The ROI Guy

APRIL 7, 2011

The latest marketing spending survey results are out and the budget news is finally good for technology marketers. According to IDC’s annual “Tech Marketing Barometer Study”, marketing budgets are recovering with strength in 2011, with an expected 8% annual increase over 2010 levels.

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The ROI Guy

DECEMBER 6, 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 18, 2012

And one of the most important elements to providing the Best Buying Experience is for your marketing and sales professionals to provide the right content and consultative engagements to help your buyers overcome challenges, make the right purchase decisions, and drive competitive advantage. You Decide.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

DECEMBER 20, 2017

There’s a lot of buzz around Sales and Marketing AI, but what is real and what is hype? What can we actually expect from AI in the sales and marketing technology in 2018? AI for Sales and Marketing Tech: High Expectations Meet Reality. Responses included: “AI will manage customer relationships through predictive marketing.”

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The ROI Guy

MAY 20, 2011

Achieving tangible value from social media remains challenging for the majority of CMOs according to a significant study from MarketingSherpa , however incremental investments “keep on trucking”, with over 1/3rd indicating spending increases of 20% or more through 2011, and 25% indicating spending increases well north of that.

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The ROI Guy

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

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. Updated Alinean Social Media ROI Calculator - New.

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Allego

AUGUST 18, 2022

The platform should be designed to support rapid and effective marketing content access , paired with the trusted resources and organizational knowledge that sellers want to hear most. And poor adoption means minimal to no ROI. Transformative Customer Success Partnership for Fast ROI. Comprehensive and Flexible Approach.

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The ROI Guy

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

Demand for Interactive White Papers, Diagnostic Assessments, ROI Calculators and TCO Comparison Tools Drives Growth. For 2011 Q3, we are delighted to announce the addition of six important new customers , two major partnership s, and several significant awards during the third quarter of 2011.

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Pointclear

AUGUST 14, 2012

This is the first in a series of four blogs about B2B Lead Generation marketing and sales metrics, and proverbs. Something else not well understood in many marketing and sales departments is the importance of certain metrics. However, in 2011 and 2012 the percent of our efforts focused on inbound dropped to 22% and 11% respectively.

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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

MAY 4, 2011

Improving sales’ ability to show benefits / value to prospects is the number one tactic to drive B2B sales performance in 2011, according to a recent survey by CSO Insights. The CSO Insights Sales Management survey for 2011 examined responses from sales executives at 850 firms. The status quo is often good enough.

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The ROI Guy

MAY 10, 2011

Alinean has been selected to develop and power value-based interactive sales and marketing tool campaigns for customers including iPass, Maxeler and Verint. Leading Value-Based Interactive Tool Provider Maintains Significant Growth ORLANDO, Fla., These new customers add to Alinean's ever-growing list of over 100 leading B2B vendors.

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Pointclear

AUGUST 8, 2011

Jim Lenskold is President of Lenskold Group and author of Marketing ROI, The Path to Campaign, Customer and Corporate Profitability (McGraw Hill, 2003). Jim has published articles and presented internationally on the topics of marketing ROI, marketing strategies and business growth strategies.

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The ROI Guy

DECEMBER 9, 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. Thursday, December 09, 2010 Seeing ROI in the Cloud?

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The Pipeline

JANUARY 27, 2012

December 2011. November 2011. October 2011. September 2011. August 2011. April 2011. March 2011. February 2011. January 2011. When Sales Met Marketing. Community Marketing Blog. Sales and Marketing Loudmouth. For Email Newsletters you can trust. February 2012.

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Pointclear

DECEMBER 8, 2011

Chris Selland is CMO at Terametric , a company focused on maximizing marketing ROI by helping marketers capture and measure all their channel marketing data. Chris originally published this post on November 14, 2011, and it is republished here with his permission.

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The ROI Guy

JANUARY 25, 2011

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. Tom then served Gartner as a Managing VP.

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The ROI Guy

JULY 11, 2011

Surprisingly, CIOs alone have authorized only 5% of IT investments , confirming what many IT sales and marketing professionals already know, that the vast majority of IT purchase approvals involve more stakeholders, as well as significant executive scrutiny. To this end, we recommend the following best practices: 1.

