Pipeliner

OCTOBER 18, 2019

In fact, an analysis from McKinsey shows that “long-term firms added $7 billion more in market capitalization on average than other firms between 2001 and 2014.” Research published in the Harvard Business Review examined the outcomes across business that prioritized reinvestment and those that did not.

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Pointclear

AUGUST 1, 2011

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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The ROI Guy

JULY 11, 2011

CFOs and other executives are in more control of IT purchases than ever, this according to recent research by Gartner, Inc., Financial Executives Research Foundation (FERF) and the Committee of Finance & IT (CFIT) of Financial Executives International (FEI).

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Igniting Sales Transformation

JULY 18, 2018

help our customers meet the changing market demands). For the book, we conducted extensive research. If I’m researching a product and informative demo videos are available, I find they help me gain an understanding of the product and its key features” 86% of respondents agreed! What was the motivation for authoring the book?

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Revegy

AUGUST 27, 2020

However, after every recession, the Harvard Business Review, McKinsey, Bain, and other management consultants publish research showing that leading companies leverage economic volatility to move faster, innovate more, and take market share from competitors. “By What value have you delivered?

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Outsourcing Services Lead Rank Lead Scoring Webinar Metrics 52

The ROI Guy

JUNE 11, 2015

SiriusDecisions pointed to comprehensive research of over 1,000 sales and marketing leaders, clearly indicating that these findings were just not true. As a seller, you can research comparable properties, and even list your house for sale with little effort or stress. So why are real estate agents still relevant?

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The ROI Guy

MAY 3, 2010

According to a new Gartner and Financial Executives Research Foundation research survey, the CFO is becoming the top IT decision maker in many organizations, with: over 75 percent indicating significant decision making involvement, and 41 percent indicate being the main decision maker for IT investments.

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The ROI Guy

JULY 5, 2011

Although Gartner’s predictions bode well for IT vendors, IT buyers have fundamentally and permanently changes since the bursting of the tech bubble in 2001. Changes to IT sales and marketing strategies have been made to help fight frugalnomics, but are still not provocative / outcome -focused enough to meet changing buyer demands.

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Telecommunications Enterprise Enterprise Vendor 73

Selling Essentials RapidLearning Center

JUNE 14, 2019

Wholesale distributors are feeling urgency to change their sales models, a joint MDM/RLI research study shows. Many distributors have a field sales culture in markets where inside sales models may make more sense. In 2001 77 percent of all training was classroom style. Classroom Style vs. Digital Training.

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The ROI Guy

OCTOBER 11, 2010

For marketers, the news is good overall. According to research from IDC and Forrester, marketing spending is anticipated to increase between 3 to 5% for 2011. In the current environment, marketers are still being asked to do-more-with-less, driving a significant change in strategies, campaigns and go-to-market channels.

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Marketing Lead Rank Lead Scoring Advertising 40

The ROI Guy

JULY 23, 2015

The original recording can be accessed at: [link] There has been some controversial research from several top analysts on the Death of the B2B Sales Rep. Their research indicates that when B2B buyers are making a purchase decision, they go 57% of the way through the buyer’s journey BEFORE engaging with a sales rep.

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The ROI Guy

OCTOBER 22, 2010

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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The ROI Guy

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

Tuesday, February 15, 2011 Updated Alinean Social Media ROI Calculator - New Graphics and Refined Research Weve just updated the Alinean Social Media ROI Calculator with some hot new graphics, and refined value quantification research and analytics. Your Sales & Marketing Ready to Do Business with F. Latest Research.

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SBI Growth

NOVEMBER 24, 2013

One of the most difficult responsibilities for a B2B marketer is sales enablement. The sales field is often critical of any marketing effort. Marketers can feel like they are in a can’t-win position. Marketing teams begin to resent their peers in sales. Sales teams think their marketing peers are not up to par.

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Marketing Decision Maker Sales Enablement Transportation 316

The ROI Guy

FEBRUARY 14, 2011

As financial due diligence is a requirement, each marketing investment comes under more scrutiny for ROI measures, and understanding the true bottom-line impact of social media marketing becomes a requirement. The Big O – Outcome Selling The Demand Spectrum and Value-Based Sales & Market. Latest Research.

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Social Media ROI Media B2C 60

The ROI Guy

JANUARY 25, 2011

Buyers, Fueled by the Internet, Firmly in Control With a wealth of information from vendors, analysts and peers, buyers are doing more research on-line. At the same time, buyers are indicating that sales is often not prepared for meetings, and not adding value above and beyond what they can research on their own. Latest Research.

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Zoominfo

JUNE 10, 2019

In the age of social media, influencer marketing has become wildly popular—even among B2B organizations. But, unlike the B2C market, it’s not always easy to identify the thought leaders with the most social pull within the B2B community. Key Characteristics of a Top B2B Marketing Influencer. Keep reading. Trustworthy: .

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The ROI Guy

DECEMBER 9, 2010

With the constant pressure on IT managers to “do-more-with-less&# , and the difficulty to understand how the analyst research translates to particular applications, it is important that organizations analyze their own unique opportunity for cloud savings and ROI. Your Sales & Marketing Ready to Do Business with F.

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The ROI Guy

JANUARY 20, 2011

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. Your Sales & Marketing Ready to Do Business with F.

ROI 40

ROI Social Media Media Campaigns 40

The ROI Guy

DECEMBER 23, 2010

Tom’s latest entrepreneurial endeavor, Alinean, was founded in 2001 to develop SaaS software for changing the way B2B sellers reach frugal buyers with interactive white papers, assessment, ROI and TCO tools. The Big O – Outcome Selling The Demand Spectrum and Value-Based Sales & Market. Latest Research.

