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. As could be expected, Forrester indicates that the majority of 2010 IT spending went to support existing operations – essentially “keeping the lights on&#.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 7, 2010

Organizations are spending considerable amounts of time and money on tracking and measuring lead generation metrics. However, the role of B2B marketers is changing and evolving more into revenue generation.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

DECEMBER 3, 2009

Lead nurturing and lead scoring are key to B2B marketing success. Integrate social media into your marketing automation to make social marketing automation (I like this one because Marketo kicks butt with B2B social media marketing.). Here is my cool paper on B2B Mobile Email Marketing ).

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markempa

DECEMBER 21, 2006

Call for speakers: MarketingSherpa’s B2B Marketing Summit 5 dials to tune in your lead generation process Recent Comments Copyright This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License. It seems they would rather spend their budgets on things that drive activity (which is often wasted) over results measurement.

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The ROI Guy

FEBRUARY 14, 2011

Monday, February 14, 2011 Social Media ROI a Requirement for 2011 With social media spending continuing to increase this year, CMOs are being tasked to justify the investment. As CMOs seek to optimize their spending, doing more with less, it is important to learn which channels reveal the greatest payback. Latest Research.

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The ROI Guy

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

Alinean recognized by BtoB Magazine’s as one of To. The Big O – Outcome Selling The Demand Spectrum and Value-Based Sales & Market. IT Spending on the Rise, Sales Enablement and The Economic-Buyer ► 2010 (118) ► December (5) Social Media Hierarchy of Needs - Best Practices f. Latest Research.

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The ROI Guy

DECEMBER 9, 2010

Spending on IT cloud services will triple in the next 5 years, reaching $42 billion and capturing 25% of IT spending growth in 2012." - IDC Much of the adoption is driven by the promise of what cloud can do to help transform IT services and drive important cap-ex and op-ex cost savings. How Do You Get Started in Content Marketing?

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The ROI Guy

JANUARY 20, 2011

Alinean recognized by BtoB Magazine’s as one of To. The Big O – Outcome Selling The Demand Spectrum and Value-Based Sales & Market. IT Spending on the Rise, Sales Enablement and The Economic-Buyer ► 2010 (118) ► December (5) Social Media Hierarchy of Needs - Best Practices f. Latest Research.

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The ROI Guy

DECEMBER 23, 2010

Alinean recognized by BtoB Magazine’s as one of To. The Big O – Outcome Selling The Demand Spectrum and Value-Based Sales & Market. IT Spending on the Rise, Sales Enablement and The Economic-Buyer ▼ 2010 (118) ▼ December (5) Social Media Hierarchy of Needs - Best Practices f. Latest Research.

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B2B Marketing Zone Posts

JULY 9, 2009

Three steps for B2B marketers to build a personal social media presence - Chris Koch , June 26, 2009. Content Marketing Today , June 26, 2009. BtoB Leading Edge: 10 Sharp Tips taken from the Cutting Edge Demand Generation Virtual Conference - Modern B2B Marketing , June 24, 2009. June 4, 2009. June 4, 2009.

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The ROI Guy

JULY 15, 2009

Alinean recognized by BtoB Magazine’s as one of To. The Big O – Outcome Selling The Demand Spectrum and Value-Based Sales & Market. IT Spending on the Rise, Sales Enablement and The Economic-Buyer ► 2010 (118) ► December (5) Social Media Hierarchy of Needs - Best Practices f. Latest Research.

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The ROI Guy

MAY 6, 2010

Alinean recognized by BtoB Magazine’s as one of To. The Big O – Outcome Selling The Demand Spectrum and Value-Based Sales & Market. IT Spending on the Rise, Sales Enablement and The Economic-Buyer ▼ 2010 (118) ► December (5) Social Media Hierarchy of Needs - Best Practices f. Latest Research.

