’s as one of To. Updated Alinean Social Media ROI Calculator - New. Frugalnomics in Full Effect: Forrester and Gartner.

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