ROI 40

ROI Social Media Face-to-face Survey 40

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? 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.

Marketing 40

Marketing Vendor ROI Survey 40

The ROI Guy

JULY 15, 2009

Tom’s latest entrepreneurial endeavor, Alinean, was founded in 2001 to develop SaaS software for changing the way B2B sellers reach frugal buyers with interactive white papers, assessment, ROI and TCO tools. The Big O – Outcome Selling The Demand Spectrum and Value-Based Sales & Market. Latest Research.

ROI 40

ROI Social Media Media B2B 40

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. The tool suite results in over 1,000 leads per month, with estimated 4 to 5% conversion rate of leads to sales. But up-front purchase price isn’t everything.

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ROI Lead Rank Lead Scoring Tools 45

The ROI Guy

DECEMBER 6, 2010

Monday, December 06, 2010 Predictions for 2011: The End of B2B Sales & Marketing as We Know It? These two market drivers will have important implications into 2011 and beyond for B2B sales enablement and marketing strategies and budgets. of respondents), and peers (28.7%), especially early in the lifecycle.

ROI 40

ROI B2B Social Media Buying Cycle 40

Hubspot Sales

JUNE 26, 2019

Think of product-market fit as the moment when “your customers become your salespeople.” Daniel Ek, CEO of Spotify, recognized that many of the necessary pieces for product-market fit were already in place when music-sharing platform Napster collapsed in 2001 following allegations of copyright infringement.

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The ROI Guy

JANUARY 10, 2011

Research on what drives IT purchase decisions indicates that decisions are currently made based on financial requirements, such as enabling business growth (29%), improving profitability (25%), and reducing costs (22%). The news is good for worn down IT managers and IT sales professionals and marketers.

ROI 40

ROI Social Media Decision Maker Survey 40

The ROI Guy

MAY 6, 2010

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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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. In this blog post, I present a few of the key research metrics and advice.

ROI 45

ROI Buyer Buying Cycle Social Media 45

The ROI Guy

FEBRUARY 4, 2009

Tom’s latest entrepreneurial endeavor, Alinean, was founded in 2001 to develop SaaS software for changing the way B2B sellers reach frugal buyers with interactive white papers, assessment, ROI and TCO tools. The Big O – Outcome Selling The Demand Spectrum and Value-Based Sales & Market. Latest Research.

ROI 40

ROI Social Media Microsoft Media 40

The ROI Guy

FEBRUARY 4, 2009

Wednesday, February 04, 2009 How TCO is a common sense sales and marketing Tool for Today’s Chaotic Economy My friend and board member Bill Kirwin, original father of TCO analysis with Gartner, put it best when he wrote this article for us on the power of using TCO as a sales and marketing advantage to win deals in these tough economic times.

ROI 40

ROI Social Media Analysis Microsoft 40

The ROI Guy

FEBRUARY 4, 2009

Tom’s latest entrepreneurial endeavor, Alinean, was founded in 2001 to develop SaaS software for changing the way B2B sellers reach frugal buyers with interactive white papers, assessment, ROI and TCO tools. The Big O – Outcome Selling The Demand Spectrum and Value-Based Sales & Market. Latest Research.

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Microsoft ROI Licensing Social Media 40

Hubspot Sales

JULY 15, 2020

According to research conducted by Revenue Grid , before the pandemic only 57 percent of sales reps reported that they expected to fall short on their sales quotas at the end of 2019, with that figure ballooning to a whopping 84 percent by second quarter 2020. It’s a tough question and doesn’t have a single right answer. Image Source.

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The ROI Guy

NOVEMBER 8, 2006

Tom’s latest entrepreneurial endeavor, Alinean, was founded in 2001 to develop SaaS software for changing the way B2B sellers reach frugal buyers with interactive white papers, assessment, ROI and TCO tools. The Big O – Outcome Selling The Demand Spectrum and Value-Based Sales & Market. Latest Research.

ROI 40

ROI Social Media Benefit Oracle 40

Score More Sales

DECEMBER 30, 2011

Watch These Sales & Marketing Thinkers in 2012 – Best of 2011. As we wind down the year and look to turning a new leaf, it is time to recognize those who are working to improve the world of B2B selling and marketing – thanking them for what they do and encouraging you to reach out to learn and grow in the coming year.

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The ROI Guy

SEPTEMBER 4, 2007

Tom’s latest entrepreneurial endeavor, Alinean, was founded in 2001 to develop SaaS software for changing the way B2B sellers reach frugal buyers with interactive white papers, assessment, ROI and TCO tools. The Big O – Outcome Selling The Demand Spectrum and Value-Based Sales & Market. Latest Research.

ROI 40

ROI Social Media Comparison Networking 40

The ROI Guy

OCTOBER 7, 2010

To no surprise, a substantial decline occurred following the bursting of the technology bubble and recession in 2001, with a second more severe decline into the Great Recession in 2009. This was not the case with many other groups like sales and marketing. The good news is that most analysts are predicting 4-5% growth for 2011.

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Competition Software Software Networking 40

The ROI Guy

NOVEMBER 8, 2006

Tom’s latest entrepreneurial endeavor, Alinean, was founded in 2001 to develop SaaS software for changing the way B2B sellers reach frugal buyers with interactive white papers, assessment, ROI and TCO tools. The Big O – Outcome Selling The Demand Spectrum and Value-Based Sales & Market. Latest Research.

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