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The ROI Guy

FEBRUARY 4, 2009

Alinean recognized by BtoB Magazine’s as one of To. The Big O – Outcome Selling The Demand Spectrum and Value-Based Sales & Market. IT Spending on the Rise, Sales Enablement and The Economic-Buyer ► 2010 (118) ► December (5) Social Media Hierarchy of Needs - Best Practices f. Latest Research.

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The ROI Guy

FEBRUARY 4, 2009

Cold, hard decisions are being made on where to trim personnel, hardware and software spending. Never has cost-analysis been so critical for technology users to justify spending and for technology providers to prove the business case in order to assure that the proposed solutions are a priority and make the budget cut. Latest Research.

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The ROI Guy

JANUARY 17, 2011

CMOs will need to be sure they have the new equation figured out: Marketing = Art + Science Art - Personality needed to help break through the information overload / clutter and dialogue with users / create trust. Science - Measurement and ROI, Marketing automation, Integration, Chief marketing technology officers.

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The ROI Guy

JANUARY 25, 2011

Alinean recognized by BtoB Magazine’s as one of To. The Big O – Outcome Selling The Demand Spectrum and Value-Based Sales & Market. IT Spending on the Rise, Sales Enablement and The Economic-Buyer ► 2010 (118) ► December (5) Social Media Hierarchy of Needs - Best Practices f. Latest Research.

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The ROI Guy

OCTOBER 22, 2010

Going overboard on humorous content, or spending a ton on creative to create edgy / cool programs may not have the desired impact, and fall flat with the serious business of technology buyers. Advice - Marketers should focus more spending on communicating the value of solutions, and less on brand development and buiding.

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The ROI Guy

DECEMBER 6, 2010

Alinean recognized by BtoB Magazine’s as one of To. The Big O – Outcome Selling The Demand Spectrum and Value-Based Sales & Market. IT Spending on the Rise, Sales Enablement and The Economic-Buyer ▼ 2010 (118) ▼ December (5) Social Media Hierarchy of Needs - Best Practices f. Latest Research.

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The ROI Guy

FEBRUARY 4, 2009

Alinean recognized by BtoB Magazine’s as one of To. The Big O – Outcome Selling The Demand Spectrum and Value-Based Sales & Market. IT Spending on the Rise, Sales Enablement and The Economic-Buyer ► 2010 (118) ► December (5) Social Media Hierarchy of Needs - Best Practices f. Latest Research.

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The ROI Guy

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

When we look at marketing budgets however, we find that marketing spending is not aligned in most cases with this financial decision making criteria. Most organizations continue to spend much more on branding and relationship management versus value-based sales and marketing initiatives. Content is King?

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The ROI Guy

NOVEMBER 8, 2006

Alinean recognized by BtoB Magazine’s as one of To. The Big O – Outcome Selling The Demand Spectrum and Value-Based Sales & Market. IT Spending on the Rise, Sales Enablement and The Economic-Buyer ► 2010 (118) ► December (5) Social Media Hierarchy of Needs - Best Practices f. Latest Research.

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The ROI Guy

SEPTEMBER 4, 2007

To help address the lack of innovation spending, server virtualization is being considered and implemented in data centers as one means to drive “keeping the lights on&# costs lower, so as to provide more budget to innovation. for each $1 in server capital spending, increasing to $0.70 How Do You Get Started in Content Marketing?

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The ROI Guy

NOVEMBER 8, 2006

Since labor costs and equivalent outsourced services dominate most IT budgets -- over 56% of IT spending on average -- selecting platforms with lower implementation and ongoing management costs can significantly improve overall IT efficiency. Alinean recognized by BtoB Magazine’s as one of To. Latest Research.

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The ROI Guy

DECEMBER 14, 2005

As a result, Mr. Carr asserts that most IT spending be minimized based on the lack of bottom-line impact which can ultimately be derived from such investments. Projects in this category include supply chain management, human capital management, ERP, sales force and marketing automation and other business process automation projects.

