Martech

JUNE 12, 2023

Like surfers riding the crest of change, we are tasked with navigating the ebbs and flows of the ever-evolving marketing technology landscape. Amid the potential chaos and complexity, agile marketing teams can find unique advantages. These firms often enjoy significant market presence, a recognized brand and economies of scale.

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Pam Didner

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

In the B2B world, marketing creates tons of content. SEO-optimized content coupled with Google Search helps prospects and customers ‘learn’ about your products and services, which creates a big opportunity for marketers and sellers to ‘educate.’. But supporting sales by providing content as a marketing person can be tricky.

Paid Search Agency 75

Paid Search Agency Account Based Marketing Planning Content 75

CoSchedule

JULY 25, 2022

White papers are an ideal type of marketing collateral to build your authority and provide useful content to your customers. Trend Report: Marketing Strategy 2022 (CoSchedule) White Paper Example. CoSchedule’s market research white paper explores marketing strategy trends to inspire marketers.

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ClearVoice

JANUARY 26, 2024

Heck, not all marketing people are content people. Marketing is the tip of the spear for driving growth and new customer acquisition. Paid is straightforward, it’s sexy (to non-marketing executives, at least), and it’s a simple sell internally when navigating the budgeting process because of the instantly measurable ROI.

Paid Content 92

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Hinge Marketing

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Professional services firms have also taken advantage of M&A as a way to address an acute talent shortage in a fiercely competitive labor market. How do mergers and acquisitions impact a firm’s brand (maybe even multiple brands if we’re talking about a “ house of brands ”), marketing and business development? Market perception.

Marketing & Strategy 118

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The ROI Guy

JULY 9, 2018

Each year CSO Insights produces their Buyer Preferences survey, a tally of how buyers are evolving, and how well Sales is able to connect, engage and close in light of a changing environment. The right commercial insights and unique benchmark / peer comparisons are shown to fuel conversations.

Business 53

Business Peer-to-peer Differentiation Case Studies 53

Convert

OCTOBER 4, 2023

This brings us to the next vital element of preparing the foundation for experimentation: hiring folks who already know they should bring data to any argument and all proposals. All changes were based on opinion and bias and there was pushback when data-triangulated updates were proposed. This is where company leaders come into play.

Budget Programs 59

Budget Programs Lead Ranking Paid Search Agency Marketing Proposals 59

Industrial Marketing Today

MARCH 23, 2012

(Source: 2011 GlobalSpec Economic Outlook Survey). Source: 2011 GlobalSpec Marketing Trends Survey). Here is a quote from MarketingSherpa’s findings from their 2011 survey of 1,500 B2B marketers: Organizations devote one-quarter of their online marketing budgets to their websites.

Marketing Websites 60

Marketing Websites Marketing Budget Creation Budget Programs Marketing Proposals 60

The ROI Guy

MARCH 1, 2016

If you’re marketing or selling technology, this decline could have a significant impact, with buyers becoming even more cautious and economic focused. You need to factor Frugalnomics prominently into your sales and marketing strategies and investments. YoY increase from 2015. 2) Central IT is Irrelevant? Why Your Solutions?–

Gartner 40

Gartner Spending Effectiveness Marketing Proposals 40

Content Standard

JULY 18, 2015

Nearly half of all marketers struggle to identify social media influencers, indicating a huge challenge in leveraging influencer marketing strategy for their brand, according to a recent report from marketing software comparison website Software Advice. Want to learn more about influencer marketing?

Marketing & Strategy 40

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The ROI Guy

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

This according to new research, The Considered Purchase Decision , a survey of 448 b2b buyers across a broad range of industries, confirming that as the economic malaise continues, Frugalnomics remains in full effect. The survey reveals that machinery and equipment-intensive indus­tries (e.g.,

B2B 40

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The ROI Guy

APRIL 14, 2015

We think there is a more systemic issue in the predictions: a major "sea change" in technology spending and purchase decision-making – one that could put a significant chill in your organizations‘ sales and marketing strategy. Frugalnomics in Effect So what are the real reasons behind the continued slow growth? Why Your Solutions?

