NuSpark Consulting

FEBRUARY 5, 2017

As account-based marketing (ABM) gains momentum, companies clearly see the value of identifying high-value prospects and targeting them with customized content. In the B2B marketing environment, successful ABM is the gold standard companies aim for. Evaluating new market opportunities. More successful lead qualification.

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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. CFOs are also more involved through all stages of the purchase decision.

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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. With the businesses and individuals making more purchase recommendations, the language of technology selling has changed. Why Your Solutions?

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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. Economically Focused – today’s IT buyer is more frugal, with over 95% of technology purchase decisions now requiring a formal business case, with quantifiable ROI and fast payback (IDC).

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Golden Spiral

APRIL 11, 2019

Sales is hard and getting harder all the time. The B2B market is flooded with competition. The number of decision makers in the buying process is increasing; they all want different things, they’re getting younger, and your marketing strategy must cover all the bases. Forrester’s Customer Personalities. Deal closed!

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The ROI Guy

JANUARY 16, 2014

3) Purchase decision making has significantly changed, now driven by buyers who are: a. When it comes to business and shadow purchase decisions, most IT solution providers are not adept at selling to the business groups and capturing dark spend. As a result, organizations have learned how to “Do More with Less”.

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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.

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Golden Spiral

APRIL 11, 2019

Sales is hard and getting harder all the time. The B2B market is flooded with competition. The number of decision makers in the buying process is increasing; they all want different things, they’re getting younger, and your marketing strategy must cover all the bases. Forrester’s Customer Personalities. Deal closed!

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Hinge Marketing

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

For AEC firms with government contracts, is your AEC marketing—strategy and implementation—up to the challenge? Good marketing and business development professionals will tell you that it’s about being relevant and demonstrating how an agency’s problems can be solved by firm expertise. Is the firm visible?

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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. But delivering incremental revenue is a challenge, as tech-purchasing decisions have fundamentally and permanently changed.

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The ROI Guy

JANUARY 5, 2011

Even though a recovery is at hand, there remains significant pressure to do-more-with-less, and the economic buyer is firmly in control, demanding even more financial accountability on each purchase. And this trend is not expected to end, even as the recovery takes hold. How Do You Fight Frugalnomics? April 2009.

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The ROI Guy

APRIL 8, 2014

3) Purchase decision-making has significantly changed, now driven by buyers who are: a. When it comes to business and shadow purchase decisions, most IT solution providers are not adept at selling to the business groups and capturing dark spend. As a result, organizations have learned how to permanently “Do More with Less”.

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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.

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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. 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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The ROI Guy

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Fueled by a wealth of on-line resources and social networks, buyers have seized control of the buying cycle, engaging with sales representatives later and later, and further elongating sales cycles. Having the right content and tools to help fuel buyer’s decision making process is essential.

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The ROI Guy

MARCH 30, 2011

If you are in sales and marketing, there is another forecast that is just as promising, especially if you recognize the pending fertile business opportunity and prepare accordingly. Marketing luminary Seth Godin indicates that "No business buys a solution for a problem they don't have."

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The ROI Guy

AUGUST 13, 2013

If this is the case, Gartner’s latest research indicates that many IT Sales and Marketing leaders may end up on the “endangered species” list, unless some serious realizations and changes occur sooner versus later. Although most of the sales and marketing executives may recognize the issue, change will not be easy.

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The ROI Guy

MARCH 15, 2011

Empowered Buyers: Fueled by the Internet, with access to a wealth of resources, research, discussions, product and pricing information, buyers are self-empowered to drive the buying cycle, inviting sales later and later into the decision making process, if at all. Commodity sales professionals are being disinter-mediated.

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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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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. As a result, sales is being invited later into the decision making process, sales cycles are extending and deals are stalling.

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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.

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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? 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.

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The ROI Guy

APRIL 12, 2013

And you are not alone, as SiriusDecisions reports that the average company now spends a whopping $43K on marketing content and sales tools per salesperson per year. Transformations, such as those you are trying to accomplish via the new sales tools, are never achieved when people don’t understand why the change is necessary.