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The Pipeline

AUGUST 16, 2011

December 2011. November 2011. October 2011. September 2011. August 2011. April 2011. March 2011. February 2011. January 2011. ME: And if we were to look at your plan going into 2011, what were the numbers you based your plan on? When Sales Met Marketing. February 2012.

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The ROI Guy

JULY 15, 2009

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. Updated Alinean Social Media ROI Calculator - New.

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The ROI Guy

NOVEMBER 4, 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

JANUARY 17, 2011

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. But up-front purchase price isn’t everything.

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The ROI Guy

JANUARY 20, 2011

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. Updated Alinean Social Media ROI Calculator - New.

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The ROI Guy

JANUARY 10, 2011

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. Monday, January 10, 2011 Let the Good Times Roll?

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The ROI Guy

AUGUST 3, 2011

Alinean today announced the addition of three new customers and four new strategic partners during the second quarter of 2011. Alinean has been selected to develop and power value-based marketing and sales tool campaigns for customers including Quest Software, Polycom and Finlistics.

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The ROI Guy

FEBRUARY 4, 2009

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. Updated Alinean Social Media ROI Calculator - New.

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The ROI Guy

MAY 6, 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

MARCH 23, 2011

With the economic recovery in 2010, top advertising firms and interactive agencies were finally able to report the return of healthy growth, according to BtoB Magazine's 2011 Top Agency Report. At Alinean, we were very pleased to be recognized by BtoB Magazine as one of the Top Agencies for 2011.

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The ROI Guy

OCTOBER 26, 2012

IDC surveyed just over 200 organizations in the annual 2012 Buyer Experience Study, indicating that Financial Justification /ROI is by far the most important content for C-Level / Financial Executives and LOB stakeholders. Sources: · IDC Sales and Marketing Advisory’s 2012 Buyer Experience Study · SiriusDecision SiriusIndex 2011-2012.

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Pointclear

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

I bet you use some of these very traits to describe a woman you know doing extraordinary work in sales and marketing today. There is a great opportunity to acknowledge her commitment by nominating her right now for recognition as one of the 20 women to watch in sales lead management in 2011. Nominating is open now and runs to March 16.

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The ROI Guy

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

Gartner's latest CIO study, "Reimagining IT: The 2011 CIO Agenda" highlights several important trends that will have significant impact on technology marketing and sales enablement into 2011 and beyond. According to Gartner, this requires CIOs re-imagine IT and lead it through a process of “creative destruction.

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The ROI Guy

NOVEMBER 30, 2011

The financial relief most expected in 2011 never came, as the European debt crisis and US credit rating downgrade renewed pessimism, and may even be driving us to another recession. Preparing/reviewing financial justification and ROI analyses (95%) 3. Proven performance/reliability (functionality, efficiency, productivity, ROI, etc.)

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The ROI Guy

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

Hopes for the much anticipated economic recovery in 2011 were recently dashed as the European debt crisis proved worse than anticipated, and the US credit downgrade added additional uncertainty. As a result, several analyst firms have dropped their spending outlooks, and are predicting tight IT budgets for the New Year.

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The ROI Guy

NOVEMBER 10, 2014

Moreover, a major "sea change" has occurred in technology spending and purchase decision-making - with significant implications for your organizations sales and marketing strategy. More importantly, you need to take Frugalnomics into account as you evolve your sales and marketing strategies and investments to meet the challenge.

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The ROI Guy

DECEMBER 6, 2011

Frugalnomics makes it harder to connect, engage and sell without the right content and tools Alinean, the leading creator of interactive content marketing and diagnostic sales tools for business to business (B2B) solutions, today announced its annual sales and marketing predictions for 2012 with serious implications.

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The ROI Guy

JULY 21, 2011

It's good news for marketers in 2011, as 57% of senior-level marketers say they are increasing their overall marketing spend in 2011. According to CMO Council's State of Marketing Report, a survey of 700 top marketers, 26% of respondents indicated an increase in spending of 1%-5%.,

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The ROI Guy

FEBRUARY 4, 2009

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. Updated Alinean Social Media ROI Calculator - New.

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