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%. for 2005 – this according to Forrester latest research.

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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.

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ROI Social Media Analysis Microsoft 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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Bigtincan

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

For instance, one file — such as a sales deck used by many sellers — might have an official policy about: Where the master file should be kept. What metadata should be attached to the file (for example, author, approval date, update date, category, keywords, etc.). Imagine rules like that applied to hundreds or thousands of files.

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Apptivo

APRIL 22, 2021

Having launched in 2005, Google Maps is a web mapping platform that connects the entire world to the grassroots. This Google Maps app can be integrated with your Apptivo business management software to close distances and connect better with your customers. Supported Highlighting Feature. Mobile friendly.

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The Spiff Blog

JUNE 1, 2023

Organizations must be strategic when designing sales compensation plans. The goal is to strike a careful balance between incentivizing sales performance and protecting the company against financial crisis. A sales clawback clause is more than just a financial insurance policy for an organization.

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The ROI Guy

OCTOBER 22, 2010

Survey participants indicated that although prevalent, promotional e-mails, direct mail, sales representatives and general advertising were less effective at raising awareness of new solutions. The research implies growing skepticism over sales pitches and marketing fatigue make these once effective channels less so at raising awareness.

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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? These two market drivers will have important implications into 2011 and beyond for B2B sales enablement and marketing strategies and budgets. The invitation often coming after key decisions have already been made.

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The ROI Guy

NOVEMBER 8, 2006

Some examples of direct (hard) benefits are: 1. Improved up-sell / cross-sell is a good example of an indirect benefit from a new CRM system that helps the call center improve its interaction with customers. Some other examples of indirect (soft) benefits include: 1. Your Sales & Marketing Ready to Do Business with F.

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ROI Social Media Benefit Oracle 40

Sales Hacker Training

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. Sam Jacobs: This week on the show, we’ve got Luke Rogers, the Vice President of Sales at Instabase. He now leads the sales function at a really promising and high-growing unicorn called Instabase. Learn how modern sales teams with deals, win deals now. We’re on iTunes.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Women in sales often have a polarizing experience. In the Sales Hacker video series Aha Moments , I asked 10 women: “What is one ‘aha moment’ you’ve had in your sales career?”. The conversations that followed were so authentic and encouraging that we decided to expand this conversation to other badass women in the sales world.

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SaaStr - Sales Strategy

MARCH 12, 2019

Erica Schultz is Chief Revenue Officer @ New Relic, the company that gives you the real time insights your software driven business needs to innovate faster. As for Erica, under her CRO role, she leads all go-to-market functions including Marketing, Sales, Operations, Customer Success, Services, and Support. Where do many go wrong?

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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

DECEMBER 14, 2005

Wednesday, December 14, 2005 The IT Hierarchy of Needs: Categorizing IT Projects for Success The book written by Nicholas Carr, “Does IT Matter,&# continues to stir debate with various pundits, and certainly remains a hot topic in recent budget planning meetings between the CIO and Cx-level executives.

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ROI Outsourcing Services Lead Rank Social Media 40

The ROI Guy

NOVEMBER 8, 2006

For example, as cited in an article appearing in World Trade Magazine ("RFID: Taking Stock of the Wal-Mart Pilot," by N. Retail and Point-of-Sale Productivity: The use of RFID at the product level can help retailers reduce the labor costs and service fees of regular stock management and store-shelf inventory.

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Bigtincan

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Enterprise File Sync and Share (EFSS) is a software service that allows employees to safely sync and share videos, photos, documents, files, and other assets with individuals inside and outside the organization across multiple devices like phones, laptops, desktops, and tablets. Let’s take an example of a hypothetical sales company.

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Sales Hacker

JUNE 30, 2020

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we’re incredibly excited to have Andrew Sykes. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. Sam Jacobs: Hey everybody, welcome to the Sales Hacker Podcast. Sales teams have had to quickly adapt to a new normal. It’s Outreach , the number one sales engagement platform.

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LeadFuze

AUGUST 5, 2021

We have prepared the roundup of the best sales blogs just for you! These are the best sales blogs you need to be following to keep your sales blade sharp. Here are the best sales blogs in Slideshare form, or below the presentation are all the individual sales blogs with a little more detail. Sales Hacker.

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The ROI Guy

SEPTEMBER 28, 2010

Using this content, buyers are taking control of the buying cycle from direct / channel sales, making the content that marketing delivers more important than ever in driving shorter sales cycles and increasing the number and value of transactions.

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The ROI Guy

AUGUST 5, 2010

Using an IT project as an example, let’s say that a company invests $100,000 in a new application and that the application requires $25,000 annually thereafter in maintenance and support costs. To put the calculation in practical, step-by-step terms, we will use the calculation applied against our example cash flows.

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The ROI Guy

AUGUST 5, 2010

For example, if a project has an ROI% of 200%, the expected net benefits of the project are double those of the expected costs for implementing the project. The Big O – Outcome Selling The Demand Spectrum and Value-Based Sales & Market. ► February (8) Boost Sales 10% with an Investment in Sales Enable.

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