Gartner 40

Gartner Forecasting Planning Marketing Proposals 40

The ROI Guy

MARCH 9, 2011

Based on the lifecycle of your particular B2B company and product lines, you may find yourself in one of three distinctive categories that SiriusDecisions created to help define how to best market and sell your solutions. To reach today’s more frugal / skeptical buyer, communicating the value of proposed solutions is critical.

Work Management 40

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B2BMarketing.net

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

At last year’s Ignite, I interviewed Didier Devaud, currently CEO of FKG, a high-precision provider to the international endodontics market. Ask yourself: what problems are we solving— marketing problems, but also business problems? The subject of the interview was captured in the title, “From CMO to CEO: Journey to Destination.”

Enterprise Management 52

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The ROI Guy

JULY 15, 2015

If you’re marketing or selling technology, this decline could have a significant impact, stiffer competition, and even more headwinds to meeting your ambitious revenue growth goals. You need to factor Frugalnomics prominently into your sales and marketing strategies and investments. YoY decline from 2014 levels. Why Your Solutions?

Gartner 40

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The ROI Guy

NOVEMBER 10, 2014

Moreover, a major "sea change" has occurred in technology spending and purchase decision-making - with significant implications for your organizations sales and marketing strategy. More importantly, you need to take Frugalnomics into account as you evolve your sales and marketing strategies and investments to meet the challenge.

Gartner 40

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The ROI Guy

MARCH 11, 2014

Content marketing plays a more pivotal role, facilitating buyer decisions – influencing decisions before reps are involved, and arming reps with the sales tools they need to “reframe” the solution picture in the providers’ favor. Source: IDC''s 2013 ITBuyer Experience Survey: Create and Close Customers up to 40% Faster.

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The ROI Guy

MARCH 23, 2011

In a recent Harvard Business Review article , one of the most respected names in technology marketing and strategies, Geoffrey Moore discussed how diagnostic and benchmarking sales techniques can be used, particularly during a downturn, to help engage executives, open up new opportunities and unfreeze previously stuck sales processes.

Enterprise Management 40

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The ROI Guy

OCTOBER 18, 2012

Did you know that according to CEB, 53% of surveyed buyers indicated that customer loyalty goes to those firms not with superior brand perception, product and service delivery, or even the value-to-price ratio, but overwhelmingly to those firms that provide the Best Buying Experience? You Decide.

ROI 40

ROI Peer-to-peer Marketing Proposals Case Studies 40

The ROI Guy

APRIL 8, 2014

Most importantly, you need to take Frugalnomics into account as you evolve your sales and marketing strategies and investments to meet the challenge. So how well does your current content marketing help answer these key decision making questions for your buyers in a compelling and quantified way? Click here to learn more. #2

Gartner 40

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The ROI Guy

JANUARY 8, 2013

As a result, IT Sales and Marketing will again be tasked to deliver incremental revenue regardless of challenging market conditions and despite the historically low spending growth. Although I too am more optimistic about 2013 compared to last, there are clear and immediate challenges that deserve action regardless.

Gartner 40

Gartner Spending Marketing Proposals Terms and Conditions 40

The ROI Guy

JULY 9, 2013

As such, it is important to recognize that growth will in the near term remain historically low, below the 6% average annual IT spending increases of the last decade, but that your sales and marketing strategy can be adjusted to drive competitive success.

Gartner 40

Gartner Forecasting Spending Marketing Proposals 40

The ROI Guy

JANUARY 16, 2014

Most importantly, you need to take Frugalnomics into account as you evolve your sales and marketing strategies and investments to meet the challenge. So how well does your current content marketing help answer these key decision making questions for your buyers in a compelling and quantified way? Click here to learn more. #2

Gartner 40

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The ROI Guy

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

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. Having the right content and tools to help fuel buyer’s decision making process is essential. Death of a Salesman?

Peer-to-peer 40

Peer-to-peer Marketing Automation Services Spending Marketing Budget 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

FEBRUARY 12, 2010

A recent research report on content marketing highlighted why marketing via feature / function / price is extinct, and why connecting personally with skeptical and frugal buyers is more important than ever. o Smaller companies are spending more on their content marketing as a percentage of budget than larger companies.

