The ROI Guy

APRIL 5, 2018

Regardless of whether a budgeted purchase or the decision was less planned, the research goes on to say that a hefty 1 out of every 3 purchases ends in no-decision. According to Forrester a full 74% of the deals go to the first sales rep that adds value. This according to Gartner’s latest research on tech buying trends.

Budget Programs 45

Budget Programs Allocation Software Buy 45

Only B2B

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Before making a purchase decision, 74% of business purchasers conduct research online, says Forrester. As per Statista , the pandemic has pushed 62% of global B2B businesses to cut their marketing budgets. According to a 2020 McKinsey research , 90% of B2B sales have switched to digital channels.

Lead Generation 118

Lead Generation Marketing Budget Generation Webinar Metrics 118

ViewPoint

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

BANT is an acronym for Budget, Authority, Need and Time Frame. Lori Richardson (Score More Sales). "… budget is not the issue when qualifying, but more about how their process works. Jeff Ernst (Forrester). Only then do we propose a solution.". You have to assess this, but maybe having a budget might be a disqualifier.

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Opinions Sales Qualified Leads Lead Scoring Lead Ranking 120

Lake One

APRIL 18, 2023

While grasping for point solutions got you through the pandemic, you might now have an inflated tech budget. Listen to their opinions and ensure your proposed new tools meet their needs. Change Management Plan : Make sure to get all stakeholders on board. Ensure that training is in place once the implementation is complete.

Marketing & Strategy 82

Marketing & Strategy Paid Search Agency Work Management Hubspot 82

Vidyard

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Runners-Up: Forrester, LeadIQ Honorable Mentions: KPA, Pipefy Combining personalized videos with experiential account-based marketing (ABM) campaigns—like the Sherlock Holmes themed video and campaign below! No problem! Winner: Punch! It’s also an opportunity for the CSM to set expectations for the call.

Video Marketing 117

Video Marketing Sales Cycle Work Management Marketing Proposals 117

Madison Logic

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

What Happens When You Focus Too Much on Demand Many marketers recognize the power of a brand-building strategy, but demand activities still dominate their budgets and focus. Most organizations want to drive immediate growth, and brand efforts take longer and are harder to measure and demonstrate ROI.

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ViewPoint

MARCH 6, 2012

According to the 2012 B2B Content Marketing Benchmarks, Budgets and Trends report published by the Content Marketing Institute and MarketingProfs: 9 out of 10 organizations market with content marketing. Marketers, on average, spend over a quarter of their marketing budget on content marketing.

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Buyer Personas Forrester Lead Ranking Peer-to-peer 120

Lake One

JUNE 6, 2023

While grasping for point solutions got you through the pandemic, you might now have an inflated tech budget. Listen to their opinions and ensure your proposed new tools meet their needs. Change Management Plan : Make sure to get all stakeholders on board. Ensure that training is in place once the implementation is complete.

Marketing & Strategy 52

Marketing & Strategy Paid Search Agency Work Management Hubspot 52

Convince & Convert

JANUARY 3, 2014

In its place, the good folks at both McKinsey & Company, Forrester Research, and Scott Brinker at ChiefMarkeTec have proposed maps of the customer journey that reflect the actual complexity of buying behavior. When you have this level of control, you can wring out every bit of inefficient spend from your budget.

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Martech

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Traditional media buying is a labor and time intensive process requiring everything from requests-for-proposals to negotiations to manual insertions of the orders. An advertiser’s budget can be put to better use and spent more efficiently by targeting the people most likely to buy their product.‍ (InsiderIntelligence).

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Advertising Agencies Paid Content Cost Per Thousand Advertisements 115

Vidyard

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Runners-Up: Forrester, LeadIQ Honorable Mentions: KPA, Pipefy Combining personalized videos with experiential account-based marketing (ABM) campaigns—like the Sherlock Holmes themed video and campaign below! No problem! Winner: Punch! It’s also an opportunity for the CSM to set expectations for the call.

Video Marketing 65

Video Marketing Sales Cycle Work Management Marketing Proposals 65

SpotMe Blog

JUNE 13, 2023

Things like target audience, messaging, venue selection, and budget are all part of the planning process. Pricing and Value While budget is always a consideration, don’t choose a pharmaceutical meeting planning company based solely on the lowest bid. Get your complimentary copy of the Forrester wave report now.

