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Bulls, Bears, Bernanke and BtoB Lead Generation

Pointclear

Here are the results for Q1, 2001 through Q2, 2012: The numbers say the following to me: Leads trend in the direction of GDP. Understanding this can help you pinpoint your marketing investments and generate better than average results. When the GDP is up, the lead rate increases, and vice-versa. I am anxious to hear your thoughts.

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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. What was true when I first founded buyer persona development back in 2001 is still true today – buyer personas not grounded in buyer research and insights are useless.

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Alinean Named to Inc. 5000 - Fastest-Growing Private US Companies

The ROI Guy

For those of you who know Alinean, we founded the company in 2001 and are headquartered in Orlando, Florida. Recognizing this shift in buyer sentiment, B2B vendors are quickly evolving from product /solution to value selling via Alinean-developed on-line executive assessment, ROI and TCO demand-generation and sales enablement tools.

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Tom Pisello: The ROI Guy: New TCO Calculator: EMC SMB Virtual.

The ROI Guy

Share to Twitter Share to Facebook Share to Google Buzz Labels: Alinean , Demand Generation , EMC , Pisello , TCO Calculator 0comments: Post a Comment Newer Post Older Post Home Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom) Search This Blog Loading. The tool uses a new version of our XcelLive platform (version 5.0)

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Tom Pisello: The ROI Guy: Alinean Powers Eight More B2B Assessment.

The ROI Guy

. “Leading B2B solution providers recognize that old sales and marketing techniques must evolve to meet these new economic buyer demands, and as a result, they are recognizing the need to connect and sell to economic buyers with Alinean -developed assessment, ROI and TCO demand-generation and sales enablement tools.&#

ROI 40
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Tom Pisello: The ROI Guy: Value Selling Tools and the Buying Lifecycle

The ROI Guy

AT=pb&SP=EC&rID=44424232&rKey=435a40c76fd43920 For more information on Value Selling Tools: Demand-Generation (Marketing) Sales Enablement Posted by Tom Pisello at 12:19 PM Email This BlogThis! view the tool A webinar on this topic can be found at: https://alinean.webex.com/alinean/lsr.php?AT=pb&SP=EC&rID=44424232&rKey=435a40c76fd43920

ROI 45
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Technology Sales & Marketing - Party Like its 1999?

The ROI Guy

But these growth figures are still a far cry from the pre-bubble burst years of 1999 through 2001, where double digit growth was the norm. Compared to 2002 where growth was a dismal -31% for system vendors and -18% for service providers, these are happy days.