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The ROI Guy

FEBRUARY 4, 2009

As TCO studies have taught us however from the time Bill Kirwin first developed these models for Gartner, it is important to look not only at purchase cost of the solution, but the ongoing costs over the entire ownership lifecycle. Do these features yield cost savings that make the purchase price savings moot? Advantage Microsoft.

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The ROI Guy

NOVEMBER 8, 2006

The hard benefits are also called direct benefits as they are typically directly tied to the impact of implementing the proposed solution – a first order, cause and effect. Most revenue benefits like improving lead conversion rates or reducing sale cycle length 2. Your Sales & Marketing Ready to Do Business with F.

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Sword and the Script | B2B

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Communicators found their influence grew with executives, even as the functions they performed evolved in 2022; PR and marketing alike battled to win trust amid clutter, noise and skepticism. Every year I read and write about dozens of reports on B2B marketing and PR. 12% say competing go-to-market strategy or goals (KPIs).

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The ROI Guy

MAY 4, 2006

Technology Sales & Marketing - Party Like its 1999? A Q&A with me on latest IT sales and marketing metrics, trends and best practices Is 2006 shaping up to be a good year for IT spending growth? in 2006, with annual growth in software sales leading the way at 7.0%. percent of revenue on marketing.

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Sword and the Script | B2B

JULY 19, 2022

Buyers of B2B software want published pricing: according to a study by McKinsey, 68% want prices published online without negotiation (and other useful B2B marketing statistics). Regular readers know I frequently dive into surveys and studies about B2B marketing, sales and PR. The cost of B2B marketing content.

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Pam Didner

JANUARY 20, 2021

As a marketing professional, successfully supporting sales takes tact, experience, perseverance, conviction and imagination. . I learned that lesson early in my corporate career at Intel during my first encounter with sales. . What are the Elements of Sales Enablement. How to Build a Sales Enablement Strategy.

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Salesforce Marketing Cloud

JANUARY 11, 2024

About $3 trillion — that’s Forrester’s estimate for B2B sales by 2027, almost double what it was in 2021. If you want to be successful in B2B sales, you need to understand the difference between B2B and B2C sales strategies. What you’ll learn: What is B2B sales? Proposal and quote.

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The ROI Guy

JULY 8, 2014

For IT solution providers who may be using these forecasts and were expecting a turnaround in 2014 spending levels, another slower than expected year has significant implications for your organizations'' sales and marketing strategy. 3) Purchase decision-making has significantly changed, now driven by buyers who are: a.

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Rollworks

JUNE 3, 2018

Account-based marketing (ABM) is the latest strategy to improve your marketing ROI. According to ITSMA, 85% of marketers surveyed said that they believe account-based marketing outperforms other marketing efforts. Account-based marketing is a highly-targeted approach. Let’s help you fix that.

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The ROI Guy

AUGUST 27, 2014

While at the same time, sales and marketing hasn’t evolved quickly enough to keep pace with a changed buyer. Look at the typical PowerPoint deck or sit in on most sales calls and it’s all about the company, products, features and price and little about the prospect’s unique challenges and value potential.

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B2B Digital Marketer

OCTOBER 19, 2020

In this episode of the B2B Digital Marketer Podcast, Raza Imam shares how you can publish your own book using content that you may have already published! Raza Imam is an entrepreneur, author, speaker, and coach with a passion for digital marketing and personal development. 15:53 – What’s overrated in B2B digital marketing.

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Ambal's Amusings

AUGUST 27, 2009

B2B marketers are producing, managing, and distributing marketing content to reach prospects and turn them into customers. Recommended Resources from B2B Marketing Experts. Forrester Blog for Interactive Marketing Professionals. Forrester Blog for Interactive Marketing Professionals. Get Content.

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SnapApp

OCTOBER 3, 2017

The B2B sales funnel has changed a lot. . Until recent years, the traditional selling process looked something like this: Marketing would hand leads off to the sales team. The sales team would attempt to close those leads. . Marketing did their thing. Sales did their thing. Here are the responses. . .

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SnapApp

JUNE 6, 2017

It's been a dramatic last 10 years for B2B sales teams. B2B sales cycles have changed. Salespeople and buyers have a new relationship with one another, and it has directly impacted the sales process. . What is a sales process? . The Modern B2B Sales Process. First, let’s nail down this crucial definition.

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