Pointclear

JANUARY 26, 2012

According to the Direct Marketing Association’s Power of Direct Marketing study, B-to-B marketers spent $14 billion in 2011 on telephone marketing for lead generation in the U.S. That compares to $7 billion spent on direct mail and $4.5 billion on search marketing for the same purpose.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 27, 2018

Call it “social selling” if you want, but it’s simple: the best sales reps today just understand that they need to be where the buyer is. Finally, tech is being built to make that easier than ever with personalized video, direct mail, LinkedIn, etc. Sendoso , PFL for Direct Mail Platforms. Trend #3: Efficiency.

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The ROI Guy

SEPTEMBER 17, 2010

With marketers who seem more focused on gaming the channels themselves than in the value of the dialogue being created, buyers are now inundated with more product related and meaningless offers than ever. As a result, buyers now suffer from Information Overload. For example, the typical B2B prospect receives an average of 20.3

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The ROI Guy

OCTOBER 13, 2010

Overcomes Marketing Information Overload, Transforming Traditional White Papers into Dynamic, Personalized Engagement Tools Alinean, the leading creator of value-based interactive sales and marketing tools for B2B vendors, today launched a new demand generation tool for B2B marketers – Alinean Interactive White Papers.

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The ROI Guy

OCTOBER 22, 2010

Tom Pisello: The ROI Guy This blog is dedicated to the strategies and tools used by solution providers to better prove and improve the value of B2B solutions to frugal buyers - using diagnostic assessments, interactive white papers, ROI calculators and TCO comparisons.

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The ROI Guy

OCTOBER 11, 2010

This represents substantial growth when compared to 2009 cut-backs; however, even with the 2010/2011 snap-back in spending, most marketing budgets will remain below pre-recession levels. For example, an IDC survey of technology marketers revealed that 2010 revenue grew at a healthy 5.8% world-wide, and that this greatly exceeded the 3.7%

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Sales Training Advice

JULY 14, 2010

This activity got me thinking about how we run our businesses, and how we all need to regularly pick up the trash in our sales approach—in other words, by doing an inventory of how we interact with prospects and customers and unloading the strategies and selling tools that just aren’t working. brought to you by SalesTrainingAdvice.com.

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