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6 Ways To Make Sure Your Customers Get The Message

SBI Growth

The CMO world of multiple channels, social media, content marketing, demand generation, and lead development extends the importance of messaging to a much broader scale. I have long been an advocate of qualitative buyer research to uncover insights that can shape strategy. Gaining insight is serious business.

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Lead Management: Let’s Formalize this Relationship

Pointclear

Today's guest blogger, Tony Jaros, is Senior Vice President of Research at SiriusDecisions. As a sales and marketing thought leader with nearly 20 years experience, Tony has led the overall research function at SiriusDecisions since the company's founding in 2001. It includes a “back-end” component.

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Tom Pisello: The ROI Guy: Social Media ROI a Requirement for 2011

The ROI Guy

The majority of CMOs still don’t know what the ROI is of their social media efforts, with the majority of respondents indicating that they were not getting an ROI or did not know the ROI from various campaigns and channels. Latest Research. Updated Alinean Social Media ROI Calculator - New. Let the Good Times Roll?

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Tom Pisello: The ROI Guy: Tech Marketers May Need to Rethink.

The ROI Guy

Friday, October 22, 2010 Tech Marketers May Need to Rethink Budgets for 2011 according to new Harte-Hanks research Technology marketers are challenged today with handling proliferating marketing channels to reach and engage more overloaded, skeptical and frugal buyers than ever before.

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Cold Calling ? Insights from Chris Orlob at Gong

John Barrows

Phone as a channel isn’t going anywhere. The validity of the phrase “cold calling is dead” may be debatable in terms of making 100 dials with no information per day versus calling 20-40 targetted accounts and having a first touch by email or social, but phone as a channel is not dead. Phone has become a novel channel.

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Tom Pisello: The ROI Guy: Predictions for 2011: The End of B2B.

The ROI Guy

From our research and best practices work with leading B2B sales and marketing groups, Alinean provides its top 5 predictions for 2011: 1. The consumer is now in charge: researching specifications, configuring and customizing solutions, getting peer reviews and advice, comparing prices, and “buying now&#.

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Tom Pisello: The ROI Guy: IDC: Economic Buyers, Digital Overload.

The ROI Guy

In this session we discussed some important value selling and content marketing research for technology marketers, much of which extends to other B2B segments, with trends and advice you need to excel in 2011. In this blog post, I present a few of the key research metrics and advice.

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