Budget Management 40

Budget Management Spending Planning Budget Programs 40

The ROI Guy

SEPTEMBER 17, 2010

The past decade has seen an exciting and dramatic increase in new digital marketing channels including Twitter, Facebook, e-mail, search engines, webinars, virtual trade shows and more. email pitches per week, up 32 percent from 2006 according to sales and marketing research firm SiriusDecisions.

Interactive Marketing 40

Interactive Marketing Marketing Automation Services Peer-to-peer Buying Cycle 40

The ROI Guy

AUGUST 9, 2010

According to recent survey results, 90% of B2B marketers are actively involved in producing custom content , and are investing some 25% of marketing budgets to custom content creation and promotion. It used to be, the custom publishing group was in a little, dark corner that sat outside of marketing,” Pulizzi added.

Urgency Marketing 40

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The ROI Guy

JANUARY 6, 2012

More control is in the hands of finance, requiring more economic justification on each proposal. Deliver Solution Guides and Comparisons – helping customers properly consider various solution considerations, options and competitive differentiators. 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 4, 2010

Tom Pisello: The ROI Guy This blog is dedicated to the strategies and tools used by solution providers to better prove and improve the value of B2B solutions to frugal buyers - using diagnostic assessments, interactive white papers, ROI calculators and TCO comparisons.

Work Management 40

Work Management ROI Marketing Management Marketing Budget 40

The ROI Guy

JUNE 3, 2010

A SiriusDecisions survey recently examined which b-to-b sources are trusted most by buyers during the buying lifecycle, and the results indicate not surprisingly that Industry Analysts and Peers are the most influential and trusted sources of information. of respondents) and peers (28.7%). Vendor Brightspot?

Peer-to-peer 40

Peer-to-peer B to B Vendors Marketing Proposals 40

The ROI Guy

APRIL 15, 2010

1) Value Proposition - early in the lifecycle you can guess at customer needs and propose how the solution mught derive value 2) Value Hypothesis - during engagement with the customer you can investigate pain points and how the solution can help customer save, streamline or overcome the issues.

Budget Programs 40

Budget Programs Software Peer-to-peer Urgency Marketing 40

The ROI Guy

JANUARY 10, 2011

Tom Pisello: The ROI Guy This blog is dedicated to the strategies and tools used by solution providers to better prove and improve the value of B2B solutions to frugal buyers - using diagnostic assessments, interactive white papers, ROI calculators and TCO comparisons. Monday, January 10, 2011 Let the Good Times Roll?

Enterprise Management 40

Enterprise Management Work Management Marketing Management Spending 40

The ROI Guy

DECEMBER 6, 2010

Tom Pisello: The ROI Guy This blog is dedicated to the strategies and tools used by solution providers to better prove and improve the value of B2B solutions to frugal buyers - using diagnostic assessments, interactive white papers, ROI calculators and TCO comparisons. The invitation often coming after key decisions have already been made.

Work Management 40

Work Management Marketing Management ROI Marketing Automation Services 40

The ROI Guy

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

As well, the Tech Media publishers have seen a dramatic shift in B2B vendors, who are looking for innovative ways to break through marketing fatigue to attract, connect and engage ever more skeptical and frugal buyers. The company said that percentage has dropped even more in its current fiscal year, which ends Sept. That was pretty much it.

Interactive Marketing 40

Interactive Marketing Advertising Agencies BtoB Peer-to-peer 40

Zoominfo

MAY 14, 2020

But, thanks to technological advancements and mass data collection, predicting customer behavior has become a reality—and it’s changed the face of sales and marketing forever. When applied to sales and marketing, predictive analytics forecasts companies most likely to buy or take future action relevant to your business. The best part?

Ideal Customer Profiles 162

Ideal Customer Profiles Enterprise Management Work Management Marketing Management 162

Terminus

JANUARY 16, 2019

I keenly remember watching a grainy video of Sangram explaining the flipped funnel on a whiteboard and doing my best to wrap my head around this new concept of account-based marketing. As the ABM market matured, so had our product. We also created a brand survey to get the perspectives of other voices from around the company.

Account Based Marketing 29

Account Based Marketing Brand Identity Branding Paid Search Agency 29