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Hubspot

AUGUST 27, 2012

4) 51% of the top 20% of B2B marketers generating leads through social media use social sharing tools, compared to the industry average of 39%. 5) 84% of B2B marketers use social media in some form. 6) Marketers spend an average of 4-6 hours a week on social media. 7) Currently, marketers allocate 7.6%

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The ROI Guy

JULY 22, 2010

Alinean recognized by BtoB Magazine’s as one of To. The Big O – Outcome Selling The Demand Spectrum and Value-Based Sales & Market. IT Spending on the Rise, Sales Enablement and The Economic-Buyer ▼ 2010 (118) ► December (5) Social Media Hierarchy of Needs - Best Practices f. Latest Research.

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Marketing Insider Group

SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

In this post I will provide some of the latest thinking along with my own thoughts on how to better align marketing with sales. In BtoB Magazine , Karen J. Bannan wrote “ Creating a true partnership between marketing and sales ”. In the article, she offered this call to action for marketing and sales: “Partner or Perish”.

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Online Marketing Institute

JULY 31, 2009

I hope that Eloqua's work, among a handful of others, help change the marketing dialogue around the accessibility and value of using marketing automation to bridge the divide between sales and marketing. Without this, we are back to John Wannamaker's comment about wasting half of your promotional spend.

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Hubspot

JUNE 12, 2013

But when it comes to email specifically, according to BTOB Magazine , 49% of B2B marketers spend more time and resources on email than on other channels. Solution: Clone Old Emails & Update With Fresh Copy, Subject Lines, Etc. Time seems to be the pain point for, I don''t know, everything?

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B2B Marketing Zone Posts

JULY 7, 2010

5 Lessons a BtoB Marketer can Learn from “Breaking Bad” - Fearless Competitor , June 17, 2010 Have you heard of AMC’s critically acclaimed series “Breaking Bad?&# &# If you’re a business to business marketer, you ought to check it out. consider it an Owners Manual for B2B marketing today. Seems doubtful.

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The ROI Guy

SEPTEMBER 17, 2010

Friday, September 17, 2010 Leaders indicate Growing Investment in Smart Digital Content The migration of B2B marketing budgets from traditional marketing vehicles toward digital channels continues according to a study by Booz & Co. Alinean recognized by BtoB Magazine’s as one of To. Latest Research.

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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 5, 2010

Alinean recognized by BtoB Magazine’s as one of To. The Big O – Outcome Selling The Demand Spectrum and Value-Based Sales & Market. IT Spending on the Rise, Sales Enablement and The Economic-Buyer ▼ 2010 (118) ► December (5) Social Media Hierarchy of Needs - Best Practices f. Latest Research.

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The ROI Guy

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

Alinean recognized by BtoB Magazine’s as one of To. The Big O – Outcome Selling The Demand Spectrum and Value-Based Sales & Market. IT Spending on the Rise, Sales Enablement and The Economic-Buyer ▼ 2010 (118) ► December (5) Social Media Hierarchy of Needs - Best Practices f. Latest Research.

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The ROI Guy

AUGUST 4, 2010

As a result, decision makers are requiring quantified business cases for >90% of all projects, first, in order to set priorities of what projects are considered, and second, to get executive signoff/ spending approval. Alinean recognized by BtoB Magazine’s as one of To. Content Marketing and the Forgotten Sales Professi.

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The ROI Guy

SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

Alinean recognized by BtoB Magazine’s as one of To. The Big O – Outcome Selling The Demand Spectrum and Value-Based Sales & Market. IT Spending on the Rise, Sales Enablement and The Economic-Buyer ▼ 2010 (118) ► December (5) Social Media Hierarchy of Needs - Best Practices f. Latest Research.

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The ROI Guy

SEPTEMBER 28, 2010

Alinean recognized by BtoB Magazine’s as one of To. The Big O – Outcome Selling The Demand Spectrum and Value-Based Sales & Market. IT Spending on the Rise, Sales Enablement and The Economic-Buyer ▼ 2010 (118) ► December (5) Social Media Hierarchy of Needs - Best Practices f. Latest Research.

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