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How To Boost Client Retention – Without Customer Service or Account Reps

Sales and Marketing Management

Harvard Business Review estimated that customer acquisition is 5 to 25 times as expensive as customer retention. What’s more, a Bain & Company study found that increasing customer retention rates by a mere 5% boosts profits by 25% to 95%. Ajay Gupta has served as CEO of Stirista since founding the company in 2010 at age 26.

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New Response Databases - Valuable Resource for B2B Marketers?

Pointclear

Ruth is Founder of eMarketing Strategy , a consulting practice that assists companies build their customer acquisition and retention strategies. Over the last two years, we published reports on the data coming from compiled data vendors. Have a look at the reports here: 2009 and 2010.

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The 5 Top Media for Cold Prospecting

Pointclear

Ruth Stevens is Founder of eMarketing Strategy , a consulting practice that assists companies in building their customer acquisition and retention strategies. The DMA’s 2010 Response Rate Report reported a healthy 1.68% response rate to B-to-B prospecting letter mail and 2.18% to its cheaper cousin, postcard mail.

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Gartner CIO Study Highlights Need for Outcome-Based Technology Sales & Marketing Strategies

The ROI Guy

The results are based on survey responses from 2,014 CIOs worldwide, supported by interviews by Gartner analysts with leading CIOs, highlighting the following important trends: Busted Budgets - IT budgets are expected to increase by just 1% in 2011 over 2010 spending levels, with IT budgets not achieve their 2008 highs for 3 years, until 2014.

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SMB a New Year Bright Spot for IT Sales and Marketing?

The ROI Guy

Hiring demands are increasing at the same time, from a low of only 20% planning staff additions in the latter half of 2010, to 31% currently planning staff additions. The Bottom-Line Even though good economic news is hard to come by, SMBs might represent the one bright spot for IT vendors in 2012.

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@Seismic Raises $92M in Series F Funding Led by the Permira Funds, Valuing Company at ~$1.6B

SBI

With more than 600 enterprise customers worldwide, Seismic enjoys a best-in-class net retention rate of nearly 120 percent, indicative of the growing value it’s delivering its customers. Founded in 2010 with headquarters in San Diego, Seismic now has more than 900 global employees across 14 offices.