Enterprise Management 52

Enterprise Management Work Management Marketing Management Paid Search Agency 52

Vidyard

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Runners-Up: Forrester, LeadIQ. Ellie Twigger at Forrester is boosting attendance at events and booking more meetings for their account team with authentic one-to-one video messages. Personalized videos to support our proposals and recommendations (think video proposals rather than just a deck or PDF). No problem!

Video Marketing 51

Video Marketing Sales Cycle Work Management Marketing Proposals 51

The ROI Guy

JANUARY 16, 2014

. #2 - Empower Sales with Value Storytelling and Quantification According to SiriusDecisions, the #1 reason why sales professionals fail to meet quota (for the 3 rd year in a row) is their “inability to effectively communicate the value of proposed solutions”.

Gartner 40

Gartner Forecasting Spending Marketing Proposals 40

The ROI Guy

JANUARY 13, 2010

Forrester however thinks these estimates are low and is indicating that 6.6% In sentiment, Forrester indicates that formal IT budgets do not point the way to the upward revision in growth estimates. All major analyst firms are predicting better times ahead for technology vendors in 2010, with many estimating a modest 3% growth.

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The ROI Guy

JANUARY 15, 2013

Executives continually point to the need for Sales and Marketing to align, with 90% of Senior Marketers indicating to Forrester that indeed alignment is a high or very high priority. The most telling, if Marketing were given 10% more budget, where would they spend it? The unique competitive value of proposed solutions, c.

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Lead Ranking Marketing Management Forrester Lead Scoring 40

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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Enterprise Management Work Management Marketing Management Spending 40

The ROI Guy

APRIL 14, 2010

Both Forrester Research and Gartner independently released IT spending forecasts for the remainder of 2010, and both have adjusted their targets higher for the year. We believe that Forresters predictions are correct and that the more conservative analysts will continue to revise their targets upwards. trillion in 2009).

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Spending Forrester Gartner Lock-In 40

Vidyard

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

There is an endless list of blogs that COULD be written, proposal decks that SHOULD be built, and videos that MIGHT be effective in helping push a few deals across the line. Forrester Report: B2B Buyers Mandate a New Charter for Marketing and Sales. The question is not what should be created, it is why! Get the Report. Get the Report.

Video Marketing 50

Video Marketing Allocation Marketing Qualified Leads Distribution 50

The ROI Guy

OCTOBER 15, 2014

Forrester indicates that for each typical sales rep, $130,000 is spent annually on sales enablement, training and support, trying to make each rep smarter, faster and more powerful. Adoption CEB CRM Forrester Qvidian ROI Sales Benchmark Index Sales Enablement Sales Tools Sales Training salesforce.com SiriusDecisions Value Selling'

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The ROI Guy

MARCH 20, 2013

This was presented at the latest Forrester Sales Enablement Forum, and is a marked increase from the 65/35% split of just two years ago. Prove Your Not the Same Quantify the Pain Too often, your sales professionals dive into the value of your proposed solution before the Prospect even understands that they have an issue worth addressing.

ROI 40

ROI Process Peer-to-peer Best Practices 40

The ROI Guy

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

As defined by Forrester, "Sales enablement is a strategic, ongoing process that equips all client-facing employees with the ability to consistently and systematically have a valuable conversation with the right set of customer stakeholders at each stage of the customer's problem-solving life cycle to optimize the ROI of the selling system.”

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Allocation Budget Programs Forrester Bundling 40

The ROI Guy

JANUARY 5, 2011

For sales to be relevant and successful, sales teams need to engage earlier in the buying cycle and higher in the organization to help executives proactively set priorities for formal budget allocations, and be in front of strategic decisions with new ideas to capture discretionary spending allocations. April 2009.

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Allocation Forrester Buying Cycle Sales Cycle 40

The ROI Guy

JUNE 17, 2015

They are not buying your proposed solution, and chances are they didn’t get back to you to tell you the bad news, o r they did, only to indicate that it’s going to go on the back burner for now, or there's no budget. The reality is that anything but a "Yes" to move forward is a "No". You get the idea.

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RFP Forrester B2B Sales Marketing Proposals 40

The ROI Guy

OCTOBER 31, 2011

Goal : Use this research on goals and opportunities to develop and prioritize your proposals to help address strategic goals. Financial Justification – For today’s risk adverse and budget constrained CIO it is often easier to do nothing, than change. A little more than 1 in 3 sales professionals are indicated as well prepared.

