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6 Ways To Make Sure Your Customers Get The Message

SBI Growth

Pinpointing exactly how to communicate your brand message to a target audience can be one of the most perplexing challenges in marketing. Pre-Internet, marketing communications is where messaging mattered most. What we talked about was how new competitive entrants have entered their market space. Guessing at this is nonsense.

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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.

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

The ROI Guy

Leading Value-Based Sales and Marketing Tool Provider Awarded For Entrepreneurial Growth We were pleased to learn today that Alinean was named to Inc. For those of you who know Alinean, we founded the company in 2001 and are headquartered in Orlando, Florida. 5000 list of fastest-growing private US companies.

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

The ROI Guy

To address this growing market opportunity, Alinean developed the EMC SMB Virtual Solutions Advisor, a TCO calculator at the heart of this new SMB virtualization marketing campaign. The Big O – Outcome Selling The Demand Spectrum and Value-Based Sales & Market. Content Marketing and the Forgotten Sales Professi.

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Technology Sales & Marketing - Party Like its 1999?

The ROI Guy

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? 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.

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

The ROI Guy

New Customers in Q1 2010 Alinean has been selected to develop and power value-based sales and marketing campaigns for Wipro , PGI , CSC , CiRBA , MokaFive , Shoretel , Informatica and OfficeMax. Tom’s ROI and TCO experience began in 1993 with his first entrepreneurial venture, Interpose (acquired by Gartner in 1998).

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

The ROI Guy

Monday, January 17, 2011 Value Selling Tools and the Buying Lifecycle With two economic downturns in the past ten years, buyers are more frugal than ever, demanding that each investment help them do-more-with-less, provide a bottom-line impact, and deliver superior value. Good argument that B2B marketing needs ROI.

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