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Allocation Marketing Management Gartner Marketing Proposals 40

The ROI Guy

MARCH 30, 2011

Marketing guru Geoffrey Moore , who’s Crossing the Chasm remains the guidebook for many technology marketers, indicates that buyers are forced to do-more-with-less, leaving less than 15% in discretionary funds to fund new projects, and with less money to go around, subjecting proposals to higher levels of review in buying organizations. •

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Enterprise Management Work Management Marketing Management Practices 40

The ROI Guy

APRIL 15, 2014

And research from Forrester indicates that the late engagement could have serious impacts on win rates? In this “do more with less economy”, buyers have less resources and budget than ever to apply to new proposals. Second you have to prove the value of your proposed solutions. First you need to ignite the buying journey.

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Storytelling Enterprise Management Peer-to-peer Work Management 40

The ROI Guy

AUGUST 13, 2013

This at a time when Forrester reports the spoils going to those who can engage earlier, with 76% of all deals going to those that can help the buyer establish the need and define the buying agenda, while only 24% of deals went to those winning the “bake-off”.

Gartner 40

Gartner Marketing & Strategy Marketing Strategy Lead Ranking 40

The ROI Guy

NOVEMBER 30, 2011

Frugalnomics is in full effect, leaving few resources to evaluate opportunities and the organization risk adverse to change, giving more control to finance and requiring more economic justification on each proposal. Serious budget constraints make even high ROI projects hard to get approved.

Marketing Management 40

Marketing Management Process Peer-to-peer Case Studies 40

The ROI Guy

JANUARY 6, 2012

For IT executives, budgets will remain constrained, an environment of do-more-with-less. More control is in the hands of finance, requiring more economic justification on each proposal. Serious budget constraints make even high ROI projects hard to get approved.

Work Management 40

Work Management Marketing Management Gartner Forecasting 40

The ROI Guy

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Content and tools that help buyers assess the economic impact of implementing the proposed solutions, or the cost of “doing nothing”, are essential. Frugalnomics According to Forrester analyst Scott Santucci, go-to-market models always change during periods of disruption, and Great Recession has certainly caused its share of turmoil.

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Peer-to-peer Marketing Automation Services Spending Marketing Budget 40

The ROI Guy

JANUARY 17, 2011

Diagnose It is essential to engage executives and key decision makers as early as possible in the buying lifecycle, when strategies and budgets are set. ► October (8) Tech Marketers May Need to Rethink Budgets for 201. Frugalnomics in Full Effect: Forrester and Gartner. IDC: Tech Marketing Budgets Up, But Lag Revenue Gr.

Budget Programs 40

Budget Programs Marketing Automation Services Enterprise Management ROI 40

The ROI Guy

JANUARY 25, 2011

By not engaging early, sales is left responding to proposal requests versus helping to set strategy and recommend solutions – a sure recipe for smaller deal size and less competitive advantage. ► October (8) Tech Marketers May Need to Rethink Budgets for 201. Frugalnomics in Full Effect: Forrester and Gartner.

ROI 40

ROI Marketing Budget Work Management Budget Programs 40

Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 3, 2010

What happens if you have neither the budget nor the resources for sophisticated metrics? Defining B2B Customer Engagement Forrester Research has proposed a definition of customer engagement that makes a lot of sense to me. The trick is to learn how to use all its power.

B2B 60

B2B Marketing Analytics Tools Web 2.0 Buying Cycle 60

The ROI Guy

DECEMBER 6, 2010

These two market drivers will have important implications into 2011 and beyond for B2B sales enablement and marketing strategies and budgets. ► October (8) Tech Marketers May Need to Rethink Budgets for 201. Frugalnomics in Full Effect: Forrester and Gartner. Drive Budget Planning with the “IT Hierarchy of Ne. .

Work Management 40

Work Management Marketing Management ROI Marketing Automation Services 40

The ROI Guy

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

Let us examine each of these IDC trends in detail and what they mean to 2011 strategies and budgets. When we look at marketing budgets however, we find that marketing spending is not aligned in most cases with this financial decision making criteria.

Work Management 40

Work Management ROI Marketing Management Marketing Budget 40

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

DECEMBER 15, 2009

40% of Marketers plan to increase their budgets in 2010. Forrester Predicts Huge Growth for Social Media Marketing. FTC proposes legislation on product testimonials. Tradeshow Budgets Predicted to Decline 17% in 2009. University of Missouri Researchers Find Search Process Affects Cognition and Emotion.

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Paid Content Online Marketing Paid Search Agency Web 2.0 48